Lecture 1 of the "Alchemy" series. Recorded in 1955 at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles.

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�Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.� �In a Christian context magic is heresy because it implies that man can command god to act. In other words that in some strange�