Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to harass a rival at the office into resigning. In Chicago, from 75 to 100 otherwise ordinary people ? mostly professionals, such as office managers, nurses, social workers and chemists ? meet weekly in The Temple of the Pagan Way to take instruction in ancient witchcraft and ceremonial magic from a high priest and priestess...
Perhaps the ideal solution would be to give the Devil his due, whether as a symbolic reminder of evil or a real force to be conquered?but to separate him, once and for all, from "magic." Beyond all the charlatanism, there is a genuine realm of magic, a yet undiscovered territory between man and his universe. Perhaps it can once more be accepted as a legitimate pursuit of knowledge, no longer hedged in by bell, book and candle. Perhaps, eventually, religion, science and magic could come mutually to respect and supplement one another. That is a fond vision...
Author Owen Rachleff (The Occult Conceit), who teaches a course called Witchcraft, Magic and Astrology at New York University, takes a dim view of the whole movement. "Most occultniks," says Rachleff, "are either frauds of the intellectual and/or financial variety, or disturbed individuals who frequently mistake psychosis for psychic phenomena." Yet for all its trivial manifestations in tea-leaf readings and ritual gewgaws, for all the outright nuts and charlatans it attracts, occultism cannot be dismissed as mere fakery or faddishness. Clearly, it is born of a religious impulse and in many cases it becomes in effect a substitute faith...
Elie Wiesel, L.H.D., author. To a world flooded with the tenuous reality of facts, you celebrate the truth and magic of man's imagination, of his awesome power to tell stories...
...first got to know the Herald well in 1969 when it offered me a reporter's job. The offer came like magic--through a telegram in my mailbox--and it was attractive. From the words of the Publisher's Assistant who made the offer, it sounded as if the stodgy, old, provincial Herald was about to make a run for real success...