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Somebody asked me to do a review of this book so here it is.

This book is a waste of time. I hate this kind of sloppy magick.
This is the perfect book for a 16 year old who has outgrown the satanic bible, wants to get a little bit deeper into magick but still want to be rebellious.
The fact that it is written by a 70 year old man is just pathetic.

However I'm closer to 70 than I am to 16 and yet, here I am writing an angry review on the internet; so talking about maturity might be a bit hypocritical.

This book is not an instruction guide or workbook but rather an attempt to write a biography of his life and work. It has nothing to do with low magick since most of the magic described in the book is high magick and his daily life. And it becomes apparent quit quickly that neither have been very successful. There is actually an interesting chapter about tarot in this book that is worth reading. But that's it.

Don't bother with this.

Thank you Desecrated.

My regards

Thanks for the review! Was going to pick this up since I saw it in my local library but I'll give it a skip [thumbup]

the_spiral wrote:Thanks for the review! Was going to pick this up since I saw it in my local library but I'll give it a skip [thumbup]

If you can get it for free: read it.

Desecrated wrote:Somebody asked me to do a review of this book so here it is.

This book is a waste of time. I hate this kind of sloppy magick.
This is the perfect book for a 16 year old who has outgrown the satanic bible, wants to get a little bit deeper into magick but still want to be rebellious.
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Saying the book is a waste of time then saying it is perfect for a 16-year old is an insult to 16-year olds. Last time I checked most people have to be 16 at least once, so they have a right to practice appropriate to their age and aspirations.

Archeus wrote:

Desecrated wrote:Somebody asked me to do a review of this book so here it is.

This book is a waste of time. I hate this kind of sloppy magick.
This is the perfect book for a 16 year old who has outgrown the satanic bible, wants to get a little bit deeper into magick but still want to be rebellious.
....

Saying the book is a waste of time then saying it is perfect for a 16-year old is an insult to 16-year olds. Last time I checked most people have to be 16 at least once, so they have a right to practice appropriate to their age and aspirations.

It's not a stab at teenagers in general.
But a stab at people who rebel against their christian parents by becoming a satanist, listen to metal and smoke weed. By 8th grade they've started to grow out of it, but they still don't want to go back to church, so they have to find a new substitute. Usually some form of demonic magic or thelema.

But I'm sure there are 16 years old there that are mature enough to practice magic. And there is plenty of 36 years old out there who isn't mature enough.