In the book ARADIA; GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES, published in 1890, we find an interesting passage in the close of chapter one: “…Whenever ye have need of anything, once in the month, and when the moon is full, ye shall assemble in some desert place, or in a forest all together join to adore the potent spirit of your queen, my mother, great Diana. She who fain would learn all sorcery yet has not won its deepest secrets, them my mother will teach her, in truth all things yet unknown. And ye shall be freed from slavery, and so shall ye be free in everything; and as the sign that ye are truly free, ye shall be naked in your rites, both men and women also…”
It is interesting to note the similarities between this text and the Gardnerian version of the Charge written over half a century later by Doreen Valiente.