Drawing Down the Moon (103 page)

19
Isaac Bonewits, taped letter from Berkeley, winter 1978.

20
Bonewits, “Second Epistle of Isaac,” 5:5–6.

21
Bonewits,
Real Magic,
p. 175.

22
The Witches' Trine,
Vol. 1, No. 6 (Winter Solstice 1972), 2.

23
Ibid., Vol. 3, No. 4 (Lughnasadh 1974), 11.

24
Ibid., “How We Happened to Get the NROOGD Together (Part I),” 9, 10, 12; Vol. 3, No. 5 (Samhain 1974), “How We Happened to Get the NROOGD Together (Part II),” 18, 19, 21–22.

25
Aidan Kelly, “Why a Craft Ritual Works,” Gnostica, Vol. 4, No. 7 (March–April–May 1975), 33.

26
I. M. Lewis,
Ecstatic Religion
(Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1971), p. 205.

27
Kelly, “Why a Craft Ritual Works.”

28
Ibid.

29
Ibid.

30
Aidan Kelly, Diary entry, July 6, 1972.

31
Kelly, “Why a Craft Ritual Works,” p. 5.

32
Aidan Kelly, “O, That Vexed Question: Is the Craft a Survival, a Revival, or What?”
Nemeton,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Samhain 1972), 19.

33
Kelly, “Aporrheton No. 1,” p. 2.

34
Most of these arguments appear in Aidan Kelly, “Palengenesia,”
Gnostica,
Vol. 4, No. 9 (July 1975), 7, 40, 41. Any additions come from interviews.

35
Kelly, “Aporrheton No. 1,” p. 1.

36
Kelly, “Aporrheton No. 5, The Craft Laws,” April 1973, p. 1.

37
Kelly, “O, That Vexed Question,” p. 20.

1
The poem appeared in
WomanSpirit,
Vol. 1, No. 3 (Spring Equinox 1975), back cover.

2
Where did feminist Witches get Laverna from, you may ask? From Charles Godfrey Leland's
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
(London: David Nutt, 1899), reprinted (New York: Samuel Weiser, 1974), pp. 89–98: Leland writes that Laverna is mentioned in Horace,
Epistles,
I, xvi, 59–62.

3
Two examples of conferences on feminist spirituality: Through the Looking Glass, a Gynergenetic Experience, in Boston, April 23–25, 1976; A Celebration of the Beguines, in New York City, October 30–31, 1976.

4
I originally saw this manifesto in mimeographed form, but it has been published, thanks to Robin Morgan, in
Sisterhood Is Powerful,
ed. Robin Morgan (New York: Random House, 1970), pp. 539–43. Quotation on p. 539.

5
Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie, eds.,
The New Woman's Survival Sourcebook
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975).

6
Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie, “Spiritual Explorations Cross-country,”
Quest,
Vol. 1, No. 4 (Spring 1975), 49–51.

7
Country Women
(April 1974), 1. Available: Box 51, Albion, Cal. 95410.

8
Judy Davis and Juanita Weaver, “Dimensions of Spirituality,”
Quest,
Vol. 1, No. 4 (Spring 1975), 6.

9
Z Budapest,
The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows
(Venice, CA: Luna Publications, 1976), p. 1. Available from The Feminist Wicca, 442 Lincoln Blvd., Venice, CA 90291. Z's spelling of woman as
womon
and women as
wimmin
is intended to take the
man
out of woman.

10
Sally Gearhart, “Womanpower: Energy Re-sourcement,”
WomanSpirit,
Vol. 2, No. 7 (Spring Equinox 1976), 19–23.

11
Z Budapest,
Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows,
pp. 1–2.

12
Ibid, pp. 3–4.

13
Friedrich Engels,
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
(New York: International Publishers, 1967); Evelyn Reed,
Woman's Evolution
(New York: Pathfinder Press, 1975); J. J. Bachofen,
Myth, Religion and Mother Right
(Princeton: Princeton University Press—Bollingen Series LXXXIV, 1973); Helen Diner,
Mothers and Amazons
(New York: Anchor Books, 1973); Erich Neumann,
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype
(Princeton: Princeton University Press—Bollingen Series XLVII, 1963).

14
Sarah B. Pomeroy,
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves
(New York: Schocken Books, 1975).

15
Elizabeth Gould Davis,
The First Sex
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971).

16
Monique Wittig,
Les Guérillères
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1985), p. 89.

17
Paula Webster and Esther Newton, “Matriarchy: Puzzle and Paradigm,” presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Toronto, 1972. This paper was later published in
APHRA——A Feminist Literary Magazine
(Spring/Summer 1973) as “Matriarchy: As Women See It.” A revised version,
Matriarchy: A Vision of Power
by Paula Webster appears in
Toward an Anthropology of Women,
ed. Rayna Reiter (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975), pp. 141–56.

18
Joanna Russ,
The Female Man
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1986);
We Who Are About To . . .
(New York: Dell, 1975);
The Two of Them
(New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1978), among others.

19
Gordon Rattray Taylor,
Sex in History
(New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954).

20
Jean Markale,
Women of the Celts
(London: Gordon Cremonesi, 1975). First published as
La Femme Celte,
Editions Payot, Paris, 1972.

21
Adrienne Rich, “The Kingdom of the Fathers,”
Partisan Review,
Vol. XLIII, No. 1 (1976), 29–30, 26.

22
Philip Zabriskie, “Goddesses in Our Midst,”
Quadrant,
No. 17 (Fall 1974), 34–45.

23
Robert Graves,
The White Goddess,
amended and enlarged ed. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), pp. 484–86.

24
Ruth Mountaingrove, “Clues to Our Women's Culture,”
WomanSpirit,
Vol. 2, No. 6 (Fall Equinox 1975), 45.

25
Jude Michaels, “Eve & Us,”
WomanSpirit,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn Equinox 1974), 5–6. In connection with this, I am reminded of the words of the fourth-century Emperor Julian, who observed that the doctrine of Adam and Eve was unfit for any enlightened mind: “What could be more foolish than a being unable to distinguish good from bad? . . . In short, God refused to let man taste of wisdom, than which there could be nothing of more value . . . so that the serpent was a benefactor rather than a destroyer of the human race.”
The Works of the Emperor Julian,
trans. Wilmer Cave Wright, 3 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961), III, 327.

26
“Voices,”
WomanSpirit,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn Equinox 1974), 38.

27
Carol, Patti, and Billie, “Moon Over the Mountain: Creating Our Own Rituals,”
WomanSpirit,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn Equinox 1974), 30. Robin Morgan's poem appears in
Monster
(New York: Vintage Books, 1972), pp. 81–86.

28
W. Holman Keith,
Divinity as the Eternal Feminine
(New York: Pageant Press, 1960), p. 14.

29
Mary Daly,
Beyond God the Father
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1973), pp. 16–19.

30
Records: Alix Dobkin, Kay Gardner, et al., “Her Precious Love,” on
Lavender Jane Loves Women
(1975), Alix Dobkin Project 1, 210 W. 10 St., New York, N.Y. 10014; Cassie Culver, “Good Old Dora,” on
3 Gypsies
(1976), Urana Records—ST-WWE-81; Kay Gardner,
Mooncircles
(1975), Urana Records, a division of Wise Women Enterprises, Inc., P.O. Box 297, Village Station, New York, NY 10014—ST-WWE-80.

31
Fran Winnant, “Our Religious Heritage,”
WomanSpirit,
Vol. 1, No. 3 (Spring Equinox 1975), 51.

32
Monica, letter to
WomanSpirit,
Vol. 2, No. 7 (Spring Equinox 1976), 62.

33
WomanSpirit,
Vol. 2, No. 6 (Fall Equinox 1975), 64.

34
Fran Rominsky, “goddess with a small g,”
WomanSpirit,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn Equinox 1974), 48.

35
WITCH documents, in Morgan,
Sisterhood Is Powerful,
p. 546. Other quotations are on pp. 541–43 and 540.

36
Graves,
The White Goddess,
p. 458.

37
Robert Graves, “Real Women,” in
Masculine/Feminine,
eds. Betty Roszak and Theodore Roszak (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1969), pp. 35–36.

38
Keith,
Divinity as Eternal Feminine,
p. 4.

39
W. Holman Keith, “The Garden of Venus,”
Green Egg,
Vol. IV, No. 38 (May 7, 1971);
Divinity as Eternal Feminine,
p. 192. See also “The Priestess,”
Green Egg,
Vol. VI, No. 60 (February 1, 1974), 28, and “Venus Proserpina,”
Green Egg,
Vol. VI, No. 55 (June 21, 1978), 8.

40
Morning Glory Zell, in
Green Egg,
Vol. VII, No. 68 (February 1, 1975), 43.

41
Gearhart, “Womanpower,” p. 20.

42
“Woman, Priestess, Witch,”
The Waxing Moon,
Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer Solstice 1971), 3. This Neo-Pagan journal soon changed its name to
The Crystal Well
and was published for many years out of Philadelphia.
The Crystal Well
was later published (in a different format) out of California.

43
Ravenwolf, “In Defense of Men and Gods,”
Earth Religion News,
Vol. 3, Issues 1, 2, 3 combined (1976), 140.

44
Letter from Julie Jay, ibid., p. 11.

45
Morning Glory Zell,
Green Egg,
Vol. VIII, No. 72 (August 1, 1975), 43.

46
Isaac Bonewits,
Gnostica,
Vol. 4, No. 5 (January 1975), pp. 2, 34, 38.

47
Leo Martello, “Witchcraft: A Way of Life,”
Witchcraft Digest,
No. 1 (1971), 3. Publication of the Witches International Craft Associates (WICA), Suite 1B, 153 W. 80 St., New York, N.Y. 10024.

48
Margo and Lee, “The Liberated Witch,”
The New Broom,
Vol. 1, No. 2 (Candlemas 1973), 10.

49
I. M. Lewis,
Ecstatic Religion
(Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1971), pp. 31, 117.

50
The New Broom,
Vol. 1, No. 3 (Lammas 1973), 21, 28.

51
The New Broom,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Samhain 1972), 10–11.

52
Nemeton,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Samhain 1972), 12.

53
The New Broom,
Vol. 1, No. 4 (undated), 9.

54
Deborah Bender, “Raising Power in a Single-Sex Coven,”
The Witches' Trine,
Vol. 5, No. 2 (Litha 1976), 5–6.

55
Barbara Starrett, “I Dream in Female: The Metaphors of Evolution,”
Amazon Quarterly,
Vol. 3, No. 1 (November 1974), 24–25. Other quotation on p. 20.

56
Bender, “Raising Power,” 5–6.

57
Deborah Bender, letter, summer 1976, Oakland, CA.

58
Women's Coven Newsletter.
Available to feminist Witches from 5756 Vicente St., Oakland, CA 94609.

59
Leland,
Aradia,
pp. 4, 6–7.

60
E-mail: December 1, 2005.

61
E-mail: November 15, 2005.

62
E-mail: September 20, 2005.

63
E-mail: November 29, 2005.

64
E-mail: September 15, 2005.

65
E-mail: September 20, 2005.

66
Jenny Gibbons, “Recent Developments in the Study of the Great European Witch Hunt,”
The Pomegranate,
Issue no. 5 (August 1998), pp. 3–16. Also see Geoffrey Scarre and John Callow,
Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Europe,
2nd edition (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2001).

67
Max Dashu, “Another View of the Witch Hunts,”
The Pomegranate,
Issue no. 9 (August 1999), pp. 30–43.

68
E-mail: December 1, 2005.

69
Sabina Magliocco,
Witching Culture
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), p. 204.

70
Ronald Hutton,
The Triumph of the Moon
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 356.

71
E-mail: December 1, 2005.

72
The Pomegranate,
Issue no. 10 (November 1999) pp. 55–56.

73
Lisa Jervis, “If Women Ruled the World, Nothing Would Be Different,” in
LiP
magazine, September 15, 2005 (
www.lipmagazine.org
).

1
Gleb Botkin,
The Woman Who Rose Again
(New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1937);
Immortal Woman
(New York: The Macaulay Co., 1933);
The God Who Didn't Laugh
(New York: Payson & Clarke, 1929);
Her Wanton Majesty
(New York: The Macaulay Co., 1933).

2
Botkin,
Immortal Woman,
p. 184.

3
Botkin,
The God Who Didn't Laugh,
p. 250. Botkin himself at one time studied for the priesthood in the Greek Catholic Church in Russia: see William Seabrook,
Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today
(New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940), p. 343, and the November 15, 1939, edition of the
New York World-Telegram.
When
The God Who Didn't Laugh
and
Immortal Woman
appeared, reviewers did not emphasize the Aphrodisian aspects of the books: see the 25th and 29th annual cumulation of
The Book Review Digest
(New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1930 and 1934), pp. 105 and 102, respectively.