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Occult Encyclopedia of Magic Squares: Planetary Angels and Spirits of Ceremonial Magic

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the author goes to great lengths to cover all angles he could think of, though the majority of it is not useful for talisman work, nor general Kabbalah formula
This is not a encyclopedia, nor does it have cubes and triangles as are suggested on the cover
I would only suggest reading pages XXVI to XXXVIII, this is only 13 pages
If you are looking for a book that would help with Magic Squares, or information on Talismans and the Kabbalah, I would suggest buy other books

If you want to have charts available, it makes a good reference. If your goal is to learn how to make the various magic squares and understand the correspondences associated with the squares, look elsewhere.

This book is every bit as comprehensive as promised, but I found the rather large amount of information to be of limited practical value (if it has any practical value at all). This is because what is provided is incomplete.

The book begins with a "quick guide" which describes much of the theory behind the squares. There is a lot of esoteric information there, but from my point of view there is very little actual knowledge shared. For example: the author talks about elemental squares associated with planets and how we can focus on an element for a specific planet, but says nothing about how the different elements relate to the different planets. The author also gives basic information about how some squares have angels and djinn associated with them as well as some basic information about planetary and numerical correspondences, but information about how all these different squares are derived is at best incomplete and at worse sketchy.

The above examples are just a few examples and are relatively small compared to others I can give. The entire "quick guide" is like this. There is a lot of information in the text, but no real knowledge provided.

My biggest disappointment came when I read the "Benefits and Uses" section of the Quick Guide, where the author says that if a magic square was "created and empowered properly, a magic square is the only talisman you actually need to get wicked results". Then in the next paragraph: "I will be covering the complete process in depth in a book dedicated to this topic". In other words, we have all of these squares, whose derivation is incompletely explained, that are supposed to be powerful if used right, yet we will have to wait and buy another book in order to learn how to properly use them???

Frankly, I would prefer to have had a less comprehensive list of different squares, and a more comprehensive explanation of how the ones provided were derived and, most importantly, how to properly create and empower them. As it is, the book has a lot of information that, until the author publishes something that explains them more completely, is nice to have but not very useful to anyone.

I have seen and read several books written by Nineveh Shadrach, and I have a great deal of respect for this person. It is clear that Shadrach has a lot of knowledge and is someone worth learning from. Unfortunately, this book shows that there is a real problem conveying the knowledge of the subject of magic squares. It has more than 700+ pages of information that looks impressive but, in the end, is largely unusable even by advanced practitioners. Until something more down- to- earth comes out, with real practical methodologies for using these squares that can be tested by other practitioners, this book is going to sit on a dark corner of my bookshelf, gathering dust. I expect that Nineveh Shadrach would understand my attitude. After all, the first rule of Practice is that you should understand the Praxis before using anything in your Practice. Shadrach provides no real Praxis in this book. Practitioners, be warned...

This book is what it claims to be and then some! It is absolutely overflowing with magic squares that would take the average practitioner a lifetime to calculate and catalog. The squares that are given to the magician in this book are priceless and their usefulness instantly apparent. Need a specific outcome? Know the name of the spirit/angel you want to work with? Look up the square and create your talisman specifically designed for that one entity. No need to cloud your rituals with broad unfocused energies.

The Encyclopedia even begins with a ritual for creating a talisman which could be used as a blank template for creating any Magic Square Talisman if you had no other reference from which to draw.

Anyone that has been practicing magic for any length of time has undoubtedly run across a few rituals for creating talismans and squares. If not, there a few good step by step rituals in Love Healing Prosperity Through Occult Powers of the Alphabet by Shadrach as well and in the books mentioned in the review by Sayed.

Even Britannica explains HOW magicians derived squares. Having these squares already completed for you is a Godsend.

This book is not a beginners guide to magick squares, so if you're unfamiliar with how to make them work than the information in this book will be useless until you do.

With that being said, since I do know how to use magick squares, this is an AWESOME BOOK!

This book has 700 pages packed with magick squares. This is truly a tome in the art of talismanic work, if you know how to use them.

If you don't know how to use magick squares, still buy this book, and when your karma improves and you attract the correct knowledge to put the information into use you will have in your hands an entire encyclopedia of talismans of raw power to be used for spiritual or mundane matters.

Hint:

In order to fully charge a square you need set up a tripod and have it spin when it's fully ensouled, if it doesn't spin it's not charged. The talisman should spin without any external agency like your breath or a wind in your work space. Make SURE all doors and windows are closed, the last thing you want to do is to make a talisman and get a false positive because of a breeze.

You will need to learn the extract the names of power for the entities you wish to work with, and then chant the nomen daily at least a couple hundred times until the talisman spins, which could take weeks of sessions of chanting.

True ancient magick produces tangible results, it takes hard work and dedication, but in the end it's truly worth it.

There's no such thing as a free lunch!