Don’t Wait! Order The CHEAPEST MEDICATIONS NOW » Combivir Without A Prescription http://goesping.org/archives/2004/10/30/blogopotamus-on-another-episcopalian-scandal/ Pinging stuff I care about. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:01:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Don’t Wait! Order The CHEAPEST MEDICATIONS NOW » Combivir Without A Prescription http://goesping.org/archives/2004/10/30/blogopotamus-on-another-episcopalian-scandal/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Ed Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:41:02 +0000 http://www.goesping.org/archives/2004/10/30/blogopotamus-on-another-episcopalian-scandal/#comment-22 Ah, so I didn't tell you anything you hadn't long known. Cool. VAguely associated with B.O.T.A., eh? Wild! Ah, so I didn’t tell you anything you hadn’t long known. Cool. VAguely associated with B.O.T.A., eh? Wild!

]]> Don’t Wait! Order The CHEAPEST MEDICATIONS NOW » Combivir Without A Prescription http://goesping.org/archives/2004/10/30/blogopotamus-on-another-episcopalian-scandal/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Jake Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:51:34 +0000 http://www.goesping.org/archives/2004/10/30/blogopotamus-on-another-episcopalian-scandal/#comment-19 I was aware of some of that, having read some Regardie, and being vaguely associated with B.O.T.A. I tried reading Crowley, but he was just too weird for me. Kabbalah plays a major role in those traditions that seem to have sprung from GD; clearly rooted in Jewish mysticism. I was aware of some of that, having read some Regardie, and being vaguely associated with B.O.T.A. I tried reading Crowley, but he was just too weird for me.

Kabbalah plays a major role in those traditions that seem to have sprung from GD; clearly rooted in Jewish mysticism.

]]> Don’t Wait! Order The CHEAPEST MEDICATIONS NOW » Combivir Without A Prescription http://goesping.org/archives/2004/10/30/blogopotamus-on-another-episcopalian-scandal/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Ed Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:57:13 +0000 http://www.goesping.org/archives/2004/10/30/blogopotamus-on-another-episcopalian-scandal/#comment-18 Wow, thanks! Awesome and well thought out post. I do think some of the stuff about pagan-Christian relationships you wrote is slightly oversimplified (and not unreasonably, considering the context and length of the post) -- what was left out was the fact that modern paganism isn't a continuation of ancient paganism, but a recreation and reconstruction of it. That becomes important in the context of the piece of the rite you posted, because as it happens, Wicca, the most popular modern reconstructed "neopaganism," borrows most of its rituals from a Victorian occult society called the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (the founder of Wicca was involved with that society). The Golden Dawn rituals are largely Christian and Jewish in origin, being drawn from whatever magical materials from the Western middle ages the Golden Dawn founders could get ahold of and synthesize. That is why you find Biblical angels in Wiccan rituals -- because they were borrowed from the Golden Dawn, which got them from the Bible. Apparently these "Druids" or whatever got their rituals from Wicca. So a final resounding irony is that the "pagan Druidical rituals" that these people are being attacked for were originally stolen by pagans from a group which borrowed them from Christians and Jews. Wow, that's dead ironic. Wow, thanks! Awesome and well thought out post. I do think some of the stuff about pagan-Christian relationships you wrote is slightly oversimplified (and not unreasonably, considering the context and length of the post) — what was left out was the fact that modern paganism isn’t a continuation of ancient paganism, but a recreation and reconstruction of it.

That becomes important in the context of the piece of the rite you posted, because as it happens, Wicca, the most popular modern reconstructed “neopaganism,” borrows most of its rituals from a Victorian occult society called the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (the founder of Wicca was involved with that society). The Golden Dawn rituals are largely Christian and Jewish in origin, being drawn from whatever magical materials from the Western middle ages the Golden Dawn founders could get ahold of and synthesize. That is why you find Biblical angels in Wiccan rituals — because they were borrowed from the Golden Dawn, which got them from the Bible. Apparently these “Druids” or whatever got their rituals from Wicca.

So a final resounding irony is that the “pagan Druidical rituals” that these people are being attacked for were originally stolen by pagans from a group which borrowed them from Christians and Jews.

Wow, that’s dead ironic.

]]> Don’t Wait! Order The CHEAPEST MEDICATIONS NOW » Combivir Without A Prescription http://goesping.org/archives/2004/10/30/blogopotamus-on-another-episcopalian-scandal/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Jake Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:35:49 +0000 http://www.goesping.org/archives/2004/10/30/blogopotamus-on-another-episcopalian-scandal/#comment-17 How about at least an "e" <a href="http://frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com/2004/10/concerning-christian-witch-hunts.html" target=_blank>for effort</a>? How about at least an “e” for effort?

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