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The Elementary Treatise on Practical Magic is an introduction to kabbalistic magic.
The first part of the the book, the Theory, shows the application to contemporary psychology of the theories of Pythagoras and Plato taken up by Fabre d’Olivet. Also explains how the diet and different physical and intellectual stimulants affect the development of the human being.
The second part, the Fulfilment, studies the possible manifestation of the faculties of the human being under different influences coming from the outside. Here Papus (Gérard Encausse), who worked as a medical doctor, explains the relation between the physical human body and the astral body, and how the trained human will can act directly on the reflexive incitements of sensation, feeling and intellect.
The third part, the Adaptation shows how the energised human will unites with astral influences to determine a rapid evolution of forces generally borrowed from others living beings to perform its magical operations.
The human being is a microcosm, only after the will has been educated, the aspiring magician can influence the macrocosm, that is "nature", all that is around him. Only then the irradiation of the magician will extends over the physical world, which can be modified in its mediated forms, and over other persons. To achieve this end, Papus shows how to dynamise the will, through the training of the sight, word, gesture and action.
Some of the topics explained in this extended treatise are:
- Hermetic Medicine.
- Defence against Bewitching.
- Hypnotism, Magnetism, Suggestion.
- Application of the dynamised human will to the quick evolution of the living forces of nature.
- Kabbalistic Astrology.
- Magic ceremony (in the Appendix) has an invaluable Bibliographic summary that lists the foundational works of western magic.
