white, gray, and black.

There are also those who view magic through the lens of Jungian psychology
or mentalism and argue that ninety percent of m agic is psychology. We respect these views, even if
we do not always agree with everything they purport. However, in this book we focus on the grass
roots or traditional view. We do so, not because we are stuck in dogma or to push a tradition for the
sake of tradition, but because after many years of searching through various occult streams, we have
to come believe that these methods work the best and have worked for many people for hundreds
of years. We want you to get results and have the best experience possible. Over the years, we have
talked to a multitude of people who were impressed or shocked by our magical experiences. They
wondered if it was possible or if such things still happen today. It isn’t that we are exceptionally
powerful magicians. To be honest, we don’t measure our magical development with a power meter.
We look at two elements only, how much Light we are bringing into our lives and others, and how
much love is generated from the work that we do. To our minds, magical experiences are due to our
practising m agic as it was practiced by our ancestors of long ago. They must have been doing
something right, since they became the inspiration of legends and stories for centuries. Don’t get us
wrong, we are not claiming supernatural powers or superhuman psychic ability. But we have seen
enough, that physical manifestations that others would consider as supernatural do not shock us in
the least when they happen. The more bizarre magical claims of ancient magicians, including
transformation, teleportation, levitation and invisibility, were neither a product of the magician’s
own power nor a blind to mislead the unwary. Magicians believed in the existence of a race of
beings that was both invisible and semi-physical, a magical race older than humanity. It has been
known to every culture by different names: Elves, Sidhe, Jinn, Ancient Ones, and so on. By virtue of
their spiritual work, magicians came into contact with these beings and enlisted their aid. For
example, the Jinn would lift up the magician. Since they were invisible to most people, it became
easy to think that their act of levitation was due to the power of the magician. Magical rituals
enlisting the aid of these magical beings were only a minor component of the magical path. Magical
practice is primarily a tool to open the doors of the Divine Mysteries. Traditional m agic focused on
spirituality and spirits. The spirits described by ancient magicians were as objectively real to them as
the Sun and the Moon. The forces that magicians worked with were called