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Good gods, you’ve been taking lessons in multi-task trolling. Jani – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I was going to ask if Wicca had any codified beliefs about the creation of the universe, but I think the origin of the religion is really far more interesting. How is Gardner’s founding viewed?  I mean, how does one arrive at Wiccan theology and theism, and how did he arrive at it, as the founder of the religion.  Is Gardner viewed as a prophet of some sort?  Was he supposed to have had some sort of direct experience with the divine? I’m interested in Wiccan perspectives, unless your non-Wiccan perspective doesn’t involve him inventing it out of some other stuff. Wicca, as you see it today, has very little to do with Gardener’s (proper spelling) path- which he did not even call "Wicca"- he called it Witchcraft. He was more of a ceremonialists/mystic/Witch and did not really incorporate any religion into his path as it was formed out of Traditional Witchcraft, Masonry, Thelema, and OTO among others. It was Doreen Valiente who added the religion- especially the "Goddess" concept- and such morals as the Rede and the TFL. In the early 70’s, the religion became a vehicle for Marxist thoughts when such persons as Oberon Zell and Z Budapest usurped it and added theior philosophy. You have hit one of  the core problems of the Wiccan religion- there is no core theology even involving origins. Case in point: Every Wiccan will tell you that the Earth is a "Mother Goddess," yet they all radically hold to Darwinian theory (a core precept of Marxism). — Talesin- The Bad Boy of Witchcraft ™ "From small things. . . comes great power" http://home.kc.rr.com/pendragonsloft Get your daily Dragon: http://www.pendragonsloft.blogspot.com/