Dave TheDruid-3X3Chapter #4 is called ‘Finding the Structure’ and is mainly about Secret Societies mainly about the Freemasons and their Paganistic Traditions.
Hutton writes that they have a Tradition of the Sacred Quarters but is somewhat different that what Modern Pagans hold for their Sacred Quarters. The Masonic East represents Wisdom, the West represents Strength and South represents Beauty. For some reason, the Masons take North as a Dark Forbidden Realm to be Shunned.
Chapter #4 points out that it is from the Ritualism of the Freemasons that various other Societies Function. There is the Function of some Societies such as the Order of the Shoemakers Union as they have similar Recruitment Methods, Initiations or Ordeals and then Oaths of Secrecy.
Hutton refers to a couple of such Organizations in this Chapter that operate with such Social Contracts but does not (for some reason) include mentioning Military Legion Service Clubs.
Chapter #5 is called ‘Finding The High Magic’ and it basically chronicles how Mind Control Magic was created and how it has spread through the Grimoires of various Paganistic Magi Scholars.
It goes on about how some Paganistic Leaders have good Mind Control Abilities and that reminded me of how there are nobody amongst Humanity who has better Mind Control Abilities than Despotic Dictators who are able to get People of their Country’s Governments to do what they want.
I did find that Hutton does go on about the Spiritual Significance of the Sacred Pentagram Symbol quite a bit in this particular Chapter.
Hutton states that the Date of Revival of Modern British Ritual Magic in about 1867 by a group of Freemasons who called themselves the Societa Roscrasians’. I had never heard of that and that does predate the Philosophies of The Aliester Crowley who I had thought was the Founder of such things.
Hutton also expounds on how the Famed mystic Madame Blavatsky had contributed to such Magical Philosophies. This Chapter also goes into the Histories of the Order of the Golden Dawn and a couple of Colleagues of Madame Blavatsky who I had never heard of called Samuel Liddell & Anna Kingsford.
Chapter #6 is called ‘Finding The Low Magic’ and it Chronicles the Historical Stories of a couple of dozen Wise & Powerful Paganistic Divinatory Artists and Healers and tells of their Books & Libraries.
Once again, I had never heard of any of these Pagan Practitioners and of their Sacred Magics & Crafts but it mainly goes over the Story of Dr. Owen Davies who travelled about England giving out Magical Exorcisms or Dispelling Evil Magic and how Owen Davies had chronicled the Stories of the various Paganistic Practitioners mentioned in this Chapter. Also mentioned in their Chapter is James Murrell of Essex.
So many Mystics and their Libraries are mentioned in this Chapter that I was not surprised to find Michel Nostradamus being mentioned as well as many others.
Chapter #6 also goes into Bewitching Healing Magic and that most Wiccan Pagans worked Solitarily but sometimes had met in Groups mainly on Midsummers Eve. Hutton does mention that the Term ‘Coven’ was created by Modern Pagans.
On Pages #101 & #102, Hutton does go on about how Christianity does have it’s own forms of Paganistic Style Magic.
Then Hutton tells of how some Paganistic Families had tried to hand down their Paganistic Traditions to their Children down through Family Trees only to Fail. That reminded me of how things Failed in the Family Tree of the Imperial Russian Romanov Family which Tragically Ended in 1917 thus explaining how such Monarchies usually end up Failing after being Founded by a Talented Ancestor Monarch.
Then Hutton writes of how certain Paganistic Witches would charge Fees for their Nature or Divinatory Magics siting certain Individuals and how much they would Charge for their Services.
This is followed by Hutton telling of the Legalities of the Paganism and of the Witchcraft Act of 1736 followed by several Stories of how certain Fraudsters who charged Fraudulent Fees where caught and put in Jail under the 1736 Act.
Book is now about 1/3rd Read through.
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