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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting read if a bit frustrating,
By Palomayombe (San Diego, California USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: An Age for Lucifer: Predatory Spirituality and the Quest for Godhood (Paperback)
I found Tucker's book to be of great interest as an essay on the psychology of an aspect of Western humanity and I am writing this review partly as a corrective to the previous two because they are so misleading. The first reviewer is under the singular impression that Tucker is giving an account of the practices of some easily identifiable group. He is not. He is presenting a profile of a personality type and a development he considers to be significant. The second reviewer makes the same mistake as evidenced in his mistaken belief that the author is developing an argument in favor of something. His purpose is descriptive, not prescriptive. Look at the reviewer's reference to people on the "Dark Path." Then look at Tucker's page 202: "He {i.e., the Luciferan} believes that God is only a term referring to ultimate power, dominance and control." Obviously this person has not read the book with any care. Similarly wide of the mark is his remark about predation in nature. It is the general concept/behavior (i.e., thinking of others as "food" and destroying them to perpetuate oneself) that Tucker is primarily concerned with, not the various ways in which this principle plays out in the animal world. The frustrating aspect of the book for me is its focus on the West. The few references to the East indicate that the author is not really aware of the fact that what he is describing is a latter-day perverted Western version of an aspect of Saivism. Starting from the same premises (that all beings advance themselves at the expense of other existences) these magician-sages of India, who exist in the margins of their society, cultivate powers that have nothing to do with Darwinian notions (Saivism dates from the earliest period of the present humanity) or commonplace human interactions. By contrast, these Luciferans are just standard Western Alpha types or glorified pimps. Read Alain Danielou's "While the Gods Play" and "Shiva and Dionysus" to place what Tucker says in a larger context. From sound premises, the Luciferan personality is drawing mistaken conclusions.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An inefficient predator,
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This review is from: An Age for Lucifer: Predatory Spirituality and the Quest for Godhood (Paperback)
The author has fallen into the trap of dividing the animal world into herds and preditors. Ecologically the most sucessful preditors have been pack hunters. If he had understood this, he might have developed his argument for Promethian Satanism more convincingly. As it is, he has missed the mark with regard to love. No K-selected species can endure with out it, since it allows for the investment in progeny. His view that to a Luciferan the ultimate predation is predation of God, I found odd, since I haven't found many on the Dark Path who take God seriously. On the positive side,this book does point out the distain many feel for agape. It was a valiant attempt, and the logic sound, in that, the conclusions did flow from the premises. A better grasp of Ecology should improve his next book.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A very shallow exposition based on conjecture and error.,
By A Customer
This review is from: An Age for Lucifer: Predatory Spirituality and the Quest for Godhood (Paperback)
After finally obtaining a copy of this text I was inundated with material that, at times perilously threatened to veer into accuracy, only to save its obscure goal by darting away into the least practical hypothesis presentable.The author either has no idea about Luciferan practices or actually is a most devoted one attempting to save the tradition from the ignorant by jumbling and clouding the perceptions of others while making a pretty penny off their back. I am only grateful that I borrowed the text instead of purchasing it. All in all a total waste of perfectly good paper and ink.
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