Magical Thinking Amongst the English
The Magical Revival (1972) Kenneth Grant The Real Middle Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages (2002) Brian Bates Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (2009) Owen Davies The Book Of English Magic (2009) Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate There is no book quite like Kenneth Grant's Magical Revival . But what exactly is it? In some ways it is a conventional narrative of the 'new' Magical experiment that was introduced by the 'revelation' of Aiwass to Aleister Crowley in 1904. Grant takes us through to the Zos Kia Cultus of Austin Osman Spare who died in 1956. But this general narrative is overshadowed by the book's true purpose which is to do for Magic as a religious narrative what the Early Church Fathers did for Christianity - to express both its cogency and its mystery and so its high and serious purpose as a spiritual tradition, if not necessarily a religion in the formal sense. Nor can the corpus of work be wholly judged on this one wor