Dagens citat: "Nothing is more reassuring, nothing is more true to the comfortable spirit of English occultism, than the smell of Brussels sprouts cooking in the next room". (Good Omens)
critique of crowleyan "true will" approach to magic as totalizing, reductionist domino theory (especially not appropriate as the only lens for reading historical occultism, as many of his followers/chaotes seem to do)
occult writers in the renaissance faced the same problems as modern scholars in reinterpreting the place of "magic" in thelogy, mysticism, and christian theurgy/theosophy/esotericism/occultism
