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Post-Modern Magick
This book is the beginning of a long road. It exists within a paradox of detailed research and the fierce resistance of dogma.
This book is for the iconoclast.
The magus who rejects blind adherence and who struggles against the invisible prison of tradition.
For rouge scholars, artists, hackers, Goths, or any other magus on the underground path of evolution.
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law," with attitude.
"Post-Modern": A school of thought primarily concerned with the deconstruction of meta-narratives. In this text it is the rejection of the idea that there is only one way of magick.
"Magick": The use of Will to elicit change in Reality.
"Post-Modern Magick" is self-initiation and exploration based on personal relevance and free form magick.
These pages contain not only a manuscript on post-modern magick in theory and practice, but also new post-modern grimoires such as "Reality Hacker," all in print for the first time alongside more traditional text.
This book is for the iconoclast.
The magus who rejects blind adherence and who struggles against the invisible prison of tradition.
For rouge scholars, artists, hackers, Goths, or any other magus on the underground path of evolution.
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law," with attitude.
"Post-Modern": A school of thought primarily concerned with the deconstruction of meta-narratives. In this text it is the rejection of the idea that there is only one way of magick.
"Magick": The use of Will to elicit change in Reality.
"Post-Modern Magick" is self-initiation and exploration based on personal relevance and free form magick.
These pages contain not only a manuscript on post-modern magick in theory and practice, but also new post-modern grimoires such as "Reality Hacker," all in print for the first time alongside more traditional text.
74 pages, Paperback
First published May 19, 2004
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Seth (Spirit)
34 books32 followersFrom Wikipedia:
In late 1963, psychic Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert F. Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Roberts' research for a book on extra-sensory perception. According to Roberts and Butts, on December 2, 1963 they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality who eventually identified himself as Seth. Soon after, Roberts reported that she was hearing the messages in her head. She began to dictate the messages instead of using the Ouija board, and she eventually abandoned the board.
Roberts described the process of writing the Seth books as entering a trance state. She said Seth would assume control of her body and speak through her, while her husband wrote down the words she spoke. They referred to such episodes as "readings" or "sessions".
For 21 years until Roberts' death in 1984 (with a one-year hiatus due to her final illness), Roberts held regular trance sessions in which she spoke on behalf of Seth. Butts served as stenographer, taking the messages down in home-made shorthand, and recording some sessions. The messages from Seth channeled through Roberts consisted mostly of monologues on a wide variety of topics. They were published under the collective title Seth Material.
The material through 1969 was published in summary form in The Seth Material, written by Roberts from the material of the channeling sessions. Beginning in January 1970, Roberts wrote books which she described as dictated by Seth. Roberts claimed no authorship of these books beyond her role as medium. This series of "Seth books" totaled ten volumes. The last two books appear to be incomplete due to Roberts' illness. Robert Butts contributed notes and comments to all the Seth books, and thus was a co-author on all of them.
According to Roberts, Seth described himself as an "energy personality essence no longer focused in physical reality", who was independent of Roberts' subconscious.
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The core teachings of the Seth Material are based on the principle that mind creates matter, and that each individual creates his or her own reality through thoughts, beliefs and expectations, and that the "point of power" through which the individual can effect change is in the present moment.
The Seth Material discusses a wide range of metaphysical concepts, including the nature of God, referred to in the Material as "All That Is" and sometimes "The Multidimensional God" (who takes its form in many parallel or probable universes); the nature of physical reality; the origins of the universe; the limitless nature of the self and the "higher self"; the story of Christ; the evolution of the soul and all aspects of death and rebirth, including reincarnation and karma, past lives, after-death experiences, "guardian spirits", and ascension to planes of "higher consciousness"; the purpose of life and the nature of good and evil; the purpose of suffering; multidimensional reality, parallel lives and transpersonal realms.
In late 1963, psychic Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert F. Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Roberts' research for a book on extra-sensory perception. According to Roberts and Butts, on December 2, 1963 they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality who eventually identified himself as Seth. Soon after, Roberts reported that she was hearing the messages in her head. She began to dictate the messages instead of using the Ouija board, and she eventually abandoned the board.
Roberts described the process of writing the Seth books as entering a trance state. She said Seth would assume control of her body and speak through her, while her husband wrote down the words she spoke. They referred to such episodes as "readings" or "sessions".
For 21 years until Roberts' death in 1984 (with a one-year hiatus due to her final illness), Roberts held regular trance sessions in which she spoke on behalf of Seth. Butts served as stenographer, taking the messages down in home-made shorthand, and recording some sessions. The messages from Seth channeled through Roberts consisted mostly of monologues on a wide variety of topics. They were published under the collective title Seth Material.
The material through 1969 was published in summary form in The Seth Material, written by Roberts from the material of the channeling sessions. Beginning in January 1970, Roberts wrote books which she described as dictated by Seth. Roberts claimed no authorship of these books beyond her role as medium. This series of "Seth books" totaled ten volumes. The last two books appear to be incomplete due to Roberts' illness. Robert Butts contributed notes and comments to all the Seth books, and thus was a co-author on all of them.
According to Roberts, Seth described himself as an "energy personality essence no longer focused in physical reality", who was independent of Roberts' subconscious.
......
The core teachings of the Seth Material are based on the principle that mind creates matter, and that each individual creates his or her own reality through thoughts, beliefs and expectations, and that the "point of power" through which the individual can effect change is in the present moment.
The Seth Material discusses a wide range of metaphysical concepts, including the nature of God, referred to in the Material as "All That Is" and sometimes "The Multidimensional God" (who takes its form in many parallel or probable universes); the nature of physical reality; the origins of the universe; the limitless nature of the self and the "higher self"; the story of Christ; the evolution of the soul and all aspects of death and rebirth, including reincarnation and karma, past lives, after-death experiences, "guardian spirits", and ascension to planes of "higher consciousness"; the purpose of life and the nature of good and evil; the purpose of suffering; multidimensional reality, parallel lives and transpersonal realms.
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June 16, 2025
Although the author describes various forms of magic(k), including ritual and fundamental magic(k), the bulk of this work is related to chaos magic(k) (which is quite expected because of the title of the book).
“Post-Modern Magick” contains theoretical and semi-practical instructions on how to bend Reality.
After reading this book, you will have enough knowledge to understand what aspects of magic(k) resonate with you the most. And delving deeper into studies of those principles is the next logical step.
“Post-Modern Magick” contains theoretical and semi-practical instructions on how to bend Reality.
After reading this book, you will have enough knowledge to understand what aspects of magic(k) resonate with you the most. And delving deeper into studies of those principles is the next logical step.
November 24, 2009
A great book for an introduction to magick under the chaos path, and was interesting to read for someone who doesn't need an introduction either. There isn't anything I didn't like about the book aside from the sparsity of it. The author could have written so much more, addressed more, just put more meat on it. I want Seth's other books, but at the price and size they'll have to wait.
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