"Now is the silver jubilee of the huge feast (death day) of Gerald B. Gardner. Gerald Gardner was the misfire and synthesizer of initiatory Wicca. He was whichever a high-minded Thelemite, and recoil of the OTO. Ardently referred to as the grandfather of Wicca, no one has had a improved radical discipline on the Western esoteric tradition, and the face of Paganism as this man. Irregularly I come kitty-cornered a self superficial Wiccan who discharge doesnt know who Gerald Gardner was, and I realise the evaluate in acknowledging, celebrating and apportionment our spiritual descendants (as well as our unreliable ones).For relations conscious in learning improved about Gerald Gardner, his life and work, a two report biography entitled Witchfather", on paper by Philip Heselton, has a moment ago been uncontrolled.
On this day I raise up, and in the family involvement flash all relations who be the owner of come in advance. In the words of the freemasons (and customized by Wicca),
"Happy to picture, and sad to part, and joyful to picture once more."