It's the anniversary of the reception of the Book of the Law. Joining me to explore the questions of

• What to make of it?

• How to think about it?

• What, if anything, to do with it

Are two very special guests: Alan Chapman and Peter Grey. Now, like me, neither of them is a Thelemite. But what they do have is an encyclopedic knowledge of the era, the material, and the magic behind it. So if you've ever wondered whether the Book of the Law has anything to say to you if you're not already one of Crowley's followers, this is that conversation.

Alan's essay, Is A God To Live In A Dog? is referenced several times in the episode. You can download a copy here.

• Peter Grey's Substack.

• Alan Chapman's website.

Is magic just a less sophisticated form of psychology? That is probably the cornerstone claim of what I am calling 'Modernity's Magic'.

And in the next instalment of our series 'Hospicing Modernity's Magic', I want to look at:

• How psychology diverged from magic and why.
• Jung's role during his lifetime.
• What the magicians of modernity did with the 'legitimacy umbrella' they received from Jungian thought.
• Which parts of this journey do we take with us into the magic of today?

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:11 Wearing Jung's Skin Like a Pelt
• 01:57 The 19th Century & Roads Not Taken
• 07:56 The Red Book 10:50 Active Imagination
• 15:26 Jung & Astrology
• 17:59 Is Magic Just Psychology?
• 22:09 Synchronicity
• 29:17 The Yi Qing & Moments in Time
• 33:08 Synchromysticism as Omen Logic
• 35:26 Psychoid Archetypes & the Unus Mundus
• 43:00 The Post-Jung Pelt-Wearers
• 49:27 What to Hospice, What to Keep
• 52:32 Use Magic to Legitimise Jung

What continues to exist from the 'safe' and 'quirky' magic of the twentieth century that finally needs to die? And what has maybe been left behind that might even belong better in our current era of magic?

This is the beginning of a little project exploring what we should take with us through this fourth turning. You can, of course, watch this one on YouTube.

00:00 - Remember When Magic Was Safe?

01:50 - The Golden Age We Just Lived Through

05:19 - Eating the Wrapper, Throwing Away the Candy

06:34 - What Is Modernity?

09:54 - Why "Hospicing Modernity's Magic"

11:24 - The Hospicing Framework

13:00 - Nothing Is Going Wrong

14:54 - A Telling, Not a History

17:32 - The Series Roadmap

21:18 - What We Carry Forward

22:47 - Join the Conversation

Here are the videos I reference:

• At Work In The Ruins | Dougald Hind
• Alan Moore's Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic