Sam Webster is an American

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, publisher, Thelemite, a member of the Golden Dawn 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

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. Webster holds a Master of Divinity degree from the

Starr King School for the Ministry Starr King School for the Ministry is a Unitarian Universalist seminary in Oakland, California. The seminary was formed in 1904 to educate leaders for the growing number of progressive religious communities in the western part of the US. The scho ...

at the Graduate Theological Union in

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. He advocates open source religion—the use of the open source paradigm in the field of spirituality. He has written a number of articles and essays on occult and pagan topics, publishing both online and in

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periodicals including ''

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'', ''Mezlim'', ''

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'' and ''PanGaea''. Many of his essays on pagan dharma and

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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 ''

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''. He has founded or cofounded several occult and Pagan organizations, including the Chthonic-Ouranian OTO (1985) and the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn (2002). He self-published his book ''Tantric Thelema'' in January 2010.Webster, Sam ''Tantric Thelema'', Concrescent Press (2010)

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*''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''

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) *''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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