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Originally Posted by DmitryDavydov  The problem is that there's been so many fakes, like Alister Crowley (I think I misspelled this last name), it's hard to say if this stuff is even real. |
Actually you misspelt his first name (Aleister).
I'm not sure what makes you think he was a fake. He was certainly a little... dramatic, but he was also genuinely a magic(k)ian in the western tradition.
As to whether it's real, well, many people really perform spells and rituals, and
they really believe in them.
Proving that they actually
work, OTOH, suffers the same sorts of problems as proving the Law of Attraction ; people won't see it if they don't want to, and the results can be dismissed as 'mere chance' (not that there's anything 'mere' about chance!).