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Magick is an old way to spell the word "magic". This spelling was used by Aleister Crowley for occult magic of Thelema. He wanted to make it clear that he did not mean stage magic.

Crowley defined magick as "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the will." By this, he included ordinary acts of will as well as acts of ritual magic.

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  • Aleister Crowley, Golden Dawn

    Aleister Crowley in Golden Dawn garb

  • Historia Mundi Naturalis, Plinii Secundi

    Woodcut illustration from an edition of Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia (1582)

  • Francis barrett portrait

    Portrait of Francis Barrett, author of the book The Magus (1801)

  • Eliphas Levi

    Éliphas Lévi

  • Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in Egyptian getup

    Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), in Egyptian costume, performs a ritual of Isis in the rites of the Golden Dawn

  • Aleister Crowley, thinker

    Aleister Crowley, c. 1912

  • Llandudno, from the parade

    An illustration of Fortune's hometown, Llandudno, in 1860

  • Jack Parsons 2

    Parsons in 1941

  • Kenneth Grant

    Grant in the library of his Golders Green home (taken by Jan Magee in 1978)

  • Liber AL - page 60

    The mysterious 'grid' page of Liber AL's manuscript. "for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine. ... Then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key also. And Abrahadabra."

  • Talis02

    This design for an amulet comes from the Black Pullet grimoire.

  • Abracadabra triangle (cropped)

    Classic magic words

  • Circle of Solomon and Triangle of Solomon from The Lesser Key of Solomon

    An example of the magic circle and triangle of King Solomon

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