In the Steps of Merlin

Full title: In the Steps of Merlin: A Guide to Arcane Magic 
Author: Timothy Blackmane 
Published: 2019, Collegium Arcane Press. 
Format: Hardcover 
Content: This is to Arcane magic what The Dawn Light Guide to the Craft is to Earth magic. A guide that does not teach magic, but informs anyone seeking to learn magic. 
To begin with the author describes the kind of person that makes a good magician. This is combined with a strong warning not to seek magic without an ethical mentor. Contacts for the Collegium Arcane are given. The fact that many public universities and collages have a magic program is also noted.
They discuss sorcerers, or "blood magicians" People that have magic but to not study it. The difference between Sorcerers and Magicians, even though both use arcane sources of magic.
What is Magic good for? The schools of magic and what they do are described. Magic can do nearly anything. The road is disciplined, and power does not come at once. The study is a life time thing. Powerful wizards have long beards because they are old.
Last a few stomach turning tales of what can go wrong if you don't follow the sane and sober advice given and try things on your own. Death, is the preferable outcome. 
And the final word that magic is a tool. It is neither good nor evil, it is. Like any tool what to do with it is what matters. 
==Reaction==
Among the book buying public moderately successful. The same kind of people that bought the Dawn Light Guide are buying this one.
The Liberal press is not quite jumping up and down. Social witch doctors are confused as to how to class Magicians. Are they privileged, or oppressed? Some are Minorities and Women, but some are Old White Males that should be dead. Is a new category required?
The Conservative non religious types are about the same. Magic is a fact of life. Be smart if you go that way, it is better if you did not.
The Religious right is flipping out. Another book on how to be Evil. They are starting to learn that modern production methods make book burning pointless. They just make more. They do not like it much. They are just short of calling for violence against those that have the book. the Dog whistle orchestra in it full swing.
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