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History of Wicca - Reconstructionists - 5 / 12 / 2002
  reconstructionists
 
1890s to 1940s
Western magical tradition
    ceremonial magical orders
        O. T. O.
        The Golden Dawn
    Medieval grimoires
    alchemy
        Islamic mysticism
    Egyptian mysteries
        Isis / Osiris
    Greek mysteries
        Eleusinian
            Demeter
    Roman mysteries 
        Mithraism
            Persian
    Christian mysticism
    qabalah
        Jewish mysticism
    Rosicrucians
        Freemasons
Theosophy
    H. P. Blavatsky
        Hindu mysticism
        Egyptian mysteries
            Isis
fraternal orders
    Rosicrucians
        18th century German mystical societies
            Freemasons
                medieval guilds
spiritualism
Buddhism
    Zen [see Zen]
    Tao [see Tao]
Christian heresies
    Catharism
        Manichaean
            Persian philosopher Manes / Mani
                216? - 276? ad
            matter = evil / mind = good
                Zorastrianism
                    Zoroaster / Zarathustra
                        Persia - 600 to 500 bc
                    good vs evil
    Gnostics
        amulets / spirits
    Templars
    Waldensians
        preach the gospel in the vernacular
folklore
    Sir James Frazer
    Charles G. Leland
    cunning people
        7th  of 7th
        George Pickingale
            leader of 7 witches
        fortune tellers
            seers
            astrologers
                early Middle Eastern civilizations
                    Mesopotamian, Akkad, Babylonia, Sumer, & Assyria
woodcraft societies
    animist view of the world
    Order of Woodcraft Chivalry
        Ernest Westlake
            Boy Scout movement
    Kindred of the Kibbo Kift
        John Hargrave
            Boy Scout movement
                Robert Baden-Powell 
                    military
                Ernest Thompson Seton
                    tribal
 
Aradia: Gospel of the Witches - Charles G. Leland
The Golden Bough - Sir James Frazer
Isis Unveiled - H. P. Blavatsky

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