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| | Alexandrian Wicca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Alexandrian Wicca is a tradition of the Neopagan religion of Wicca, founded by Alex Sanders (also known as "King of the Witches" | | | Alexandrian Wicca is similar in many ways to Gardnerian Wicca, and receives regular mention in books on Wicca as one of the religion's most widely-recognized traditions | | | As of the 1980s none of the American Alexandrian covens had any connection with Sanders himself. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrian_Wicca
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| | Wicca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Wicca is thus generally considered to be distinct from witchcraft, which does not of itself imply any specific religious, ethical or ritual elements, and is practiced in various forms by people of many religions, as well as by atheists. | | | A "tradition" in Wicca refers to a branch of the religion with specific teachings and practices, often involving the concept of a lineage that is transferred by initiation. | | | Wicca is primarily a religion, and although its adherents often identify as witches, Wicca and witchcraft are not the same thing. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca
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| | Wicca |
| | In Faery Wicca the iron and pearl pentagrams are used as meditational symbols to explore the self and restore ones balance with the universe. | | | Wicca is a revived religious tradition, with roots reaching back into the far distant past. | | | The Dianic Tradition has spread to Europe, but covens are presently far less numerous and tend not to be as militant as their American counterparts, allowing men an equal role in worship, and worshipping both the Goddess and the Horned God as her consort. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/europe/wicca.html
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| | Wicca |
| | Wicca is a "modern pagan religion" focusing on worship of nature gods. | | | Rather, Wicca is a nature based religion that has been recognized as such in the United States and has full recognition as a legitimate religion. | | | Pagans, or Neo-Pagans, are general terms for followers of "magickal, shamanistic, or polytheistic Earth religions" - including Wicca. |
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http://www.souldevice.org/wicca.html
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: Wicca |
| | Wicca, in all its incarnations, is probably one of the longest and most persecuted religions in history. | | | The romantic idea that Wicca survived from the "Old Religion" through the "Burning Times" is an important part of the belief of many modern practitioners. | | | Much of the history and practice of Wicca is based on oral tradition, with many conflicting stories arising as various factions have created a body of sacred belief and practice for themselves. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/wicca.html
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| | TRADITIONS |
| | Georgian Wicca was founded by George Patterson in 1970, and was given legal status by the Universal Life Church in the early seventies as the Church of Wicca of Bakersfield, California. | | | One difference Seax Wicca has with some other Wiccan traditions is that Buckland never claimed that it originated from an ancient religion. | | | Aidan Kelly in the 1970’s wrote about how Gardnerian Wicca was influencing other Wiccan traditions (such as the Alexandrian Wicca), as well as his doubts on whether or not Gardner had ever been part of an original European pre-Christian religion. |
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http://www.magickmind.net/traditions.html
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| | Paths: Wicca |
| | The Church of Wicca was founded by Gavin and Yvonne Frost. | | | 'Wicca is both a religion and a Craft. | | | Certainly, the word "Wicca" is less evocative and emotive than "Witchcraft" but whatever their perceived differences, they both share the same commonality in their beliefs and practises. |
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http://www.wyldwytch.com/weavings/articles/pagan_path/pages/wicca.htm
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| | Groups of Witches and Witchy Terms |
| | Wicca: A contemporary Pagan religion with spiritual roots in Shamanism and the earliest expressions of reverence of nature. | | | However, some followers of Wicca use this word to denote their religion. | | | Today used as a general term for followers of Wicca and other magickal, shamanistic and polytheistic religions. |
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http://braided-web.net/groups.html
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| | Witchcraft and Wicca |
| | Wicca was the first (or at least one of the first) of the neo pagan religions. | | | Unlike most of the neopagan religions, Wicca is an initiatory religion, that is, people who choose to practice Wicca believe that the commitment to this path set changes in motion in their lives. | | | The new word "Wicca" is pronounced "wick-uh", capitalized as a religion, and means a religion, not a person.) However, Wicca has developed in many directions and should not be seen as a unified whole, even though it is fairly new. |
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http://www.exposingsatanism.org/witchcraft.htm
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| | Some of the denomonations or traditions of Wicca are Alexandrian, Gardnerian, Druidic, Welsh, Traditionalist, Georgian, Dianic, and Church of Wicca. | | | He states that an anthropologist or sociologist of religion may find a difference between Wicca and Satinism, but from a spiritual standpoint, the difference is non-existant. | | | The author goes on for several pages describing how Satan engineered Wicca as am "old religion for a new age." He says that the Book of Shadows is not centuries old, as he was originally led to believe, but a collaboration between Gerald Gardner and the notorious Satanist Aleister Crowley. |
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http://blackroses.textfiles.com/occult/WICCA/wiccans.txt
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| | Celtic Callings - Religion - Wiccan Traditons |
| | This is a formal, structured tradition that mixes Celtic deities and spirituality with Gardenarian-type Wicca. | | | Many came to Wicca in the traditional way, through formal initiation into a coven that followed a specific tradition. | | | Named for the goddess Diana, this is a Goddess centered tradition that excludes gods and does not require initiations. |
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http://www.celticcallings.com/resources/religions/wiccan/wiccan_traditions.htm
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| | Alexandrian Wicca |
| | He was referred to as "The King of the Witches." He had claimed to be initiated into Wicca at the age of seven by his grandmother but later admitted that this was not true. | | | The Alexandrian tradition focuses on ceremonial magic and has elements of the Kabbalah. | | | tradition and his Alexandrian Wicca reflects some of those aspects. |
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http://www.carm.org/wicca/alexandrian.htm
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| | Traditions |
| | Wicca is a wonderfully diverse and contemporary spiritual religion. | | | The Internet is the ultra-modern age of Wicca, and more and more people are turning to it in their quest to practice The Old Religion. | | | Dianic Wicca is a feminist religion, for women only. |
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http://www.controverscial.com/Traditions.htm
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| | Spirits of Fire |
| | BUDDHISM: The religion based on the doctrine of Gautama Buddha that asserts suffering is inseparable from existence and that enlightenment is achieved by the inward extinction of the self and of the senses. | | | ALGARD WICCA: A Wiccan tradition that combines both Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca traditions, founded in 1972 by Mary Nesnick, an American who was initiated into both Gardnerian and Alexandrian traditions. | | | The British Traditional groups view Wicca as an Initiatory, Oathbound, Magick-using, Pagan Mystery Priesthood celebrating the Mysteries contained in the Legend of the Descent of the Goddess and in the Charge of the Goddess. |
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http://groups.msn.com/SpiritsofFire/traditions1.msnw
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| | Hidden Muse.com |
| | The Alexandrian tradition is just one way of many to relate to the God and Goddess. | | | The Alexandrian tradition takes its method from the city of Alexandria because of the similarity between what the Alexandrian's did with their knowledge and how we approach spirituality. | | | The coven Du Bandia Grasail released a statment some time ago trying to describe what it was that we did as "Alexandrians" and pointed out that there was a similarity to the schools in the the ancient city of Alexandria in Egypt. |
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http://www.hiddenmuse.com/alexandrian.html
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| | Channel: Purpose |
| | There is little dogma in Wicca, the central core being worship of the Goddess and God, adherence to the Rede (an it harm none do what ye will) and belief in the law of Three, ie what you send out you get back times three. | | | Wiccans believe in the duality of divinity, ie a Goddess and a God, and worship both in ritual. | | | So prolific is wicca in the states that Time Magazine in 1995 rated it the fastest growing religion in America |
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http://www.wiccanway.net/purpose.html
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| | CollegeWicca.com - Wiccan Traditions |
| | While Wicca looks to the Goddess and the God for spirituality, New Agers tend to look inside themselves without naming a deity. | | | The tradition differs from Gardnerian Wicca in that it uses the wand to symbolize Air and the athame or sword to symbolize Fire. | | | In my opinion, "to each his own." New Age is into spirituality, but not the same type as Wicca. |
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http://www.collegewicca.com/basicfiles/types.html
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| | Witchvox Article |
| | Alexandrians define Wicca as a Pagan Mystery faith that is initiatory, oath bound and experiential in nature, with ancient roots originating in the British Isles. | | | Wicca is very different from other religions in that we have no laity. | | | The name "Alexandrian" is generally viewed by the Initiates of the Tradition as a reference to the "founder," Alex Sanders himself, as well as a reference to the Great Library of Alexandria, which was the center of Occult knowledge in the ancient world. |
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http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usxx&c=trads&id=8796
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| | Alexandrian Wicca Tradition in Pagan and Witchcraft Directory |
| | The Janus Gate - Information on the Wiccan religion in general, the Alexandrian tradition, the author's coven, and the author. | | | Morven's Home Page - Lady Morven is an Alexandrian HPS in the Boston branch of the Tradition, and Craft ancestor to several covens in that lineage. | | | Twisted Oak Coven - Alexandrian coven; location not given. |
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http://www.branwenscauldron.com/resources/Alexandrian.html
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| | Gay Pagans, Gay Witches...? |
| | As a Mystery Religion, Wicca continues the ancient tradition of Initiation and oral teaching, and is believed by it's adherents to trace some of it's roots back to the Mystery Traditions of Elusius and beyond. | | | Traditional Wicca is best defined as: an Initiatory, Oathbound, Magick-using, Pagan Mystery Priesthood, dedicated to the Great Goddess and her consort the Horned God - and celebrating it's Mysteries through the Eight Sabbats and the 13 Esbats... | | | In common with all Mystery Religions, Traditional Wicca is also an Initiatory Path. |
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http://www.thewellhead.org.uk/GP/moottalk2.html
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| | This is the starting place for new Coveners, unless they have been initiated in another Alexandrian Coven. | | | I promise to seriously undertake the study of the Old Religion, and to reflect upon the inner meaning of Initation as a Priest/ess of Wicca. | | | This person has completed his/her apprenticeship, and can now be considered an Elder of the Alexandrian tradition and of the Coven. |
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http://www.ladyoftheearth.com/covens/rank-req.txt
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| | The Coven Leader's Handbook - 13 Lessons in Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca by Sean Belachta (Book) in Books > ... |
| | Written by an initiate of both, the Alexandrian and Gardnerian Tradition, this book presents a serious and complete Neophyte training program for Alexandrian and Gardnerian Wicca. | | | Religion & Spirituality > Alternative Beliefs & Spirituality : Written by an initiate of both, the Alexandrian and Gardnerian Tradition, this book presents a serious and complete Neophyte training program for Alexandrian and Gardnerian Wicca. | | | The Coven Leader's Handbook - 13 Lessons in Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca by Sean Belachta (Book) in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative Beliefs & Spirituality |
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http://www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=135214
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| | Cantrap - Magical Theory |
| | It was stateside though and had no bearing on Gardnerian Wicca, Alexandrian Wicca, Cochcrane's 1734 tradition, or those traditions descended from these. | | | The Rede was written by Lady Gwen Thompson who turned her family tradition into a tradition of Wicca independent of Gardner. | | | But really it is not a part of Wicca and many Wiccans don't use it, many non-Wiccans do. |
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http://www.cantrap.net/theory/Rede.html
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| | Wicca - definition of Wicca by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | A polytheistic Neo-Pagan nature religion inspired by various pre-Christian western European beliefs, whose central deity is a mother goddess and which includes the use of herbal magic and benign witchcraft. | | | Wicca - definition of Wicca by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Wicca
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| | Wicca: Alexandrian Book of Shadows |
| | It describes rituals and ceremonies of the Alexandrian Tradition witches, coven bound to that tradition. | | | We now know that most of the Book of Shadows was copied by him from the Gardnerian Tradition. | | | Alexandrian Wicca was founded by Alex Sanders in England and is highly ceremonial in nature. |
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http://www.wiccanway.net/bos.html
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| | Blue Star Wicca |
| | It began focused on Greco-Roman deities, and later strongly embraced Brito-Celtic gods. | | | By "Traditional" I mean, what is called in the Neopagan community "Fam Trad". | | | Blue Star Wicca is a Neo-Traditional, Post-Alexandrian Wiccan religion, founded by Tzipora Klein and others in the 1970&. |
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http://www.weirdrealm.com/bluestar.html
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| | Alexandrian Wicca |
| | Some covens also teach practical magic, such as divination, spellcraft, herbal magic, etc.; some covens teach their own particular flavors of theology: the nature of the Gods and other spiritual beings, beliefs about reincarnation; but these vary considerably from coven to coven. | | | Although Alex claimed to have been initiated into Wicca by his grandmother, what he taught was essentially Gardnerian Wicca, and no one really believes the grandmother story anymore. | | | In general, Alexandrian Tradition tends to emphasize ritual form, and each coven tends to stick to an established ritual framework rather than coming up with a completely new ritual each time. |
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http://www.expage.com/alexwic
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| | Wicca |
| | It is a nature based religious system with various traditions, god and goddess worship, witchcraft, spells, and divination. | | | What should Christian do if their child gets involved in Wicca? | | | Wicca is a very popular movement in America and Europe. |
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http://www.carm.org/wicca.htm
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| | Wicca 201 -- History of Wicca |
| | - 1970s British Traditional Wicca Alexandrian Wicca Alex Sanders - 1926 to 1988 Gardnerian Wicca Gerald B. Gardner - 1884 to 1964 retired 1936 employed by the government as a rubber plantation inspector in Far East |
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http://www.stonedragonpress.com/wicca_201/history_wicca_00.html
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