In my experience there’s much more to Wicca than the rituals and other information now in the public domain. There are hints of this in Gerald’s published works but nothing I’ve come across from those who were at Brickett Wood with him or who have followed after. I’m not sure whether this is because Gerald never actually got that far with his New Forest colleagues, though I have a sneaking suspicion this may be the case – and that would imply the same for Dafo. Even though he was with them for the better part of seven years there may have been more advanced stages which they deliberately kept from him because he was so eager to tell the whole world about the survival of the Old Religion of Witchcraft and they were not. I cannot be sure of this. I certainly cannot adduce any proof. I just feel it in my bones and in some of the work I have been doing in the past. That work is on hold for the present for the lack of a suitable working partner living near enough for regular meetings. In the meantime I find myself gradually refining my ideas of the essential nature and potential of the Wicca. At the moment I feel very much on the threshold.
francis, oxford, 25 september 2010
