Final Draft Done: The Magical Art, Vol. 2 — The Seven Pillars of Magical Wisdom
The final draft of The Magical Art, Volume 2: The Seven Pillars of Magical Wisdom is done. The manuscript is now with Erzebet Barthold at Hadean Press for review, and has also gone out to a circle of trusted readers.
It comes in at roughly 131,000 words across 609 pages (subject to compression during publishing), with over 500 footnotes and five pages of bibliography — the introductory and interpretive material grew well beyond the short essay I'd originally planned.

The book is organized around seven distinct magical practices drawn from different historical periods and languages, asking the practitioner to embrace each role in turn: supplicant, celebrant, devotee, astrologer, metalworker, conjuror, natural philosopher. Together they form a unified hermetic practice rather than variations on a single method — the subtitle is a nod to T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
This will be my sixth published book (seventh counting The Song of Oberon, also with Hadean Press), joining the rest of the catalog.
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