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  <title>Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The plan was to discuss the introduction to Aleister Crowley's classic work, &lt;em&gt;Magick in Theory and Practice&lt;/em&gt; (1924), a powerful text on the nature and purpose of magical practice. JF and Phil stick to the plan for the first part of the show, and then veer off into a dialogue on the basic idea of magic. Along the way, they share some of the intriguing results of their own occult experiments.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REFERENCES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/e/e38b53e4-e148-4e2d-b301-0b3bb15779ff/fpTCS4XJ.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Photo&lt;/a&gt; of JF's "large sum" cheque &lt;br&gt;
Aleister Crowley, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/aba.htm%20UPLOAD%20PHOTO%20of%20cheque" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Magick in Theory and Practice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br&gt;
The &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Gospel According to Thomas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
James George Frazer, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Erik Davis, &lt;a href="https://boingboing.net/2014/07/14/weird-shit.html" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;"Weird Shit"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;I Ching, The Book of Changes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br&gt;
Joshua Gunn, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Modern-Occult-Rhetoric,5019.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Abramelin" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Shackleton Expedition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Grant Morrison on how to do &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtzU9mVlk0" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;sigil magic&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;
Alan Chapman, &lt;a href="https://archive.org/details/advanced-magick-for-beginners-alan-chapman" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Advanced Magick for Beginners&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;
David Hume, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_of_Human_Nature" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;A Treatise of Human Nature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
David Hume, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Joshua Ramey, &lt;a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2014.920638?journalCode=cang20#.U6BST5RdWSo" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;"Contingency Without Unreason" &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Quentin Meillassoux, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-Finitude-Essay-Necessity-Contingency-ebook/dp/B00OG4EEVW" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/Witchcraft-Oracles-Magic-among-Azande/dp/0198740298/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;
H. P. Lovecraft, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;At the Mountains of Madness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
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    <![CDATA[<p>The plan was to discuss the introduction to Aleister Crowley's classic work, <em>Magick in Theory and Practice</em> (1924), a powerful text on the nature and purpose of magical practice. JF and Phil stick to the plan for the first part of the show, and then veer off into a dialogue on the basic idea of magic. Along the way, they share some of the intriguing results of their own occult experiments.</p>

<p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p>

<p><a href="https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/e/e38b53e4-e148-4e2d-b301-0b3bb15779ff/fpTCS4XJ.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener">Photo</a> of JF's "large sum" cheque <br>
Aleister Crowley, <em><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/aba.htm%20UPLOAD%20PHOTO%20of%20cheque" rel="nofollow noopener">Magick in Theory and Practice</a></em> <br>
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas" rel="nofollow noopener">Gospel According to Thomas</a><br>
James George Frazer, <em><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough" rel="nofollow noopener">The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion</a></em><br>
Erik Davis, <a href="https://boingboing.net/2014/07/14/weird-shit.html" rel="nofollow noopener">"Weird Shit"</a><br>
<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching" rel="nofollow noopener">I Ching, The Book of Changes</a></em> <br>
Joshua Gunn, <em><a href="http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Modern-Occult-Rhetoric,5019.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener">Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century</a></em> <br>
<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Abramelin" rel="nofollow noopener">The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage</a></em><br>
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition" rel="nofollow noopener">Shackleton Expedition</a><br>
Grant Morrison on how to do <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtzU9mVlk0" rel="nofollow noopener">sigil magic</a> <br>
Alan Chapman, <a href="https://archive.org/details/advanced-magick-for-beginners-alan-chapman" rel="nofollow noopener">Advanced Magick for Beginners</a> <br>
David Hume, <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_of_Human_Nature" rel="nofollow noopener">A Treatise of Human Nature</a></em><br>
David Hume, <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding" rel="nofollow noopener">An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding</a></em><br>
Joshua Ramey, <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2014.920638?journalCode=cang20#.U6BST5RdWSo" rel="nofollow noopener">"Contingency Without Unreason" </a><br>
Quentin Meillassoux, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-Finitude-Essay-Necessity-Contingency-ebook/dp/B00OG4EEVW" rel="nofollow noopener">After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency</a></em><br>
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Witchcraft-Oracles-Magic-among-Azande/dp/0198740298/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" rel="nofollow noopener">Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande</a> <br>
H. P. Lovecraft, <em><a href="http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener">At the Mountains of Madness</a></em> </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>The plan was to discuss the introduction to Aleister Crowley's classic work, <em>Magick in Theory and Practice</em> (1924), a powerful text on the nature and purpose of magical practice. JF and Phil stick to the plan for the first part of the show, and then veer off into a dialogue on the basic idea of magic. Along the way, they share some of the intriguing results of their own occult experiments.</p>

<p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p>

<p><a href="https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/e/e38b53e4-e148-4e2d-b301-0b3bb15779ff/fpTCS4XJ.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener">Photo</a> of JF's "large sum" cheque <br>
Aleister Crowley, <em><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/aba.htm%20UPLOAD%20PHOTO%20of%20cheque" rel="nofollow noopener">Magick in Theory and Practice</a></em> <br>
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas" rel="nofollow noopener">Gospel According to Thomas</a><br>
James George Frazer, <em><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough" rel="nofollow noopener">The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion</a></em><br>
Erik Davis, <a href="https://boingboing.net/2014/07/14/weird-shit.html" rel="nofollow noopener">"Weird Shit"</a><br>
<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching" rel="nofollow noopener">I Ching, The Book of Changes</a></em> <br>
Joshua Gunn, <em><a href="http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Modern-Occult-Rhetoric,5019.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener">Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century</a></em> <br>
<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Abramelin" rel="nofollow noopener">The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage</a></em><br>
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition" rel="nofollow noopener">Shackleton Expedition</a><br>
Grant Morrison on how to do <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtzU9mVlk0" rel="nofollow noopener">sigil magic</a> <br>
Alan Chapman, <a href="https://archive.org/details/advanced-magick-for-beginners-alan-chapman" rel="nofollow noopener">Advanced Magick for Beginners</a> <br>
David Hume, <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_of_Human_Nature" rel="nofollow noopener">A Treatise of Human Nature</a></em><br>
David Hume, <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding" rel="nofollow noopener">An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding</a></em><br>
Joshua Ramey, <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2014.920638?journalCode=cang20#.U6BST5RdWSo" rel="nofollow noopener">"Contingency Without Unreason" </a><br>
Quentin Meillassoux, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-Finitude-Essay-Necessity-Contingency-ebook/dp/B00OG4EEVW" rel="nofollow noopener">After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency</a></em><br>
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Witchcraft-Oracles-Magic-among-Azande/dp/0198740298/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" rel="nofollow noopener">Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande</a> <br>
H. P. Lovecraft, <em><a href="http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener">At the Mountains of Madness</a></em> </p>]]>
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