#madrianism

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

A quick guide to who's who in The Coming Age / early Madrian writing.

Sister Angelina, Lady Alethea FiaMoura - Priscilla Langridge, later known as the Mushroom Princess or Cure Dolly. Sister Chrysothemis - Maureen Evans, one of the earliest Madrians, who lived in the same flat as Priscilla when the early volumes of The Coming Age were published, under the same address. The BBC Podcast about St. Bride's believes that she was the programmer of the mid 1980s video games. Sister Julia - Uncertain, but presumably she would be either Miss Langridge or Miss Evans. But this is based entirely on my own personal feelings and could be entirely wrong. She is the Maidrian being interviewed in the Filianism Origins blog post. Madria Moura, Phoebe - The only annointed Madrian priestess at the time, Priscilla would have been her understudy, given the last name "FiaMoura". Mary Scarlett - Later used the much more well-known name "Miss Martindale". Sources for identifying these individuals is the Madrian Deanic Resources blog and associated Facebook page, which was penned by a woman who lived with the Madrians in the mid to late 1980s and appears to be personally familiar with the people she was speaking of, as well as the Filianism Origins interview. Other associated names can be found in this blog post, however, not all of them were used for The Coming Age.

[laughingmaidenarising]

“And I give to you one word which shall conquer every danger. That word is love, and the humility that flows from love. Receive with love the seed of Truth and all things shall be well.”

The Clear Recital; Teachings; The Sermon of the Apple Seed: v45-47

[garlands-of-roses]

It scares me that if filianism ever gets in the hands of instagram, girlboss feminist spirtualists, it'll lose all its meaning and be reduced down to divine feminine, goddess energy, girlboss spirituality rather than a complex religion with its own theology, scripture, rites and holidays.

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[iyashikeivixen]

THA 09.01.03’344 IE NH // THU 10.31.12’024 HE GD

Blessèd Tamala.

“Life is not long, death is swift in the coming … The world is but a shadow, yet it is a shadow of truth; and at the ending of the age the world shall be redeemed. Neither a leaf upon a bramble shall be lost, nor a blade of grass pass into nothingness. But you, My children, of all the world, you alone have power to choose; and thus you are called maid, for maid is she that has the power of choosing. Fix then your will upon the truth and your heart upon the Spirit My Matron … the world shall be redeemed, even to the last blade of grass” (adapted from The Filianic Scriptures 4.3.16ff NCUV 2RE).

[moonlit-magdalene]

my (filianic) reading challenge for 2023

1 Read The Clear Recital!

2 Read an academic book about female-centric religiosity (Sjoo, Estés, Bolen, etc.)

3 Read a classic fairytale (as witten down by Grimm, or Andersen, or other folklorist of your home country) centered around some feminine archetype (Baba Yaga, Cinderella, Snowhite,..) and study relevant literature about your chosen story

4 Read a biography of a woman you look up to

5 Read a biography of a woman you despise

6 Choose a Marian apparition and study it using multiple sources

7 Read a text written by one of our Madrian foremothers (as compiled in Opera Omnia I. & II.)

8 Read a book about folk traditions of your home country

9 Choose a topic regarding some natural phenomena and study an encyclopedia about it (flowers, crops, weather, sea, trees, animals, astronomy, rocks, crystals, fish...)

10 Choose a goddess or heroine from any pantheon and read stories about her (multiple sources, multiple translations,..)

11 Read any contemporary fiction book by a female author

12 Enough with the reading - now try to write something, anything - a poem, short story, essay, maybe even a whole novel, or if it all sounds overwhelming, at least try to compile notes and gather your thoughts about previously read texts.

[annies-scrapbook]

the more i learn about the history of both ancient and modern paganism, the more i realize that both of the conventional narratives around the origin of wicca (to wit: either that it's the original, primordial form of european paganism, handed down in secret from mother to daughter since the stone age; or that it's something gerald gardner pulled out of his ass in the 1940s) are pretty inaccurate. on the one hand, gardner was almost certainly the creator of wicca, or at the very least he was no more than a generation removed from its actual creator. on the other hand, gardner (or his predecessor) didn't create it out of whole cloth; all the pieces that went into it were already floating around in the zeitgeist waiting for someone to scoop them up and assemble a religion out of them. and while wicca doesn't bear a close resemblance to any mainstream tradition of ancient paganism, i'm starting to think it actually seems pretty standard-issue for the initiatory mystery religions that flourished in the greco-roman world in the late arietian/early piscean age, aside from its extensive use of british folklore and the fact that it's displaced from its predecessors by about a zodiacal age.

relatedly, i can't find the post now but i remember someone on here (i think it was either @maddiviner or @creature-wizard, but i'm not positive) pointed out that if christianity had never existed, another of the mystery religions would probably have ended up filling the same historical role. i was wondering what sort of religion we'd have ended up with if wicca had actually been one of the mystery religions from that era and if it had taken the place of christianity, and then i realized that would probably just be madrianism/filianism.

currently reading apostolos n. athanassakis's translation of the orphic hymns, along with his extensive notes on them. i'm struck by how many extremely specific syncretisms that i'd thought were original to modern paganism, particularly to wicca, actually have a precedent several centuries earlier in orphism. i wonder if gardner and valiente, or any of their contemporaries, were aware of this, or if the parallels were entirely due to coincidence/revelation (pick your preferred narrative)?

[hakusins]

thank you to @propertyofwhitney67 (madrian) for the ko-fi!!

[garnetdawn]

I gave Madrian a little silver hair now and it is such a glow up I am so normal about this man

[propertyofwhitney67]

Bought a thing...

[thestars-aremycanvas-reblogs]

I'm glad you found what you were after! Thanks again for taking the time to explain all of this to me :)

one reason (personally) that I am not drawn to filianism or deanism is because I refuse to believe I am marred or imperfect in any way, a distorted version of what I once was. I am like Nature, and in Nature there is no such thing as perfection/imperfection. There merely is what there is.

[laughingmaidenarising]

“In thy work praise Her [Déa] and in thy resting, in thy speech and in thy silence. For thou wert made one with Her, and this is thy true estate.”

The Clear Recital; Teachings; The Pillar of Light: v21,22

[her-hands-and-teeth]

Are any Filianist/Madrian/Deanists willing to share how they came to/found that religion?

The religion my sisters and I practice is far closer to that than the mostly Wicca (and Wicca based) traditions that those we share a community with follow, and I know there is a greater call for these more devotional paths in those spaces. I’m hoping to develop a better understanding of the needs of devotional Goddess religion seekers and devotees, and I know the Filianist community has a lot of valuable perspectives on that.

[the-deanic-heresy]

I'll join!

Hmm just thinking about creating a little Aristasia-in-Tumblaria colony of racinated blogs.

[iyashikeivixen]

DAY 12.56 CST SUC 09.09.03’344 IE NH

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping’” (Fred Rogers).

[neetily]

I am so confused...what is that au?

i THINK it's where whitney grows up to become shane from sdv, if i'm understanding correctly. i do recommend the anon makes a masterlist to make the information easier to read and obtain :D

[hatkuu]

What do you think Whitney would hold over Kylar with the body swap au?

hm...

i think if he wakes up in kylar's room and meets his scary monster parents... thats definitely something he can hold over him. definitely the shrine of pc is a big thing whitney uses against them. poor kylar. they are never coming back from this.

then after the swap is over i'd like to imagine that kylar is indefinitely indebted to whitney. real bad. just bc the little loser doesn't want to get EXPOSED