The book is celebrated for being the only academic treatise on magic to earn the author a Bachelor of Arts in Magic from the University of California, Berkeley. Rather than a "useful paper," it is a full-length book widely available in print and digital archives. 📖 Accessing the Text
Instead of treating magic as purely supernatural or superstitious, Bonewits examines it through the lenses of parapsychology, anthropology, and structured logic. Key highlights include: Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Bas...
He synthesizes historical occult practices into a definitive, logical framework of cause and effect (e.g., the Law of Association, Law of Similarity). The book is celebrated for being the only