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Contents
THE
REBIRTH
OF
MAGIC
A
CORCI
IIOOK
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First
pLrtrlication
in
Oreat
Britain
llr{rN
f
IN(i Iils'rol{Y
(lolgi
cclition published
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his
trook
is sct
1982
Copyriglrt rt)
Francis
King and
lsabel Sutherland
r982
in
l0ll
I
English
Times
Corgi llooks
are
published by
'I nrrrsw<:rld
Publishers
Ltd.,
(lcntury
l'louse,
61-63
Uxbridge Road,
lialing,
London,
W5
5SA
I)r'inlecl
irt
Creat Britain
by
t"l
u
n
t Bar"nard
Pri nti
ng,
Aylesbury,
Br"rcks.
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3
4
5
6
7
8
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13
14
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5
Introducing
the
Magicians
The Meaning
of Magic
Grimoires
and Sorcerers
The French
Occult Revival
Dmgs,
Demons and Duels
L6vi's English
Disciples
Fountain of Magic
Gotden
Dawn Derivatives
Later Occult Brotherhoods
Dion Fortune
and the
Inner
Light
Ritual Magic
in
the
United
States
Sex
Magic
The
Magical Explosion
Witches
Pathway into
the
Darkness of
Time
Further
Reading
Notes
7
22
34
50
62
82
97
116
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t44
158
170
185
198
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216
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M'
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{.ntroducing
the
Magicians
Some
three
years
or
so ago
Prediction,
a
popular
occult
monthly,
published
a query
from
one
of
its
readers. He
and
his
wife
were,
he
wrote,
'crazy
about rituals
and
ritual
magicl
and ceremonially
consecrated
all
their
most trea-
sured
possessions.
They
had recently
installed
a
telephone
in their
home and were anxious
to
bless
it with
the
appro-
priate
rite.
What god, demon, or other non-human
entity,
asked the
enquirer, should
be
invoked
into
his telephone?
The
editor
of
the
magazine's
problem
page was
in
no
way
flustered
or
surprised
by this
question.
Telephones,
the
correspondent
was
inforrned,
were
a
means
of commu-
nication and
were therefore
attributed
to
the
Graeco-
Egyptian
god
Thoth-Hermes.
It
was
this
god,
or
Mercury,
his Roman
equivalent, who
should
be
induced
to
bless
and
consecrate
the telephone.
If,
however,
added the
Predic-
tion
journalist,
his
reader
was inclined
to
'qabalistic
magic'
he
should approach
the
matter
through 'F{od',
the
eighth 'sephirah'
of
Otz
Chiim,the
qabalistic
symbol iden-
tified with
the Tree
of Life,
using
the
appropriate
incenses,
symbols
and
Divine
Names.
The
magician
who
wanted
to
submit his
telephone
to
occult
influences
attracted
the
attention
of
Michael
Wharton,
expert
on
such seemingly diverse matters
as
the
economic
theories
of
Major
Douglas,
Ossian's poetry,
ayurvedic
dentistry,
and
the
more endearingly
daft
aspects
of
the
current occult
boom.
It
was
l-ropeless,
asserted
N{r.
Wharton,
for
this
dedicated
ritualist to
expect
any
visible
appearance
of
Thoth-Herrnes, Mercury,
or
even
Hod,
as
a
result
rnanifestation
of
Buzby
-
the
loathsome
fowl
inexpli-
cably
used
by
the
pubiic
relations
industry
in
order
,to
advertise
the
overpriced
and
overmanned
British
teie-
phone
system.
I-udicrous
as
Mr.
Wharton;
perhaps
rightly,
considered
question
and
answer,
both
are
not without
significance
and
interest. For
they
illustrate
the extent
of
the current
magical revival and its influence on
those
inclined
to
occult
studies.
Prediction
has been
published
since
before
World
War
Il,
but
until
about twenty five
years
or
so ago
refer-
ences
to
ritual
nragic were
rarely
found
in
its
pages;
today
they are
to
be
lound in
almost
every
issue.
phenomenon
did
take place
of
his
ceremonial
endeavours.
If
any
objective
it
would
only
be
a
physical
Usually
these alleged magicians
or
witches bear
ritual
swords,
daggers
and other
mystic in,piements. They
are
unconcerned
by
the
presence
of
a
press
photographer
at
the
celebration
of
their
inmost
mysteries.
The
most
interesting
of
the many
groups that play
such
an
important part in
the
modern
rebirth
of
western magic
shun
press
publicity.
The
practices
engaged
in
by
their
members may
be
eccentric by
ordinary
standards
but they
are
sincerely
performed with perfectly
serious
ends
in
view
An
everr
stronger
indication
of
the
interest
in
ritual
magic
at
the
present
day
is
provided
by
the
catalogues
issued
by
such
mail order
suppliers
of
occult
books
and
irnpedinrcnta as'Sorcerer's
Apprentice'
(Leeds,
England)
and 'Magickal Childe'
(New
York).
As
well
as
the
usual
books
ancl
tarot
decks
there
are
advertised crescent-bladed
circles,
incenses
dedicated
to
various
gods,
angels
and
demons,
cast-iron cauldrons, damiana
('the
psychic
aphrodisiac'),
candles, synrbolically
coloured
or
realistically
shaped
to
the
attainment
of
power and
wisdom,
the transmuta-
tion
of
the lead
of
the
everyday
personality into
the
gold
of
adepthood.
To
describe
in
detail
all
these
groups
would
be
impos-
sible,
for,
apart
from
the
sheer
immensity
of
the
task,
it
is
probable
that the
very
existence
of
many
of
them
is
unknown to
any
outsider.
It
is
possibie, however,
to
dif-
ferentiate
between
three
important
strands
in
conternpo-
-
knives,
for
ritually
cutting
herbs
and
magic
rary
associations
practising
ritual
magic.
Firstly,
the
strand
of
'orthodox'
western magic
as
transmitted from
the past
to
the present,
albeit
in
distorted
and
modified
immediate
successors.
Secondly, the strand
of
'Thelemic
N4agic'
*
the
intellectually
irnpressive
although,
perhaps,
morally
dubious,
synthesis
of
old
European occultisrn,
new daemonic
religion
of
'Force and
Fire',
and tantric
(sexual) yoga created
by
Aleister Crowley.
Thirdly,
the
strand
of
magic
influenced by
the
writings
of
the
late
Dr.
Margaret
Murray
and her adrnirers amongst those
most
active
in
modern
witchcraft.
Let
us
look in
each category at
a
'composite'
group
-
that
is
to
say
a
group which, although not actually
existing
the groups
in
its category and thus
illustrates
the
common
form,
by
the
Hermetic Order
of
the
Colden Dawn
and its
of
such
immensity
as
to risk inducing feel-
ings
ol
inaclequacy
in
most
of
their
male
purchasers, and
cassette-tapes
of
Aleister Crowley
('the
Master
Therion')
reciting
an
invocation
in
the ',Angelic
Language'
produced
bythe
Elizabethan magicians
.trohn Dee
and
Edward Kelly.
The
ordinary
man
or
woman
is
often
vaguely aware
of
the
current
craze
amongst
solre
people,
particularly young
resernble
phalli
people,
fbr
magic and
witchcralt. For, from
time to time,
the more downmarket
British
and American
newspapers
in
the precise
form
described, combines features
from all
factors
of
the
'strand'.
The Order
of
the Secret
Rose is a
London-based occult
group deriving
from
the
tradition
of
the
Golden Dawn,
an
occult
society
of
the
last century
whose
importance
has
been
aptly
surnmed
up
by
Israei Regardie
--
himself
an
will
report
the occurrence
of
sacrilegious acts
in
deserted
churches
and burial
grounds
*
these
are usually
attri-
buted
to
'satanists'
or
'black
witches'
-
or
reproduce
blurry
photographs
of
cultists,
sometimes
exotically
robed,
sometirnes naked
and,
when
f'emale,
equipped
with
breasts
and
buttocks
of
notable size
and
rotundity.
8
initiate
of
the late
offshoot
of
the
Order
9
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the
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