Marian Green

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Marian Green (born 1944) is a British author who has published about magic, witchcraft and the "Western Mysteries" since the early 1960s. [1]

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She founded and continues to organise the Quest Conference held every year in the UK [2] and has edited the magazine Quest [3] [4] since founding it in 1970. [1] [5] She created the Green Circle, a network of pagans and occultists, in 1982. [2] She was previously a council member of the Pagan Federation and the editor of Pagan Dawn .

Born in London in 1944 but raised in a rural area, Green met other pagans after entering university at 29. As of 2002 she had worked in publishing for most of her career. [1]

Green rejects the idea, dominant in the period after the revival of pagan witchcraft by Gerald Gardner, that witchcraft needs to be coven-based and organised around formal initiations conferred by coven leaders. [1] [6] She teaches that the old divinities can be encountered in the natural world, alone and without prescribed ritual forms. [7] [8] She teaches visualisation as a means to self-transformation which will make effecting change possible: "By changing our point of view, by developing our own inner skills, each of us can learn to shape the world into the perfect planet everyone yearns for." [9] [10]

Green runs residential and non-residential weekends and correspondence courses, under the aegis of The Invisible College, which she founded. [1] [11] These activities are advertised in Quest. [12] She is also a frequent speaker at other venues in the UK and the Netherlands. She is the author of over twenty books. [13] Her manuals are widely used in the witchcraft community, [14] and she has been influential in the development of the solitary movement in English witchcraft. [15] [16]

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  2. 1 2 Luhrmann, T. M. (1989). Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard. p.  77. ISBN   9780674663237.; repr. London: Picador, 1994, ISBN   9780330329460.
  3. ↑ The Cauldron 143, Feb. 2012, p. 56.
  4. ↑ Sutcliffe, Steven (2002). Children of the New Age: A History of Spiritual Practices. Routledge. p. 28.[ dead link ][ ISBN missing ]
  5. ↑ Hutton, Ronald (1999). The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft . Oxford. p.  337. ISBN   9780198207443.
  6. ↑ Harvey, Graham (1997). Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism. London: Hurst. pp. 50, 233. ISBN   9781850652717.
  7. ↑ Hutton, pp. 337, 384.
  8. ↑ Murphy-Hiscock, Arin (2006). The Way Of The Green Witch: Rituals, Spells, And Practices to Bring You Back to Nature. Avon, Massachusetts: Provenance. pp. 14–15. ISBN   9781593375003.
  9. ↑ Pike, Sarah M. (2004). New Age and Neopagan Religions in America . Columbia contemporary American religion series. New York: Columbia. p.  37. ISBN   9780231124027. By changing our point of view, by developing our own inner skills.
  10. ↑ Luhrmann, p. 169.
  11. ↑ Green, Marian, Magic in Principle and Practice, Quest, 2010 (3rd edition), pp. 49-50.
  12. ↑ Quest 169, March 2012, p. 22
  13. ↑ "Books by Marian Green". Quest. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  14. ↑ Reid, Síân (1996). "As I Do Will, So Mote It Be: Magic as Metaphor in Neo-Pagan Witchcraft". In Lewis, James R. (ed.). Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. p. 151. ISBN   9780585036502.
  15. ↑ Hutton, p. 384.
  16. ↑ Luhrmann, pp. 35, 36, 77.
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