The Secret Lore of Magic, first published in 1957, contains within it all the major source-books of magical arts, in most cases translated from French, Latin, Hebrew and other tongues, annotated and fully illustrated with numerous diagrams, signs and characters. The book’s title in itself signalled the fact that the bulk of material in this bibliographical study had never been published openly before.

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  • The Secret Lore of Magic, first published in 1957, contains within it all the major source-books of magical arts, in most cases translated from French, Latin, Hebrew and other tongues, annotated and fully illustrated with numerous diagrams, signs and characters. The book’s title in itself signalled the fact that the bulk of material in this bibliographical study had never been published openly before. Together with Oriental Magic, which appeared in the preceding year, it provided a complete survey of fundamental magical literature, and thus a comprehensive ref­erence system for psychologists, ethnologists and others interested in the rise and development of human beliefs. Both books also introduced the general reader to dependable information about what was a shadowy and confusing subject. Commenting on these works, Shah emphasised that neither had relevance to, nor were written for, contemporary devotees of witchcraft and magic. “For too long people believed that there were secret books, hidden places, and amazing things. They held onto this information as something to frighten themselves with. So the first purpose was information. This is the magic of East and West. That's all. There is no more. The second purpose of those books was to show that there do seem to be forces, some of which are either rationalized by this magic or may be developed from it, which do not come within customary physics or within the experience of ordinary people. I think this should be studied; that we should gather the data and analyze the phenomena. We need to separate the chemistry of magic from the alchemy, as it were. ” In addition to the inherent worth of their content, The Secret Lore of Magic and Oriental Magic can also be seen as a ground-clearing operation by this author, before publishing over the ensuing years his many volumes of Sufi thought, ideas, and materials.
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  • The Secret Lore of Magic, first published in 1957, contains within it all the major source-books of magical arts, in most cases translated from French, Latin, Hebrew and other tongues, annotated and fully illustrated with numerous diagrams, signs and characters. The book’s title in itself signalled the fact that the bulk of material in this bibliographical study had never been published openly before.
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