Английская Википедия:Feri Tradition

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:WiccaThe Feri Tradition is an American neo-pagan tradition related to Neopagan witchcraft.[1][2] It was founded in the west coast of the United States between the 1950s and 1960s by Victor Henry Anderson and his wife, Cora Anderson.[1] Practitioners have described it as an ecstatic tradition, rather than a fertility tradition. Strong emphasis is placed on sensual experience and awareness, including sexual mysticism, which is not limited to heterosexual expression.

History

Anderson met Cora Ann Cremeans in Bend, Oregon, in 1944; they married three days later, on 3 May, claiming that they had encountered each other many times before in the astral realm.Шаблон:Sfnm Born in Nyota, Alabama, in January 1915, Cora had been exposed to folk magic practices from childhood;Шаблон:Sfnm reputedly, her Irish grandfather was a "root doctor" who was known among locals as the "druid".Шаблон:Sfn The Andersons claimed that one of their first acts after their marriage was the erection of an altar.Шаблон:Sfn The following year, a son was born, and they named him Victor Elon, with the latter being the Hebrew word for oak; Cora stated that she had received the name in a dream.Шаблон:Sfnm After the birth, a ritual was held to dedicate the infant to the Goddess.Шаблон:Sfn In 1948, the family moved to Niles, California, later that year purchasing a home in San Leandro.Шаблон:Sfnm There, Anderson became a member of the Alameda Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and he subsequently remained so for forty years.Шаблон:Sfn Victor earned his living as a musician, playing the accordion at events,Шаблон:Sfnm while Cora worked as a hospital cook.Шаблон:Sfn It has been claimed that Anderson could speak Hawaiian, Spanish, Creole, Greek, Italian, and Gothic.Шаблон:Sfn

In the mid-1950s Victor and Cora read Witchcraft Today, a 1954 book by English Wiccan Gerald Gardner,Шаблон:Sfn with Cora claiming that Victor corresponded with Gardner for a time.Шаблон:Sfn The Pagan studies scholar Chas S. Clifton has suggested that the Andersons used Gardner's work as a "style guide" for the development of their own tradition of modern Pagan Witchcraft.Шаблон:Sfn Similarly, Kelly stated that the Andersons' tradition "began to more and more resemble that of the Gardnerians" as the couple learned more about the latter, adopting elements from it.Шаблон:Sfn Anderson was in correspondence with the Italian-American Wiccan Leo Martello, who encouraged Anderson to found his own coven.Шаблон:Sfnm Circa 1960, the Andersons founded a coven, naming it Mahealani, after the Hawaiian word for the full moon.Шаблон:Sfnm Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Andersons initiated a number of individuals into the coven.Шаблон:Sfn One of these was Gwydion Pendderwen, a friend of their son who shared their interest in the esoteric.Шаблон:Sfnm Pendderwen contributed to the development of what came to be known as the Feri tradition, with some members of the lineage viewing him as one of its co-founders, along with Victor and Cora.Шаблон:Sfn Pendderwen noted that he had first met the family when, aged thirteen, he got into a fistfight with Victor Elon, although the two later became friends.Шаблон:Sfn Pendderwen was particularly influenced by Welsh mythology, and on a visit to Britain he spent time with the Alexandrian Wiccans Alex Sanders and Stewart Farrar, subsequently introducing various Alexandrian elements into Feri.Шаблон:Sfn In the early 1970s, the Andersons established a new coven with Pendderwen and his initiate, Alison Harlow.Шаблон:Sfn After Pendderwen married, his wife also joined this coven, although it disbanded in 1974.Шаблон:Sfn

Andersons' teaching

Over the next four decades, the Andersons would initiate between twenty-five and thirty people into their tradition.Шаблон:Sfn Anderson has been described as the "founding teacher" and the "seminal voice" of the Feri tradition.Шаблон:Sfn The original word that the Andersons used for their tradition was Vicia, which Cora was known to say was Italian.Шаблон:Sfnm She added that "the name Fairy became accidentally attached to our tradition because Victor so often mentioned that word in speaking of nature spirits and Celtic magic.”Шаблон:Sfnm Early initiates alternately spelled the name of the tradition as Fairy, Faery, or Faerie, although Anderson began using the spelling Feri during the 1990s to more easily differentiate it from other Wiccan traditions of the same or similar names; not all practitioners followed his example.Шаблон:Sfnm Cora claimed that Feri was the word's original spelling, adding that it meant "the things of magic".Шаблон:Sfn Anderson also referred to it as the Pictish tradition.Шаблон:Sfn In their writing, the Andersons mixed terminology adopted from Huna, Gardnerian Wicca, and Vodou, believing that all reflected the same underlying magico-religious tapestry.Шаблон:Sfn It drew heavily upon the huna system developed by Max Freedom Long.Шаблон:Sfn According to one Feri initiate, Corvia Blackthorn:

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According to one initiate, Jim Schuette, Anderson was "a taskmaster. He took pride in testing his students."Шаблон:Sfn One of those initiated into the Andersons' Feri tradition was Starhawk,Шаблон:Sfnm who incorporated ideas from the Feri tradition when creating Reclaiming.Шаблон:Sfnm She also included aspects from it in her 1979 book, The Spiral Dance, including mention of the Iron and Pearl Pentagram and the three souls, all of which originated within Feri.Шаблон:Sfn Another prominent initiate was Gabriel Carillo (Caradoc ap Cador), who in the late 1970s developed a written body of Feri teachings, and began offering paid classes in the tradition in the 1980s, generating the Bloodrose lineage; doing so generated controversy among Feri initiates, with critics believing that it was morally wrong to charge for teaching.Шаблон:Sfn

References

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Further reading

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  • Anaar, The White Wand. Looks at the artistic foundations of Feri. It also includes an interview with Victor Anderson. (available as pdf from White Wand: Intersection of Feri and Art)
  • Cora Anderson, Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition. Musings about the Feri tradition and community.
  • Cora Anderson, Kitchen Witch: A Memoir –her life. (Harpy Books)
  • Victor Anderson, Thorns of the Blood Rose. A collection of his poetry, much of which has found its way into the liturgies and rituals of the tradition.
  • Victor Anderson, Lilith's Garden. A companion volume to Thorns of the Blood Rose, is another collection of mostly liturgical poetry, including some that was considered too "scandalous" for inclusion in the original volume.
  • Victor Anderson. Etheric Anatomy: The Three Selves and Astral Travel, (Harpy Books | Harpy Books). A look at the psychic structure of the human being, with intuitive insights into some of the practices of Feri magick.
  • Cornelia Benavidez. Victor H. Anderson: An American Shaman, (Megalithica Books). Interviews with Victor Anderson accompanied by contextualizing essays.
  • T. Thorn Coyle, Evolutionary Witchcraft. Training manual in Feri written primarily for a non-Feri pagan audience. Contains poetry, exercises, and lore.
  • T. Thorn Coyle, Kissing the Limitless. Expands on and continues the training in Evolutionary Witchcraft, for use with whatever spiritual path the reader follows.
  • Francesca De Grandis, Be A Goddess. Comprehensive training in Fey (not-Feri) shamanism. The better portion of its liturgy, worldview, and cosmology was channeled by the author, who came from a family tradition, but with feedback from Victor Anderson on many parts of the manuscript and heavy influence of Feri teachings, techniques, and modalities throughout.
  • Francesca De Grandis, Goddess Initiation. An experiential initiatory journey into Goddess spirituality and Fey shamanism.
  • Storm Faerywolf, "Betwixt and Between: Exploring the Faery Tradition of Witchcraft". (Llewellyn Worldwide). A comprehensive study of Feri Tradition, that includes lore, rituals, liturgy, and recipes. Considered controversial by many initiates.
  • Starhawk, The Spiral Dance. Early and influential liturgical codification of modern American Paganism, greatly influenced by Anderson craft.

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