Recovering the Ancient Magic

It is easy to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that a real magic exists beyond the variety practiced for our mystification and entertainment on the stage. The author too started from the belief that the universe was made up of matter, force and space, with no room for anything super-physical. For eighteen years he studied magic in its various forms, fourteen of these years being spent in Hawaii. He sought to penetrate beyond the externals of native magic and to discover its basic secret.

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