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What Thou Wilt - Traditional and Innovative Trends in Post-Gardnerian Witchcraft (Paperback, New)
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What Thou Wilt - Traditional and Innovative Trends in Post-Gardnerian Witchcraft (Paperback, New)
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The publication from 1954 of Gerald Gardner's non-fiction works on
witchcraft has led to the current public existence of two different
trends of religious and magical belief and practice, both which
identify themselves as "Wicca." One form places a strong emphasis
upon the transmission of traditional practices and a form of
initiatory lineage similar to that practised by Gardner himself.
The other covers a wider range of views on each of these aspects,
but with the most common position being a strong distance between
the traditional practices-giving a greater importance to
innovation-and a complete or near-complete abandonment of the
concept of initiatory lineage. Both trends often see themselves and
each other as being within a wider religio-magical stream of
Post-Gardnerian Pagan Witchcraft of which the innovative form is a
larger part, though in different ways. The traditional view of the
innovative form typically labels that form "Eclectic" even in cases
where the practitioners would understand "Eclectic" differently,
and considers it to be something outside of what it terms "Wicca."
The innovative form generally labels all Post-Gardnerian Pagan
Witchcraft, or beyond, as "Wicca," and as such recognizes all
traditional practitioners as Wiccan but does not generally make
more significant distinctions between the various schools. The
traditional stream considers the differences between the two
streams as significant to the point of typicality while the
innovative stream considers the differences as much less important.
This book examines the differences and offers insights into both.
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