[4] According to Miers, While the initial impulses of Pragmatic Magic can be verified as early as Spare and Staudenmaier, its consistent implementation in the German speaking realm was only effected by Frater V∴D∴ who also introduced the term.
[3][5]He is featured in Gerhard Mayer's field study of 11 contemporary magicians[6] where he is referenced both under his public magical name Frater V∴D∴ and, perfunctorily anonymized, as Isbrand.
[8] There, he states that, while the altercation between him and Carroll and the subsequent schism positively occurred, the 'ice magick war' itself was an entirely delusionary event that never actually took place except in his detractors' imagination.
Contrary to that inflated statistic, Peter Carroll himself has stated that only the German and Swiss divisions of the order split off, and together they constituted about 30 percent of the total IoT membership.
first insights)[9] Tegtmeier is radically critical of conventional magic and its shortcomings, calling for a deconstructionist approach stripped from cultural, historical and societal bias.