Llewellyn's Truth About Ritual Magic

By Donald Tyson

Uncover your hidden ability to create the future. Written by a practicing magus, this guide is your gateway to understanding a powerful and once secret art.

• Open a channel to your Higher Self

• Explore chants, dances, and special postures and breathing

• Discover the basic tools: altar, magic circle, lamp, elemental symbols, robe, wand, sword, athame, and ring

• Awaken your magical perception of the world

• Language: English
• Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
• Release date: Jun 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9780738738581

Donald Tyson

Donald Tyson is an occult scholar and the author of the popular, critically acclaimed Necronomicon series. He has written more than a dozen books on Western esoteric traditions, including Tarot Magic, and edited and annotated Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Donald lives in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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About the Author

Donald Tyson (Nova Scotia, Canada) is an occult scholar and the author of the popular, critically acclaimed Necronomicon series. He has written more than a dozen books on Western esoteric traditions. Visit him online at DonaldTyson.com.

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MAGIC IS ALIVE

Magic is real. It exists. It works. It is the most potent and beautiful force in the universe. Magic is the flowing lifeblood of the Soul of the World. It is the essence that separates the living from the dead. It is the divine gift that renders humankind immortal.

There is nothing more important or more necessary than magic. And it is everywhere. In the waves of the sea and the twinkle of a star; in the sap of a leaf and the sweetness of a nut; in the sigh of the wind and the song of a bird. The world is a living thing, and magic is its beating heart.

To know magic, you must be willing to accept that there is more to your life than eating, sleeping, copulating, and dying. Magic moves below the surface of things. It can give you inner peace and self-confidence, personal magnetism, the power to attain your goals in life, and most important of all, a true understanding of yourself and your place in the universe.

WHAT IS MAGIC?

Magic is an art. In common with other arts, it draws its power from a deep well in the center of the human soul. Within this well are the waters of the unconscious, and below the surface dwell all possibilities and potentials, awaiting their turn to be pulled up into the light and made real. So long as they remain under the surface, they do not exist, but the moment they are captured and brought forth they come to be.

This act of pulling a possibility from the well of potential into being is an act of creation. Every creative act is magical. And every magical act is creative. The difference between magic and painting is that the painter creates on his canvas, while the canvas of the Magus is the world.

In The New Magus I define magic as the art of affecting the manifest through the Unmanifest. The manifest is all that can be seen, touched, perceived, manipulated, imagined, or understood. The Unmanifest is none of these things. It is the place, or rather the non-place,