About the Author: Gerald B. Gardner
Gerald Brousseau Gardner was an influential English Wiccan, as well as an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist, writer, weaponry expert and occultist. He was instrumental in bringing the Neopagan religion of Wicca to public attention in Britain and wrote some of its definitive religious texts. He himself typically referred to the faith as "witchcraft" or "the witch-cult", its adherents "the Wica", and he claimed that it was the survival of a pre-Christian pagan Witch cult that he had been initiated into by a New Forest coven in 1939.
Gardner spent much of his life abroad in southern and south-eastern Asia, where he developed an interest in many of the native peoples, and wrote about some of their magical practices. It was after his retirement and return to England that he was initiated into Wicca by the New Forest coven. Subsequently fearing that this religion, which he apparently believed to be a genuine continuance of ancient beliefs, would die out, he set about propagating it through initiating others, mainly through the Bricket Wood coven, and introduced a string of notable High Priestesses into Wicca, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone.
He also published two books on the subject of Wicca, Witchcraft Today (1954) and The Meaning of Witchcraft (1959), along with a couple of novels, and ran the Museum of Magic and Witchcraft on the Isle of Man, which was devoted to the subject. For this, he has left an enduring legacy on the modern Wiccan and Neopagan movement, and is frequently referred to as "the Father of Wicca".
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Gerald B. Gardner
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ISBN10: 055912161X | ISBN13: 9780559121616
"The Book of Shadows is a collection of magical and religious texts of Wicca and other Neopagan witchcraft traditions, containing the core rituals, magical practices, ethics and philosophy of a Wiccan or other tradition. In Wicca, it is normally copied by hand from the book of one's initiating High Priestess or Priest, who copied theirs from their initiator. In modern Eclectic Wiccan terminology, however, a Book of Shadows is a personal magical journal rather than a traditional text.
Within traditional lineaged forms of Wicca there are a number of versions of the Book of Shadows, their contents varying to a greater or lesser degree from the early versions belonging to Gerald Gardner, who first popularised Wicca. While Gardner seems to have originally treated the book as a personal journal, it has come to be considered a religious text in most traditions." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
Table of Contents
Publisher's Preface; Casting The Circle; Drawing Down The Moon; The Charge: "lift Up The Veil"; The Initiation First Degree; Initiation: Second Degree; Initiation: Third Degree; Cakes And Wine; The Sabbat Rituals: November Eve; The Sabbat Rituals: February Eve; The Sabbat Rituals: May Eve; The Sabbat Rituals: August Eve; On Chants; To Help The Sick; The Scourge And The Kiss; The Priestess And The Sword; The Warning; Of The Ordeal Of The Art Magical; The Eightfold Way; To Gain The Sight; Power; Properly Prepared; The Meeting Dance; To Leave The Body; The Working Tools; Skyclad; A Revision Of The Casting Procedure; The Prose Charge; Cakes And Wine; The Sabbat Rituals: Spring Equinox; The Sabbat Rituals: Summer Solstice; The Sabbat Rituals: Autumn Equinox; The Sabbat Rituals: Winter Solstice; The Eightfold Path Or Ways; The First-degree Initiation; The Second-degree Initiation; The Third-degree Initiation; The Witches' Chant Or Rune; Consecrating Tools; The
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