Magic and Alchemy Today

The German Masonic order called Ordo Templi Orientis (Order of the Temple of the East, abbreviated as O.T.O.) was founded between 1895 and 1906. 

Besides participating in Wiccan rituals, one can also study shamanism in modern America, thanks to the anthropologist Michael Harner (born 1929). Harner wrote, The Way of the Shaman, published in 1980, and began conducting workshops to teach neoshamanism. In 1985 Harner founded The Foundation of Shamanic Studies, which publishes a magazine devoted to shamanism, called The Shaman s Drum. 

Scientists in the eighteenth century believed that an atom was the smallest indestructible particle of matter and that each element was composed of a different atom. This view began to unravel, however, in 1897, when electrons were identified as small, negatively charged pieces of the atom. Then in 1911, the English scientist Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), discovered the atom s nucleus was composed of positively charged protons and neutrons 

New Zealand-born physicist, successfully transmuted nitrogen into oxygen by changing the number of its protons. (World History/Topham/The Image Works) 

The unraveling of eighteenth century science did not stop there. Since the 1950s quantum physicists have discovered more than 200 smaller particles within the atom. Rather than again redefining the term element, they chose to call them elementary particles. The most 

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