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Today more and more people are turning to the Occult. Tarot cards and the various methods of their interpretation are frequently the subject of everyday conversation. Quija board parties are more numerous now than ever they were in the days before World War II.

The construction of an astrological natal chart is common knowledge. Whether this acceptance of what have heretofore been regarded as “way out” beliefs and practices is due to Dr. Rhine’s experiments and proof of extra-sensory perception; to Professor Otto Rahn’s proof of power emanating from the human body; to Dr. Eisenbud’s proof of mind over matter, or other similar experiments and proofs we cannot say. But today there is more belief in, and practicing of, various types of magic than at any other time in Man’s chequered history.

Sympathetic magic is based on the principle that like attracts like. Make a wax or clay model representing a person and, if you work to the prescribed formula, whatever you do to the figure will actually happen to the person. This was first discovered by early Man 25,000 years ago in Paleolithic times. In those days to ensure success in hunting for food Man would model a clay bison and then “attack” it and “kill” it. He then felt sufficiently empowered to go out and kill the real bison. Today many people are finding that they can work this same type of magic using candles—not to hunt bison but to solve many of the problems presented by

twentieth century living. By burning different types of candles and manipulating them in various ways they find they can influence people and things.

This book deals with the practice of candle-burning—what candles to burn and when; how to “manipulate” them for the purposes desired. It deals little with the history of the subject for, as its title states, it is a practical book. It is for those who want to be able to do things. Simple rituals, yet effective. Rituals that can be done right in the home with readily available items of no complexity.


Raymond Buckland

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