Acknowledgments

Thanks, first and foremost, to Dion Fortune, the presiding genius of a magical current that continues to flow unabated and is still relevant today.

To the teachers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who informed the development of her ideas; to those who still work with the current; and to all personal influences on the path, especially teachers Robert King, W. E. Butler, and Tom Oloman.

To all writers of occult fiction who have introduced magic to their readers, particularly during those fertile decades a century ago, when scientific advances made a proper understanding of it seem so very possible.

And lastly, thanks to all at Llewellyn for their continued enthusiasm, professionalism, and support.

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