The Book of Magical Sacred Knowledge. Volume 1. Foundations

«Foundations» – the first volume of the trilogy «The Book of Magical Sacred Knowledge». The book is written by Josephine McCarthy, one of the leading global experts on magic. This book serves as a fundamental guide to the essential skills and cornerstone practices for those studying Western magic. It also discusses some rarely addressed questions and issues faced by magicians and offers advice and reflections based on her forty years of practice and teaching.

This book does not adhere to any specific magical path; rather, it reveals certain levels underlying many paths, as well as various techniques, forces, and dynamics that are fundamental to most Western mystical schools and magical systems. The reader is shown how ritual actually works, how to work with visionary magic, how to transform an object into a magical tool, how to work with Tarot, how to cleanse and protect oneself, and, most importantly, how to recognize nonsense.