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Title: Magician His Training and Work by Walter Ernest Butler ISBN: 0-87980-212-X Publisher: Wilshire Book Co Pub. Date: December, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Worthwhile
Comment: I agree with the previous review, I just wanted to add that I find the initial obscurity one of the great things about this book. It's written in earnest (no pun intended), and it deliberately sets out to avoid presenting the truths of magical thought 'on a plate', as so many of the more recent books on the subject attempt to do - with unfortunate results. The importance of independent thought and study is a maxim for anyone on the magical path - this book is full of useful information, and is likely to be one that the reader returns to periodically, to find that it sheds new light in unexpected areas. Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book, although a little too difficult for the begginer.
Comment: This book is one of the best I know in the subject. When I first bought it about five years ago I could recognize this fact clearly. Nonetheless, it is my opinion that this book is not for absolute begginers. When I read it for the first time I understood some things, but others escaped my comprehension. The third chapter, for example, on Qabbalah, is quite technical and philosophical, perhaps even too "stratospehrical" for readers without SOME (not neccesarily large) formation on Qabbalah. Re-reading it now, after five years of constant work and study on the subject, all these doubts have been solved... but not precisely through THIS book. There is a good section on de Middle Pillar exercise and the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, and an excelentet chapter on talismans which includes the three different and interesting theories regarding the magical charge. On the whole, it is a very good book about magical theory, and in this it is accesible even to absolute new-commers to the subject, although technicalities make it a little dense even to the experienced reader. I would say that this book is a must for students of the occult and arm-chair and practical magicians alike, but I don't give it five stars because even for the sholarly occultist it is sometimes a little hard. Nonetheless, anyone pursuing magical studies seriously should have read this book at least once. I would include it, along with Regardie's, Fortune's and Kraig's books in the list of "10 books a magician should read"
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Title: Lords of Light: The Path of Initiation in the Western Mysteries: The Teachings of the Ibis Fraternity by Walter Ernest Butler, Toni Geikie, M. A. Geikie ISBN: 0892813083 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Training & Work of an Initiate by Dion Fortune, Gareth Knight ISBN: 1578631831 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Aspects of Occultism by Dion Fortune ISBN: 1578631866 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune ISBN: 1578631505 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: 18 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic by Israel Regardie, Chic Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero ISBN: 1567181325 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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