Bone Gavin - The inner mysteries: progressive witchcraft and connection with the Divine

Also by Janet Farrar, Stewart Farrar, and Gavin Bone:

The Healing Craft

The Pagan Path

The Complete Dictionary of European Gods and Goddesses (with Glenn Taylor)

Also by Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar:

A Witches Bible: The Complete Witches Handbook

The Witches Goddess

The Witches God

The Witches Way

Eight Sabbats for Witches

Spells and How They Work

The Life and Times of a Modern Witch

About the Authors

Janet Farrar is considered one of the worlds leading experts on the subject of Wicca. She is best known for her pioneering work with her late husband, journalist and author Stewart Farrar. Together, they produced some of the classics of modern Witchcraft: Eight Sabbats for Witches, The Witches Goddess: The Feminine Principle of Divinity, The Witches God: Lord of the Dance, The Wiccan Way, and the best-selling A Witches Bible: The Complete Witches Handbook. Janet was initiated into Wicca in 1970 by Alex and Maxine Sanders, the founders of the Alexandrian Tradition.

Gavin Bone is the coauthor of The Healing Craft, The Pagan Path, and The Complete Dictionary of European Gods and Goddesses with his partner, Janet Farrar, and Stewart. A registered nurse, Bone is a natural spiritual (empathic) healer. He came to Witchcraft in 1985 through Raymond Bucklands Seax-Wica tradition. With Janet, he travels extensively, speaking and leading experiential workshops to sold-out audiences in the US, Europe, and Australia.

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2003, 2012 by Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone

All rights reserved. First edition 2003.

Second edition 2012

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN 978-1936863723

Cover: by Gavin Bone and Jim Schuette

Figures and Illustrations by Corbin

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data pending

Dedicated to:

Novices of the Old Ways, The Star and Crescent Moon Coven, Teampall Na Callaighe, and The Italian Wiccan Study Group

And in remembrance of a passing generation of Witches and trailblazers:

Doreen Valiente, Eleanor Bone, Leo Louis Martello, Jesse Belle, Chris Gosselin, Ellen Cannon Reed, and our beloved Stewart. May they meet and laugh in the Summerlands.

T his book was first published as Progressive Witchcraft: Spirituality, Mysteries & Training in Modern Wicca. It received mixed reviews when it was released in 2003, but as time has passed, many have recognized the works groundbreaking qualities. To quote one author who read the book when it first came out, Sometimes a book can be ahead of its time, and can be released too early. We now believe this was the case with Progressive Witchcraft. Not only are there increasing numbers of Witches who define themselves as progressive in their attitudes to Wicca, but a network also developed made up of like-minded covens of mixed origins who also define themselves as progressive. (See footnotes on .)

One of the markers of an advanced spiritual practice is that it is never static but is always evolving. We have been teaching the material within this book (The Inner Mysteries) for the past ten years. During that time, weve developed a method of teaching energy work in combination with a more coherent spiritual cosmology. We have found this to have great usefulness in practical magical work. We began an online course in Progressive Witchcraft, using the book as the basic text, while continuing to teach our Inner Mysteries workshops. Over time, we supplemented the written material with another workshop: Inner Mysteries 2: Progressive Magic. As of the new publication of this book, we have taught these workshops in more than nine countries both inside and outside Europe. These workshops have increased interest in this book and fueled the decision to change the title to