Sam Webster is an American
writer, founder of Concrescent Press, and an advocate for
open source religion—the use of the
open sourceparadigm in the field of
spirituality. He is a
Thelemite, a member of the
Golden Dawn tradition, Bishop Tau Ty of Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis (Universal Gnostic Church), and an initiate of
Wicca.
Webster is a
Thelemite, a member of the
Golden Dawn tradition,[1] and Bishop Tau Ty of Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis,[3] as well as an initiate of
Wicca.[4] He has founded or cofounded several occult and Pagan organizations, including the Chthonic Auranian Templars of Thelema (1985)[5] and the
Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn (2002).[1]
Webster has written a number of articles and essays on occult and
pagan topics, publishing both online and in
modern pagan periodicals including Green Egg, Mezlim, Gnosis and PanGaea. Many of his essays on pagan
dharma 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.[6]
Concrescent Press published his book Tantric Thelema in January 2010.[7]
Ritual, Magick & How Pagans will Save the World, 2004.
The Pagan Agenda, 2005.
Notes
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abcdWicker, Christine. Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America , pp. 207-236. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.
ISBN0-06-072678-4
^Berger, Helen A. A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States, pp. 116-117. University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
ISBN1-57003-246-7
^appeared in Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero (eds.), The Golden Dawn Journal, Book 2-- Qabalah: Theory and Magic St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1994.
ISBN1-56718-851-6
Other sources
"Sam Webster". Free Encyclopedia of Thelema. 2006. Archived from
the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved December 13, 2011.