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Summary: *yawn* Recycled and rehashed....
Review: DMK's attempt at a magical training manual is really just more of the same-old-same-old. It takes the standard western hermetic tradition and dumbs it down (rather than simplifing), without adding any significant insights. There are much better sources for this information, such as Regardie's Golden Dawn books, and Crowley's Liber ABA (Book 4), both of which give wonderful insights of true masters of the magical arts. DMK's well-intended book fails miserably on this front. What little original content there is in it is thoroughly unimpressive.The final straw for me was his repeated harping against "black magic" without ever really defining what it is, leaving the student with a vague sense of fear and paranoia that he is somehow in danger of getting into some sort of mysterious, secret, nebulous trouble. All in all, it is an extremely non-scientific approach the hermetic sciences. Save your money.
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Summary: I loved it
Review: I owned this book quite a few years ago and found that it has created peace and serinity in myself (others noticed as well). I lost the book about 4 years ago, so I'm just going to purchase another to continue my studies.
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Summary: A good book, but caution is required
Review: I purchased this book a few years ago and it was the primary source of occult information that i utilized for several months with positive results. Overall it is a very good book for the beginning ceremonial magician. However, there are a few errors in the book, some of which the author intended, some of which he did not. For example, after cross checking one of the sigils for the olympic spirits, i found it to be in error. I imagine that there are other minor errors as well, so i would recommend close scrutiny before the use of some of the more advanced ceremonies. This aside, i would recommend it to any beginner.
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Summary: lets keep it simple....
Review: BUY THIS BOOK!!!. this is the B-E-S-T book there is about magick. :)
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Summary: You Will Evolve!
Review: I had been curious about metaphysical/magickal matters for several years before buying this book. I bought it because it laid out hard-to-understand ideas in a plain format, and in an order one could study, work at, and become proficient. I began to work the daily study and exercises Mr. Kraig prescribes in this book. My life changed. For the better, on all levels. Everything became better! Unless you've worked ritual magick before, you can't imagine the benefits of expanding your aura. Within weeks of buying and reading this book, people began to come to me for advice; women wanted to either date me or set me up with their friends; I received an unexpected promotion at work. This may be amusing, but I started having unusual luck with parking spaces! I almost never have to accept a poor parking space anymore. But the benefits I receive on much higher levels is the most impressive. Most metaphysical books you will find will teach you theoretical, cryptic information or try to blind you with rituals you must have spent years to learn. Donald M. Kraig has written a wonderful book anyone can study and become powerful in every sense. If you want to progress from un-evolved human to an educated, practicing magickian, this is the book to use!!!! Buy this book and become a Magus! Learn to wield power!
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Summary: Tired of pagan/occult books that give you junk????
Review: A book that should get you started with high magick!!!!!!!!!(GUARANTEED) I've never seen a comprehensive book that clearly and lucidly explains the important rituals of the Golden Dawn. I don't know about you...but I have low self esteem. The main thing that's missing from most of the pagan/occult books out there is the process of urging the reader to actually go out there in the physical world and express every ritual with the heart and soul. Most books gave descriptions of the rituals...but Mr. Kraig explains the importance of performing the ritual consistantly. I have been reading occult books for nearly 4 years but in truth...that was not really practicing magick...it was READING ABOUT magick. If you want to KNOW about magick go to the chat rooms and email lists to talk to people who claim that they practice magick. If you want to READ about magick go and buy those books that will give you junk...cuz they will go on talking about magick. If you want to PRACTICE magick...then get your hands on this book. This book contains A LOT OF INFO!!!! From tarot, qaballah, lower banishing ritual of the pentagram, the banishing ritual of the hexagram, how to make your own tools, consecrating your tools, the watchtower ritual, supreme invoking of the pentagram...the list is endless!!!!!!!!!...this book will teach you how to invoke those angels that you've always wanted (sorry...no demons...you'll have to do that with advance books). I can write so many more things about this book....so I'll just stop now and you'll have to see the book for yourself.
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Summary: I'd give it less stars if I could.
Review: This is a warning to all who would waste their time - and money - on this trash. During my days as a Qabalist/Thelemite (this is going back some time now), I made the mistake of buying this book, and using the lessons, up to and including eleven. Donald Kraig writes with the airs of an arrogant man masquerading as modest to the extreme. This is a failing of most - if not all - occults. He doesn't hide it to well with his statements about how non-occultists lack "understanding". He continually states the usual nonsense about "harming none", "this is *not* evil", "magician's are *not* satanists", etc. These paranoic statements reveal that Kraig is simply yet another unable to purge himself of his religious upbring (in this case Judaism), and bring his claims of "freedom" to doubt. Kraig's dichotomies of "good" and "evil", and "black magick" and "white magick", reveal his complete lack of understanding of reality and magick, favouring instead degenerating abstractions, which have their roots in Plato's "world of ideas" and hebrew desert tribes. The references to other pantheons - Egyptian especially - reveal a complete lack of understanding and research in this topic. No doubt this is a case of believing what one wants to believe. His 'pseudo-'history in relation to a supposed 'history' of witchcraft will give you a giggle. Witchraft is a 20th century invention: there were not, and never have been, 'witches' until last century with the rise of Gardner. Kraig's nonsense about 'witches' in hiding with Jews is utter rubbish. Also, Kraig pseudo-history about the Qabalah is a lie, utilised no doubt to present the QBL as something derived from God. And why is that Kraig is compelled to lie about the QBL, and to portray QBL as the ultimate magickal system? This aspect of the book is what I find disturbing. Certain passages reveal Kraig's - and other Jews - hatred of the 'goyim'. Witness such passages that state that the lodges in Germany led to the "evils of Nazism". Kraig's belief that the lodges of France and England in the late-19th century were 'high magick' QBL orders, and those of Germany were 'low magick' pagan orders. Of course, these lodges in Germany must be 'black lodges' - because they weren't QBL and they purged all alien creeds from their magickal system in favour of a purely Germanic stream - which led, therefore, to the "Evils of Nazism" (referring to the 'Holocaust', thus utilising an emotive subject to sway people's opinions). Not to mention passages that state that the Jews were the 'guardians' of this knowledge, and that all other systems pale in comparison. The Zionists have sanitised the majority of the QBL for public consumption and for good reason: it is a magian, messianic disease, and expresses a profound hatred for all non-Jews. Just ask the terrorists who destroyed the Dome of the Rock. Ignore this book and others like it.
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Summary: Best training program available, but weak on philosophy...
Review: Modern Magick is easily the best availiable curriculum for students of Magick- short of actually joining a magical order (most of which now require prior experience even to join!). However, in light of recent developments in transpersonal psychology, chaos theory, and idealist philosophy, additional books on the laws and workings of magic are a helpful addition... May I suggest Peter J. Carroll's "Liber Kaos", by the founder of the Illuminates of Thanateros, one of the world's greatest practicing magical orders.
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Summary: This book is the Bomb!
Review: This book is the bomb for beginning Magician and advanced. I read this 7yrs ago when I wanted to learn about Magick and I found it too be very informative. It is a tool to help you attain conversation with your higher self and to learn to look within and be one with the Universe. I never practiced magick until I read this book. After that I have read books on Wicca, The Hermetic Order of the Golden dawn, Rosicrucianism, Kabbalah, Etc. This book is the gateway to learning what true magick is. Now I refer this book to others who are just getting started on their magickal path! Way to go Mr Kraig! :)
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Summary: Outstanding primer!
Review: I will start out by saying that this is the book that got me to start DOING magick instead of simply reading about it. Kraig gives you everything you will need in terms of how-to that will lend you that crucial confidence that says, "Sure, I can do this". Furthermore, he explains it in a way that gives the doing purpose, by actually explaining the inner dynamics of each and every ritual. The problem I had with previous books I had read was that their explanations on performing the rituals never revealed the purpose behind all those, what seemed to me, empty words and gestures. Ultimately they left me with a feeling most dreadful to a would-be magician: the fear of failure. Kraig's book vanquished this fear which had previously kept me from even trying magick and before I knew it, I was in the center of the circle enveloped by MY OWN magick! Everything is covered here that you will ever need, because once you have mastered this book, you will no longer need "books". What this book covers, it keeps. In other words: you will attain whatever this book claims if you practice as outlined. What more could a would-be magician want or need? Finally, if at all in doubt somewhere during your practice, take a breather for awhile and your true progress will be revealed to you; something harder to discern while you are caught up inside it!
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