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Neo Pagan

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Pre Christian religious system
3 traditions
Asatru: don’t refer to themselves as Pagan - Gods/Goddesses of Scandinavia - Astrur/Heathens - Iceland (Odin,Thor)
Druids: British Isles - Roman Invasion - Oral - Connection to land - Keltic War
Wicca(n):
> Gerald Gardner(Grandfather) - Oldest version of Wicca - New Forest in England - Masonry
Associated with Doreen Valiente - High Priestess - Wrote ritual words - Book of Shadows
> Alex Sanders - Granny nicked his scrotum - Western ceremonial magic (female-male) - Holly King and Oak King- Kabbalah - hierarchal -

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Semiotics

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Study of signs and symbols
Signs(logos): agreed upon meaning by those who use it
Symbols (muthos): more than one meaning that can change over time

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Candle Spell

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1) Intention of spell
2) Choose medium - candle? vegetable?
3) Symbols
> colour
> images carved into candle (Name,D.O.B, draw objects with symbol attracting to you)
4) Dress with oil while thinking of what you want
5) Say words (breath is powerful)
6) When to light - increase: largest number on clock and decrease: just after midnight

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Goddess Worship/Feminist Witchcraft (1960’s)

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Women In Constant Creative Action

Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell: Non violent protest for social justice (march with brooms)

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Mary Daly

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Witch - no space for women in patriarchal religion (Thealogy - Naomi Goldenberg) - women must create their own space - Church and the Second Sex/Beyond God the Father - “to be” fully a person was “to sin”

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Mariya Gimbutas

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Archeologist - pottery with female figures - Kurgan (graves of nomadic people - repeated invasion of patriarchal southeastern Europe warriors destroyed “Old Europe: peaceful Goddess-worshiping farming culture” - Goddess civilization - archaeomythology

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Morgan McFarland

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Communal movement - social activist
Mark Roberts: religious Wicca
McFarland Dianics - exclusion of men depends on Priestess

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Z Budapest

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Founding mother’s of women’s/feminist spirituality - Dianic witchcraft: eclectic witches turn to Goddess(es), gender separatists - lead women to their own Goddess - Susan B Anthony: first feminist coven - not hierarchal
Starhawk: Reclaiming tradition: non hierarchal - no specific pantheon - no initiation - political involvement - can’t just sit in corner and meditate

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Neo Satanism (1966)

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Solitary: young male worshipping literal Satan/Devil in order for wish fulfilment - stealing spell books
Outlaw Groups: small groups led by charismatic male leader that eventually falls apart - substances and blood
Neo Satanic Churches: new religious movements - no lawbreaking - not literal Satan - metaphor for self indulgence

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Neo Satanic Church: Church of Satan (1966)

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Anton Lavey - people wasting love on those who don’t deserve it - Satan is a metaphor: don’t follow society - practice selfish virtues

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Neo Satanic Church: Temple of Set (1971)

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Aquino and Lilith - view Satan as literal (left Church of Satan) - Setians - Local pile ons (not coven) - Xeper: I have come into being - divide from natural universe
Left hand path
Antinomianism: continuous self evolution - deny herd mentality
Individuality: in charge of their own growth
Control: take control through actions not spells
Black Magic

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Werewolf Order

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Zeena Schreck (Lavey's daughter - member of T.O.S) - Xeper: transform knowledge and yourself to get what you want/reflect what others want
Left hand path
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Neo Pagan vs Neo Satanism (difference in nature)

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NP: most beneficial to be in balance with natural world - nature is the ultimate source of divine religious inspiration
NS: least beneficial and must control what impacts me

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Occult Sciences

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Alchemy: invaluable to valuable
Numerology: numbers into meaning

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Occult Societies

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H.O.G.D - Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: rich people trying to prove ancestry - Crowley kicked out
O.T.O - Order of the Temple of the Orient: Kellner and Reus - Crowley: first three degrees - German occult order practicing magic - Karma Sutra: adds sex - Thelimic -

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Blavatsky

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Russian - left husband to join circus - Theosophical Religion - Alwais spirit: descendants of Atlantis

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Nazi Occult Conspiracy

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Swastika: sun wheel - power and energy from sun - struggle of victory for Aryan race
Leibenborn: foundation of life - Aryan breeding program
Rune(s): Scandinavia and Germanic lettering system
Blood Flag: blood of 16 dead Nazi martyrs
Black Propaganda: fake prophecies Der Zenit

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Immanent

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Presence of divine in everything (trees, rivers)

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Transcendant

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Not located in day to day - in sky or stars

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Inquisition

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Renaissance and reformation (not middle ages) - defend Roman Catholic Faith

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Treason

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Government - action or statement in violation of laws and structure

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Heresy

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religious belief against religious institutions

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Middle Ages

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Dark Ages - Crusades - question science and medicine

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A.S.C

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Phase: focused and paying attention to something - change of movement doesn’t change phase
Shift: change in brain between phases (shamanic experience/meditate)
Animal Magnetism Technique - use magnets to move iron in blood
Mezner - Mesmerism: use magnetism to put patients in relaxed state
Pueysegeur: use mesmerism technique - highly relaxed and highly suggestible
Braid: Hypnosis - shift phase

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Possession

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Unwilling and willing

1) Incarnate
2) Discarnate
3) Force of Nature

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Religions

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Santeria: worship of Saints - Yoruba and Spanish Roman Catholicism - Origin: Cuba - D.R/Miami - Santa Barbara/Shango
> Bight of Bemba - Middle Passage (Cuba and Hispaniola(D.R & Haiti)

Voudon: Origin: Haiti - na’Kongo, Ewe,Iba & Yoruba - French Roman Catholicism - Petro and Rada

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Divination

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Foretell/Predict - determine will of the Gods - Astrology/Geomancy/Palmistry/Scrying/Runes/Tarot

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Kabbalah

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Esoteric philosophy - Jewish mystics in 12th Century - Babylonian magic - Tree of Life: ten sepherah - Pagan and Wiccan traditions

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Thelema (Will)

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Liber AL vel Legis - Aeon of Horus - Do As Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law: true Will/Love is the Law, Love Under Will - H.G.A: Holy Guardian Angel - Left Hand path

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Left Hand vs Right Hand

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Right Hand: altruism, healing magic, asceticism, and goodness
Left Hand: selfishness, evil, cursing, hedonism
Attitude toward social norms and locus of the divine

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Occult / Modern Wicca

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Philosophical Concepts: Reincarnation and Karma - Levels of Reality - Magic - Immanence of Deity - Discarnate Teachers
Symbol Systems: Boitano-Celtic Mythography - Kabbalah - Alchemy - Western Mystery Tradition
Structures: Coven (12+1) - Circle

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