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August 2017

August 05, 2017

Our Experiment in Religious Engineering

That’s what Geoff Baldwin called it, as our Neighborhood annual picnic evolved into A Pagan...

May 2017

May 02, 2017

About Naming Ostara, Litha, and Mabon

Over the years people have wanted to argue with me about which Sabbat Mabon should...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Announcing: Songs for the Gods and Witches

As I have said before, I am primarily a poet, not a preacher or prophet....

July 2016

July 17, 2016

Diana, Bathing

Soon after my abrupt and spectacular expulsion from being a Catholic at age 14, I...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Can I Teach Again? Would Anyone Listen?

Recently a brilliant woman doctoral student picked me, apparently by intuition, out of the hundreds...

February 14, 2016

Sam Wagar’s The Uses of Ecstasy is a masterpiece

It is easily one of the ten most important books ever written about the Craft...

January 2016

January 01, 2016

Announcing: Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage

Finally, after 45 years of working on the raw materials, and twenty of thinking of...

September 2015

September 06, 2015

Announcing: The Books of the Sacred Marriage, with an explanation

It has been quite a while since I posted on here. I've been busy writing,...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Lenin, State and Revolution, the One Percent, and Me

In June of 1963, I wrote my first Goddess ritual, for the wedding of my...

April 01, 2015

The Second Letter of Diana

This is a discrete unit from my ongoing Books of the Sacred Marriage. Should I...

March 2015

March 25, 2015

My Gnostic, Heretical Books Are Available on Amazon

Being far more focused on completing the five (at least) current books I am working...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

War Against Women: Empower the Victims

I am heartened by the Swedes: they have decriminalized the selling of sex; have made...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

“I Fell in Love with a Witch”: The Vision of Gerald Gardner

Some people argue that Gardnerians cannot claim to have the right to do something merely...

September 03, 2014

A Note on the Creating of Religion

I know Philip Heselton hoped to find (but did not assume that he would) evidence...

May 2014

May 11, 2014

What If Witches Are the Genuine Christians? — Goddess Murder II

I had completed much more writing linked to my Goddess Murder project, and it was...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

Goddess Murder, 34: Aradia’s Second Revelation Discourse

XXXVIII. The Second Revelation Discourse [An excerpt from The Gospel of Diana as translated by...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Goddess Murder, 32: Aradia’s First Revelation; Avalon 2

XXXIV. The First Revelation Discourse When Aradia, my mother, began to be a woman, her...

October 23, 2013

Goddess Murder, 31: First Night in Avalon

XXXIII. Avalon I As all men are alike (tho’ infinitely various), so all Religions, and...

October 21, 2013

Goddess Murder, 29: North to Sonoma, 3

XXXI. North to Sonoma, 3 “Dotty sounds like a fascinating character," I said, "but that...

October 16, 2013

Goddess Murder, 28: The Captivity of Aradia

XXX. Captivity We had our camps in the forest, under the trees, and in the...

October 15, 2013

Goddess Murder, 27: North to Sonoma, Part II

XXIX. North to Sonoma II “That’s enough about me,” I said. “What kind of hereditary...

October 14, 2013

Goddess Murder, 26: The Sermon to the Prostitutes

XXVIII. The Sermon to the Prostitutes As Aradia was speaking, a young woman in the...

October 12, 2013

Goddess Murder, 24: Aradia Enters, Stage Center

XXVI. The Beginning of the Book of the Generation of Aradia [From the Gospel of...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Autobiography by Email: More from Demian Allan Moonbloode

I have been a wytch since I was 14 years old. I was searching for...

August 2013

August 21, 2013

Goddess Murder, 13: The Other Two Gospels

XV. The Work Continues, 4 As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Goddess Murder, 5: The Work Begins

VII. The Work Begins To Zeus all things are beautiful, just, and good, but...

April 2013

April 12, 2013

Aporrheton5: The Laws of Magic (Revised), Part III

[Yes, this is the third and last part, for now.] 9. You must not betray...

April 11, 2013

Aporrheton 5: The Laws of Magic (Revised), Part II

Information on magic, psychic talents, and necessary precursors for a successful magical working group.

April 10, 2013

Aporrheton 5: The Laws of Magic (Revised), Part I

In the early 1970s I wrote a series of “Flying Scrolls” for internal use in...

April 04, 2013

Some New Pages for the Book of Shadows

A Daily Litany for the Lady. To be said at sunrise, or on rising in...

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