Cristina Raines is beautiful model Alison Parker -- funny, she looks just like I remember women looked like in the ‘70s. At least the beautiful ones. I was just a kid back then and I didn’t know any models, or actresses for that matter, and when I look at old photos, people never look like I remember them. I remember the ‘70s as colorful and glossy, like the cover of an old German party music album.

In preparing this series of lessons for students of Western lands, I have been compelled to proceed along lines exactly opposite to those which I would have chosen had these lessons been for students in India. This because of the diametrically opposite mental attitudes of the students of these two several lands.

The best characterization of magic (alternately spelled "magick") was stated by the British writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke when he said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Clark was describing scientific possibilities - things that may and possibly do exist.

And, in fact, magic is a science that is beyond the comprehension of the masses. This was as true centuries ago just as it is now.