"Magic" & "The Magician", WE Butler
This is actually two books published by the Aquarian Press in a combined volume - "Magic, Its Ritual, Power & Purpose", and "The Magician, His Training And Work". Originally published in 1952 and 1959 respectively, Butler was not only an ordained priest in the Liberal Catholic Church, but worked closely with Dion Fortune and the Society of the Inner Light and founded the Servants of the Light School of Occult Science. Coming at the time when what might be termed 'modern Pagansim' was only just emerging, and still rooted firmly in the Christian mysteries, the books are nonetheless of enormous value to the modern student of Witchcraft.
The books cover such topics as breathing and relaxation exercises, visualisation and meditation techniques, the Quabbalah, tattvic waves, creation of talismans, building of a 'Magical Personality' - in short, a solid grounding in the theory, psychology and practice of magic, in whatever religious context the reader is working from. While some passages can be quite hard going, the books include invaluably concise explanations of the "why" and "how" of things work which many more recent books omit.
posted by Izzy @ 6:16 pm
1 Comments:
This book is a lost treasure - properly studied and understood, it is one of the best-almost on the level of Bardon's first with generic Christian overtones snd a very positive frank, text.
Get a copy - excellent
Peace,
L:.A:.R:.
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