Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts

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Summary: Great magickal source, techniques enhanced my abilities.
Review: Modern Magick, Eleven lessons in the High Magickal Arts

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Summary: A Thoroughly Excellent Training in Magick - for Anyone!
Review: This was my first magickal text, and while I have since moved on from practicing ceremonial magick to other forms of Neopaganism such as Wicca and Druidry, I nonetheless still value and recommend Modern Magick as a superb grounding in both modern Neopagan and magickal practice in general, and ceremonial magick in particular. It is both practical and useful in the lesson structure, background material, and rituals therein. Beginners will find a plethora of accessible and well-integrated information, and more advanced students will have the opportunity to fill any gaps in their knowledge while simultaneously viewing magickal history and practice from a different and refreshing perspective. Definitely worth the price of admission!

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Summary: absolutely fasinating reading
Review: This book is undoubtedly the best book that i have ever read. Not only is it informative,but written in such a manner that the novice to magik,or thexperienced magician can learn something from it. After reading many other books on the subject-by wiccans etc, i became increasingly disappointed in the watered down information i was receiving. This is one of the few books-that the author isn't afraid to (TELL IT LIKE IT IS). I feel this book to be the best study book around for those who are of a serious intentent. If you want the meat and not just the broth-then this is a book you would do well to have in your library.

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Summary: A complete guide to Kabalistic magick.
Review: This is one of the best books to buy for the aspiring magician. It has all a begginner needs to know in order to seek the Kabalistic light. With complete correspondence tables and detailed ritual outlines, this is a must for all beginners.

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Summary: Best book for new Qabalists!
Review: This book is an absolute MUST-HAVE for anybody interested in Qabalic magick. Also a good read for those just interested in the subject and all pagans. Jay Warden

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Summary: A great starter book!
Review: Modern Magick is one of the easiest to understand magick books that I have found. I am constantly impressed by the foundation it gave me in magick. This book is really easy to use, as it walks one through the rituals (unlike other books that just tell you to "go do a protection ritual") and makes you understand what you are working with. This book is not a book for children though, its content can be confusing and weird at times. I do recommend it as a starter and great reference on the cabalistic traditions

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Summary: If one Likes Cabalah, then this book is for you.
Review: This book is an EXCELLENT book, and i recomend it for both beginners, and the experienced. However, this book focuses on the Cabalah mostly, with little insight to the other magickal systems. However, it is written in an excellent format, and i recommend it to anyone iterested in the mysterious art of Magick. Well worth the Money

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Summary: Essential Magick Course for the Beginning Magus
Review: DM Kraig's essential masterwork is one of the key texts which has taken magick and again thrust it into the daylight. Magickal orders worldwide, from pagans, to Wiccans to the Golden Dawn, owe the tremendous rise in interest in magick in large part to Kraig's influence through this phenomenal volume. Unlike other texts, most characterized by Crowley's habit of talking around magickal theory, Kraig's text emphasizes the "DOING" in magick, and gets the reader/student performing rituals and making magick from the very first chapter. While heavily influenced and almost wholly based on the Golden Dawn system, Modern Magick also incorporates other systems, with a whole lotta pagan workings and a dash of tantric thrown in, to boot. Kraig was one of the first authors to address the much lamented tendency that ceremonial magicians talk ALOT about magick, but actually DO very little. This book is FUNDAMENTALLY focused on doing, and, while a course for the beginner, takes the student through sufficiently advanced magick to satisfy the depth of knowledge any novice is likely to aspire to. Also, Kraig doesn't spend tons of pages on the theoretical aspects, instead giving a cliff notes overview, then pointing the student to other, more comprehensive texts by authors more erudite on them than Kraig wishes to be so he can get the student back to doing magick! It's still the best course in magick out there, and anyone aspiring to learn magick of any sort should purchase this text and pursue the regimen of study and practice within!

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Summary: a QUALIFIED review of this book-read here
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I have basically lived this book for about the last three years.I have taken my time in going through it and studying it and practicing the material thoroughly, both for practice and practical use.I have almost finished it now, as I only have two more chapters to work through.
I am not, however, saying the work is perfect.The main thing that attracted me to this book was its higher degree of usability.I had a pretty good background in magick (of the pagan style, mostly) long before I picked up this book.I knew of the western (hermetic) tradition but I had never found it easy to put the material into practical use. In too many high magick books, they just throw the information at you with no explanation at all of how to use it.This book actually explains it to a much greater degree.For me, it was the missing piece of the puzzle that opened up high magick for me.
The results have been astounding.Suffice it to say that I have done things with the knowledge in this book that scientists (and other people who lack common sense) would deem absolutely impossible.I have not studied this book alone,but in conjunction with the works of Agrippa,Crowley,Regardie, and others.I have NEVER blindly followed the author's view on anything.And I must say, he never encourages anyone to treat his writing as gospel truth.At times, I have altered the practices (in small ways, mostly)
to fit with my own style of magick.
To the beginner in Magick, this book is a godsend.But don't treat it like a bible, and always get more than one opinion when trying to research the occult.Magick is not an exact science but an intuitive art,so don't trust just one author. i have found things in the book that did not make sense to me:for instance, in the elemental consecration rituals, the names that are used to charge the tool are NOT the same names that are actually written on the tool! they are all mixed up.
the holy name for fire is abbreviated and used to charge the air dagger.the holy name for air is shortened from SHADDAI EL CHAI to just EL, and is supposedly used to charge the fire wand.and it is so on from there.The right names are there, but they seem misplaced.For myself, I chose to set them right, as I see no benefit at all in charging an elemental tool with a name that corresponds to a different element entirely.I would recommend this to anyone.
here is a reading list to help you negotiate Kraig's book and cross-reference it with other(sometimes more reliable) matieral:
"3 books of occult philosophy" by henry cornelius agrippa
"777" or any other book by Crowley
"A garden of pomegranates" by Israel Regardie
"the golden dawn" by Israel Regardie
"the mystical qabalah" by Dion Fortune
"the chaldean oracles" attributed to Zoroaster


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Summary: Poopie heads!
Review: Kraig's book is the best "introduction" to the mind numbing "magick" of the Golden Dawn. But, it also makes me ahve very stinky gas, so I converted to Buddhism.

You should do the same, instead of gazing into "magic mirrors", summoning "goetic spirits", and gazing mindlessly at Tarot cards, usually while high on weed (the "magickians" best friend, no doubt). Get real! Do something practical and that WORKS!

At least I gave it up!