On Thursday September 27th, 2018 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon

will review the new Collector's edition of Kurt Seligmann's 1948 classic

"The Mirror of Magic: A History of Magic in the Western World" and discuss Seligmann's career

as a surrealist painter,  a scholar of the occult and a practicing

ceremonial magician. This handsome new edition, published by Inner

Traditions, is a faithful reproduction of the original. Poke Runyon

inherited a 1948 copy Seligmann's  book from his late Master Frederick

Adams (1928 - 2008) with Fred's annotations. It was Fred's first book on

Magic and he treasured it. In his Introduction Seligmann wrote: "As an

artist I was concerned with the aesthetic value of Magic and its

influence on man's creative imagination." Fred Adams was also a very

talented artist and was inspired by The Mirror of Magic, as we hope a

new generation of readers will be when they discover this beautiful new

edition of Kurt Seligmann's Masterpiece.