craft’s practices in order to conserve the Old Religion for generations to come, Gardner considered “witchcraft” as a mystery religion that required phased initiation to be fully assimilated and practiced. An English national named Raymond Buckland received an initiation into the new Wiccan rites from Gardner’s own coven, named the Isle of Man, and subsequently spread the beliefs of witchcraft back to the United States. The traditions of witchcraft acquired respect rapidly in the new world, where a cultural and psychological revolution was taking place.
Since that time, a wide variety of unique permutations of Wiccan-derived religion have propagated widely. Most of these have been started by Gardnerian coven members who started their own covens and performed their own initiations. A number of other fashionable forms of Wicca have come from self-initiated practitioners and spiritual explorers who crafted their own forms of nature spirituality based on the the early Wiccan writings. Today a number of these subsets of Gardnerian witchcraft are in widespread practice around the world.
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