Iron Mountain was Chas Clifton’s attempt to bring together the “professors and the practitioners” into a single source and provided an avenue for the Wiccans and Pagans being studied to respond to research being done on them. Although only four issues were published the contents are well stocked with articles and rebuttals from contemporary scholars and practitioners recognized as shapers of the Wiccan movement that we know today. It is a publication “devoted to the exploration of religious forms, practices, both ancient and modern, which emphasize the magical, shamanic and metaphysical elements.” Articles are topped off with reviews, poetry, artwork and photographs. It also holds the honor for being the inspiration of the first Pagan peer-reviewed Journal: The Pomegranate.

Permission for the creation of this digital asset was granted by Chas S. Clifton who also graciously loaned his personal copies to be digitized for inclusion in Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections’ New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library. On the Slopes of Iron Mountain -- Letters to the Editor: Doreen Valiente -- Re-vamping the World: On the Return of the Holy Prostitute / by Deena Metzger -- Magical Religion Pervades Brazil / by Carol Dow, Ph.D. -- Book Reviews: Straight With the Medicine: Narratives of Washoe Followers of the Tipi Way as told to Warren L. D’Azevedo / by Greg Heming ; Dancers to the Gods: The Magical Records of Charles Seymour and Christine Hartley 1937-1939 / Edited and introduced by Alan Richardson / by Chas S. Clifton ; Deviance and Moral Boundaries: Witchcraft, the Occult Science Fiction Deviant Sciences and Scientists by Nachman Ben-Yehuda ; Magical Blend ; Shaman’s Drum ; Gnosis ; Handbooks for Urban Shamans by Church of Seven Arrows ; The Kwan Yin Book of Changes by Diane Stein ; Don Juan, Mescalito and Modern Magic: The Mythology of Inner Space by Nevill Drury ; The Witches’ Qabala: Book 1, The Goddess and the Tree by Ellen Cannon Reed / by Carrie Brennan ; The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth and Literature by Paul Shepard and Barry Sanders ; Asatru Anthology by Asatru Free Assembly ; Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham -- Photographs by Carol Dow: The Blending of elements from several traditions is apparent in the furnishing of this altar ; Food, flowers and candles are offered to Yemanjá on a Beach in Rio de Janeiro ; White-clad Worshippers Gather on Rio Beach for festival of Yemanjá