of the fact that he published witchcraft’s beliefs in an attempt to continue the Old Religion for his contemporaries and their descendants, Gardner thought of “witchcraft” as a mystery cult that needed initiation to be completely assimilated and put into practice. A British emigrant named Raymond Buckland received an initiation into the new mystery tradition from Gardner’s own coven, which he named the Isle of Man, and later spread the understandings of the Isle of Man back to the United States. The Wiccan religion acquired respect at a very nice pace in the new world, where a social and religious sea change was taking place.
Since the early 1960s, a number of new permutations of Wiccan religion have circulated widely. A number of them have owed their origin to Gardner’s own disciples who started their own covens and performed their own initiations. Some other widespread forms of witchcraft have derived from self-initiated mystics and witches who set up their own conceptions of Wiccan spirituality based on the the works of Gardner and those who followed after him. Today a variety of such subsets of Gardnerian witchcraft are increasingly popular in a variety of countries and cultures.
Dallas is an experimental mystic who investigates the religions of the world in hopes of piecing together the ultimate destiny of mankind. In his pilgrimages, he frequently needs to find Wiccan stores and can typically be seen wearing lustrous and spiritually charged Wiccan jewelry. He wishes you great wonderment on your own spiritual voyage!
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