Magick as a Path to Self-Growth or Self-Destruction

Recently, I was re-reading Eliphas Levi‘s classic Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual, and a passage stuck out to me: “Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.” I had written a similar statement in my book Psychic Witch, where I state that, “Magick changes everything it touches and...