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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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