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Summary: Black and White
Review: "Liber Null" presents some great ideas. If you are new in chaos magic I strongly suggest you get this book along with "Condensed Chaos" by Phil Hine. Read "Condensed Chaos" first then "Liber Null". As with any Peter Carrol book it contains dogmatism about his personal beliefs. However that is more than cancelled out by the wealth of ideas that is hidden throughout the book. If you see magic as being divided in black and white and different subdivisions within each one this book will prove trully valuable to read and try. If not (which was my case) it will prove as an interesting source of information that you can adapt or discard according to your liking and the belief system you are currently ingrained in. Assume nothing.
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Summary: Black and White
Review: "Liber Null" presents some great ideas. If you are new in chaos magic I strongly suggest you get this book along with "Condensed Chaos" by Phil Hine. Read "Condensed Chaos" first then "Liber Null". As with any Peter Carrol book it contains dogmatism about his personal beliefs. However that is more than cancelled out by the wealth of ideas that is hidden throughout the book. If you see magic as being divided in black and white and different subdivisions within each one this book will prove trully valuable to read and try. If not (which was my case) it will prove as an interesting source of information that you can adapt or discard according to your liking and the belief system you are currently ingrained in. Assume nothing.
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Summary: A must have
Review: For any new chaos mage, this book is a must have, and is a pre-requisit to the even better Liber Kaos. Carrol staes his case simply and effectivly however the book is also contradictory in places... although thinking about it isnt that the nature of Choas? Read and be enlightend but remember to keep your own opinion about you though, you'll find that isnt to easy.
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Summary: Good Brainwashing
Review: I remember borrowing this book from a sinister and dark "goth" type several years ago when I was in college. He was your typical chaos magician ("ooh, look at me I'm scary") and both he and the book unsettled me from my Golden Dawn perspectives. One of the most useful parts of the book and an absolute ESSENTIAL for any occultist is the Liber MMM section in Liber Null. This takes the reader through several basic exercises to obtain Gnosis or magickal trance. The next sections of the book are discourses on white and black magick from a chaos and IOT perspective, whatever that is worth. Peter Carroll gives a rather poor explanation of sigils- the best being Practical Sigil Magick by Frater U:D (out of print). His essay on the Alphabet of Desire is interesting but strange- a much better explanation is found in Stealing the Fire from Heaven by Stephen Mace. In the Psychonaut section of the work are Carroll's views on a myriad of subjects. He totally contradicts himself in several places and in his later writings but, hey, it's chaos magick isn't it? The value of this book is that it is not your standard Golden Dawn-Wicca-Thelema stuff that every occult writer has repeated over and over again for the last 100 years. I think that Liber Kaos by Carroll is a superior book and the Liber KKK section in that work one of the greatest contributions to the field of chaos magick.
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Summary: Mental Cancer
Review: It may make you very sick, but if you fight it off, you may become very strong.
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Summary: fascinating point of view
Review: Liber null is a fascinating take on the scientific chaos theory in physics and how it may be applied to the mind. If you enjoy reading about unconventional science then it if a fascinating book. Some great artwork. Its interesting to hear another persons point of view, even if you may or may not agree with it.
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Summary: LUCID EXEGESIS OF CHAOS MAGIC
Review: Liber Null, illustrated by Andrew David, and Psychonaut, with same by Brian Ward, are two separate books. The first is again divided into Libri MMM, LUX, NOX et AOM, and in these books Pope Pete deals with gnosis, divination, evocation, enchantment, sigils and "random belief," something that really amused me. Psychonaut is a collection of fascinating essays on, inter alia, new aeon magic, the rites of chaos, chemognosis (with a particularly interesting discussion of hallucinogens like the amanita and psylocybe mushrooms), shamanism, gnosticism, magical paradigms and magical time. My only problem is the - to say the least - disturbing illustrations by Ward. To someone with a sensitive disposition, these detract somewhat from not only the plaisir du texte, but also the jouissance of the reading experience. The text is richly enlivened by diagrams, figures, glyphs and perhaps to its detriment, by those eerie pictures. Apart from that, it's a no-nonsense magical handbook in a lucid and engaging style. A classic of sorts, I guess. Heartily recommended to fans of "The Addams Family" movies.
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Summary: Amazing book
Review: Like the title of this review says, this is an amazing book. It's one of the only books I've found that completely cuts away traditional religious and superstitious trappings to reveal the pure essence of magic. It's true that he does add his own theories and perspectives on certain issues, but I found these to be extremely helpful in understanding the teachings within. This is a very enlightening book, one of the best occult texts on the market. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anybody who's interested in occultism or magic (not to mention chaos magic).
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Summary: My favorite book
Review: Ok, really, this book is a complete must-have. I have owned it for almost a year, and still refer to it on a near-daily basis and can always manage to learn something from it, even though I've read it several times through! Carroll does slip up in a few spaces, ie: his description of sigils is less than par, and I probably wouldn't have understood it at all were it not for my very thorough, previous understanding of sigils, and his description of the Mass of Chaos took me a few read-throughs to understand, but overall this book is near perfect. There are so many lines from the Liber NOX chapter that I absoloutly loved it's not even funny. I'd buy Liber NOX alone for that price!!
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Summary: The REAL magick of the New Aeon.
Review: Peter Carroll's two classic texts are merged into one attractive volume, giving a complete, workable system of highly adaptable magick for both the interested beginner and the "old hand" who wants to refine an existing system or craft something new from whole cloth. Valuable for occult students of any stripe, Carroll breaks the boundaries of traditional magick, redefining centuries-old theorums with fresh, insightful commentary. Particularly effective are his insights on the attainment of gnosis, i.e. achieving the proper state of mind for a ritual working, and his simple introduction to sigilization, a highly effective method of encoding one's desires into usable symbols. Although Carroll's cosmology might not be favorable to the sensibilities of all, as will be his assertation that "nothing is true and everything is permitted," there is much here for the intelligent magician willing to re-examine his or her work in a new light, based on concepts of the new "science" of Chaos. Stripping magick of religious and other trappings, Carroll has created both a great basic primer and much food for thought.
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