Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits (1949–2010) was an influential American Neopagan leader and author. Since the 1960s, he was a leader of American occultism with an emphasis on Neo-druidism.
Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, Bonewits graduated from Berkeley with a “Bachelor of Arts in Magic.” He was ordained as a Neo-druid priest in 1969 and was active in the occult movement for the rest of his life.
Bonewits published several books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic, including Real Magic (1972,) Rites of Worship: A Neopagan Approach (2003,) Essential Guide to Druidism (2006,) and Essential Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca (2006.)
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Understanding brings control.
—Isaac Bonewits
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Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick — and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn’t.
—Isaac Bonewits
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