Magick Of Thelema, By Milo Duquette, Any Reviews? Options

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Someone recently bought me, as a present, The magick of Thelema : a handbook of the rituals of Aleister Crowley by Lon Milo Duquette, hasn't arrived yet and I'm very excited about it, BUT, I would like to know if someone has read this book, is it any good?, what would be the greatest contribution and which are his faults or soft-points?, is there anything in particular that I should stay alert for?

Is it really a comprehensive guide to thelemic magick? (which often becomes confusing to me, with all those rituals and Liber this and Liber that).

I don't know, I guess my basic doubt is, what am I to expect from this book?

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He gives a quick summery of concepts but no real meat of explanation. The rituals tend to be the same way, he outlines how to perform them in plain English.

I completely agree with Nero, which is my love/hate issue with the book.

This book will not give you the theory, or understanding that would really help for the rituals. But the rituals themselves, I find are put forth in probably the most clear manner I've seen.

I use the book whenever it's time to learn a different ritual, I'll follow Lon's sources back to the original texts, just to understand it from there, but I'll tend to use his book in the preparations, because he explains really well what the process of doing it is, and that's why I like this book.