Ini telah merubah pandangan Gardner terhadap penduduk di Tanah Melayu secara peribadi dan setelah diperkenalkan oleh rakan Amerikanya kepada sebilah keris, Gardner telah merasakan sesuatu yang aneh dan mula menghidu satu tamadun purba yang hilang, seperti yang diyakini oleh para pengamal kultus-kultus rahsia Eropah. Gardner kemudiannya mula berminat dengan sihir dan amalan mistik orang-orang Melayu.
Hari ini G.B Gardner lebih dikenali di Eropah sebagai 'Father of Wicca' iaitu satu kultus sihir Neo-Pagan yang popular di Barat.
Apakah yang dijumpai oleh Gardner semasa bertugas di Johor? Selain dari apa yang beliau terbitkan dalam Journal of Malayan Branch of Royal Asiatic Society pada tahun 1933, terdapat beberapa makalah lain yang kita tidak ketahui, menceritakan masa silam orang-orang Melayu berhubung dengan bangsa-bangsa purba yang telah pupus seperti Hittite (diyakini era Nabi Ibrahim a.s), Phoenicia (orang Kanaan) dan Mesir Purba...........
Siapakah MELAYU sebenarnya? Bangsa mundur dan dhaif?
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Gerald Brosseau Gardner
June 13, 1884 - February 12, 1964
Author of Book of Shadows ("Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical"), High Magic’s Aid(1949) and Witchcraft Today (1954), Gerald Gardner is widely considered to be the founder of modern Wicca.
Shortly before Crowley’s death on December 1, 1947, Gardner purchased from him a charter for an Ordo Templi Orientis camp, which he later unsuccessfully attempted to start. According to Idries Shah, Gardner considered Crowley something of a charletan.
The influences of Gardnerian Wicca, derived in part from S.L Mather’s The Key of Solomon the King, and from theories first propounded by Montague Summers, can be seen in most all current manifestations of western occult ritual magic.
Gardner is claimed by Idries Shah to have been made a freemason in "Sphinx Lodge 113", Irish Constitution, Colombo, Ceylon. There is no such lodge. Lodge No. 113 is in Killyleagh, County Down, while Sphinx Lodge No. 107, in what is now Sri Lanka, has no record of his membership. Living in Borneo and then in Malaya, there is also no record of Gardner's living in Colombo.