The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.

It is believed to have been compiled by Gerald Gardner or possibly another member of the New Forest coven.

The Neopagan religion of Wicca publicly appeared in the 1940s, and Gerald Gardner introduced the Book of Shadows as a Wiccan Grimoire.

tradition in the neopagan religion of Wicca, whose members can trace initiatory descent from Gerald Gardner.

Any valid line of initiatory descent can be traced all the way back to Gerald Gardner, and through him back to the New Forest Coven.

Gerald Gardner himself actively disseminated educational resources on folklore and the occult to the general public through his Museum of Witchcraft on the Isle of Man.

When the Witchcraft Laws were replaced, in 1951, by the Fraudulent Mediums Act, Gerald Gardner went public, initially somewhat cautiously.

Gerald Brosseau Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, as well as an author and an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist.

In 1876 the family moved into one of the neighbouring houses, Ingle Lodge, and it was here that the couple's third son, Gerald Brosseau Gardner, was born on Friday 13 June 1884.

The pioneers of the various Wiccan or Witchcraft traditions, such as Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente and Robert Cochrane, all claimed that their religion was a continuation of the pagan religion of the Witch-Cult following historians who had purported the Witch-Cult's existence, such as Jules Michelet and Margaret Murray.

According to Sabina Magliocco, Gerald Gardner says ( in 1959's The Meaning of Witchcraft ) that The Horned God is an Under-god, a mediator between an unknowable supreme deity and the people.

Valiente offers another explanation for the negative reaction of some neopagans ; that the identification of Lucifer as the god of the witches in Aradia was " too strong meat " for Wiccans who were used to the gentler, romantic paganism of Gerald Gardner and were especially quick to reject any relationship between witchcraft and Satanism.

The " father of Wicca ", Gerald Gardner, who adopted Margaret Murray's thesis, claimed Wicca was a modern survival of an ancient pan-European pagan religion.

Gerald Gardner was initiated into the O. T. O.

* John Gardner Ford ( born 1952 ), American business executive who co-founded Outside magazine in 1977 ; second son of President Gerald R. Ford ; best known as Jack Ford

* 1884 – Gerald Gardner, English occultist ( d. 1964 )

Murray's ideas proved highly influential over the ideas of Gerald Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), an English Wiccan who founded the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca in the 1950s before authoring the books Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ).

Murray's ideas nevertheless exerted great influence on certain pagan currents ; in the 1940s, Englishman Gerald Gardner claimed to have been initiated into a New Forest coven.

The figure at the forefront of the burgeoning Wiccan movement was the English esotericist Gerald Gardner, who claimed to have been initiated by the New Forest coven in 1939.

Although Gerald Gardner, a key figure in Wicca, was arguably homophobic this historical aversion is not now commonly held.

This practice may stem from the influence of Gerald Gardner who wrote ( ostensibly quoting a witch, but perhaps in his own words ): The witches tell me ' The law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception being when a mother initiates her daughter or a father his son, because they are part of themselves ' ( the reason is that great love is apt to occur between people who go through the rites together.

Gardner was rumored to be homophobic by Lois Bourne, one of the High Priestesses of the Bricket Wood coven: Gerald was homophobic.

Whilst nudity and the practice of witchcraft have long been associated in the visual arts, this contemporary ritual nudity is typically attributed to either the influence of Gerald Gardner or to a passage from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and as such is mainly attributed to the Gardnerian and Aradian covens.

In particular, Gerald Gardner, who first popularized Wicca in England, was a noted folklorist with an interest in Far Eastern culture who spent much of his adult life in Ceylon and Burma, so it seems very plausible that he could have been familiar with this Hindu term.

Thompson's attribution of the Long Rede to her grandmother has been disputed, since Adriana Porter died in 1946, well before Gerald Gardner published The Old Laws, and no evidence for Porter's authorship exists other than Thompson's word.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale did collaborate with Austin, Texas band The Octopus Project to perform " Girl U Want " and " Beautiful World.

Governor Reagan's term ended in 1975, and he did not run for a third ; instead, he met with advisors to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

Huxley had invited his friend, the writer Gerald Heard to participate in the experiment ; although Heard was too busy this time he did join him for a session in November of that year.

The automaker's President, William Luneburg, did not expect dramatic development through 1980, but Gerald C. Meyers, AMC's Vice-President of the Product ( Engineering ) Group, suggested that AMC would be buying the engines from Curtis-Wright before developing its own Wankel engines and predicted a total transition to rotary power by 1984.

Until recently, as of 2005 the x86 architecture did not meet the Popek and Goldberg requirements-a specification for virtualization created in 1974 by Gerald J. Popek and Robert P. Goldberg.

* In 1988, in his Banting lecture, Gerald M. Reaven proposed insulin resistance as the underlying factor and named the constellation of abnormalities syndrome X. Reaven did not include abdominal obesity, which has also been hypothesized as the underlying factor, as part of the condition.

In any case, Gerald of Lausanne, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, did not attend the ceremony, indeed, the next day the Bishop of Caesarea arrived to place the city under interdict on the patriarch's orders.

Most Wiccan traditions associate the athame with the masculine principle and with the element of fire, as did Gerald Gardner ; while the wand is associated with air.

Bek did not manage even the four-year fight that Gerald had managed, for Peckham routed him quickly.

Sir Edward was the first of the Dennys to settle in Tralee and we learn from a recent history of Tralee by Gerald O ' Carroll that only in 1627 did the Dennys actually occupy the castle of the earls of Desmond.

Several radio historians, including Gerald Nachman ( Raised on Radio ), have said that this gag did not always sit well with the girls.

French became estranged from his wife ( officially, she did not accompany him to Ireland as it was too dangerous ) and sons, although from 1922 he re-established relations with his second son Gerald, who defended his father ’ s reputation until his own death in 1970.

The museum's Pavilion for Japanese Art, designed by maverick architect Bruce Goff, opened in 1988, as did the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden of Rodin bronzes.

Dorothy Ashton married Lord Gerald Wellesley ( later 7th Duke of Wellington ), on 30 April 1914 ; they separated in 1922 but did not divorce.

Instead of hosting and performing as he usually did, Rawls was given the seat of honor and celebrated by his performing colleagues, including Stevie Wonder, The O ' Jays, Gerald Levert, Ashanti, and many others.

According to John, the majority of English-speaking Little England natives today regard themselves as Welsh, as did Gerald, who was born on the south coast at Manorbier in 1146.

The Republicans did not run a candidate that year and concentrated in carrying Virginia, by the narrowest of margins, for U. S. President Gerald R. Ford, Jr.

“ Gerald Posner's ‘ Case Closed ’ ( 1993 ), which argues with an awesome command of evidentiary detail that Oswald did it, period .”< p >

Thus televised presidential debates did not resume until 1976, when incumbent president Gerald Ford, perceiving he was behind in the polls, agreed to debate challenger Jimmy Carter.

Sara's parents did not approve of their daughter marrying someone " in trade ," and Gerald's parents were not much happier with the prospect, seemingly because his father found it difficult to approve anything that Gerald did.

A settled population did not populate the remaining thousand square miles of Sliabh Luachra until the Desmond rebellion, which ended with the death of Gerald Fitzgerald the 15th Earl Of Desmond in 1583.

Also, until Arnold taught him, Gerald did not even know how to ride a bicycle (" Gerald's Secret ").