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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781644112588
Year: 2021
Publisher: Inner Traditions


Description:
Explores the role of magic and the occult in the rise of the ultra-conservative right

* Details the magical war that took place behind the scenes of the 2016 election

* Examines in detail the failed magical actions of Trumps opponents, with insights on political magic from Dion Fortunes war letters

* Reveals the influence of a number of occult forces from Julius Evola to chaos magick to show how the political and magical landscape of American society has permanently changed since the 2016 election

Magic and politics seem like unlikely bedfellows, but in The King in Orange, author John Michael Greer goes beyond superficial memes and extreme partisanship to reveal the unmentionable realities that spawned the unexpected presidential victory of an elderly real-estate mogul turned reality-TV star and which continue to drive the deepening divide that is now the defining characteristic of American society.

Greer convincingly shows how two competing schools of magic were led to contend for the presidency in 2016 and details the magical war that took place behind the scenes of the campaign. Through the influence of a number of occult forces, from Julius Evola to chaos magicians as well as the cult of positive thinking, Greer shows that the main contenders in this magical war were the status quo magical state-as defined by the late scholar Ioan Couliano-which has repurposed the manipulative magic techniques of the Renaissance magi into the subliminal techniques of modern advertising, and an older, deeper, and less reasonab