What is this Book?
The bulk of the book is comprised of the revised editions of my previous occult books: Tactical Magick, Blood Magick, and Post-Modern Magick. I have also included a genesis document for the Ellis movement. To complement these texts this book is peppered with quotes, boasts, and challenges. It boosts the page count by a few pages, but at $0.01 per page I figured it was worth $0.25 of your money for these “asides” to have their own pages.
Who Are You?
Obviously Seth isn’t my real name, though for the purpose of this book, my name is not important. What matters is that I wrote my first book at the age of 24, having graduated with a BA in Theology, before I knew shit about the world. I had been taught witchcraft and shamanism as a boy, but I had to learn the lessons of life to put everything into perspective. Over the course of the next several years I wrote three more occult books, all borrowing heavily from my own experiences, while being quite grounded in my academic background. They are solid books, and now, nearly ten years later, they still very much apply. I find that as an older man, with many changed perspectives as the result of getting out there and living life, that the books hold new meaning. My life experiences and continued magical study have helped to enrich the works I’d previously penned, and this revised collection is the best way to share. Am I blowing smoke up my own ass? Maybe, but the point is that when I did the bulk of my occult writing I had the hard edge of a 20-something going solo, and now I’m walking this planet as a 30-something with my firstborn on the way. I am both of those people, the 24 year old Seth and the older Seth, both powerful, both educated, both idealists and cynics, dreamers and adventurers, and this book is written by both.
Why no page numbers?
I want this book to function as many things, an occult text of many uses. My goal is to present you with a book that can be opened any time, to any page, and find the words that are most useful to you at that moment. A little slice of bibliomancy.
What’s the deal with this book, really?
I want to speak plainly. I avoid the psycho-babble (well, mostly). I don't want to play word games with you, I want to give you the straight dope and move on. So this book is raw, unrefined. Sure, I spell-checked it (yeah, we spell words, let that bake your noodle for a minute), and did some basic formatting, but you'll see nothing fancy here. Cram this book-grenade in your brain and explode. Once you put yourself back together the world (and life) is going to be quite the ride.