What if everything you thought you knew about magic was wrong?
 
For centuries, the Western esoteric tradition has been trapped between two equally unhelpful narratives: credulous New Age mystics insisting ancient wisdom survived unchanged from Atlantis, and dismissive academics treating the whole subject as historical footnotes about deluded eccentrics. Neither approach does justice to one of Western culture's most persistent and influential intellectual traditions.
 
Welcome to the real history of Western magic—and it's far stranger than the myths.
 
From the philosophers of ancient Alexandria to the chaos magicians of the internet age, in what may be The Wickedest Book in the World, we trace the genuine development of Western esotericism with scholarly rigour and irreverent wit. Discover how Renaissance magicians reinvented Hermeticism, why the Golden Dawn couldn't keep its secrets, what Aleister Crowley actually believed (beneath the theatrical posturing), and how modern occultism emerged from the fevered imaginations of Victorian eccentrics rather than unbroken lineages stretching back to antiquity.
 
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