feel like this is missing something important in addressing the specific expressions of temperate zone rites-of-spring (eggs, bunnies, basket of flowers) that seem far-fetched as having middle eastern origins.https://twitter.com/Cavalorn/status/978658728449855488 …
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Exactly. You can trace some current neo-pagan traditions back from Thelema and Golden Dawn to Ceremonial Magicians to Kabbalists to devout Jews and Christians.
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the Victorian era occultists were very self-consciously doing tradition blending. Like a proof-of-concept experiment to establish that that's pretty much just the natural way this stuff works anyway.
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obsessions with doctrinal purity come generations later when the pressing concerns are basically factional in-fighting rather than the original spiritual innovations. that's when it goes to shit and you get schisms and inquisitions.
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Yee-up. I haven't nosed around for a while, but I imagine that the YouTube Witch Wars are still in the tire-fire stage. It's honestly embarrassing.
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