Copyright 1986, 2004 by Karl Hans WelzThis course may not be reproduced in whole or in part by any meanswithout prior permission in writing from the author.Address queries to: HSCTI, Box 1298, Woodstock, GA 30188Published by HSCTI
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Welcome!This is not just another introduc-tion into "magick" nor has it much to dowith the run off the mill book of "magick"where you find at first some talk aboutspirituality of magic, then somewherebetween pages 10 and 20 the tree of life,then elaborate descriptions of rituals andso on.Magic existed long before the in-vention of the tree of life. In fact, mostof the powerful magicians on our planetdo not even know the tree of life. Such"lack of knowledge" does not inhibit theirpower at all. Evidently there must besome principle in magic that goes beyondreligious doctrine. There must be a magi-cal science that we can develop from thecommon functioning principle (CFP) of allmagic. Equalling magic with the tree of life or any other outcropping of religiouscreeds would be to falsely identify the mapwith the territory. The map is never theterritory it represents! Such identifica-tion is always wrong, no matter how use-ful the map may be at first.The magical systems that have their rootsin the tree of life have been useful and tosome extent comprehensive. However,the universe is not the tree of life. Thetree of life is just another mapping that isof use for the magician.The present time sees an expan-sion of magical methods that is unheardof as yet. At the same time students of magic have access to an increasingly wide
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range of very different magical systemsand traditions to practice. Most of thesesystems are not outcroppings of a Judeo-Christian religionism. Moreover, they areincompatible with the cabalistic systemand its tree of life, but equally powerfuland at least equally spiritual. It is myopinion that the tree of life and all otherreligious mappings have no predominantusefulness for the magician of the thirdmillennium who practices magic on a sci-entific basis. The science of magic in itstrue form is a science, not a religious actas thought until now. In the old daysmagic was forbidden, religion had to beused as a coverup, hiding the true magi-cal form which is finally out in the opentoday. I will show in the following lessonswhy this is so.This course willintroduce you to thecommon functioningprinciples of all knownmagical practices andsystems. It is a mod-ern approach thattranscends the quietlyassumed connectionbetween magicalpractice and specificreligious doctrines.This approach will al-low you to come to ascientific understand-ing of the processesthat underlie allknown forms of magic.Then you will realize that the religiousclothing of the practice is different in ev-ery culture and that you need no reli-
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