[4] He would later remark that whilst he admired Jesus Christ, he did not think him any more holy than any other good men in history – and he disliked the God that was presented in the Old Testament.
In 1954, he first partook of sexual intercourse with a local girl, Mary, with whom he had fallen in love, an experience that he said allowed him to encounter the goddess Aphrodite, who he felt as a presence near to him.
[5] After his experience with Aphrodite, and his lifetime belief in pantheism, Lamond became further interested in paganism, and it was through this that he read Gerald Gardner's book Witchcraft Today (1954).
[8] From October 1961 to August 1964, the Lamonds lived in Greater Manchester, where Frederic worked for a computer company, and they only circled with the Bricket Wood coven on occasional visits back to London.
[7] In October 1965, Fred was posted to work in Prague to lead a technical support group, and whilst Gillian at first went with him, she returned to England in 1966 to care for their daughter, who had been diagnosed as being deaf.
Lamond met very few neopagans in the country, but in 2000 he started meeting a few at a monthly pub moot, and in 2003 initiated three Austrian women into the craft.