The title of this book may strike the reader as strange and even dissonant. What have art and ritual to
do together? The ritualist is, to the modern mind, a man concerned perhaps unduly with fixed forms
and ceremonies, with carrying out the rigidly prescribed ordinances of a church or sect. The artist,
on the other hand, we think of as free in thought and untrammelled by convention in practice; his
tendency is towards licence. Art and ritual, it is quite true, have diverged t ...