Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick
Weird Studies
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The Importance of Magic in the Modern World
The introduction to magic and theory practice is fairly straightforward but the book from a purely readability standpoint goes kind of downhill from there. It is filled with esoteric language references to other texts that are impossible to find complicated digressions into magical theory. There's also an assumption in the text that you know what neoplatonism is or what you know porphyry said or whatever so there's a lot of that in thereSo I don't know how successful Crowley was compared to other self-help books let's call him even though he had a huge influence on the modern world.
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