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This website is the creation of Mandorla coven,
a group of Feri initiates.[1]
Mandorla currently has eight members: SoulFire, Jim, Michele,
Leroy, Corvia, Lawrence, and two others. SoulFire, Jim, Michele,
and Leroy belonged to the Andersons' final coven, Blue Circle.
After Victor's death in 2001, Cora continued to be a valued
source of advice and lore for Mandorla, remaining our beloved
real-life Feri Godmother until her passing in 2008.
We are working to continue the living tradition of Feri
as taught by Victor and Cora Anderson to their personal initiates.
This tradition is sometimes similar and sometimes widely
divergent from that taught in other
lines within the Feri/Faery Tradition. To distinguish
our particular path, we've returned to the earliest name for
the tradition used by the Andersons: Vicia.
Mandorla places a high value on preserving the oral tradition
received from the Andersons intact and unchanged.
Creativity and discovery are also important to us, and we
continue to add our own original work to the Vicia body of
lore. We also take care to properly attribute material, so
primary lore can be differentiated from later additions.
Mandorla trains Vicia students in person using the apprenticeship
model; no money is exchanged for learning our Craft.
Although Mandorla does not teach publicly, we have put this
website together to provide information to spiritual seekers
and those simply curious about Vicia—which we define
as the Craft as taught by Victor and Cora Anderson.
On the Mandorla Symbol:
Mandorla is the Italian word for "almond." It is also another
word for the Vesica Piscis, the Yoni of the Goddess. As the
almond-shaped overlapping of two circles, it represents the
union of opposites.
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"To step into the Mandorla is to move beyond
"either-or" thinking - even beyond ideas of common
ground or compromise - and stand in the tension
of opposites long enough for something new to
emerge. In the realm of the Mandorla, the whole
truly yields something greater than the sum of
its parts, opening doors of possibility, discovery,
and creativity."
Quote from: http://www.kyrie.com/symbols/mandorla.htm
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[1] SoulFire and Jim
were initiated by Victor and Cora in 1996 and studied on a weekly
basis with the Andersons until Victor's death. SoulFire also
honors his 1984 initiation by Lillian Taber into Pictish-Faery,
an early offshoot of the Anderson Feri Tradition. Michele was
initiated by Victor in 2000; she in turn initiated Leroy, her
husband. Corvia and Lawrence first befriended the Andersons
in 1997. Corvia was initiated by SoulFire and Jim in 2002 and
passed initiation to Lawrence soon after.
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