Basic Magick: Your Path to True Self, Knowledge, and Inner Power

This book will aim to teach basic ritual magick to anyone who has a curiosity about it, or has just set out on the path of wisdom. It has been assembled from a wide variety of sources, specially chosen to be most helpful to new students or those needing a quick refresher course. It is meant as a ready handbook and resource guide. The arrangement proceeds logically from basic principles, to rituals which may be of use in any circumstances, to forms of divination and magick which will be more helpful to a student who has mastered the basics first. Additional material provides a fundamental grounding in ancient forms of worship and deities. Compiled by a living Magus of magical power, a direct descendant in the lineage of Aleister Crowley, this book is sure to find itself in regular use by the beginning or even more advanced practitioner. -- from the introduction by Petros Xristos

CONTENTS

1 What is Magick?
2 Teacher and Student
3 General Practice Guidelines
4 Keeping a Magickal Journal
5 A Balanced Path
6 Powers of the Sphinx
7 Emerald Tablet of Hermes
8 Elements, Gunas, Tattvas
9 Pentagram & Hexagram
10 Middle Bringing down the Light
11 Fourfold Daily Adorations of the Sun
12 Adoration to the Source of the Universe
13 Tree of Life Ritual
14 Magickal Tools
15 Basic Group Circle Ritual
16 Consecration Ritual
17 Candle Magick
18 Color Magick
19 Oil and Essence Magick
20 Crystal Magick
21 Our Plant Allies
22 Astrology
23 Numerology
24 Tarot
25 Qabalah
26 Runes
27 the Oldest Magick
28 Magick Serpent Power
29 The Wheel of the Year
30 Gods of Our Folk