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It's mostly a book about history. Laglisse gives concrete examples of the intersection of anarchism and the occult. Bakunin (for instance) was a practicing occultist and participated in various sorts of secret societies. This isn't even controversial. There are many similar examples in the book. The book doesn't address the efficacy of magical practices.
Also, several of the people who articulated logic as a philosophical system were literally alchemists. So was Newton, and a bunch of the Royal Society. It's not just anarchists who were (and are) occultists. Scientists, politicians, Catholic priests, protestant theologians, etc.