Michael W Ford

[saramichellemercuryy]

Yes,
Actually I have ordered 3 books from him off his Luciferian Apotheca site and some candles, incense, and pendants.
He has some good books and a great occultist, and has his own black metal band Black Funeral.

[Serenitydawn]

Watching him speak I was struck by his presentation, his presence and his ego; and, how he was working them all in concert as a kind of Occult Package.

Lesser Black Magick, but if it seems that fake then he's not very good at it. Then again I suppose you aren't his target audience, maybe that has something to do with it. I haven't had a chance to read too much, I have too much going on. I have never seen him and honestly don't know much about him. I suppose I should. Is it Ford that describes things as "dark and evil?" Or was that your description Seeker?

I don't know about anybody else, but everything I do magically is completely made up by me. It's usually something like "Hmm, maybe I can help let me try something."

Sunas, technically The Church of Satan was created by Anton Szandor LaVey. You are right, he stole a lot of it and changed it. His black masses are fricken hilarious, I laughed so hard. [lol] Anyway the Left Hand Path is much older than Satanism and Christianity.

I haven't checked out the store part of the Luciferian site, maybe it will give me some ideas. [eg]

[Frater_NT]

Might I just throw in that the one book of Ford's that I read was poorly edited and at times flat out difficult to read. The material itself wasn't bad, considering it was basically taken straight from Andrew Chumbley's work [lol] Ford giving Cultus Sabbati credit for the material would have been a huge plus.

Fr. N.'. T.'.

[DawningSun777]

I do not like Ford nor recommend his books as actual occult texts. They are interesting reads for sure, but with many problems. First of all, Ford seems to go for the same shock type values people like LaVey went for. Perhaps Manson is actually a better comparison. Ford writes some gross things as well as some random things. I never went for that type of thing, nor have I understood the need for excessively "evil" symbolism and ritual. Besides this, Ford needs an editor. It is so hard to take him seriously with all the mistakes simply editing would address. On top of even that, he is kind of a prostitute. Ford pumps out books as if occultism is going out of style. He even has his own order that preaches their "Luciferianism" as THE Luciferianism, which really makes me angry. He is pretty much a 21st century LaVey using "Luciferianism" rather than "Satanism" to push the same, unevolved occult ideas that touched me in High School. Now, were I still in high school perhaps I would like him more, but I am no longer some low rate beginner occultist, and I expect more from someone trying to put a monopoly on the Luciferian path, especially when it still has so much more potential than falling in with the ranks of LaVeyan Satanist and Setianism.

[lostinspace]

Ford's work has a lot of flaws in it but he has a lot of useful information in his work if your a beginner. I enjoyed the Bible of the Adversary and liked his take on the Goetia but that's where it ends for me. If your into Tarot, I don't recommend buying his deck because there are typos on the cards and the
cards themselves have entirely different meanings from any traditional tarot system. If your looking for decent books I recommend E.A. Koetting if you can get any of his work or S. Connelly.