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Title: The Tower of Alchemy: An Advanced Guide to the Great Work by David Goddard ISBN: 1-57863-113-0 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.47 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A highly informed approach to illuminating Alchemical keys
Comment: David Goddard's most recent contribution to the spiritual development of genuine seekers is a welcome addition to the vast tracts of alchemical scholarship. Unlike many modern authors, he fully understands the topic and his writing clearly communicates exactly how others can effectively introduce alchemy into their lives.
Students who have mired in the confusing metaphors of older alchemical doctrine will be relieved to discover the veil is lifted in this book. David Goddard's explanations of the imagery, metaphors and mysticism surrounding alchemy are clear and consise. In fact, the entire book is fully supported by adept scholarship and practical expertise.
Readers of this book are encouraged to fully participate in the process by doing the practical exercises and contemplations that are included throughout the book. The exercises are safe and easy to do, and gradually will enable the student to gain an encompassing personal understanding of alchemy.
The Tower of Alchemy is subtitled "An Advanced Guide to the Great Work." I would suggest that readers who fail to understand the depth of knowledge, scholarship, and contribution to the magickal/spiritual community made manifest in this book go back to basic magickal primers until they are ready for the Great Work. This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in Alchemy, the Qabalah, and the conjunction between Western Mystery Traditions and the Eastern Wisdom.
Rating: 5
Summary: The first text ever to reveal the secrets of alchemy.
Comment: Goddard's book is an excellent practical manual of The Great Work. Alchemy and its symbols can be quite difficult territory to navigate without a guidebook. I believe that Tower of Alchemy is the best such guidebook written to date. By use of practical exercises and contemplations, the complex imagery of the alchemical tradition is absorbed into the psyche of the practitioner, where the science of alchemy is really worked. If you are looking to unleash the potent powers of the Qabalisitic-Hermetic tradition, this is the advanced manual you need.
Rating: 1
Summary: This work betrays a real lack of originality
Comment: Much that is contained in this book has been taken word-for-word, and sentence-for-sentence, from some of the works/authors cited by Goddard.
In my opinion, when you quote stuff verbatim from other writers, you should at least enclose that material in quote-marks, so that the readers know to whom to give true credit for what is said. Goddard does this on occasion, but I have found many instances in this book where no credit whatsoever is given to the true source.
I know nothing of the SOL group of which Goddard was a supervisor, but one other reviewer obviously knows alot about this group, and says that Goddard has taken their material (almost unchanged) without giving due credit. I believe it!
This work is self-congratulatory, in that he keeps implying repeatedly that 'HE IS A SAGE!!!". It is rare to find other books where the author keeps patting themselves on that back. And he says that on one occasion, he was "allowed to guard the red powder" for his master, when his master when on some kind of business/pleasure trip. Yeah sure, I guess that the red powder was kept inside one of the rooms of the tower... (tee hee hee)... meaning of course, that it is all in his mind.
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Title: The Sacred Magic of the Angels by David Goddard ISBN: 0877288623 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation by Dennis William Hauck ISBN: 0140195718 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Alchemy Unveiled by Johannes Helmond, Gerhard Hanswille ISBN: 1885928084 Publisher: Merkur Pub Co Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Alchemists Handbook: (Manual for Practical Laboratory Alchemy by Frater Albertus ISBN: 0877286558 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: June, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Magical Use of Thought Forms: A Proven System of Mental & Spiritual Empowerment by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, J. H. Brennan ISBN: 1567180841 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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