Hubbard was OTO, knew Jack Parsons intimately (most likely in all definitions), and referred to Crowley as a "good friend" for many years after they'd met.
Well, there you go. I am now informed.
As it has become more and more mainstream, and stores have a shelf or two actually labelled "Wicca," some the teachers who most cling to the idea that the Craft has been passed down for centuries without any gaps or silly made up stuff are so "white lit" that they want nothing to do with forcing people to have sex with goats.
I feel like Wiccans have, sadly, become as blind to the origins of their beliefs as, say, Right-Wing Xtians. For my part, I recognize Wicca as something formulated by Gardner, in part from pre-existing traditions, including the Golden Dawn, Freemasonry, Charles Godfrey Leland, and, of course, Crowley. It is most emphatically not some pure and ancient goddess religion passed down across the millennia and rediscovered by Gardner. Old Murray can bite my butt, as can the white lighters/fluffy bunnies who'd rather not let history interfere with their wishful thinking.
Sorry...that was a tirade.
The only belief structure I actually subscribe to is called The Immaculate Order of the Falling Sky,
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Date: 2008-11-10 07:08 pm (UTC)Well, there you go. I am now informed.
As it has become more and more mainstream, and stores have a shelf or two actually labelled "Wicca," some the teachers who most cling to the idea that the Craft has been passed down for centuries without any gaps or silly made up stuff are so "white lit" that they want nothing to do with forcing people to have sex with goats.
I feel like Wiccans have, sadly, become as blind to the origins of their beliefs as, say, Right-Wing Xtians. For my part, I recognize Wicca as something formulated by Gardner, in part from pre-existing traditions, including the Golden Dawn, Freemasonry, Charles Godfrey Leland, and, of course, Crowley. It is most emphatically not some pure and ancient goddess religion passed down across the millennia and rediscovered by Gardner. Old Murray can bite my butt, as can the white lighters/fluffy bunnies who'd rather not let history interfere with their wishful thinking.
Sorry...that was a tirade.
The only belief structure I actually subscribe to is called The Immaculate Order of the Falling Sky,
Ah, the faithful...