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"Simplicity,” wrote legendary occultist Jack Parsons, “has been the key to victory in all the idea wars and, at present, Magick does not have it.” In Practical Magick, acclaimed historian and esotericist Mitch Horowitz responds to this call, distilling magick to its core essentials. Drawing upon ancient, Hermetic, Renaissance-era, and modern sources, Mitch dissects the building blocks of magick and provides formulas of immediacy, simplicity, and potency.

In this concise work, PEN Award-winning author and historian Mitch Horowitz explores one of the most radical, finely developed, and intriguing intellects in modern metaphysics: Neville Goddard (1905-1972). Neville issued the ultimate challenge: your imagination is God. He had an ethic of empowering self-responsibility and boundless mental creativity. Neville’s ideas are compelling and beautifully congruent with quantum physics and scholarly psychical research. As Mitch describes, Neville is modern mysticism’s most penetrating voice.

The most intriguing, powerful, and misunderstood idea in Think and Grow Rich is the taboo-topic of sex transmutation. What is it exactly—and how is it used? In this breakthrough work, historian and New Thought scholar Mitch Horowitz provides the clearest, simplest, and most practical exploration of sex transmutation since Napoleon Hill himself.

Napoleon Hill promises that there is a secret encoded in Think and Grow Rich. Hill writes that the secret appears hundreds of times in his book—but is never directly stated. Now, New Thought scholar and historian Mitch Horowitz reveals to you the master's secret, and explores exactly how to apply it in your life.

First published in 1928, Edward Bernays’ Propaganda may be the single most important work on public relations ever to appear. Bernays (1891-1995), a nephew of Sigmund Freud, shaped the management of public opinion at a time when the modern media were beginning to take their present shape. Propaganda today has a negative connotation, but Bernays uses the term in a neutral sense. Writing in the 1920s, he redefined what he called the “new propaganda” as public relations—a name that has stuck ever since.

A Treasure Trove Library to Motivate, Inspire, and Change You for All Time!

No other book in history has done more to clarify the esoteric, mystical, and occult traditions of the world than Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Now, historian Mitch Horowitz provides the first companion work to Hall's opus. The Seeker's Guide to The Secret Teachings of All Ages helps 21st-century audiences enter and experience (or reexperience) Hall's hallowed pages and also clarifies and expands on some of the book's key themes and topics.

Compiled and introduced by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz, Infinite Potential is a curated compendium of Neville's work, including the complete text of his first book, At Your Command, along with three never-before anthologized pieces from the great writer. Horowitz is the leading expert on Neville and his teachings, and his introduction frames Neville's work in both a historical and modern-day context, offering a complete timeline of the writer's somewhat mysterious life.

In The Law of Success, the legendary motivational master Napoleon Hill ( Think and Grow Rich) makes his fullest, most in-depth exploration of the 15 principles that lead you to prosperity, purpose, and mastery. This brief yet immensely powerful condensation of Napoleon Hill's lesson plan allows you to put his ideas to work right now. Here is all the insight and subtlety of Napoleon Hill's treasured keys, offered to you in about 40 minutes. In the space of a lunch hour or commute, you can begin to revolutionize your life.

Unlock the powers of your mind in this concise, enjoyable course. In 10 simple and straightforward lessons, PEN Award-winning historian and explorer of alternate realms Mitch Horowitz surveys the most persuasive ideas and techniques from within the positive-mind tradition, and shows how to use them in your life.

Napoleon Hill’s all-time classic of successful living is a must-listen—and lifetime companion—for anyone who wants to break away from depleting fears, limiting patterns, and unfinished plans to step into a life of dynamism, achievement, and true prosperity. Whether you are a salesman, soldier, artist, student, professional, or entrepreneur—and whatever your wishes, environment, or education—Think and Grow Rich is the consummate guide to translating ideas into lived reality.

In The Temple and the Lodge, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh reveal the survival and evolution of a world-changing order through the birth of the Masonic lodge. Recounting the brutal events in the 14th century that led to the sudden disappearance of the Knights Templar - a powerful military and banking order founded in 1119 and active in the Crusades - the authors document the Templars' reappearance in the court of excommunicate Scottish king Robert the Bruce.

PEN Award-winning historian and popular New Thought voice Mitch Horowitz teaches how to harness and maximize the tools of The Magic of Believing, one of the most effective works of mind-power ever written. In Mitch's five lessons you will experience Claude M. Bristol's The Magic of Believing in a whole new way - and you will also experience, as though for the first time and for all time, the extraordinary powers within you.

In his most sweeping historical work, occult scholar and widely known voice of esoteric ideas Mitch Horowitz presents a lively, intellectually serious historical exploration of modern occultism, from astrology and alchemy to the dawn of Theosophy and modern witchcraft—and the spiritual revolutions that followed.

Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living. Now, historian and New Thought scholar Mitch Horowitz has deftly and faithfully retained the most powerful ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson's original classic, and reintroduced this work in this one-of-a-kind condensation. Listenable within the space of an average commute or lunch hour, the experience of Self-Reliance may represent a true turning point in your life.

Fully reset and newly introduced by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz, The Secret Destiny of America (1944) and America’s Assignment with Destiny (1951) are Manly P. Hall’s core statements on the esoteric purpose and occult backstory of the United States.

In 1948 journalist Claude M. Bristol produced a book that has touched generations of listeners: The Magic of Believing. Artists and businesspeople, athletes and entrepreneurs have sworn by Bristol's program for harnessing the higher energies of the mind for peak performance.

Joseph Murphy’s 1963 classic The Power of Your Subconscious Mind gave millions of readers a radical new estimate of their possibilities. In his easily digestible volume, Murphy communicated the “hidden” truth of life: you are as your mind is. This is the master key that impacts wealth, health, career, relationships, and all forms of expression.

In Happy Warriors, iconic voice of esoteric spirituality Mitch Horowitz provides an enthralling literary survey of the lives and ideas of the most remarkable figures in positive-mind spirituality, opening a fresh window on the history and practice of New Thought.

Mitch Horowitz, "a cross between Aleister Crowley and Alan Watts" (Duncan Trussell), delivers this generation's most literate and liberating self-help book in The Miracle Habits. Mitch shows how to foster a life of revolutionary self-direction through 13 "Miracle Habits" - radical but workable commitments that allow you to "Spend for Power" (Habit 8), "Get Away from Cruel People" (Habit 6), "Rule in Hell" (Habit 13), and produce fortuitous events surpassing all expectation in career, creativity, relationships, charisma, and self-respect.