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I started this book a year ago and got distracted by other texts -- I'll come back to it for sure. It's framed as aphorisms on witchcraft but is really more an open-hearted manifesto on "what is a witch?" which of course is a beautifully challenging question. I'm enjoying it so far, but just got caught up in other stuff.

I read this before Wachter's best known book #6ways and it was excellent. I mostly don't do the work from magical instruction books, looking for for overarching theories and philosophies instead, but this one was really superb (and spooky effective). I have to be honest that it runs in the vein of "manifestation" work that comes from New Thought in part, but Watcher really effectively anchors this is very different magical theory (him being sort of chaos magic 2.0, or chaos magic with Feelings (TM) maybe) and so it was easy work adapting it to my own world view. Highly recommend for anyone interested in creative writing as magic and hyper sigils in general.

I mean, I wish I could do half stars. Honestly, this book is fine, Horowitz's style is extremely readable and it's well researched for the most part. But it feels dated already and I think it's important to discuss the "occult" without also tackling definitions of religion, magic, spirituality, philosophy, and science. Which, yeah, is a lot. But it's important imho.

Oops trying this again

I haven't read this cover to cover... Saving up money for the other edition. But it's been a a great (and cheap) reference translation for just getting by, especially when considering 20th/21st century occultism and hour this text influenced other authors and practices.

@aversatrix @arnemancy And lo, there was tagging, perchance even hashtags, and they did rejoice their small #occult victories.