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Summary: Another New-Age Approach To Practical Occultism
Review: received my copy of this work when I purchased it in conjunction with another text on Evocational Magic. It's an easy read and frankly way too basic for my taste however I'll give you my standard Pros & Cons.
First off the cover is interesting. I like it. A Spirit is emerging thru a sigil and thus gives you an idea of what to expect inside. However don't judge a book by its cover. In typical New Age fasion, the three authors offer up a cook-book styled manual on the creation of thought-forms. The book is not easy to follow along as I would have liked it to be.
In the Disclaimer, the authors state: "It is not the purpose of this book to reprint all the information that is otheriwse available to readers but to compliment, amplify and supplement other texts." They go on to recommend the listings in the bibliography which include your standard New Age texts by Konstantinos, Kraig, LaVey, the Pajeons, etc., and throw in some Phil Hine and Stephen Mace for Chaos Magic and Voila! you have the gist of their text.
So why do I label this yet another "New Age" work? Pages 27 thru 31 is all about Karma, Cause and Effect, yadda-yadda-yadda. Oy vay can we give it a rest all ready? Hunh?
Most of the book was boring to me. Why? The writing failed to hold my interest and the depth of the subject matter just did not meet my requirements. The authors seem to cover the basics as found in the other texts they so try to not do. I had hoped in the chapter entitled "Feeding Time" that they'd have offered up some new and unique ideas on how to feed your entities. Alas my hopes were dashed. Then the chapter on Housing for the entity had a couple of ideas I thought were good but nothing really mind jolting. So what's the most interesting part of the book? In the appendices where the case studies are to be found.
In all fairness, if you're truly new to the Occult scene and know Diddly-Squat about creating entities such as this, then this book would be an acceptable primer though there are many other resources out there that go into much greater depth than here.
Finally the book includes a nice index and how to contact the authors themselves. The publishing company is based out of Perrysburg, Ohio and I find it ironic that I've lived here for since 1991 and haven't heard of this publisher prior to this book.
I obtained it at sixteen dollars & ninety-five cents and since I ordered it by mail thru Amazon, shame on me if I feel the book is highly over-priced. It really could sell better for nine dollars and ninety-five cents but this new publishing house obviously wants to cash in on the current trend to sell mildly entertaining esoteric works for far more than they are worth to the intermediate or experienced practitioners ignorant enough to pay their asking price. Wait til you find it in the close-out bins at B&N or some other discount bookstore.
I rate it two out of five stars. If you're experienced in this form of Magic, then skip this book entire
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Summary: A great new book
Review: A really great book, that is worth it's weight in gold. The topic is complicated but in this book it is made as clear and simple as it can be. For the serious students of magic, this book is a must.
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Summary: Great Working Guide
Review: As a working occultist, I have been active with several different types of conjurations, including Goetia. This book is a great guide for its purpose, which is creating personal astral energies. It is written in a clear language, and works.
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Summary: Powerful Information & Techniques
Review: Creating Magickal Entities is absolutely an excellent book. Written for users of any and all schools of practical magickal thought, it is an easily comprehensible guide book of techniques and ideas that will hugely improve your success as an employer of occult technologies.
Additionally, it is very pleasing to note that the book is real world in that it is not written in an effort to whitewash the reality of the world in which we live. In other words, many Wiccans may find the forthrightness of this book - and its lack of fluff-bunny pandering - to be disturbing. Thus, those that are seeking to further their functional knowledge will love this book, but those who immaturely wish to remain in ignorance will not like it much at all. Creating Magickal Entities is too real for such spiritual Disneylanders.
Regardless, get this book before it becomes like Practical Sigil Magic by Frater UD, ie: hard to find and expensive when you do. After all, such is all too often the way with high quality grimoires.
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Summary: A Must Have For the Magickal Library
Review: Explains the subject matter clearly in language that even those newer to magick should be able to grasp. Though no one book can teach you all you need to know, and no number of books can give you the experience you need which comes from "practice", if you only get one book on entity creation I'd have to recommend this one.
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Summary: This book is a great reference
Review: I fully reccommend this book to anyone who wants to work with magickal entities. These authors REALLY know what they are talking about. This book goes into minute detail where most books just gloss over. Also, if you come up with questions about the material, you can easily contact the authors via their e-mail list in the book. I cannot say enough good about this book.
Another thing, this book is not tradition based. What this means is that it is designed to appeal to all magickal traditions.
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Summary: If you can only buy one book - this is the book to buy
Review: I have created many entities in the past. Before reading this book, and following the easy to understand steps outlined in it, my entities were just "OK." After reading the book, all of my entities are top-notch and produce exactly what I had wanted at the time I created them.Creating Magickal Entities is a systematic explanation of a single occult process (creating magickal entities) that includes a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved, free from superfluous information. Many magicians will like this book do to its lack of dogma. It was written in a way that is open to many points of view, and succeeds at limiting, when possible, the inclusion of a specific magickal tradition. This book was also written assuming that the reader already has some magickal knowledge and experience. This is refreshing since there are so many other writers that positions their books as though the reader is an idiot or has no clue as to what magick (as the author sees it) is. In this book, David Michael Cunningham touches on the skills needed to create entities. He responsibly points the reader in the direction of how they can acquire those skills if the reader currently does not posses them. I wish more writers would respect their readers. Due to the subject matter, there are a few people that seem to believe that Creating Magickal Entities is a book for Chaos magicians - this could not be further from the truth. Many different societies and magickal traditions have magickal entities that the magician can create, and Creating Magickal Entities addresses that not only directly in the book, but it is worded in such a way to break free of magickal jargon of a specific magickal style. Creating Magickal Entities does not use Chaos magick terminology due to the fact that this book was written for magickal practitioners to use and develop their own style of entity creation - it was not written for a specific magickal style. Words like "programming symbol" (instead of "sigil") are used to bridge magickal ideas and to further remove any specific tradition trappings from the pure information provided. After reading this book you are left with a desire to read more by DMC and his views on magick and the occult. Mr. Cunningham gets to the point of the situation and explains it clearly so that just about anyone can understand (with or without magickal training). He doesn't ramble on with pointless discussion just to fill his book with tons of useless pages, or to inflate his ego about how his was is the best (like so many other occult and pagan writers). DMC offers not only occult information that has been passed down for centuries, but he also includes real examples and experiences that he and others have had. Never do you find yourself feeling as though he is pushing his way of thought down your throat. DMC offers information and supports that information with examples, then allows you to decide what is right for you - not what he feels is right for you. It is like he is a long-time friend trying to help you out with sound advice. I was fortunate enough to have been present at a seminar that DMC gave prior to writing this book. He is easy going and very open to discussions. I have since been a part of a mentoring group (that he holds on rare occasions), and I was blown away. The amount of magickal and occult knowledge that this man possesses is incredible. I am looking forward to his future books (and am currently hunting down his out of print books), and to the time he holds another one of his great mentoring programs. In closing, if you can only buy one book, this is the book to buy. It will change your life and the way that you understand magick.
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Summary: A "must have" book
Review: I have found Creating Magickal Entities to be very good. After reading the review by "Brother MOLOCH 969," I felt it necessary to make this my first Amazon.com review.
In Brother MOLOCH's first sentence he states that CME is was "an easy read and frankly way too basic" for him. Then he refers to CME as a "cook-book styled manual" and that "The book is not easy to follow along as I would have liked it to be." So was it an easy read and way too basic, or a hard to read cookbook?
Just like Brother MOLOCH wrote, I found CME an easy read. It was to the point and didn't fill up pages with information that a person attempting this kind of magick should already know. If you are like me, and already know how to create entities and have been doing it for years, then you will find some interesting thoughts and ideas that you can add to the knowledge that you already have.
Brother MOLOCH wrote that CME was boring because it didn't hold his "interest and the depth of the subject matter just did not meet my requirements." This book may not meet your requirements either if you are looking for something other than a single source of solid and easy to understand information on entity creation.
The disclaimer in the book was not written by David Michael Cunningham, as Brother MOLOCH assumes. That same disclaimer appears in all of the books published by that publisher (Egregore Publishing), so for anyone that might get hung up by that, just overlook it.
It is true that pages 27 though 31, in the chapter "Important Precautions," talk about Karma. I don't see how that would make this book a "New Age" book, considering that DMC took a good jab (craftily woven into the writing) at "New Agers" and the common concept of Karma.
If searching through 31 to 44 or so books to piece together just about enough information to create an entity sounds like fun, instead of owning this 1 easy to understand book, then don't buy this book. That is what I and many others had to do before CME was written. I am very appreciative to have this single source that I can easily refer to, or refer others to. I don't have to remember which book had what stray piece of information, as I can just go to CME and get it done.
Brother MOLOCH wrote that he found the appendices interesting as they had information about actual entities that DMC and the contributing authors had made. I liked it as well as it helped to round out the information. By having the book written the way that it is, it keeps the main information clean and easy to read. You are not weighed down with information that you may not want or need. If you do want that info, you can find it neatly tucked into the back of the book, ready for you when your needs warrant.
Is the book worth the $16.95? If you don't already know how to create entities and have not been doing it for years, then yes it is worth it. Is it worth it if you have been creating entities for years? Yes, if you would like, or need, to have a single source of reference on the subject.
Besides, there are tons of places that you can buy this book for a lot less than $16.95 and sometimes even signed. Try www.fetchbook.info to see who has the lowest price, that is what I did, but don't tell Amazon, OK?. ; )
I know that you will make the right decision to buy the book or not, just as you know that you will make the right decision as well. May your life be fruitful.
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Summary: Super
Review: j'ai acheter se livre et les traduits moi meme je n'est jamais vue un livre aussi bien expliquer sur la creation d'entite les auteurs explique bien lors systemes avec des exemples simple et je peut vous dire que sa marche tres bien, acheter se livre si vous vouler avoir une entite a votre service et acceder au bonheur et a la reussite n'hesiter pas!!!
Dommage qu'il ne se vend pas en francais comme beaucoup d'autre livre comme se de PHIL HINE aussi sur le condenser du chaos tres bon aussi!
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Summary: Fantastic Work
Review: Just finished this one and I have to declare that 'Creating Magickal Entities' is a fantastic book. Simply put, it is one of the most intelligent, useful, occult books I have read, and I have read a lot of books. Comparable with new book 'Memetic Magic' by Kirk Packwood.
The authors really know what they are talking about. The information contained within this small book is far superior to almost all of the information contained in almost all of the occult books published by larger publishers today. If you want to begin to understand real magick, buy this book. But be sure you really want to understand, because this book speaks the truth.
I had a couple of minor problems with the book, though, which could be easily corrected... But, make no mistake; this is one of the best books on magick and the occult I have ever read. The part about the entities serving as 'astral batteries' was fascinating as well. Do not hesitate to buy this one -- as long as you are certain you want to understand real magick.
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