Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69864 in Books
• Published on: 1987-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

Amazing stuff written in a pompus and annoying manner.
What almost everyone says in the other reviews is true. The writing style is annoying, his attitude is pompus and overbearing, and you regularly want to throw the book to the other side of the room. but I've given it five stars because if you can get beyond these stylistic points the book has wonderful, unique, content. A book that has stayed with me, physically or otherwise, for years.

The single most important magickal work of the 90s
Peter Carroll has managed to construct the first genuinely innovative magickal technique in many, many years, unafraid of causing offense and controversy as he does so. A startlingly honest stripping down of magickal techniques, removing the glamour to see the raw psychology which lies underneath. Carroll has managed to present a workable, results-oriented system of sorcery that dispenses with the need to learn pompous and unnecessary magickal terminologies before putting one's Will into effect. Buy this book.

Ambitious, not only because it looks at black & white magick
The book does have an allure when you first look at it. The contents page and the illustrations emit an intriguing fascination. However once you start reading this fades away to become only 'interesting'. I had never heard of the IOT before. Both books make the almost pioneering step of not only mentioning the prime Magical dual (Black and White) but adumbrating techniques in both. Some of the material discussed is truly shocking. The author has ambitiously defined Magical terms (invocation, evocation, enchantment, sorcery and more) that the beginner would probably think of as synonomous. It is, from the standpoint of categorisation, a very fine work. Would I recommend it? To the beginner yes. However I feel the book lacks the quality of specialisation that even an intermediate Magician is after. It is more a work of philosophy than specific technique. To be honest I don't think I would read it again, but it has it's place on my book shelf.