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How Magick Works

By Donald Michael Kraig

One of the most common questions I receive seems to be the most basic: How does magick work? Why is it that when you properly perform a ritual or spell you get the desired results?

The simplest and most honest answer is: I don’t know. It seems weird, then, that we . . . → Read More: How Magick Works

Contemporary Art and Classical Myth

Reviewed by Grace Ledbetter

In Roy Lichtenstein’s 1961 Look Mickey, the work the artist considered the origin and fountain of his pop oeuvre, Donald Duck stands on a fishing pier looking with gleeful anticipation into the water as he feels the pull of a huge fish at the end of his line. As he stares . . . → Read More: Contemporary Art and Classical Myth

Ben Jonson’s Witches

By Zan

Once the medieval church assimilated Witchcraft to Devil-Worship in the 15th century, the stereotypical image of a Witch was that of a perverse, amoral, ghoul-like creature; after two hundred years, this stereotype appeared to have the solidness of oak. As James (the first Stuart king of England) was known as a proponent for . . . → Read More: Ben Jonson’s Witches