Sharon Stravaigne doth schreibble:
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> Wiccan/OTO hybrids,
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> Could you point me to some web sites or a list of these,
> I would like to know more about this phenomenon. On the
> surface - although Gardner likely had Crowleyite influence -
> they seem rather different. For instance, the OTO sounds
> more like a take off on high church anglicanism plus
> blasphemy. Wicca seems to be more of a conscious effort
> to at least seem pre Christian.
I had thought that it was impossible to read
through the Gardnerian liturgy without noticing
the material lifted from Crowley.
Here is an example:
" O Queen of Space, O Jewel of Light,
Continuous one of the heavens;
Let it be ever thus
That men speak not of thee as One, but as None;
And let them not speak of thee at all, since thou art
continuous.
For thou art the point within the Circle, which we adore;
The point of life, without which we would not be. "
from:
The Great Rite
http://tinyurl.com/y2tbhc
I suppose the OTO and Gardnerian Wicca have more
in common with 'High Church Anglicanism' than is
at first apparent, since they *both* draw on
Crowley for their liturgy ;)
Once folks were able to read the rituals of the
Golden Dawn, the OTO and Gardnerian Wicca side
by side, by way of the publishing houses and the
bookstores, the shared bits did not escape the
attention of many enterprising young HP(s)s, and
innovations ensued.
One hybrid that comes to mind is Jerome Birnbaum's
TOTEL and his 'Caballistic Wicca'.
http://tinyurl.com/y2a6lx
For more on the sources of and overlaps within
Gardnerian Wicca, you might want to take a look at
Aidan Kelly's *Crafting the Art of Magic, Book I:
A History of Modern Witchcraft, 1939-1964*, and
Henrik Bogdan's *From Darkness to Light: Western
Esoteric Rituals of Initiation*.
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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