The History of Magic in the Modern Age: A Quest for Personal Transformation

251 Pages·2000·49.84 MB·English

by  Nevill Drury

The History of
Magic in the Modern Age
Related tides by the same author

Exploring the Labyrinth
Echoes from the Void
Pan's Daughter
“Mertin’s Book of Magick and Enchcntmnent
The Elements of Shamanien
‘The Visionary Husnan
"The Shmin and the Megivian
Ier Visions
‘The Occult Experience
Dictionary of Mysticism and Kroterie Traditions
Other Temples, Other Gods (with Gregory Tillet)
Don Juen, Mescalite and Modem Mage
Vision Quest
‘The Path of the Chameleon
THE HISTORY OF

MAGIC

IN THE MODERN AGE

A QUEST FOR PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION

Nevill Drury

CARROLL & GRAF PUBLISHERS, INC:
New York
Carroll & Graf Publishers, ine
1g West 21" Srreet
New York
NY 10010-6805

First published in the UK by Robinson Publishing,
an imprint of Constable & Robinsen Ltd 2000

First Carroll & Graf edition 2009
Copyright © Nevill Dany 2000
All sights reserved. No part of this publication

may be reproduced in any form ot by any means
‘without the prior permission of the publisher

Printed and beund irs
For Anna

Contents.

Acknowledgements

Preface

The Roots of the Western Magical Tradition

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

The Mythology and Symbols of Magic

“Aleister Crowley and the Magick of the New
Acorn

Some Other Magical Visionaries
The Rebicth of the Goddess
Neopagan Pathways

Dark Forces

‘Mythologies of the Spirit
Archetypes and Cyberspace
Glossary of Terms

Bibliography

Notes

Index
Illustrations

even pager 142 a 145

Aleister Crowley (Fluitow

0)

“Austin Osman Spare, a self-portiait (Ade Millzest Pain)

‘Austin Osman Spare: “The Ascension of the Ego fiom Ecstasy to Testasy’
fosn ‘The Book of Pleasure (1913) (Ada Milcen¢ Pats)

Rosaleen Norton, with her pet cat (Faifax Library, Syduey)

Rosaleen Norton’ ‘Indivichation’ (Walter Glover,

Rosaleen Norton: ‘The Adversary’ (Walter Glove)

‘Alex Sanders in 1985 (Cinetel Productions)

Alex Sanders's Book of Shadows (Cinctel Prodctions)

Janet and Stewart Farrar, in Treland (Cinefel Producionsi

‘Altar in a witches’ coven (Cinetel Predwctins)

Olivia and Dercy Robertson at Clonegal Castle, Ireland (Cinete! Productions)

Initiates at the Fellowship of lis (cinetel Productions)

‘A goddess shrine in Clonegal Caste (Cinetel Productions)

Z Budapest conducting a goddess meeting {Cinetel Production’)
Margot Adler (Cinetei Productions)

The Temple of Sct (Cinetel Productions)

H.R. Giger, al home in Zusich (Cinetsl Productions)
Acknowledgements

Over the years many people have assisted me along the magical pach
and T would Eke to thank them for contibuting either directly or
indirectly to the creation of this book. They include Stephen Skins
who first introduced me to the study of the Kabbalah, John Coo}
Joan Mumford, Delores Ashe-ofi-Nowicki, Moses Aaron and Michael
Harner, who taught me the technique of shamanic drumuniay. T sm
also indebted to those who agreed at different times to be interviewed!
for my research — Rosaleen Norton, Alex Sanders, Tawrence and Oliviz
Robertson, Janet and Stewart Farrar, Z, Budapest, Selena Fox, Margot
Adler, Michael Aquino, H.R. Giges, Timothy Leary and ‘Terence
McKenna, Iwould also like to thank Sinclair Swain and Ashley Tactersall
{or lending me materials on role-play end Leon Wild for providing me
with curcent information on the Setia philosophy.

Finally T would also like co acknowledge my general debt co a select
group of visionary thinkers and artists whose work has substancally
fluenced my own perspective: Carl Jung, Miecea Eliade, Max Ernst
Anhur Machen, Jorge Luis Borges, Lord Dunsany, Witiedo Lam and
Austin Osman Spare. For me they have all been inspirational