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Calliope

calliope@grimoire.social

Joined 1 year, 1 month ago

Ph.D. in literary and cultural studies, professor, diviner, writer, trans, nonbinary

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2024 Reading Goal

33% complete! Calliope has read 22 of 65 books.

Florence Farr: The Magical Writings of Florence Farr (Hardcover, 2012, Golden Dawn Research Trust) No rating

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.

@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.