web01.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:36:35 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Magick” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/magick Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:00:00 -0400 Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick https://www.weirdstudies.com/9 bfe988d5-f83a-4b1f-90ff-5aab44294fe3 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 9 On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel JF and Phil talk about Aleister Crowley's 1924 work, _Magick in Theory and Practice_. 1:16:03 yes The plan was to discuss the introduction to Aleister Crowley's classic work, Magick in Theory and Practice (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. REFERENCES Photo (https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/e/e38b53e4-e148-4e2d-b301-0b3bb15779ff/fpTCS4XJ.jpg) of JF's "large sum" cheque Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice (http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/aba.htm UPLOAD PHOTO of cheque) The Gospel According to Thomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas) James George Frazer, [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/TheGoldenBough) Erik Davis, "Weird Shit" (https://boingboing.net/2014/07/14/weird-shit.html) [I Ching, The Book of Changes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IChing)_ Joshua Gunn, Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century (http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Modern-Occult-Rhetoric,5019.aspx) [The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheBookofAbramelin)_ The Shackleton Expedition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition) Grant Morrison on how to do sigil magic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtzU9mVlk0) Alan Chapman, Advanced Magick for Beginners (https://archive.org/details/advanced-magick-for-beginners-alan-chapman) David Hume, [A Treatise of Human Nature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATreatiseofHumanNature) David Hume, [An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnEnquiryConcerningHumanUnderstanding) Joshua Ramey, "Contingency Without Unreason" (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2014.920638?journalCode=cang20#.U6BST5RdWSo) Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency (https://www.amazon.com/After-Finitude-Essay-Necessity-Contingency-ebook/dp/B00OG4EEVW) E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (https://www.amazon.com/Witchcraft-Oracles-Magic-among-Azande/dp/0198740298/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8) H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx) The plan was to discuss the introduction to Aleister Crowley's classic work, Magick in Theory and Practice (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.

REFERENCES

Photo of JF's "large sum" cheque
Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice
The Gospel According to Thomas
James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
Erik Davis, "Weird Shit"
I Ching, The Book of Changes
Joshua Gunn, Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
The Shackleton Expedition
Grant Morrison on how to do sigil magic
Alan Chapman, Advanced Magick for Beginners
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding
Joshua Ramey, "Contingency Without Unreason"
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness

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REFERENCES

Photo of JF's "large sum" cheque
Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice
The Gospel According to Thomas
James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
Erik Davis, "Weird Shit"
I Ching, The Book of Changes
Joshua Gunn, Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
The Shackleton Expedition
Grant Morrison on how to do sigil magic
Alan Chapman, Advanced Magick for Beginners
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding
Joshua Ramey, "Contingency Without Unreason"
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness

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