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The New Magus: Ritual Magic as a Personal Process (Llewellyn's High Magick)

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I felt that this book was a good primer for those who are novice occult practicioners. I especially liked the cautionary emphasis regarding the consequences that certain activities would yield. This book points the magical initiate in the direction of spiritual growth and protection rather than the misuse of the divine spirit, for which I am personally grateful. The material contained within this book will require some study and cross-referencing, but overall it is a viable path to select for one's personal development as a magus.

I don't know why people tend to not like this book. It was given to me by my father when I was 13 and I fell madly in love with it! The Symbolism is beautifully overwhelming and it has helped me in ritual a lot! Donald Tyson is byfar an occult genius!

The book has some good information. But his knowledge of the runes are way off and the Christian overtones just made me sick. Otherwise there are some good things to be read and learned from this book. Sometimes he can be a bit boring though.

Not a fan of this work. As a matter of fact, with the exception of Liber Lilith, I'm not a fan of any of Tyson's works. Definitely not what I'd recommend for any student. There are a few gems within this work, but the neophyte or new student wouldn't be able to separate them from the lumps of coal, which make up 98% of the corpus

Whereas the book does give a general over-veiw of magick, it did turn me off to evocation many years ago. It was about seven years ago when I first picked it up, and I did read it throughly. However, Tyson's Christian veiw did speak out on his section on Evocation. I remember reading something along the lines of the pagan gods being nothing more than demons, and not to go anywhere near them. It was not until a year later until I figured out that it was just wish-wash that he had written. Outside of this section, the book is decent, but with a few more errors.