Drawing Down the Moon (102 page)

30
Leland,
Aradia,
pp. 104–06 and 111.

31
Aidan Kelly, “The Rebirth of Witchcraft: Tradition and Creativity in the Gardnerian Reform” (unpublished Ms., 1977), p. 274.

32
Graves,
The White Goddess,
p. 488. This is one area where Isaac Bonewits and Aidan Kelly are in disagreement. Aidan wrote to me in the spring of 1978: “Graves says many times in
The White Goddess
that it is a poetic work, and specifically disclaims it as scholarship in the usual sense. Certainly many in the Craft who wouldn't know scholarship from a raven have blithely overlooked this point—but Graves can't be blamed for that.”

33
Robert Graves, “Witches in 1964,”
The Virginia Quarterly Review,
Vol. XL, No. 4 (1964), 550–59.

34
Patricia Crowther,
Witch Blood!
(New York: House of Collectibles, 1974); Stewart Farrar,
What Witches Do
(New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1971); Buckland,
Witchcraft from the Inside.

35
Valiente,
An ABC of Witchcraft,
p. 153.

36
J. L. Bracelin,
Gerald Gardner: Witch
(London: Octagon Press, 1960), pp. 164–65.

37
Valiente,
An ABC of Witchcraft,
p. 153.

38
Janet and Stewart Farrar,
The Witches' Way.
First published in the United States as
A Witches Bible,
Vol. I, II (New York: Magickal Childe Publications, 1984), Vol. II, pp. 283–93.

39
Hutton,
The Triumph of the Moon,
pp. 207–214.

40
Bracelin,
Gerald Gardner: Witch,
p. 165.

41
Gerald B. Gardner,
High Magic's Aid
(London: Michael Houghton, 1949). The main god mentioned is Janicot. There are indirect references to Isis (p. 172) and “kerwiddeon” (p. 205), and the idea of the priestess representing the “divine spirit of Creation” (p. 120).

42
Valiente,
An ABC of Witchcraft,
pp. 154–55.

43
Gerald B. Gardner,
Witchcraft Today
(New York: The Citadel Press, 1955). First published in 1954 in England by Rider & Company.

44
Valiente,
An ABC of Witchcraft,
pp. 155–57. Many have observed that those portions of the Gardnerian rituals that have been published contain phrases from Ovid, Kipling, Leland, Crowley, and the
Key of Solomon.

45
Francis King,
The Rites of Modern Occult Magic
(New York: Macmillan, 1970), pp. 176 and 179–80.

46
Rose,
A Razor for a Goat,
p. 230. Other quotations are on pp. 200–1, 204, 206, 210, 217, and 220.

47
Pentagram,
No. 2 (November 1964), pp. 5, 7.

48
Valiente, letter in
Pentagram,
No. 1 (August 1964), p. 1.

49
Isaac Bonewits, “Witchcult: Fact or Fancy?”
Gnostica,
Vol. III, No. 4 (November 21, 1973), 5.

50
Isaac Bonewits,
Real Magic
(New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1972), pp. 129–30.

51
Isaac Bonewits, “Witchcraft,” Pt. I, pp. 17–18. See also Bonewits,
Bonewits' Essential Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
(New York: Citidel Press, 2006), appendix 3.

52
Ibid., Pt. II,
Green Egg,
Vol. IX, No. 78 (May 1, 1976), 13–17.

53
Ibid., Pt. III,
Green Egg,
Vol. IX, No. 79 (June 21, 1976), 10.

54
Ibid., p. 7.

55
Ibid., Pt. II, pp. 15–16.

56
Ibid., Pt. III, pp. 5–6.

57
Victor Anderson,
Thorns of the Blood Rose
(privately published by Cora Anderson, San Leandro, CA, 1970).

58
Aidan Kelly, op. cit., p. 4.

59
Ibid., p. 18. Other quotations are on pp. 1, 5, and 274.

60
Gertrude Rachel Levy,
The Gate of Horn
(London: Faber and Faber, 1963). Originally published in 1948.

61
Kelly, “The Rebirth of Witchcraft,” p. 274. Aidan's summary of the history of Goddess worship is on pp. 281–94.

62
Iron Mountain
(Summer 1984), 19–29.

63
Iron Mountain
(Fall 1985), 3–6.

64
Letters from Doreen Valiente, September 12, 18, and November 14, 1985.

65
Donald H. Frew, “Harran: Last Refuge of Classical Paganism,”
The Pomegranate,
issue 9, Lammas, 1999.

66
Bonewits, “Witchcraft,” Pt. III, p. 10. Bonewits's arguments may have played a large role in changing the attitudes of many Wiccans on this issue.

67
Hans Holzer,
The Witchcraft Report
(New York: Ace Books, 1973), pp. 135–45.

68
Marcello Truzzi, “Toward a Sociology of the Occult: Notes on Modern Witchcraft,” in
Religious Movements in Contemporary America,
ed. Irving Zaretsky and Mark Leone (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 636.

69
Buckland,
Witchcraft from the Inside,
pp. 79–80.

70
Buckland,
Earth Religion News,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Yule 1973), p. 1.

71
Buckland,
The Tree: The Complete Book of Saxon Witchcraft
(New York: Samuel Weiser, 1974), p. 4.

72
Buckland,
Earth Religion News.

1
Joseph Wilson,
Gnostica,
Vol. III, No. 11 (June 21, 1974), 17.

2
June Johns,
King of the Witches: The World of Alex Sanders
(London: Peter Davies, 1969), pp. 10–21; Stewart Farrar,
What Witches Do
(New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1971), pp. 1–2.

3
Leo Martello,
Wica Newsletter,
No. 15 (1972), p. 1.

4
Gnostica,
Vol. II, No. 8 (June 21, 1973), 19.

5
Phoenix, “Gardnerian Aspects,”
Green Egg,
Vol. VII, No. 63 (June 21, 1974), 18.

6
Carl Weschcke, “Spirit of the Witchmeet,”
Touchstone—Witch's Love Letter
(April 11, 1974), 1. This newsletter, edited by Weschcke, was published for the Council of American Witches by the First Wiccan Church of Minnesota, 476 Summit Ave., St. Paul, MN 55102.

7
Ibid., February 1974, 5–6, 9.

8
Ibid., Spring Equinox 1974, 3.

9
Ibid., February 1974, 5–6.

10
“Principles of Wiccan Belief,”
Green Egg,
Vol. VII, No. 64 (August 1, 1974), 32. Adopted by the Council of American Witches during its spring Witchmeet, April 11–14, 1974, in Minneapolis.

11
The Witches Trine,
Vol. IV, No. 2 (Lughnasadh, 1974), 7.

12
Sybil Leek,
The Complete Art of Witchcraft
(New York: New American Library, 1973), p. 15.

13
Marcello Truzzi, “Toward a Sociology of the Occult: Notes on Modern Witchcraft,” in
Religious Movements in Contemporary America,
ed. Irving Zaretsky and Mark Leone (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 637.

14
Susan Roberts,
Witches, U.S.A.
(New York: Dell, 1971), p. 17.

15
In a few traditions, the sword represents fire and the wand air.

16
Helica, letter (New York, November 1977).

17
Farrar,
What Witches Do,
p. 190. Other quotations are on pp. 4 and 22.

18
Doreen Valiente,
An ABC of Witchcraft Past & Present
(St. Martin's Press, 1973), p. xiii.

19
In England the covens that descend from Gardner do not call themselves “Gardnerian.”

20
C. A. Burland,
The Magical Arts
(London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1966), p. 175.

21
“Family of covens” was a term used by a Gardnerian journal that was published from 1974 to 1976 in Louisville, Kentucky.

22
Gerald B. Gardner,
High Magic's Aid
(London: Michael Houghton, 1949); also published in New York by Samuel Weiser (1975);
Witchcraft Today
(New York: The Citadel Press, 1955);
The Meaning of Witchcraft
(London: Aquarian Press, 1959); and Janet and Stewart Farrar,
The Witches' Way
(London: Robert Hale, Ltd., 1981), published in the United States as
A Witches' Bible,
Vol. I, II (New York: Magickal Childe Publications, 1985).

23
Ronald Hutton,
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft,
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 321.

24
Chas S. Clifton, “The ‘1734' Tradition in North America,” published in
The Witches' Voice,
March 18, 2001. Article ID: 3356:
www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usco&c=trads&id=3356
.

25
Ibid.

26
See Joseph Wilson, “Flags, Flax, and Fodder—The Secrets of 1734 Revealed,” available at
www.1734.us/riddles.html
.

27
Letter from Robert Cochrane to Joseph Wilson, 1966, available at
www.cyberwitch.com/bowers
.

28
Steve Hewell, “The Feri Tradition,” published in
The Witches' Voice,
January 1, 2002. Article ID 3785:
www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usga&c=trade&id=3785
.

29
M. Macha NightMare and Vibra Willow, “Reclaiming Tradition Witchcraft,” published 1999, 2000:
www.reclaiming.org/about/origins/rectrad-craft.html
.

30
Ruth Barrett,
Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries
(Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2004), p. 420.

31
Ibid, pp. 421–22.

32
Ibid, p. 422.

33
Mark Roberts, “An Introduction to Dianic Witchcraft,” unpublished Ms., Chap. VI, pp. 1–2.

34
Mark Roberts, “The Dianic Aspects,”
The New Broom,
Vol. I, No. 2 (Candlemas, 1973), 17.

35
Gavin and Yvonne Frost,
The Witch's Bible
(New York: Berkley, 1975).

36
Touchstone—Witch's Love Letter
(February 1974), p. 9.

37
Roberta Ann Kennedy,
Green Egg,
Vol. V, No. 51 (December 17, 1972), Forum section, 14.

38
Diana Demdike, “Don't Let Witchcraft Die!” in
Quest,
No. 15 (September 1973), 6. This is the British Witchcraft journal and should not be confused with the U.S. feminist journal of the same name.

39
On the death of Robert Williams see
Green Egg,
Vol. VIII, No. 74 (November 1975), 11; also Vol. VII, No. 65 (September 1974), 3, 37; also No. 66 (November 1974), 39–42.

40
Leo Martello,
Witchcraft: The Old Religion
(Secaucus, NJ: University Books, 1973), pp. 23–27.

41
Isaac Bonewits, “Witchburning . . . Now & Then,”
Gnostica,
Vol. III, No. 6 (January 21, 1974), 5–6, 8, 10, 16.

42
Ibid., p. 6.

43
C. A. Burland,
Echoes of Magic
(Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1972), pp. 117–18, 132.

44
Letter (name withheld by request), Long Beach, CA, summer 1977.

1
Dr. Timothy Leary, quoted in “Neurologic, Immortality & All That,” by Robert A. Wilson in
Green Egg,
Vol. VIII, No. 72 (August 1, 1975), 9.

2
“Magick” by the Abbey of Thelema,
Green Egg,
Vol. VIII, No. 75 (December 21, 1975), 19.

3
Isaac Bonewits, “The Second Epistle of Isaac,” in
The Druid Chronicles (evolved),
ed. Isaac Bonewits (Berkeley: Berkeley Drunemeton Press, 1976), 1:7.

4
“An Interview with Robert Anton Wilson,” by Neal Wilgus,
Science Fiction Review,
Vol. 5, No. 2 (May 1976), 32.

5
Leo Martello,
Witchcraft: The Old Religion
(Secaucus, NJ: University Books, 1973), p. 12.

6
See “The First Epistle of Isaac,”
The Druid Chronicles (evolved),
3:1.

7
Isaac Bonewits,
Real Magic
(New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1972), pp. 209, 53.

8
Doreen Valiente,
Natural Magic
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975), p. 13.

9
Jacob Needleman,
A Sense of the Cosmos: The Encounter of Modern Science and Ancient Truth
(New York: Doubleday & Co., 1975).

10
Colin Wilson,
The Occult
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971), p. 59.

11
Valiente,
Natural Magic,
p. 33.

12
Dianic Grove training material of the Covenstead of Morrigana in Dallas, Texas, Lesson No. 1.

13
See Bonewits, Real Magic, pp. 91–112 and 163–76; “Second Epistle of Isaac,” Chap. 6, “The Tools of Ritual.”

14
Robert Anton Wilson, “All Hail the Goddess Eris!”
Gnostica,
Vol. 4, No. 11 (September–October 1975), 11.

15
Jane Ellen Harrison,
Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
(New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1962), pp. xliv–xlvi.

16
Robert Anton Wilson, “The Origins of Magick,” Green Egg, Vol. VII, No. 63 (June 21, 1974), 7.

17
Sam'l Bassett (“The Inquisitor”), “An Essay in Divination,”
The Witches' Trine,
Vol. 5, No. 2 (Litha, 1976), 7–8.

18
Aidan Kelly, “Aporrheton No. 1, To the New Witch,” March, 1973, p. 5. This was part of materials given to new members of NROOGD. A copy of these materials, as well as NROOGD's journal,
The Witches' Trine,
is on file with the library of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.