The Triumph of the Moon

The Theatre of the Occult Revival

“…160 Hutton writes that Gardner visited Crowley shortly before the latter's death. 161 Valiente confirms that Gardner visited Crowley in Witchcraft for Tomorrow. Although Valiente states that Crowley was no witch and paints him as an entirely vile person, she acknowledges that the Law of Thelema is not an invitation to do whatever one wants to do, but, on the contrary, to act in obedience to a just and divine Will.…”

“…According to Hutton, Valiente's "greatest single contribution to Wicca" was her revisions to the Wiccan "Charge," which she made in part to distance Gardnerian Wicca from Crowley. 163 Thus, Crowley is linked to the development of Gardnerian Wicca. Gardner met Crowley, corresponded with him, and was an initiate of the OTO.…”

The Baha’i Faith and Wicca - A Comparison of Relevance in Two Emerging Religions

“…Daly and Dworkin repeated these assertions but initially saw witchcraft primarily as an obstacle to the patriarchy rather than a religion. 60 In 1973 a book entitled Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers 61 was published, and in a single stroke not only was the "wise woman" reinvented as a feminist, but the demonisation of the male-dominated medical profession, already distrusted because of the abortion debate, was completed. In 1976 Merlin Stone published When God was a Woman, restating the great goddess theory and repackaging it for feminist consumption.…”

Properties of ancient landscape: the present prehistoric in twentieth-century Breckland

“…Hutton notes the arguments for a Neolithic age of the Goddess by mainstream archaeologists such as Glyn Daniel, O. G. S. Crawford and Gordon Childe: 'Whether or not there ever was an Age of the Goddess in Neolithic Europe, there certainly was one among European intellectuals between 1951 and 1963'. 63 Clarke and Green register Piggott's analysis of an offering made in a shaft sparse in flint: 'This assemblage strongly suggests the propitiation of an ''Earth Goddess'' combined with an appeal for more abundant or better-quality flint in the next pit'. 64 Clarke includes a ritual drawing by Alan Sorrell, miners presenting their antler picks to the goddess.…”