Gerald Gardner (1884–1964) English Witch and founder of contemporary Witchcraft as a religion. Hereditary Witches and practitioners of family tradition witchcraft object to Gardner being credited as t...
The Gardners resided in the New Forest area, where Gardner became active with the Fellowship of Crotona, an occult group linked to Co-Masons, a Masonic order founded by Mrs. Besant Scott, daughter of ...
Crowley appointed Gardner as an honorary member of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), a Tantric sex magic order once led by Crowley, and gave Gardner permission to run an OTO lodge. Gardner had to keep h...
In 1960, he was honored with an invitation to a garden party at Buckingham Palace, recognizing his exceptional civil service in the Far East. That same year, his wife, who had never been involved in t...