MAGICK in THEORY and PRACTICE
by Aleister Crowley · first published 1976
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“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.” Aleister Crowley was a noted and controversial occultist, ceremonial magician and poet. He has been called "the wickedest man in the world" or "The Master Therion" but he remained a highly influential figure over Western esotericism and the counterculture. This book is considered to be the foremost book on ceremonial magic written in the twentieth century and is recommended to initiates. This is a valuable book to anyone interested in occult studies. Excerpt: “This book is for ALL: for every
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…book is thus an act of Magick by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.) In one sense Magick may be defined as the name given to Science by the vulgar. - Aleister Crowley, "Magick in Theory and Practice." The "magickal weapons" of the 21st century are technology, engineering, and computing; a newly emerging "magickal language" is the LLM prompt; we are building new mechanized "spirits" in the form of…
on “A New Age of Magic” ↗…What determines it's it's validity is whether it is a testable and repeatable method to accomplish a result, and whether it can be learned, then communicated / taught to others. Aleister Crowley said in Magick in Theory and Practice: "In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist…
on “The Varieties of Mystical Experience” ↗