William James's comparitive psychology of religion influenced deeply the intellectuality of this time, but Freud, Adler, and especially Carl G. Jung eventually effected major breakthroughs. From then on, people started to consider the unconscious in earnest. This apparent digression, which had to be kept very short due to lack of space, is in reality a very important basis for the discussion that follows.

We will not analyze in depth by whom Spare was influenced. Lao-Tse and Stirner having already been mentioned, we might note numerous others from Swinburne to Crowley himself, in whose order, the A:. Rather, we will discuss his greatest achievement-his psychological approach towards magic. This leads us to magical practice proper.

In Spare's system there are no "correct" or "incorrect" sigils; neither is there a list of ready-made symbols. Writers like Quintscher, Gregorius, Bardon, Klingsor and even Spiesberger allow but little room to maneuver when creating magical coordinates individually. Here the adept is expected to grow into a ready-made system instead of fashioning one. This is a completely different approach, the value or non-value of which we will not discuss here.

The nearest thing to Pragmatic Magic, existing already in i. The works by Mahamudra, which have of late been receiving some attention, are mainly of a descriptive nature and deal with traditions and new interpretations, thus remaining within the context of German magical heritage; however, they do take heed of recent results in scientific psychology and are, therefore, at least partially related to the Pragmatic approach.

Pragmatic Magic will become more and more important because today's magicians have to face a psychologized-and psychologizing-environment whose philosophical relativism has been shaping all of us, and still does. So even we magicians will have to attain to a critical, sensible look at it. It will be left to another era to find different models of explanation, description and practice. How does Spare proceed in practice?

Sigils are developed by fusion and stylization of letters see Figure 1. First of all, a sentence of desire has to be formulated. Next, all the letters which appear more than once are deleted so that only one of each letter remains.

Note: The asterisks denote crossed out letters. The sigil is created from these letters; it is permissible to consider one part for example, M as a reversed W or, seen from the side, as an E.

Hence, these three letters do not have to appear in the sigil three separate times. Of course, there are numerous possibilities of representation and stylization.

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