The Practician

And, for my next trick….

“The Practician,” a novel in which the main character struggles with his childhood memories of the “family business” and with an esoteric “gift” he has inherited from his mother. Rick Townsend wants no part of either one. Instead, he has worked hard to become a world renowned treasure salvor. So renowned, in fact, that he finds himself named in an international lawsuit, filed by the government of Spain to recover certain treasures Rick has salvaged from centuries old wrecks along the Florida coast.[image error]

When Rick is contracted to recover the most famous treasure of all time, the Holy Grail, he believes it is because of his established fame. In the course of his research, however, he will learn that he has been hired more for the “genetic gift” he disdains, than for his knowledge and experience. As a result, over the course of this year I will be deeply researching Rick’s powerful, transcendental gift of Angelic Magic.

Suppressed and persecuted by the church, the forms of “Angelic Magic” have none the less been preserved in the symbols and beliefs of Esoteric Christianity, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Alchemy, Medieval Magick, Cabbala, the Tarot, the Grail Mythos and Arthurian Legends, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism and certain forms of traditional Witchcraft.

“You shall produce Aeons, Worlds and Heavens, to the end that the Spirits of the Intellectual Spheres may come and abide with you: you shall become Gods and you shall see God in yourselves; He will dwell in your Aeon.” A quote from the Bruce Codex.

So begins the final draft of “The Practician.”