DISCLAIMER
   
To whichever reader seeks fantasy, I recommend that they read no further.  For herein is described a realm where there are NO magic circles, devils, pantomime demons, sacrifices, orgies, sex rites or even mediumship of the spiritist variety.
 
Unlike the present "Witch-cult revivalists," we do not call upon the Greek Artemis, Aphrodite or Pan nor the Roman Diana.  Neither do we attempt to emulate the nudity of the Italian Maddalena (whoever she may have been) nor whip our peers in the manner an ancient master scourged his slaves.  The symbolism of the Middle Eastern Qabala or pseudo-Masonic initiations have no place in our lives as we are neither Jews nor Freemasons.  Satan we leave in his rightful place in Semitic legend and the Devil within the womb which spawned him - the Christian Church.
 
Witches we are most certainly not!  This was a name invented by the alien Anglo Saxon invaders and oppressors to describe those who followed the naturally evolved religion of the Kelt and Gael.  Such families as have perpetuated the British traditions would no more adopt this denigrating foreign term than would the sensitive French the deprecating name of 'frogs' or the noble races of Africa the insulting description 'niggers'.
 
Lastly, in an age where race relations are of immense importance to human existence and where the promulgation of laws provides adequate teeth to entrap those who would dare contravene the common courtesy of such social relationships, I pray that the same recognition be given to the naturally evolved spiritual heritage of the Kelt and Gael within the islands of their birth, as is given to the pre-Christian religious heritages of the Japanese Shintoist and the Hindu which are applauded as facets of the ethnic traditions of their respective races - to name but two.  Such religions as these latter are strangely enough very close to the British spiritual floodtide and the broad outlook of its followers in many ways.
 
May the efforts of the conservationist be seen to be directed to this endangered aspect of the Motherland of Britain.
 
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