Author: Hadron Templeton

  • Gayatri Mantra

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    This is one of the most power of Sanskrit mantras. It is said by Hindu teachers to give the power to see behind illusion. I have been told that there is a story in Indian of a holy man called Vasishtha who has a special cow. When visited by a king the story makes a…

  • Astral Plane Path Working

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    This is a Script for a path-working, seeing inner visions and potentially stepping into the astral plane. We do a similar thing with my local coven particularly, when the COVID-19 crisis is going on, so we can still meet up and do our ritual work together, but since we are still socially distancing we use…

  • Wiccan Degree System

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    Okay it’s hard to come across a specific model that covers all covens that practice initiatory Wicca from Tradition British Witchcraft‘s founders: Gerald Gardner and Alexander Saunders. Both men claim to not be the start of something new, but there is a little written evidence of what came before and it would appear they were…

  • The Mighty Ones

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    A term frequently used by Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente. Most likely this just means “the Gods”. I have not yet come across evidence that she used it to refer to dead powerful witches that came before as well, but I will keep my eyes open.

  • Dorothy Clutterbuck and the New Forest Coven

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    Also known as “Old Dorothy” in Gerald Gardner’s writings. Who was she and why was she important. So Gerald Gardner was an initiate of the OTO and having reached the third degree, the degree of master he was permitted to initiate, but bound in secrecy. He began to initiate people in a magical tradition, claiming…

  • The Charge of the Goddess by Doreen Valiente

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    So I am recently working with a very pagan focused witch circle which has been really good to get me out of my ceremonial box and learn new things or often just re-learn the old things which I thought I knew. This book is a wonderful collection of witch centered poems that inspire ritual words…

  • Rule of Three / Threefold-Law

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    Someone recently spoke to me of the “rule of three” by which they meant the threefold law. I was irritated by their acceptance of something they have been told as fact. If I was to just accept the tenets of faith I was told then I would still be attending my parents’ church and trying…

  • Summerland – Definition

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    This was an odd term which was introduced to modern paganism from the Theosophists and Swedenborg. It is considered to be the pinnacle of human spiritual achievement in the afterlife; that is, it is the highest level, or ‘sphere’, of the afterlife we can hope to enter. Leadbeater suggested Summerland was a place where a…

  • The Old Ones – Definition

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    The Old Ones often appears in the writings of Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente (who often edited Gerald Gardner’s work). It is clear that in some instances this means the gods of old belief systems. In some cases the use would tend to suggest it could also encompass practitioners of witchcraft who have gone before.…

  • Programming as an Art

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    This was an article I read as a 15 year old which helped inform my psychic energy practice. Unfortunately, I don’t have a way to get in contact with the original author so I have had to re-write the whole article to avoid plagiarising. The article was originally on PsiOnline.org and it was “The Art…