Original Magic: The Rituals and Initiations of the Persian Magi

This is a guide to Mazdan magic, the first organized magical system. It provides a curriculum of magical study and initiation centered on sacred Zoroastrian calendar exercises and details advanced rituals and practices based on archaic Persian formulas, including fire rituals and divine invocations. Author Stephen Flowers explores the history, theory, practice, rituals, and initiations of the Mazdan magical system and the prestige of the Mazdan priests that is famously recorded in the Christian story of the Three Wise Men.

The author explains how the religious branch of the Mazdan system, founded by the Prophet Zarathustra, is known in the West as Zoroastrianism. He reveals the Zoroastrian religion, a matrix for the original magic, has existed for almost four thousand years, with roots in the Indo-European past. All other known magic systems have borrowed from this tradition, providing clues for reformulating the original Mazdan system.