Creating Magical Tools: The Magician's Craft [Paperback]

Chic Cicero (Author), Sandra Tabatha Cicero (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 8, 1999

Creating Magical Tools gives clear instructions on how to fabricate the wands and implements of the Golden Dawn, some of the most significant, profound, and beautiful of all the ritual tools that have ever been produced in the Western Magical Tradition. You will also learn how to create robes, altars, furniture, and more. Construct more than 60 magical implements in all.

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About the Author

Chic and Sandra Tabatha Cicero are Senior Adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.  They share an enthusiasm for the esoteric arts.  They live in Florida with their cat, Lealah, where they work and practice magic.



Sandra Tabatha Cicero is a Senior Adept of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.  

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 2 edition (October 8, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567181422
• ISBN-13: 978-1567181425
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,434,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Manual and a Must-Have, January 8, 2001

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Marsha Tomlinson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creating Magical Tools: The Magician's Craft (Paperback)

I have had the opportunity to study several different magickal traditions, including achieving the level of Adept in a Golden Dawn lodge in the Los Angeles area. As a Wiccan High Priestess and Priestess Hierophant in the Fellowship of Isis, I have always found the magickal training I received in this organization to be extremely valuable.

The Cicero's are dedicated to preserving and expanding the knowledge in the Golden Dawn system of Western ceremonial magick. Providing lists of materials and tools required for the construction of these tools along with detailed instructions and explanations of the meaning and use of each tool, this book is a must have for any magician. Clear instructions with plenty of b&w diagrams and many color plates help even the least handy of us create beautiful magical tools.

The Cicero's writing style is clear and unambiguous, providing the novice to Golden Dawn magick a sense of understanding. Too many books on Western ceremonial magick are written to confuse and obfuscate in an attempt to sound highly spiritual and magically powerful. The Cicero's have taken the responsibilities of the Hierophant to heart and know that only by providing a clear channel for the divine to manifest can they truly serve as an Expounder of the Mysteries and their books are evidence of that devotion.

I give The Magician's Craft five big stars and recommend anyone who is seriously pursuing any magickal path to add this and other Cicero books to their library.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another necessity, March 16, 2002

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This review is from: Creating Magical Tools: The Magician's Craft (Paperback)

If you're working Cicero's self-initiation, buy this book. It's clear, accessible, and gives you ideas that you can put into practice, while reminding you that your own ideas will work too.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice work!, June 25, 2000

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This is truly a nice piece of work for the Magickian that loves to craft his/her own tools. Ever think that the Magickian only has one wand? Think again! Within this book, you find several color plates of magickal tools ranging from the Enochian Watchtower tablets to the Elemental weapons and grade wands. These are really nice, too. This works with the complement to the book, The Magickian's Art, which goes into rituals dealing with consecrations and other uses. The complement is not necessary, but is still wonderful. If you ever wanted to make some of the tools, be an Golden Dawn initiate or not, then this is the book!