MARK MIRABELLO - Odin Brotherhood

The Odin Brotherhood 113
Gerald B. Gardner, who started the Witchcraft revival with
Witchcraft Today, named his source.
A. Traditional Odin Brotherhood devotees are serious about
their anonymity. If asked about the Brotherhood, they will deny
they belong and some will deny even the Brotherhood’s very
existence. They call this “the ruse of the warrior.”
On the subject of Gardner, it is an interesting fact that his alleged
source was named Dorothy Clutterbuck. Although
Clutterbuck’s existence has long been denied by academic
historians, Doreen Valiente proved through birth and death
records that Gardner’s source was indeed a real person.
Q. Why is secrecy still necessary today?
A. Odinism thinks strategically rather than tactically. Although
ridicule has replaced the stake as the preferred method of
persecution, the violence of the “burning times” may some day
return. Remember, the future may not be a continuation of the
present.
Besides, real heroes are not honored in our decadent time. Our
society puts the true hero in a prison or a circus.
Q. Some individuals search for the Brotherhood and never find
it. Why is that the case?
A. To see something, you must know how to look. Did ancient
Sparta have walls? The barbarians could not see them, but
every Greek knew the truth.
The warriors of Sparta were its walls.