Home›Magical Rituals›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups rituals by the religious tradition that prescribes them. Wikipedia notes that rituals "may be prescribed by tradition, including religious practices, and are often characterized by formalism, traditionalism, rule-governance, and performance." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every ritual belonging to one faith together, rather than finding them scattered by kind.FactsLearn MoreTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOriginsWhose Classification This IsWell-attestedThe magic-and-religion boundary that produced this category was built by Victorian evolutionist anthropology, Tylor and Frazer above all, as a way of ranking other people's rites below one's own. It is no longer accepted as a descriptive distinction and survives here as the name of a self-identified Western tradition. 2OverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedRites held to produce an effect directly through the correct performance of a procedure - banishing, evocation, circle-casting, the drawing of a deity into a celebrant. The grouping follows the self-description of practitioners in the modern Western ritual-magic tradition rather than an outsider's judgement about what works. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRituals 1StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedUsed, but its validity as a comparative category is disputed 2Learn MoreThe Magical Rituals This group gathers magical rituals, the operative ceremonies of the magical traditions, by which the practitioner seeks to act upon the world or the self through contact with spirits, powers or hidden forces, following prescribed timings, tools and words. The browser will find magical rituals from the esoteric traditions. The entries describe each rite's structure and purpose, treating the ceremonies as objects of a documented tradition.TraditionFilter Results8 entriesDate of Separation End YearAll1967 (1)1971 (1)1974 (1)1980 (1)1995 (1)Date of Separation Start YearAll1962 (1)1971 (1)1973 (1)1979 (1)1985 (1)Defining Doctrinal PositionAllA Goddess and a God as a divine pair (3)No fixed pantheon or liturgy; each practitioner composes their own (3)Satan as a symbol, not a being (1)The Goddess alone (1)GovernanceAllA single central governing body over the whole movement (1)Autonomous covens, authority conferred by initiation (4)Business decided by the gathered meeting seeking unity, without clergy (1)No central authority (3)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllObligation to Support, No Set Rate (1)Liturgical LanguageAllThe vernacular (8)OrdinationAllAuthority conferred by initiation rather than by ordination (6)Conferred by a teacher's certification of learning (1)No ordination; authority rests on learning or on the whole body (2)Open to women and men (6)Restricted to women (1)Origin Period End YearAll1954 (1)1960 (1)1966 (1)1967 (1)1971 (1)1974 (1)1980 (1)1995 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll1940 (1)1946 (1)1962 (1)1966 (1)1971 (1)1973 (1)1979 (1)1985 (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex marriage is performed and LGBT clergy are ordained on equal terms with heterosexual clergy (1)Relation to the StateAllNo Establishment (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (8)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAlexandrian WiccaTradition2 entriesChurch of SatanTradition1 entryDianic WiccaTradition2 entriesEclectic Solitary WiccaTradition2 entriesFeri TraditionTradition2 entriesGardnerian WiccaTradition2 entriesReclaimingTradition2 entriesSeax-WicaTradition2 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culturetier 1Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Cambridge University Press, 2012Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.