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Title: Magick Without Tears by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0-9726583-5-1 Publisher: Thelema Media Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (21 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A tough read
Comment: I love the work of Aleister Crowley and his followers. I am deeply interested in this man that was so influential, but it didn't make the book any easier to read, and so for me it was an unrewarding chore to find the smallest tidbits of useful expantion of consiousness. If you are new to Crowleys views or Magick then I wouldn't start here for then you would probably get the least amount of assistance to start on your path. This book seemed to be made in a way that it could have been condensed to about a 50 pages mostly being made of suggestions to read other books and there importance that Crowley has written then actually reading this one. Reading the third of this book that I pushed my way through.
First it had over 20 pages of Isreal Regardies forward that was interesting but didn't really say anything other then commend Crowley for his work.
Then this book is written of letters to a woman who is interested in joining the A'A' a magickal assiociation of crowleys.
I did enjoy Crowley's views, I am not a prior reader of crowley, so I found this book to exciting and moving. The problem was that no matter how much genious Crowley was, he did not seem to write this book for the readers benifit rather it seemed a to be a rant, or to long of an explanation on subjects that are only discussed in a very very small manor, before another incomplete discussion is brought in.
As many magick books this book might be best read a chapter and serious study at a time... but realistically that isn't going to happen... and realistically this book isn't a good book to get your feet on the ground to study Magick without tears as it claims. Unless you are looking for Magick with headaches and a lot of other Crowley books to referance.
Overall if you have the opertunity to look at this book then open it up to any chapter and see if you can follow it. Trust me there isn't that much continutity between chapters so you wouldn't be missing much. Then if you like it then go ahead and spend the 20 dollars it will cost you to buy it.
Rating: 5
Summary: things to know about "Aleister Explains Everything". . .
Comment: Additional things to know about 'Magic Without Tears' :
1. Some letters are missing. Karl Germer lost them, intentionally or otherwise.( One, was erntitled 'On Pain, ' or something like that.)
2. In a large, flat, oversized book about Crowley, published about ten years ago or so, Kenneth Grant, the original secretary for these letters, published a few paragraphs he had left from a notebook, of material that was meant to be included in one particular letter.
3. A good number of these letters were never actually sent to anyone. They came from Crowley's head as ideas, and they were put down on paper in letter form. The myth of enquiring, or even begging, recipients, has no basis in fact.
This does not, however, negate the value of the letters.
Crowley wrote many letters all his life. These have yet to be collected in volume form. The bulk of the 'Tears' letters were addressed to a reading public, or potential students of Thelema, rather than to some paying 'student.' They are a kind of 'debt to posterity' or what-not, of Crowley.
4. I enjoy Regardie's intro. and perspective on this book, and his advice on how to read it. However, the unedited letters make a great read. They are even more enlightening than the edited Regardie edition. These unedited, may be read online.
5. The original edition was printed in a rather limited edition, on 8 1/2 by 11 inch typewriter paper, probably mimeographed, and bound together. Such a facsimile would be interesting to see. Yet, any complete, bound edition would be great to have. This is so, however worthy Regardie's intro. and editing efforts are for the present New Falcon edition.
There are other issues/controversies surrounding this book. The above comes from my own research, various sources. Regardie's edition is handy, and still worth acquiring, whether you are a Thelemite, a 'Golden Dawn man' like Regardie, or generally interested in an educational 'good read.'
Me? I got my copy 20 years ago, back when 'New Falcon Press' was still called 'Falcon Press.' I enjoy it very much, glued it back together once, and still have it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Letters
Comment: To attempt some originality here, this is a book consisting entirely of non sexual oriented letters exchanged between an againg Aleister Crowley and a student Cara Soror. All things magickal are discussed and black magic is delt with as being non productive. Black magic is blasphemous to the Thelemite. Necromancy is not considered black magic, but the satanic rituals of Anton LaVey are. A Thelemite can freely practice magic associated with the Druidistic/Wicca/Neo-pagan faiths freely as it does not harm others. This book certainly did shed any last sympathies I had with Anton LaVey and his intellectual and magical philosophies. I do not mean LaVey or his followers harm, this is something I grew out of with maturity in both the intellect and magickal theory. I would not want to hex anyone right now nor in the last, I don't know, maybe couple of years. Thelema is a self betterment philosophy, not a bitter philosophy.
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Title: Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0877283346 Publisher: Weiser Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Magick: Liber Aba : Book 4 (Magick Bk. 4) by Aleister Crowley, Mary Desti, Leila Waddell, Hymenaeus Beta ISBN: 0877289190 Publisher: Weiser Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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Title: Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0877285160 Publisher: Weiser Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley by Israel Regardie ISBN: 0877286701 Publisher: Weiser Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Vision & the Voice With Commentary and Other Papers: The Collected Diaries of Aleister Crowley, 1909-1914 E.V. (Equinox) by Aleister Crowley, Victor, B. Neuburg, Mary Desti ISBN: 0877289069 Publisher: Weiser Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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