Editing Marion Zimmer Bradley (section)

==Religion==
While she was attending the College for Teachers (now [[University at Albany, SUNY]]) in Albany, Bradley became involved in [[Western esoteric tradition]]. She later completed a [[Rosicrucian]] correspondence course.<ref name=":3" />

In the late 1950s or early 1960s, Bradley and [[Walter H. Breen]] founded the Aquarian Order of the Restoration based on the work of [[Dion Fortune]].<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nDdcVt9-jnMC |title=The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca |date=2010-05-12 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=9781438126845 |editor-last=Guiley |editor-first=Rosemary |pages=36–37 |language=en |chapter=Bradley, Marion Zimmer (1930 - 1999)}}</ref> By 1961 she was formally initiating others, including Ramfis S. Firethorn.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xuvLRbKvyGEC |title=The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism |date=2004 |publisher=Citadel Press |isbn=9780806524078 |editor-last=Rabinovitch |editor-first=Shelley |language=en |editor-last2=Lewis |editor-first2=James}}</ref>{{Rp |313}}{{Who |date=February 2021 |reason=Why mentioned here and only here?}}

Bradley was active in Darkmoon Circle, which was founded in 1978 by several women who were members of her Aquarian Order of the Restoration. Bradley renovated her garage to provide a meeting room for Darkmoon Circle as well as for other local Pagan groups.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thespiralpath.org/clergy/handbook/aboutspiral.html |title=The Fellowship of the Spiral Path Clergy Training Program: Handbook |date=2014-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227175500/http://www.thespiralpath.org/clergy/handbook/aboutspiral.html |archive-date=27 December 2014 |access-date=2018-09-25}}</ref> In 1981 Bradley, [[Diana L. Paxson]], and Elisabeth Waters incorporated the Center for Non-Traditional Religion.<ref name=":3" />

In the 1990s Bradley said she would return to [[Christianity]], telling an interviewer: "I just go regularly to the [[Episcopal Church (United States) |Episcopalian church]] ... That pagan thing ... I feel that I've gotten past it. I would like people to explore the possibilities."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-30-mn-16625-story.html |title=Marion Bradley; Writer of Fantasy Novels |last=Oliver |first=Myrna |date=1999-09-30 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2018-09-25 |language=en-US |issn=0458-3035}}</ref>