Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements 7

One Does Magic Work? 9

Two The Reluctant Christian 25

Three Raising Hell 46

Four The Chosen of the Gods 62

Five The Master and the Disciples 83

Six The Magic Wand 101

Seven The Abbey of Do-What-You-Will 117

Eight Paradise Lost 135

Epilogue 153

Select Bibliography 169

Index 171

About the Author

Colin Wilson was born in the East Midlands city of Leicester in 1931. After the phenomenal success of his first book The Outsider in 1956, he moved to Cornwall where he pursued a successful career as a writer, producing over 150 titles in fifty-five years. Essentially an existential philosopher, he has also written on crime, psychology, sex, the occult, literature, music, unexplained phenomena, history, pre-history, and over twenty novels in various genres. He died in December 2013.