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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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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Greetings Asclepio,

In my estimation of the book "The Magick of Aleister Crowley - A Handbook of Rituals of Thelema", Lon Milo Duquette stated several important statemnts about the content of the Book, What level of Practitioner it was geared toward, what his reason for quoting frequently from Crowleys previous writings was, and what his level of expertise is in the Thelemic Order.

For instance; he was as straightforward about hte Rituals of Thelema as he was, because as the Injunction of Liber vel Legis indicates is that some of the material is printed in the Class A type of The Publications of the A.'.A.'., these are not to be changed in letter or meaning. you can find a listing of the Classes and their definitions on Page 25.

On Page 23 he states he is providing a suffiecient amount of information to enable the reader to "BEGIN" his or her own line of exploration. And he stated on page 23 also, "I am not a High Initiate, nor am I an exemplary specimen of the ideal Thelemite." So you can see that he was not being, in any way I can fathom, dishonest about his intentions, or his level of expertise.

The Rituals listed are those that a Minerval (Neophyte) would discover, with a couple more Advanced ones for further Practice by the Reader.

He did an excellent job in describing exactly who the Book was intended for, and what they could hope to discover in the Practice of the Rituals. Those who are not Thelemic in Nature would probably not be interested in the book, yet, The Golden Dawn Practices many of the same Rituals within their Outer Order Grades, so they both contain Ceremonial Purpose.

Respectfully,
Helel (Joseph)