Wicca

In the aftermath of the Witch Hunt, a void was left in the world of magic. It was within this void that the seeds of Wicca took root. 

Although Wicca claimed to carry the torch of real magic, it deviated from its true essence. Wicca, with its rituals, spells, and emphasis on religious practices, diverged from the innate connection between humans and the natural world. 

Amidst the rise of Wicca, the legacy of real magic endured, albeit in the shadows. It persisted in the hearts and minds of a select few who held steadfast to the profound understanding that magic is not a commodity to be confined within the constraints of religious dogma, but an intrinsic force that permeates every aspect of existence.

Wicca, with its ties to Christianity, its reliance on rituals, and its adoption of prescribed belief systems, falls into the realm of a religious cult rather than a magical one. Its emphasis on external symbols, such as candles and tools, shifts the focus away from the essence of magic itself—the intrinsic connection to nature and the understanding of its laws. Therefore, it is essential to separate Wicca from the realm of real magic.

Wicca is a Christian-influenced religion masquerading as a genuine magical practice.

These remnants of real magic, scattered and fragmented, worked tirelessly to preserve their knowledge and teachings, passing them down through generations.   In their quest to safeguard the truth, they silently awaited the day when the true essence of magic would be reawakened, free from the limitations imposed by Wicca and its religious framework. Real magic, rooted in nature's laws, faced persecution during the Witch Hunt, leading to the rise of Wicca as a religion with magical elements.

Wicca, with its emphasis on rituals, spellcasting, and the worship of Christianity satan or lilith, created an illusion of magic that deviated from its genuine essence.

By compartmentalizing magic within religious practices, Wicca introduced artificial elements that distracted from the intrinsic connection between humans and the natural world. Moreover, the concept of "magick" with a "k" within Wicca sought to differentiate it from stage magic or sleight of hand tricks. However, this linguistic distinction only served to reinforce the illusion of real magic, further perpetuating the misunderstanding of its true nature.

Wicca, like many other modern practices, has fallen into the trap of relying on books, tips from others, astrology, and tarot to define and understand magic. However, Magic has nothing to do with religion, paganism, or any "ism." Real magic is intricately intertwined with nature itself, free from the confines of human-made systems.

Wicca often incorporates practices such as astrology and tarot into its rituals and belief systems. Astrology, with its claims of celestial influences on human lives, is nothing more than a lie.

Those who believe that distant stars or planets have a vested interest in human needs are misled. If astrologers truly possessed the ability to predict the future, why were they unable to foresee catastrophic events such as pandemic, wars, or natural disasters like tsunamis and volcanoes?

The stars within a constellation can be thousands of light-years apart, rendering any connection between them arbitrary. Furthermore, the gravitational effect exerted by your obstetrician at the time of a individuals birth far outweighs the influence of any planet or star in the universe.

Astrology faces numerous contradictions and inaccuracies that expose its lack of credibility. The zodiac, which comprises twelve constellations, fails to account for the thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus. Moreover, the establishment of the Zodiac in 420 CE, reveals its human-made nature. Over time, the Zodiac has shifted, rendering the assigned signs incongruent with the actual constellations during one's birth. The alignment of natal planets holds little significance as birth times are often arbitrarily chosen, casting doubt on the accuracy of astrological interpretations.

Astrology's inability to adapt to new planetary discoveries further undermines its credibility. As new celestial bodies are identified, demoted, or promoted, astrology fails to incorporate them consistently.

To fully grasp the illusory nature of the zodiac, we must acknowledge its historical manipulation. Roughly 3,000 years ago, the Babylonians assigned twelve constellations to each month for calendar purposes. However, this system no longer aligns with modern astronomical observations.

The Christian influence in 420 CE further altered the constellations, perpetuating misconceptions about the zodiac's connection to magic. Having examined the fallacies perpetuated by Wicca's incorporation of astrology and tarot, it becomes evident that these practices hold no true connection to the essence of magic.

True magic transcends human-made systems, religious dogma, and the illusion of celestial influences.

The Order of Woodcraft Chivalry, emerges as a significant influence on the development of Wicca in 1916 by Ernest Westlake in the british empire, this movement drew inspiration from Ernest Thompson Seton's Woodcraft Indians, with Seton serving as its honorary Grand Chieftain.

While contemporaneous with Baden-Powell's Scouting movement, The Order of Woodcraft Chivalry took a different path, eschewing the perceived military associations of traditional scouting. Instead, it focused on fostering virtues such as kindness, fellowship, and woodcraft.

Within The Order of Woodcraft Chivalry, the acceptance of various premises of Neopaganism began to take hold. It is notable that this organization laid the groundwork for the emergence of the New Forest coven, a group that played a pivotal role in the development of the Neopagan religion known as Wicca. Through the connections and influences that emanated from The Order, Wicca began to take shape, albeit with deviations and misinterpretations that would eventually blur the lines between genuine magic and a fabricated belief system.

Gerald Brosseau Gardner was born in 13 June of 1884 into an upper-middle-class family in Blundellsands, Lancashire, he spent a considerable portion of his childhood in Madeira, immersed in different cultures and landscapes.

His wanderlust led him to colonial Ceylon in 1900 and later to Malaya in 1911, where he worked as a civil servant. During his time in Malaya, Gardner's fascination with the native peoples sparked an independent study of their magical practices, resulting in the authorship of papers and a book on the subject.

In 1936, after his retirement, Gardner embarked on a journey to Cyprus, where he penned the novel A Goddess Arrives. His return to England brought him to the vicinity of the New Forest, where he found himself drawn to the world of the occult. Joining the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, an occult group, he claimed to have encountered the New Forest coven, which initiated him in 1939. Gardner, influenced by the writings of Margaret Murray, believed the coven to be a remnant of a pre-Christian witch-cult.

Motivated by his conviction and armed with ideas borrowed from Freemasonry, ceremonial magic, and the works of Aleister Crowley, Gardner sought to revive the faith of the ancient witch-cult. He supplemented the coven's rituals with these borrowed concepts, giving rise to the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca.

Gerald Brosseau Gardner's contributions to Wicca were instrumental in shaping the public's perception of this contemporary Pagan religion.  However, the origins of Gardnerian Wicca reveal an intricate tapestry of influences and ideas, rather than a direct connection to the authentic practice of real magic.

 To comprehend the true essence of magic, one must look beyond the illusions created by Gardnerian Wicca and delve deeper into the timeless laws of nature. 

Hitler's association with secret societies and esoteric organizations, such as the Thule Society and the Golden Dawn, groups steeped in Christianity and wicca, provided a framework for Hitler's twisted vision of racial purity and dominance.

Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS. Promised glory to the Thule Society and the Golden Dawn, although skeptical of Himmler, Gardner in September 1939, created the New Forest coven and with his followers left the Thule Society.

In 1940 The New Forest coven fought the Nazis from invading Britain with magic. Gardner claimed that a "Great Circle" was erected at night, with a "great cone of power" – a form of magical energy – being raised and sent to Berlin with the command of "you cannot cross the sea, you cannot cross the sea, you cannot come, you cannot come". this failed battle was named as "Operation Cone of Power".

After losing the battle, the new forest coven decided to return to London, and explore nudism and Rosicrucian teachings. in 1945, Gardner purchased a plot of land in Fouracres, a nudist colony near to the village of Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire that he renamed as Five Acres.

In August 1946 Gardner was ordained as a priest in the Ancient British Church, joining the Rosicrucian Ancient Druid Order and attending its sexual rituals at Stonehenge. On May 1947, Gardner's friend Arnold Crowther introduced him to Aleister Crowley, shortly before his death, Crowley elevated Gardner to the IV° of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) and issued a charter decreeing that Gardner could admit people into its Minerval degree.

From November 1947 to March 1948, Gardner and his wife toured the United States visiting relatives in Memphis, also visiting New Orleans, where Gardner hoped to learn about Voodoo. Gardner hoped to spread Wicca and published the Atlantis Bookshop in July 1949, Gardner's manuscript had been edited into a publishable form by astrologer Madeline Montalban. Privately, he had also begun work on a scrapbook known as "Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical", in which he wrote down a number of Wiccan rituals and spells. also known as the Book of Shadows.

In 1954, Gardner published a non-fiction book, Witchcraft Today, containing a preface by Margaret Murray, who had published her discredited theory of 'witchcraft' being a surviving pagan religion in her 1921 book, In 1960, Gardner's wife Donna died, and Gardner himself once again began to suffer badly from asthma. In 1963, Gardner decided to go to Lebanon over the winter. Whilst returning home on the ship, On 12 February 1964, he suffered a fatal heart attack at the breakfast table.

He was buried in Tunisia, the ship's next port of call, and his funeral was attended only by the ship's captain.

Gardner had left parts of his inheritance to Patricia Crowther, Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne and Jack Bracelin. Patricia and the other Gardner successors managed to keep alive the religion of wicca in the after World War II world.

Nazism had destroyed the view of wicca in the majority of the world's view, however In 1971, both Patricia and her husband at the time Arnold wrote and presented A Spell of Witchcraft, a radio programme produced and broadcast by BBC Radio Sheffield in six 20-minute parts.

The radio programme, the first of its kind in relation to modern Witchcraft as a religion, giving birth to the Gardnerian Wicca. Throughout the 1980s writings of authors such as Doreen Valiente, Janet Farrar, Stewart Farrar, and Scott Cunningham.

Popularised the idea of self-initiation into the Craft. Among witches in Canada, anthropologist Heather Botting of the University of Victoria was the first recognized Wiccan chaplain of a public university. In the 1990s, amid ever-rising numbers of self-initiates, hollywood began to explore witchcraft in films like The Craft (1996) and tv series like Charmed. Thus the New Age movement was born, with wicca to have a role that served both other religions like Christianity or Satanism but also as a huge economical market of books, art, crystal crafts and more...

However with the new age of wicca, pseudoscience gained ground, astrology began to be popular and printed in any kind of magazine or newspaper, also people with extreme talent like Uri Geller and Criss Angel began using the title "Magician" without having any idea about true magic.

Thus, Wicca destroyed the meaning of magic and turned it into a circus show in various tv shows like America's Got Talent where everyone can claim magical powers to do illusions and card tricks.