Funk Babblings

What I get from the sample is that the GD does theurgy. Is that the case?

Heh. The paragraph continues (and ends) like this:

In one sense it represented a revival of the ancient art of theurgy, which had always lain on the hazy boundary between religion and magic and signified an attempt by humans to work with divinities in such a way as to wield divine powers for themselves. In another, it was distinctly modern, being one spiritual reflection of the actual experience of the peoples of the nineteenth-century Western world, as they obtained ever greater political, economic, and environmental control of the globe.

Since this ends his chapter "In Search of a High Magic", I'm assuming that in a future chapter Hutton will say that Gardner took Wicca's "High Magic" from the Golden Dawn.

I like people who think that Discordianism is a young movement, when really it's been around longer than most Wiccan traditions :)

I'd call Wicca young too; two generations is young for a religion. Or are you saying that Discordianism is older than the mid-late 60s?

By the way, the structure chapter talks a lot about how the old secret societies, starting with the Masons, went to great lengths to create a mythology tying themselves back to ancient times, hiding their relatively modern origins.