Tao of Modern Magic: The war that kept magic and the people who practiced it safe.

By Daniel James

A war had broken out in America concerning the safety and the right to practice magic freely. Magical bloodlines and magical roots were guarded by families and practitioners with their lives.  Those guardians who kept  the secrets of sorcery and spells for generations were now called to defend the very elements and doctrine that made them who they were. A final quest and confrontation would be necessary to gain liberation once and for all for those who practiced magic. The fight for the School of Modern Magic, and the American soil that it was founded upon was now inevitable. Professor Apollo, Head Master of the School of Modern Magic, would build himself an army, recruiting the most powerful students of magic that the world had ever seen. They would be the army to defend the school and America itself from the forces of darkness who threatened it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publication Consultants
• Release date: Jan 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781594337703

Daniel James

Daniel James is the Bernardo Mendel Chair in Latin American History at Indiana University, and the author of Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946-1976 and Do�a Mar�a's Story: Life, History, Memory, and Political Identity, and co-editor of The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and before taking up the Mendel Chair at Indiana University, he taught at Yale University and Duke University.

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Quest

INTRODUCTION

My name is Apollo and I am and have been the Head Master of The School of Modern Magic for the past twelve years. I came here to start a new life, in Arizona, but found that my journey was required for so much more. The red rock formations and the rich history of the Native Americans are what drew me initially. Since then I have followed the guidance of my guides to build a school where young magicians could come and learn the path. I have wanted nothing more than to pass on the baton from former generations. I’m still unsure of why the elders have struggled with the concept of letting new blood into the territories. However, they should all let someone new have a chance. This will be my lifelong pursuit, to change this territorial mindset, for we must all move forward.

There has never been a more exciting time in all of history. We are embarking upon a time and a season that we have never experienced before. History will not be able to document anything that closely resembles what we are about to experience in the near future. Mankind and planet Earth have never seen what we are about to see as we exit the Pisces Age and enter into the Aquarius Age.

My own experiences have been nothing less than supernatural. The energy remains high. Things are happening so quickly and with little to no effort at all. What we have been striving for and working so hard to achieve is now being handed to us on a silver platter, it seems. I am not suggesting that there is absolutely no effort in partnership with the divine or with spirit but I am saying that their counsel is causing us to get there a lot more easily than before.

Getting there. That place of fulfillment. That place that we have envisioned. The place that we navigate towards, often calling home. The accomplishment of our lives. The full potential of our existence. Imagine that all unfolding in one age, one season, or one time in your life. Imagine the Aquarius.

Magic and powerful energy are like sisters to me. In my own work I have used both of them together. It seems there isn’t much difference between the two. There are so many similarities and useful purposes. To envision them going to work for you has always been the focal point and driving force of my practice. For myself it doesn’t even feel or seem like work, though. It’s more like enjoyment. Like a fantasy playground where your most vivid dreams can come to life. Magic, after all, is real.

Some people may still have a hard time believing that this is true. However, even energy work cannot be doubted any longer. There are too many scientific facts about the reality of energy and its many possibilities. How can you doubt something that’s documented? I’ll have you know, we often crisscross from the scientific side to the supernatural side when working with energy. In our present time research and evidence, concerning Quantum Physics and Quantum Mechanics, have made it so much easier to believe. This book could essentially be understood as my own personal grimoire, or book of magic spells and invocations, but it could also be understood as a magical guide that gives testimony and account of what I have actually experienced in my own life. It may even feel like a magical journal or diary as you read it. However, I know, for sure, that my hopes for this piece are to instill in you an adventure with spirit!

Since the loss of my daughter, to dark forces, it has been my intention to educate the common folk and magical people alike. Also, I feel there has been a need to train and prepare for any unfortunate events or happenings. I myself did not expect the following journey would have happened. Even if I had, I would have taken my family and ran from the town where I resided. My wife left me after that tragic year. She could not forgive me for allowing the loss of our daughter to occur and needed someone to blame. Well, in short I didn’t allow anything to happen. Town folk just thought it would be fun to pick at the new guy in town. Especially, when they found out that I performed magic. At that realization I was put up against the local dark energy organization. I was pushed into a fight that I had no intention of being involved in. There were no courts or trials. They just took their best shot at me and I at them. My daughter is no more, as they struck first, but the henchmen that violated my family have been dealt with permanently.

The Magical Three is what I call my inner circle at the school’s campus. They are three of the most powerful professors that I have ever encountered. In fact they are so powerful that they were driven out of their homelands. They were even driven and outcast by family and friends. Their powers were unearthly and humankind became fearful. There is no other home for them except here.

As the late 1970’s and early 1980’s came about in America things were changing all over the country. Positive energy and good magic were getting a bad rap. There were those, especially in high places, that ruined the energy for the rest of us. Many have sabotaged the graces of the unbelieving or in some cases the religious. People were looking for answers and the media had begun to portray our community of magical people as some sort of freaks, or worse yet, down-right dangerous.

To say the least, we had to do a lot of public persuasion. To ensure to the rest of the world that what we had begun, in our own personal magic community, was completely different than the dark ones who aimed to cause destruction. I, myself, and countless others got caught up in that wave of fear. Remember, people fear what they don’t understand. Due to this human condition some of the staff, here at Modern Magic, went through some horrifying circumstances to get where they are today. We applaud them in their efforts to stay with the vision of helping humankind everywhere. Even if it seems, at times, that the world doesn’t want the help, we cannot give up on hope!

I’d like to first introduce you to Professor Merlin who was named according to his potential. He is a Native American Shaman who has a humble soul but has been hurt severely. Much healing has been done thus far including plenty of energy work and dedicated time in order to keep him from the dark paths and on track with what the universe has ultimately planned for his life. He is the Head over our Department of Healing and Astral Travel. We almost lost him. Yet, thank all goodness and light that there is great healing and hope instilled within Merlin so that he may become a great leader of his own generation. He just needs the proper support to ensure this path. Merlin was the first in line for our reprogramming sessions which were conducted downstairs in complete privacy. This is where we remove all subconscious programs embedded into the individual that would have prevented them from being able to ascend and be at their highest potential magically. The reprogramming also removes toxic coding from trauma that could disrupt the individual’s well-being or those around them. We have seen cases where people, at a subconscious level, would carry programs or coding that could sabotage the school itself. You never know what to expect at such a deep level. This is exactly why it works better than any background check ever could. Essentially, when we find a bug in their system we have the power to remove it and change that part of their mind into something positive and beneficial for them. Most are aware that this research and program is also connected with the nation’s top authority on Homeland Security. We at the school are the modern day Remote Viewers for the government.

Next we have Professor Ravenwolf. She is just as her name portrays. The one who balances our entire staff has and that we so desperately needed. She is Head of our Department of Mind Magic and Divination. Bringing her insight and feminine divinity into the curriculum allowing us to grow in a healthy manner. No one is more trusted on my staff than her to carry out the serious aspects of working with magic, even behind closed doors. She keeps the secrets of my heart. Her back-story had caused her to become extremely troubled and she carried with her subconscious programs that were self-destructive in nature. After her reprogramming session she was more balanced and quite a bit happier, to say the least. She wished that a program like this could have been available to her years ago. As she elaborated about the pain of the post-traumatic stress that she has had to endure over the years it all made sense.

Last but not least, we are very happy to have Professor Opal. She is more like a lioness and has the energy to bring all men to their knees. She is the head of our Department of Defense Magic. Her most powerful attribute is the knowledge of humankind. She knows their ways and motives more than any one of us here. Professor Opal had a tough childhood but the universe has used it to make her as powerful as a goddess. We are protected here because she is with us. I have never met a force resembling hers. Thus, her reprogramming session was extremely painful for her and for the operators who had to take her through it. Several times, throughout the session, it was interrupted by an intense emotional crisis. She just let it all out and manifested in rage or tears most of the time. Years of having to deal with all of those memories bottled up inside of her must have almost driven her mad. By our own account of how many agonizing experiences she had to live through.

All of us have been visited by the divine, at one point or another. We have all seen eternity and experienced the impossible. All members have been transformed into light workers who are fully devoted to the cause of helping humankind everywhere. It is a lot of responsibility to carry a mantle likened unto our forefathers and foremothers, who made a difference and saved lives. They fought against forces unheard of and managed to change their world. It was much harder back then to be magical and yet they rose to the occasion. The ancestors have visited us and they are the ones who keep the standard of magic what it is today. They live here with us, on the campus, and teach in the classrooms from time to time. These are secrets that have to be kept, at times, from others for our own protection. I could not have imagined this before I came here; spirits and loved ones from the other side, who have passed on, are here with us! We can see them with our natural eyes as if a vortex has been opened. Some other schools have said, often, that it is also because of the area where we are established. Sedona is one of the major power centers on the Earth, along with Stonehenge, and the Pyramids. We are visited all the time.

Now, the rest of the professors are newly hired since our recent growth. Some say we have grown because of the news reporters publishing our presence throughout the nation. I personally do not agree with that thought. My belief has been that the universe has added to us like a gift. The reporters may have been used by the divine but we know who to give the praise unto.

So anyway, the new staff is as follows. Professor Ariel: Head of Mediumship and Séances Department. She is a lovely personality that does not take a back seat to anything other than her beauty. She came to us searching for something more in life. It seems that she had been a student at other schools but did not seem to receive what she sought after so deeply. She learned a great deal of knowledge that we can use right here at our school. Yet, for herself, she needed an encounter of another kind. She was searching for answers since her family was tragically killed. Still to this day she doesn’t like to talk about it. However, her journey has included being able to connect with likeminded people that have the power to put her mind at peace. She is looking for the higher power. Professor Ariel is as intelligent as any one of us but she searches for something that can bring her comfort. Her focus here at the university is to experience materialization. She teaches the class but has not experienced the phenomena herself for over a month now. I personally helped her and she had a breakthrough but it only lasted for a moment. Any chance any one of us gets we try to connect. Perhaps in her next class she may see something again. We are getting messages from the other side that the next meeting should be held in a private chamber. The chapel is where I have suggested to perform this séance.

What is remarkable about Professor Ariel is that her reprogramming sessions released a power that connected her to the other side. It also brought to the staff, who was working on her, an energy they could feel and benefit from, themselves. It was like Professor Ariel was holding a séance right there in the room. She was astonishingly being set free from the forces that held her back or clogged her up. The clogging that prevented her from connecting to