Of course there are a lot of books that say that.

Oodles of magickal books fill the shelves of nearly

every bookstore in the world making all kinds of promises of power and wisdom. How is this one
different? Recently, I took stock of what was available out there and noticed that books on magick
generally fell into two categories: training manuals, or spell books. The training manuals are mostly
about learning the rituals and beliefs of a particular magickal order or type of Witchcraft. Much of
the information relates only to the magic of spiritual development or worship, which are important,
but are by no means the entirety of the art. Material that does relate to practical magick, when its
there at all, is often treated as a side issue. On the other side of the spectrum, there are spell books.
Spell books are great, I own lots of them, but they only go so far. You can pick one up and do a spell
for something, but without the power and awareness to implement it skillfully your spell only has a
slim chance of achieving the desired result. Even if your spell works, do you know how to manage
the result and build upon it? There is more to success in sorcery than simply performing a ritual that
you found in a book. This book is neither a training manual nor a spell book. It is field manual .
Voodoo Priest Louis Martinie once shared with me the following magickal axiom: first comes the
working, than comes the work . There is a lot more to making successful magick than just the magick
itself: How do you attack a problem from multiple sides using magick? How do you blend magickal
and mundane action to achieve success? How do you know whether what you are doing is working?
How do you fix it if its not? What are the best ways to work on behalf of others?