This work, a cornerstone of contemporary magical practice, offers a pragmatic approach to results-based magic. It emphasizes practical application and experimentation, moving away from purely theoretical or ceremonial approaches. The text provides a framework for magical practitioners to design, implement, and analyze the effectiveness of their workings through a structured, empirical methodology.
Its significance lies in its promotion of a scientific, hypothesis-driven method within a field often shrouded in mystery. Published in 1975, the text emerged during a period of renewed interest in occultism and contributed to the development of chaos magic, a current emphasizing individual adaptability and the discarding of dogma. By encouraging practitioners to meticulously document and analyze their magical operations, this methodology encourages a more rigorous and potentially more effective approach to magic.
