Sam Webster is an Americanwriter, founder ofConcrescent Press, and an advocate foropen source religion—the use of theopen sourceparadigm in the field ofspirituality. He is aThelemite, a member of theGolden Dawn tradition, BishopTau Ty ofEcclesia Gnostica Universalis (Universal Gnostic Church), and an initiate ofWicca.

Webster holds aMaster of Divinity degree from theStarr King School for the Ministry at theGraduate Theological Union inBerkeley, California.^[1] He advocatesopen source religion—the use of theopen sourceparadigm in the field ofspirituality.^[1][2]

Webster is aThelemite, a member of theGolden Dawn tradition,^[1] and BishopTau Ty ofEcclesia Gnostica Universalis,^[3] as well as an initiate ofWicca.^[4] He has founded or cofounded several occult and Pagan organizations, including the Chthonic Auranian Templars of Thelema (1985)^[5] and theOpen Source Order of the Golden Dawn (2002).^[1]

Webster has written a number of articles and essays on occult andpagan topics, publishing both online and inmodern pagan periodicals includingGreen Egg,Mezlim,Gnosis andPanGaea. Many of his essays on pagandharma andThelema have been made available online. In 2001, he was one of a number of Neopagans interviewed inModern Pagans - An Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Ritual, a feature article in the counter-cultural journalRE/Search.^[6]

Concrescent Press published his bookTantric Thelema in January 2010.^[7]

Books

• Tantric Thelema. Concrescent Press. 2010.ISBN 978-0-9843729-0-4.

Articles

• 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" inMezlim, Beltane 1990.
• "The House of Khabs" inMezlim, 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" inGnosis #28, Spring 1993.Home
• The World as Lover Working, 1993.
• "Structural Implications in the Sepherot", 1994.^[8]
• "Pagan Dharma" inGnosis #39, Spring, 1996.Home
• The Bones of Sex and Spirit, 1996.
• "Why I call Myself Pagan", 1999 inReclaiming QuarterlyThe Spiral Dance - History and Traditions
• "Pagan Dharma 2" inPanGaea, 1999.
• A Thelemic Ganachakra, 2001. (seeGanachakra)
• Entering the Buddhadharma, 2002.OSOGD: Library: Entering the Buddhadharma
• Preliminary notes towards an understanding of the Neophyte Hall in the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn., 2002.OSOGD: Library: Y Documents: Understanding the Neophyte Hall
• Towards a General Theory of Divination, 2002.The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn
• Ritual, Magick & How Pagans will Save the World, 2004.
• The Pagan Agenda, 2005.

Other sources

• "Sam Webster".Free Encyclopedia of Thelema. 2006. Archived fromthe original on December 1, 2008. RetrievedDecember 13, 2011.

• Brooks, Andrew.Beltane Keynote Speaker Urges Pagan Revival inThe Oberlin Review, April 21, 2006.
• Magliocco, Sabina.Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.ISBN 0-8122-1879-5
• Vale, V. and John Sulak (2001).Modern Pagans. San Francisco: Re/Search Publications.ISBN 1-889307-10-6

• Chthonic Auranian Templars of Thelema
• Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis

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