Hi there. No I haven't read that. Thanks. Sounds interesting. Shall look it up.
~Caroline.
---- David Waldron <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Caroline,
> Have you read Hobsbawm's primitive rebels? It goes through this process
> with 18th and 19thC Occult ritual societies in a very insightful concise
> way. I think its a systemic approach taken to splinters and
> disagreements in these movements including the formation of Wicca and
> its splinter groups as well as the OTO and offshoots.
> I like Hobsbawm's stake as he gets into the sociologial process of it in
> secret societies in a insightful (and somewhat cutting) way.
> David
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