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 Donald Tyson - The Magical Workbook

Everything that a beginner needs to start performing ritual magic is in this basic training manual of daily study. These exercises do not merely teach--they transform. When practiced regularly, they will provoke changes in the body, brain, perceptions, emotions, and the will--changes necessary for the successful working of magic in any of its ancient or modern traditions.

This text contains 40 magical exercises to be done immediately, along with a progressive 40-week schedule of daily study that integrates inner mental conditioning with external words and movements. It is a primer for the further study of the Golden Dawn and other forms of Western magic.

Donald Tyson is a Canadian from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Early in life he was drawn to science by an intense fascination with astronomy, building a telescope by hand when he was eight. He began university seeking a science degree, but became disillusioned with the aridity and futility of a mechanistic view of the universe and shifted his major to English. After graduating with honors he has pursued a writing career.

Now he devotes his life to the attainment of a complete gnosis of the art of magic in theory and practice. His purpose is to formulate an accessible system of personal training composed of East and West, past and present, that will help the individual discover the reason for one's existence and a way to fulfill it.

353 pages, 10.8 MB, PDF. Scan.

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The first incarnation of this work appeared in 1988 under the title The New Magus: Ritual Magic As A Personal Process. The result of several years of research into the principles and techniques of Western ceremonial magic, coupled with an intense regimen of personal experimentation, The New Magus evolved from my original magical diaries. It was inspired by the need for a book that presented the essential structure of modern ritual magic shorn of its quaint but often confusing and contradictory traditional trappings.
The book answers such fundamental question as: What is magic? How does it work? What is ritual? Are spirits real? What is a magic circle and how is one projected? How are objects cleansed and consecrated? What are the dangers of magic? How are sigils, amulets and talismans constructed? What instruments and furnishings are needed for a ritual temple? How can one defend against astral attacks? What is dream-making? How can I do finger magic? How do I cast the pentagram? How do I banish spirits? What role does the Tarot play in magic?

Although the book is firmly based in the ritual practices of the Western world that descended from the Renaissance revival of magic five centuries ago, almost every aspect of the ancient art has been newly examined with a critical eye. Where necessary, basic ritual techniques such as the method for drawing the pentagram and hexagram have been revised and rationalized. All of the changes are explained and compared with the traditional practices they replace so that the reader can easily perceive why each revision was judged useful. This process gives the reader an unparalleled depth of understanding into the most basic aspects of ritual magic.

The New Magus proved so much help to those seeking a fundamental grasp of the technical principles and techniques of ritual magic, the decision was made to bring out a greatly enlarged new edition in 1996 under the title New Millennium Magic.

Everything in The New Magus has been carried over into New Millennium Magic, but in the process of revising the work it was possible to correct a number of minor errors and to expand the content to cover a broader scope. The way in which the integrated original system of magic presented in this book differs from the conventional system, which was derived from the Victorian Rosicrucian society known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, is presented in much greater detail in this expanded and revised edition. This comparison reduces confusion and aids in a more complete understanding of the material.

372 pages, 13.9 MB, PDF. Scan.

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