I think Farr may have been one of the people in the Golden Dawn who actually knew what she was talking about. This is a collection of her essays on magic and the like, though inexplicably the editor also included her "calendar," a booklet with a literary quotation for every day of the year. It's a waste of space. Aside from that, though, the essays are stimulating, interesting, and incisive, even if I don't agree with every bit of every one of them.
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Calliope finished reading The Magical Writings of Florence Farr by Florence Farr
Calliope rated The Republic of Thieves: 3 stars
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@arnemancy I agree, but I always felt like this book was sort of his attempt to convince "normie" psychologists to give it a chance. I may be giving him too much of the benefit of the doubt, but it seems like it doesn't deny there's "real magic" so much as it doesn't matter, the practitioner will see X positive changes if they do Y exercises.
Calliope set a goal to read 60 books in 2023
Calliope started reading Real Sorcery by Jason Miller
Calliope rated Men at Arms: 5 stars
Calliope rated The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories: 4 stars
Calliope rated Anatomy of Criticism: 4 stars
Calliope rated The mammoth book of new comic fantasy: 5 stars
Calliope rated Swords Against Death: 5 stars
Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber (An Ace book; Saga of Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser, Bk. 2)
Calliope rated Magic, power, language, symbol: 4 stars
Calliope rated Carpe Jugulum: 5 stars
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (23))
Carpe Jugulum (Latin for "seize the throat", cf. Carpe diem) is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the twenty-third …
Calliope rated The Satanic Bible: 2 stars
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett (Discworld series)
The story begins with Agnes Nitt leaving Lancre to seek a career at the Opera House in Ankh-Morpork. When Granny …