Pitch doth schreibble :
>
> What prompted my original post on Leslyn Heinlein's
> doing some sort of white witchcraft linked to Northern
> European traditions was, of course, the possibility that
> this might point to links to some form of pre-WWII
> proto-Neo-Pagan witchcraft in California.

And in that regard, I found that interview with Mara
Freeman /elsewhere/ on the Net:

" ...my interest in Ella began when I moved to
Carmel and found out that this Irish poet and
storyteller had once lived close by. Around the
corner from where I lived is Hawk Tower, hand-built
in stone by the great nature poet, Robinson Jeffers.
He actually modelled it on the one belonging to his
friend, W.B. Yeats, in Galway.

He and Ella and many other Carmel artists and
bohemians of the 1920s would light fires on the
beach at night and Ella would hold forth till the
wee hours telling Irish myths and legends.

Ella was a pioneer of Celtic spirituality on the
West Coast. Her legendary storytelling performances
earned her a seat at the University of California
in Berkeley, and she gained quite a following as a
keeper of the Bardic tradition.

She also set about re-establishing a magical order
that she had previously inaugurated in Ireland along
with Yeats and other Irish visionaries as part of
the Celtic Renaissance of those times.

She named it the *Fellowship of Shasta*, after the
sacred mountain in Northern California, and dedicated
it to the goddess Brigid, with whom she had a life-long
spiritual connection. "

~ from :

*Spirit of Scotland Tour
with Mara Freeman and Peter Vallance*
June 10 – 22, 2007
@ Susa-Morgan-Black.net
http://tinyurl.com/2ddmv9s

And then there is this essay:

" In the early 1990's I was assistant editor of an
earth-mysteries magazine called *Dragon's Quest*.

One day a very interesting article was submitted for
possible publication. It was about an author called
Ella Young and was titled *Carmel Magic*. It was
written by a man named John Thompson...

Although I knew who Ella Young was, and indeed, owned
her *Celtic Wonder Tales*, I had no idea that she had,
in the 1920s, moved to an area quite geographically
close to my present location, and had passed on her
legacy of Irish magic to her new friends there...

While in Ireland Ella had been part of a magical group
called the *Fellowship of the Four Jewels*.  The jewels
referred to were the four sacred treasures of the Tuatha
De Danaan of Ireland—the Sword of Light of Nuada, the
Spear of Lugh, the Cauldron of the Dagda, and the Stone
of Fal (also called the Stone of Destiny). These
treasures, in actuality, represented the powers of the
land of Ireland itself.

When Ella came to the USA and connected with the sacred
lands in California, she quite naturally modified her
focus to the land of California, while still using the
magical structures and Celtic deities with whom she had
worked before. So the *Fellowship of the Four Jewels*
became the *Fellowship of Shasta*, with Brigid as its
main deity. Ella dearly loved Brigid, whom she looked
upon as the Earth Goddess herself, and it was to Brigid
that the rites of the four yearly festivals performed by
the Fellowship were dedicated.

Whatever work the Fellowship had done through the years
of its existence (from 1931 till Ella's death in 1956,
and from 1960 till the death of her successor Gavin Arthur
in 1972), it had certainly left its energetic mark within
the lands of the central coast of California! "

~ from :

*Ella Young - Elfland's Ambassadress*
@Writing While Under the Influence of Faeries
http://tinyurl.com/28bmhrv

Cors in Manu Domine,


~ Khem Caigan
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"Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."

*Of the Division of Chaos*
-Dr. Simon Forman