Spiral Scouts International
SpiralScouts International is a youth organization in the United States for children of neo-pagan faiths (though it is open those of any faith or no faith at all). It was created in 1999 as a loosely organized children's program, at the Aquarian Tabernacle Church. The Aquarian Tabernacle Church sponsored the program and helped it grow after the Boy Scouts of America decided not to recognize the religious programs of the Wiccan faith as part of the BSA religious emblems programs, according to Pete Davis. However, BSA spokesman Gregg Shields said, "There is no national Wiccan organization, so, that's why there is no religious award for Wiccans."
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“What is art,
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
It pushes toward the intense significance
Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
Art’s life,—and where we live, we suffer and toil.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
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