"Roll on Imbolc"

Aye, to that.
Race you for the first Snowdrop..!

In fact if you do open a thread near to the time, hopefully I'll have figured out how to get photy's postable, and I'll be able to post piccy's of Imbolc snowdrops.

This may sound a strange question, but as a long term Wiccan Bryn, in your opinion does Wicca have any 'Prophets' as such?

How much of the founding materials of Wicca were possibly forged from personal divine revelation? There are certain echoes that I see in the tripartite nature of the Wiccan Goddess and some similar expressions of the Gnostic Sophia for eg.

Of course there's been a whole lot of relatively recent debunking of the early 'cloathing' of Wicca as The Old Religion. But I think most Wiccans are fine with all that stuff now. So what I'm really interested in, is to what extent, Gardener et al, were arguably 'prophets' and cloathing their direct and genuine personal gnosis in 'ye olde' packaging?

(Implicit in my question is of course the acceptance of the premise that there is indeed such a thing as personal gnosis, or revelation.)

This probably isn't the place for such a question... And it's no doubt a quite impossible one to answer! But the thought struck me when you posted a message further down the thread.