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Summary: Ignore Tyson's Own Agenda
Review: A very good reference work on Enochian Magick which unfortunately veers into Christian Fundamentalism as Tyson expounds his own private version of the Apocalypse. Tyson also designed two of his own unique Enochian typefaces for this work. I wish that he had stuck to presenting the source material itself in a usable fashion rather than attempting to convince us about the Book of Revelations and Satanic influences "immanentizing the Eschaton".
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Summary: A useful textbook to accompany the original material
Review: Donald Tyson is a respected author who has devoted a fair amount of his life to the mastery of every known branch of ritual magic. While his conclusions are largely in the form of personal insight, he provides a large amount of research to back up his theories and conclusions. What I, personally, find useful, is his commentary on the golden dawn version of enochian magic, compared to what we now know is the full cycle of text (much of which was unknown to the founders of the GD when they created their "most perfect system of magic"). He provides bibliographic references, allowing the reader to peruse the same texts for themselves, and is always careful to note when a remark is based on some bit of cannonical text, or his own experience and insight.This book does not stand alone, however. I would suggest, at the very least, also having Causabon's "A True and Faithful Relation" and Laycock's "Enochian Dictionary" as supplimental material to use with this book. If, however, you truly wish to understand the depth and potential of Enochian magic, this book is a highly useful platform to begin from.
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Summary: Three-fourths scholarly, one-fourth loony.
Review: For the greater part, Tyson's book is a reasonably accurate review of the material in Dee's diaries. So long as you are using it solely as a reference for the basic elements of the system, you won't go wrong. However, he tends to "interpret" unresolvable ambiguities in the material according to his own view without ever noting that there are ambiguities. He also selectively quotes the original material to support his views; a substantially different sense of what was said sometimes arises when the material itself is studied. Where Tyson really crashes and burns is in his association of the Enochian material with the apocalypse, particularly in his belief that the Calls are meant to bring about the end of the world. Here he combines Christian fundamentalist myth with elements of H.P. Lovecraft's fictional horror universes; there is nothing in the original to support his ideas.
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Summary: lots of detail and history for such a small book
Review: I suggest starting out with "modern magick" by donald michael kraig before studing or even practicing the enochian system,for it is very very complex,just because it says it's for beginners really means for someone who has some knowledge of the actual enochian system or has actually been taught and feels comfortable enough to go ahead, he does put a little to much in the book to "start off"with,and it should just be a refrence guide at first.otherwise enjoy and be safe. love,life and light
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Summary: Impressing Order Upon the Chaotic
Review: I was thrilled to receive my copy of this book and consumed it within 24 hours. Mr. Tyson does an admirable job of impressing order upon the many and sundry symbols, numbers and deities that make up Enochian Magic. I do wonder however if there can really be a beginners book on this subject. Certainly not one of less than 400 pages I should think. While Mr. Tyson clearly outlines the methods of transmission and transmutations of Enochian and gives a sufficient nod to the history of the origins, his book left no room for the mention of the Angelic Alphabet or of theories other than his own. Having said that, I did think some of Mr. Tyson's theories were quite compelling. I am a relative newcomer to the subject and I must say that many jumbled facts are now much more cohesive for having read this book. I plan to read it again to get the most out of it and am quite happy to have spent the money for it. It fills a niche (novice) better than anything else I've seen. Thanks Mr. Tyson for a good read.
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Summary: Not so bad....but OK
Review: There was some stuff that was hard to understand. But I guess it was me. As for a beginner, I believe this book is a good source of Dr. John Dee's and Edward Kelley's works. It shows the basic knowledge of Enochian Magick. Although it WILL TAKE AWHILE TO ABSORB THE INFORMATION. There is a lot of information in this book, and it may even take as much as reading the book twice or so to understand the basic concept. Enochian Magick is very complex and I believe the author probably had a hard time to organize the information but I think he just did fine. I recomend others to use "Enochian Magic: A Practical Manual" along with this book to get a good introduction to the complex system of Enochian and the Angelic Magick.
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Summary: Please be careful
Review: This is a good book to learn the basics (? ) of enochian magick. This system is quite complicated but well introduced by the author. I should like to urge the reader attention to the level of danger one deals with when using the Enochian teqnuiques; please bear in mind that the Golden Dawn required years of study of QBL, Tarots and the Hebrew alphabet BEFORE giving out any information on Enochian Magick; I'd suggest to also read the work of REGARDIE before dwelling into Enochian Magick. Please be careful.
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Summary: Capably fulfills its promise.
Review: This is one of the best books overall, and possibly the only truly introductory book written, on Enochian magic as it was presented to Dee and Kelly. Tyson's scholarship is particularly gratifying when compared to other authors in the field; unlike some writers, he avoids misrepresenting his sources and clearly labels his own conjectures and theories as such.
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Summary: I wonder about the author's motives...
Review: This is the most concise and readable book detailing the contents of Dr. Dee's "Enochian" diaries. But the author puts forth some strange speculation that the purporse of this system of magic is to bring about the Apocalypse! But what the heck -- go ahead and try it out. In spite never giving a good explanation of why one should be pursuing destructive (in the author's view) practices, the book is informative and entertaining. Enochian magic would be time-consuming and expensive to perform, certainly not worth the trouble. This book is useful for explaining the basics of John Dee's delusion of the occult to those who are just a little bit curious.
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Summary: A useful textbook to accompany the original material
Review: This wasn't great because it promised some sort of holy magic, but it had too much ritual and no real incanted stuff. I wasn't too impressed with it. True magic comes from the heart and the soul by way of focused prayer, and this was just more nonsense.
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