by Lon Milo Duquette
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This is a clear introduction to the works of Crowley by a modern master of the occult. DuQuette's humorous and down-to-earth style demystifies Crowley's writing and rituals in this modern grimoire. Step by step, he presents a course of study with examples of rituals and explanations of their significance. DuQuette also includes a course of study for Crowley's original works with an extensive bibliography and fastidious footnotes.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 for babies????, 2008-08-21
This book is a waste of paper. It is not proper description of the rituals. It waters down Crowley. It has little value to any magician. Lon Duquette is a wonderful human being, this book weakens the 93 current so badly that it is hardly any use. If you want to know about the magick of AC read Magick and learn the stuff by trial and error. Lon has other books that are great, but this is not one of them.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 SetiDraconis, 2008-03-28
I recommend this book, alot of books on Thelema can be hard to understand and follow and this book is to the point.
Excellent beginner book to Thelema and the Magick of Alister Crowley it will pave the way to more advanced books.
SetiDraconis
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
 dissappointing, 2007-09-25
I really like the author A LOT, he seems very approachable and friendly and definitely knowledgeable. Therefore I feel a bit sad that I own this book. It's basically a compilation of a number Thelema Libers EASILY available legally for free online.. and then some few comments written by the author himself about each Liber. The concept of the book would have great potential if he had actually written something substatial, meaning 5x more about each Liber.
6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Good, but overlooks information, 2006-10-31
This is good, coherent, introduction, but like virtually all books available in the United States having to do with Aleister Crowley and Thelema it leaves out conflicting views from Britain. Duqette ignores what could be vital interpretations about parts of Thelema provided by Kenneth Grant, in particular the discussion of what ShT means in the LaShTAl formula. Besides not even mentioning that a substantial amount of information, and several organizations that are Thelemic, exist beyond the 'Caliphate' O.T.O., the legally recognized one in the U.S., and the A .'. A.'. it simply glosses over parts that aren't suitable, like not discussing the symbolism of Khepra, the sun at midnight in Egyptian theology, which Grant's and other organizations, particularly the Temple of Set, have a lot to say about.
Also, it sticks to an overly restrictive version of what the 'Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel' is. Crowley definitively identified this entity with the Silent Self, while the stuff coming out of the Caliphate (see Peter Koenig's webpage for a definition on this term) stresses the Abramelin operation, which actually goes in the opposite direction, besides being virtually impossible to do.
That said, it provides a good basis for beginners, but don't be fooled by the siren song of simplified American Thelema. It's strangely fortunate that the dissident books aren't widely available in the U.S., isn't it?
3 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
I like this.., 2005-10-09
This is good. Lon Milo talks to youHey!..like he's your Bud.. and Makes Crowely's life coMe alive On eAch aNd eVery Page..RAndAll PikE wAnts to write a book about Crowely so we'll see..But Crowely biographies are supposedly steeped in so much arcane and hard to understand languagE. Who WAS this man? I also reccommend "The Illustrated Beast" by Sandy RObertson. Hope you all find your way to this mysterious man, who Lon knows wEll from study with correct Golden Dawn heritage lineages..If there's such a thiNg. Lon is quite a fair man, and Sandy Robertson's book should supplemenNT this..
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