SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lucid Dream, Kabbalah, Stage Society
22 Jun 2018
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PART 1 : TERMINOLOGY
People:
Marquis de Pueysegeur : medical doctor, takes courses with Mezmer, one of his patients
(named Andre) gets hyper-relaxed during his animal-magnetism class, discovers that there is
more than one state of consciousness (more than one level).
Arnold, Charles : Always an active member of the Toronto neo-Pagan community and at
various times he was a member of the Wiccan Church of Canada’s board of directors as a
founding member of both Wicca Communitas and the Temple of the Elder Faiths. Arnold is best
known for having launched a series of highly publicized challenges around the treatment of
Wicca as a religion in Canada. It began with the denial by Arnold’s employer of his request for
paid religious holidays. He continually filed complaints until the Labour Relations Board
recognized Wicca as a religion and this set an important precedent for Canadian neo-Pagans. It
gave them a concrete instance in which a government body had recognized Wicca as a religion.
He failed at his attempt to receive authorization to solemnize marriages.
James Braid : Scottish medical doctor, studied mesmerism and gives us the name “hypnotism” -
you can do surgery with this ... you cannot be hypnotized against your will, has little to do with
magnets and everything to do with the rhythmic voice and movement.
Budapest, Z : Zsuzsanna Budapest is a feminist who sees Goddess religion as a crucial
ideological and psychological support to the work of feminism. She is considered one of the
founding mothers of the women’s spirituality movement, she coined the term ‘feminist
spirituality’. Two reasons why she became so fiercely political were the poverty of postwar
Europe and political oppression under Soviet rule. She incorporated a spiritual dimension into
the first feminist coven. Z. Budapest : married with children, does not support mainstream
religions, earliest writings were printed on “spirit printers”, wants to start a religion with no men
allowed, no institution, men will not understand, starts her first coven called ‘Susan B. Antony’
(political leader in 1971), no one in in charge, events are held in peoples homes, the person’s
whose home it is writes the ritual for that day, they gather on a full moon, priestess for the day is
the person who hold the event in their home, they follow Dianic witchcraft after the goddess
Diana.
Chicago, Judy : a pioneer in feminist art and feminist art education who had extreme influence
over Witchcraft followers and the Goddess. She was one of the founders of the feminist art
movement. Her aim was to recognize and honour women who had been swallowed up and
obscured by history. Another aim was to demonstrate that the objects in the show - primarily the
products of women’s crafts such as lace making, embroidery and plate painting - were actually
art. Some said her exhibit felt sacred like a temple.
Crowley, Aleister : he was viewed as a major rebel, his occult writings are at Oxford, fascinated
by the occult, joins the H.O.G.D, he is the one who put the ‘K’ on magick, he complains he was
not advancing through the ranks fast enough, he is then thrown out of the Order, he soon makes
contact with Europeans from the O.T.O and proceeds to join, himself and Mathers try to take
over the H.O.D.G but they are rejected, Crowley begins to publish H.O.G.D texts as teaching of
the O.T.O which is bad because they are occult teachings, the H.O.G.D takes Crowley to court
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for copyright violations, the H.O.G.D lost the case, he published everything as teachings of the
O.T.O and everything remained copyright under the O.T.O, his wife Rose became possessed and
from some evil master she began spewing occult knowledge and Crowley was able to write
everything down = this becmae the ‘Book of Law’, the O.T.O became a left-hand path (path of
indulgence), the O.T.O began experimenting with sex magic, glutony and left-hand path was
brought into the O.T.O, he was a drug addict, called himself “The Beast”
Daly, Mary : One of the most influential and radical figures in the development of women’s
theology, she wrote two groundbreaking books. They were inspired by a personal revelation
concerning the etymology of the word sin, “to be” fully a person was “to sin”. She blamed the
“patriarchal” rule of a “phallocratic society”. Her notions of matriarchy and the reestablishment
of the voices of women were cutting-edge concepts that radicalized and focused the women’s
movement, especially from a theological viewpoint. *an Academic, Roman Catholic, author, she
becomes very radical and anti-Christian, she believes the Abrahamic Faiths are completely
women-hating and misogynistic - she wants women to move away from these religions and
create their own women promoting religions, she becomes a religious specialist, later in life she
calls herself a witch
Marquis de Pueysegeur : medical doctor, takes courses with Mezmer, one of his patients
(named Andre) gets hyper-relaxed during his animal-magnetism class, discovers that there is
more than one state of consciousness (more than one level).
Gardner, Gerald Brosseau : He claimed to have been initiated by a coven of Witches called the
New Forest Coven in England, and ultimately became the founder of contemporary Wicca as a
religion. He made a name for himself in academic circles with his pioneering research into
Malaya’s early civilizations. Gardner discovered that local folklore in the New Forest area was
steeped in witchcraft and he began to seek out the possibility of Witch activity in the area. He
joined a group of occultist Co-Masons. Within the fellowship a secret group operated, claiming
to be a group of hereditary Witches practicing a religion passed down to them orally through the
centuries. Dorothy accepted him for initiation. Doreen Valiente helped edit the ‘Book of
Shadows’. Her and Gardner established a new working system of magical practice that evolved
into what is today Gardnerian Wicca. Splits began to develop in his coven over his relentless
pursuit of publicity. He gave the God precedence over the Goddess. The final revolt happened
when he declared that the High Priestess should retire when she was considered “too old”.
*Gardnerian, ran into an old coven and absorbed as much knowledge as he could in order to
continue the coven’s religion which was being sustained by very elderly women, it is confirmed
as true because it was traced back, he met Crowley, developed a form of Wicca, seeped in
Crowley’s teachings and writings, called out by Doreen Valiente, changed and moulded by her to
bring the modern form of Wicca today.
Gimbutas, Marija : published “Kurgan hypothesis” which was scholarly support for the sacred
history that underpins the beliefs of many Pagans, Witches, and feminist Goddess worshippers.
She was the ideal scholar to develop an interdisciplinary research method that she called
“archaeomythology”. Kurgan hypothesis, so named from the grave mounds, or kurgans, of
nomadic people who lived in the south Russian steppes in prehistoric times. She argues that
repeated invasions of southeastern Europe by patriarchal warrior nomads eventually destroyed
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“Old Europe”, a peaceful, egalitarian and Goddess-worshipping farming culture. Feminist
Goddess worshipers and Witches have embraced both the theory and its creator. *archaeologist,
worked in Eastern Europe, very academic, wrote two books, she postulates that originally these
cultures were from matriarchy and goddess worship before patriarchal system, female dominant
religions, men are either represented by just genitalia or young men who are loving the goddess
or old men past their prime, many of her students take her teachings as Gospel and create these
goddess worshipping cultures.
Goldenberg, Naomi : She became convinced that the rebirth of the Goddess and the revival of
the Craft were cultural trends that deserved the attention of scholars of religious studies. She
wrote one of the first essays to link the contemporary Goddess movement with the feminist
analysis of patriarchal religious traditions. Students flocked to sign up, and the department’s
problem with low student enrollment was solved. The course then became a staple offering of the
department. Her research has always focused on a psychoanalytic understanding of religious and
mythological symbols and images. Goldenberg is credited with the coining of the term ‘thealoy’
to indicate the study of female-based religions or of the role of women in religion.
Lavey, Anton Szandor (Howard Stanton Levey) : founder of the Church of Satan, the first
neo-Satanic church to be recognized in the United States. His brand of Satanism was a radical
expression of freethinking along with an expressed disdain for the hypocrisy that LaVey believed
corrupted Christianity. LaVey did not believe in the Devil as a physical being with horns and a
tail, but rather as a Jungian archetype or metaphor, conjured up by humankind. He became
known “Black Pope”.
Mezmer : Franz Anton Mezmer, medical doctor, Queen Victoria was one of the first using
anesthetic during birth, he discovers (through holding magnets over the body) manipulating
blood using magnets to minimize pain called “animal-magnitism”, when done properly the
patient becomes relaxed = mezmerism / hypnotic.
Murray, Margaret Alice : She began to write books about the origins and organization of
witchcraft prior to the advent of Christianity. In her first book she promulgated the theory that
witchcraft was widespread, rooted in European pre-Christian Pagan fertility cults that extended
back to the Paleolithic era. Her second book concerned her hypothesis of a Horned God of
witchcraft and how this figure dated back to Paleolithic times as a fertility god. Her third and
most controversial book advanced the theory that many early English sovereigns (EX. James I)
had died by ritual murder in keeping with the ancient sacrificial themes of the Slain God and the
Divine Kinds of the old Pagan religions. Murray’s books were some of the guiding inspiration
used by Gerald B. Gardner and others in the reformation of the modern’-day Wicca and
Witchcraft movements.
Sanders, Alexander : Alex Sanders was responsible for founding the Alexandrian tradition of
Wicca. He is called the “King of Witches” by his followers. He was regarded as a very skilled
Witch and a powerful magician whose contribution to the newly evolving movement brought
Witchcraft back into the public arena and changed the face of Wicca. Alex was a natural psychic
who learned everything from his grandmother. She gave him the ‘Book of Shadows’ to copy and
taught him all the rites and magic of the Witches. After loosing his children, he was hoping to
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Document Summary
Arnold is best known for having launched a series of highly publicized challenges around the treatment of. It began with the denial by arnold"s employer of his request for paid religious holidays. He continually filed complaints until the labour relations board recognized wicca as a religion and this set an important precedent for canadian neo-pagans. It gave them a concrete instance in which a government body had recognized wicca as a religion. He failed at his attempt to receive authorization to solemnize marriages. Budapest, z : zsuzsanna budapest is a feminist who sees goddess religion as a crucial ideological and psychological support to the work of feminism. She is considered one of the founding mothers of the women"s spirituality movement, she coined the term feminist spirituality". Two reasons why she became so fiercely political were the poverty of postwar. She incorporated a spiritual dimension into the first feminist coven.
