Rather than use the more common terms Witchcraft or magick , I have chosen to refer to the

magick in this book as Sorcery . Because this term is not in very common usage these days, I want to
offer a few words on what I feel Sorcery is, and what a Sorcerer does. The term Witch tends to
conjure the idea of a style of magick that values the feminine over the masculine, the intuition over
the intellect, the lunar over the solar, the nocturnal over the daylight, the ecstatic over the
ceremonial, the outdoors over the temple, the chthonic over the ouranic, and so on. It doesn’t reject
the latter in each case, it simply emphasizes the former. The term magician on the other hand, tends
to invoke the opposite juxtapositions. I say that we must transcend the dichotomy, and thus
encompass both ends of this spectrum! Thus, I have chosen the term Sorcerer which, to me at least,
contains elements of both the Witch and the magician. Furthermore, the term Sorcerer is almost
always used in connection with practical magick, the focus of this book. While the Witch might be
concerned with the ecstasy of the Sabbat and worship of old Gods, and the Magician might spend all
his time climbing the tree of like and exploring the astral, the Sorcerer is most definitely engineering
change on the material plane.