Gerald Gardner

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Gerald Brosseau Gardner (June 13, 1884 – February 13, 1964) was a British civil servant, amateur anthropologist, writer, and Occultist who published some of the definitive texts for Wicca, which he was instrumental in founding.

Table of Contents

• 1 Gardner & Crowley
• 2 See Also
• 3 External Links
• 4 Resources

Gardner & Crowley

Aleister Crowley initiated Gerald Gardner into the O.T.O. in 1946. 1(http://www.religioustolerance.org/wicrede.htm) (*http://www.religioustolerance.org/wicrede.htm*)

See Also

• Wicca

External Links

• [Gerald Gardner](http://www.geraldgardner.com/) (*http://www.geraldgardner.com/*)
• [The Gardner Letter](http://www.scarletwoman.org/scarletletter/v1n4/v1n4_gardner.html) (*http://www.scarletwoman.org/scarletletter/v1n4/v1n4_gardner.html*) – correspondence between Gardner and Louis Wilkinson as Crowley’s executor

Resources

• [The Wiccan Rede](http://www.religioustolerance.org/wicrede.htm) (*http://www.religioustolerance.org/wicrede.htm*) at ReligiousTolerance.org
• Wikipedia (2005). [Gerald Gardner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner) (*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner*). Retrieved August 9, 2005.