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It'd be a useful discipline for me to log and write about the books I read. A blog might help in that discipline and -who knows?- may be useful to ... you?10.12.07
Wicca and the Christian Heritage
Mainly a book concerned with historical roots to the modern-day phenomenon of Wicca. In so do we look more widely at particularly Victorian esorteric CHristianity and how some of it shaded into more magical and occultic pursuits via ritual. We emerge with a sense that part of the impetus to Wicca derives from certain concerns to do with empowerment, ritual, nature and especially a search for legitimacy by appeal to ever-more ancient 'authority' in Britain's far past.
On the way there is a lot of useful information about the thought-worlds of some of the founding figures of neo-Paganism and their 'debt' to the Christian fringe. For me it was useful too to see why it was that there seemed to be similarities between aspects of Freemasonry and Wiccan rituals and also to have a better sense of who and what the OTO and Golden Dawn were.
On the way there is a lot of useful information about the thought-worlds of some of the founding figures of neo-Paganism and their 'debt' to the Christian fringe. For me it was useful too to see why it was that there seemed to be similarities between aspects of Freemasonry and Wiccan rituals and also to have a better sense of who and what the OTO and Golden Dawn were.
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