Black and White Magic

What is Magic? Are there complicated hand gestures, specific words, brews and moods, or is it something more? There is no single correct answer to this question. Magic is individual, like a fingerprint. Nevertheless, history remembers many attempts to define, structure, and negotiate with this unknown force. Before you is one of the most successful. ...We have made the following definition: Practical Magic represents the art of influencing the dynamized human will on the evolution of the living forces of Nature in terms of its acceleration, and our entire book serves to clarify and develop this definition.  Gérard Ancois was one of the most famous occultists during his lifetime, widely known in narrow circles. His legacy is still utilized today. The bibliography of the mason includes several dozen manuscripts, from the simplest explanatory ones to complex and multi-level ones. This book, simply titled "Black and White Magic", belongs more to the first category than the second. It contains practices known to the Russian population since 1913. The structure of man on all levels, hypnotism, altered states, minerals, herbs and animals, the zodiac, planetary spirits - this is far from a complete list of what the author covers in the first book of the famous two-volume work "Black and White Magic".