Magick Without Tears

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Summary: hmm, well if your ready for a ride
Review: Well I know there's a whole organization dedicated to his teachings which is fine, but Crowley never meant for any of his books to be understood, which makes it seem like his books are confusing and scrambled up, there's a reason for that, but you can't argue that with anyone that's wrapped up in him, I personaly think that Crowley was a genius and brought quiet a bit of usefully information to all that inquired in his books.
But I think that if you want a more understandable hermetic style way to learn magick without tears or irritation then check out Modern Magick, it's just a great book all in all and he touches on crowley a bunch and really explains alot of things so that there easier to understand,with or without organizations.

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Summary: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Review: While reading this book it is a necessity to understand every sentence that one reads: examples of people who have not accomplished this are present in the negative summaries offered. I cannot believe the mass of people who read Aleister Crowley books once and think that they understand with profound insight, that he is a Lame Idiot. I have yet to discover any writing by this most superior Genious, which is even tinted of vulgar logic-schemes. He takes one with him to the utmost limits of the highest spiritual mountains, only to force their very being to the point of Initiatory Death. At any rate, one should, as Francis Israel Regardie stresses, not read this set of Letters through as if it were a textbook or a novel; the ultimate advantage is to be gained by choosing whatever topic which seems interesting to you at that time, and dissecting the various analogies present, in that Letter--there is no advantage to be gained by sending negativities out about how introductory the best book of Crowley's life is.