Donald Michael Kraig's Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts

The capstone of high magickal arts: Knowledge and Conversation of the HGA. Kraig demystifies this Abrahamic goal, offering a 6-month working template that does not require drugs or extreme asceticism.

Conclusion

Journal Prompts (use each week)

Practical Focus:

Every chapter requires the student to actually do magick, not just read about it.

Advanced Rituals

: Includes the Ritual of the Hexagram, Middle Pillar, Rose Cross, and Watchtower rituals.

Kraig explicitly warns against skipping steps. If you download a PDF and jump to Lesson 8 to summon a spirit without doing the LBRP for a month, you are inviting obsession, confusion, and psychological instability. Modern Magick is called "modern" because Kraig integrated Jungian psychology; he viewed demons as parts of the subconscious mind. If you raise those forces without grounding, you can induce neurosis.