Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition: A Complete Curriculum of Study for Both the Solitary Magician and the Working Magical Group (Llewell)
Author: Chic Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero
List Price: $29.95
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ISBN: 1567181368
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (June, 1995)
Sales Rank: 74,254
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
surprisingly good!
I was deeply impressed with this volume. Golden Dawn style magick is sometimes hard to come by, Regardie's "The Golden Dawn" is a reference book. You would be hard pressed to learn from it and Cicero's "The Essential Golden Dawn" is billed as a magick textbook, but it is a history book, nothing more. But finnally Cicero delivers with Self-Initiation. If you want to learn the basics of GD this is the one to get.
Rating: 4 out of 5
A must-have for any serious student of Western Magic
This is hands down the best do-it-yourself course in Magic. Challenging and well thought out, it will deliver on its promise to provide the resources for becoming a practicing Golden Dawn Magician. And even if you are already an experienced practicioner, this course is well worth working your way through to strengthen your understanding of the Art. I give it only four stars, however, because the Ciceros--in their usual way--have left out a great deal of practical instruction; e.g., a typical instruction will read something like "Now take a ritual bath and perform the LBRP..." Of course, a student who is a beginner will be baffled by this, and will not be able to glean the proper techniques from the Cicero's sketchy instructions (a skeletal outline of the LBRP is given, but it is truly the bare bones of the ritual.) This deficiency can be remedied by supplementing the course with Donald Michael Kraig's "Modern Magick" which is rich in practical instruction, but sometimes poor in intellectual depth--a feature that "Self-Initiation" has in abundance. Despite this failing, though, the solitary practioner cannot do better than this book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Folks, this is real Magick!!!
This book is for the serious. It is not a game or fantasy. This is the real deal. Do you want to be initiated? Buy this book and read it, and follow it to the letter. IT WORKS! Don't skip the introduction.If you do everything in this book you will be a magican and an initiate. This is powerful stuff that works.
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