We begin like Portlandia. Remember the 90s? Remember when magic was quirky and safe because

maybe it didn't really work, maybe it was all just psychology. You might build a little

servitor or make a sigil and talk about reality tunnels. Magic felt like a little hobby. It was edgy, but it wasn't too

edgy, like keeping a pet snake and not like paying homeless people to fight. And I noticed

something over the past couple of years that this safe magic, this perfectly respectable

enormous society magic, has sailed along in its own deluded little boat

into the 21st century right next to, dare we say, the actual magic revival. And it appears to

be completely unaware that it's done so. And I realize this with the publication of Alan Moore's Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, which I reviewed last year in Peru, and I will link that one up down below. And I saw this last year with Alan Moore's Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of magic, which I actually reviewed in Peru, and I will link that one up below.

And it's not just out there in publishing.

It's here on YouTube with some of the, well, I was going to say magic accounts, but I guess they're more magic commentary accounts because they don't do any actual magic.

And I don't know. I just, I'm a little bit over these asinine re-explorations of stuff that happened 40 or 50 years ago.

Like, oh, tell me more about the ice wars and servitors,

or, oh, the fiction of Kenneth Grant, as if the magical revival of the last 30 years

didn't happen. Because the thing is, as far as I can tell, we literally just lived through

a golden age of magic that was better than the 19th century occult revival. And I'm using the past tense,

because I'm pretty sure it is past tense. I'm pretty sure that the peak of the revival

happened about 10 years ago. It doesn't mean it's over. It just means that it's contained in the

same way that the late 19th century Victorian era New Age, which we call the occult revival, is over because that period of time is over.

And you probably know, but I consider the inception of the most recent magical revival to be Project Hindsight in the mid-90s, where astrologers, contemporary

astrologers discovered and translated some of the core Hellenistic astrological texts.

And then in the noughties, that moved into what we know is the Grimwa Revival.

So we have the works of Stephen Skinner and David Rankin and Jake Stratton

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