Pop Magic!
FIRST PART
thinking about the topic
All you need to start practicing magic is concentration, imagination, and the
ability to laugh at oneself and learn from mistakes. Some people like to dress up
Egyptians or monks to get into the mood, others use animal masks or costumes of
Barbaralla. The use of ritual paraphernalia works only to help the imagination.
Anything you can imagine, anything you can symbolize, they can
come true and produce magical changes in their environment.
FIRST STEPS
Magic is easy to practice. Dozens of guides and instruction manuals are
available in the occult sections of most modern bookstores. Many of the manuals
oldest were written during the times in which the church with its enormous power tried to
suppress all paths to the truth but most of them were so carefully
written in encrypted form and hidden behind arcane symbol systems so complicated that
they weren't worth worrying about except for an idea of how some people
they used their imaginative powers to interpret non-physical contacts and communications.
Aleister Crowley - the Picasso of Magic - wrote this and no one could say it better:
"This book speaks of the sefirot and the paths, of spirits and spells, of gods, spheres,
blueprints and many other things that may or may not exist. But it is irrelevant whether they exist or not. Of doing
certain things ensue certain results; Students are cautioned to beware of
attribute objective reality or philosophical validity to any of them."
This is the most important rule of all and that is why it is here at the beginning. As
you learn and develop your own psychocosm and style of magical practice, as well
you find the strangest inhabitants of the infernal worlds and hyperworlds, you
You will return to these words of wisdom over and over again with a new understanding each time.
HOW TO BE A WIZARD
Simple. Declare yourself a magician, behave like a magician, practice magic every day.
Be honest about your progress, your successes and failures. Taking a few trips with 500 mushrooms could
loosen your astral sphincters a bit but it won't give you any of the magic advantages
which I am discussing here. Magic is about bringing forth that which inhabits the realms