Sam Webster is an American writer, publisher, Thelemite, a member of the

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tradition,Wicker, Christine. ''Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America '', pp. 207-236. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. and Bishop ''Tau Ty'' of ''Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis'', as well as an initiate of Wicca. Webster holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Starr King School for the Ministry at the

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in Berkeley, California. He advocates

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—the use of the

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in the field of

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. He has written a number of articles and essays on occult and

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topics, publishing both online and in modern pagan periodicals including '' Green Egg'', ''Mezlim'', '' Gnosis'' and ''PanGaea''. Many of his essays on pagan

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and Thelema have been made available online. In 2001, he was one of a number of Neopagans interviewed in ''Modern Pagans - An Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Ritual'', a feature article in the counter-cultural journal '' RE/Search''. He has founded or cofounded several occult and Pagan organizations, including the Chthonic-Ouranian OTO (1985) and the

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(2002). He self-published his book ''Tantric Thelema'' in January 2010.Webster, Sam ''Tantric Thelema'', Concrescent Press (2010)

Writings

Books

Articles

*''Constellation'', 1984. *''Abyss and Back'', 1988. *''A metaphor is something like a bucket'', 1988. *''What's Crowley got to do with Thelema, Anyway?'', 1988. *''The Rite of the Milk of the Stars'', 1990. *"The Spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit" in ''Mezlim'', Beltane 1990. *"The House of Khabs" in ''Mezlim'', Samhain, 1991. *''The Star Child'', 1991. *''Process in the Symbolic Re-Creation of the World'', 1992. *''Rite of Passage Structure in the Japanese Accession Ceremonies'', 1992. *''Changing Society through Ritual'', 1993. *''What is Polytheism and how I became Polytheistic'', 1993. *"Working Polytheism" in ''Gnosis'' #28, Spring 199
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*''The World as Lover Working'', 1993. *"Structural Implications in the Sepherot", 1994.appeared in Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero (eds.), ''The Golden Dawn Journal, Book 2-- Qabalah: Theory and Magic'' St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1994. *"Pagan Dharma" in ''Gnosis'' #39, Spring, 199

*''The Bones of Sex and Spirit'', 1996. *"Why I call Myself Pagan", 1999 in ''Reclaiming Quarterly'

*"Pagan Dharma 2" in ''PanGaea'', 1999. *''A Thelemic Ganachakra'', 2001. (''see'' Ganachakra) *''Entering the Buddhadharma'', 200
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*''Preliminary notes towards an understanding of the Neophyte Hall in the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn.'', 200

*''Towards a General Theory of Divination'', 2002

*''Ritual, Magick & How Pagans will Save the World'', 2004. *''The Pagan Agenda'', 2005.

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