The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick [Paperback]

Jason Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2009

This book is about real magick, effecting real change, in a real world.

There are some books on magick that teach it purely as spiritual advancement. Others teach it as a form of psychological self-help that effects only inner change. While magick can and should be both of these, it is also something more. The Sorcerer's Secrets is about success in practical magick; it is a book that aims at changing both the outer and inner worlds.

Beyond a mere spell book or training course, The Sorcerer's Secrets is a field manual on successful sorcery written by a professional sorcerer. The first part of the book lays out the qualities, concepts, and exercises necessary to attempt practical magick. The second part presents clear strategies for tackling almost any type of issue with sorcery.

You will learn how to:

* Attack problems from multiple angles, not just by casting a spell.

* Blend mundane and magickal action to ensure success.

* Figure out whether what you are doing is working, and fix it if it isn't.

* Go beyond readings, into magickal intelligence-gathering.

* Influence the minds of other people.

* Work most effectively on behalf of others.

The Sorcerer's Secrets will help rescue the art of Magick from those who have ignored, downplayed, or just outright denied the existence of practical sorcery in favor of arcane titles, intangible results, and fantasy attainments.

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About the Author

Jason Miller (Inominandum) has devoted the last 20 years to studying magick in its many forms. He has traveled to New Orleans to study Hoodoo, Europe to study Witchcraft and Ceremonial Magick, and Nepal to study Tantra. Miller is a member of the Chthonic Ouranian Temple and the Sangreal Sodality, as well as an initiated Tantrika in the Nyingma and Bon lineages of Tibet. He is the author of Protection & Reversal Magick: A Witch's Defense Manual and the Strategic Sorcery blog. He is also a regular contributor to Behutet magazine. Miller lives with his wife on the New Jersey shore, where he practices and teaches magick professionally.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: New Page Books (August 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 160163059X
• ISBN-13: 978-1601630599
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #253,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jason Miller (Rev. Inominandum) has devoted the last 17 years to studying Witchcraft and Magick in its many forms. He has traveled to and lived in New Orleans to study Hoodoo, in Europe to study Witchcraft, and in Nepal to study tantra. Miller is a member of the Chthonic Ouranian Temple, the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Sangreal Sodality, as well as an initiated Tantrika in the Nyingma and Bon lineages of Tibet. He is a regular contributor to Behutet, a journal of Magick. Miller lives with his wife on the New Jersey shore, where he practices and teaches Magick professionally. His website is www.Tantrickery.com.

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52 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, practical advice, but quickly written and it shows, September 5, 2009

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This review is from: The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick (Paperback)

Overall, I felt that The Sorcerer's Secrets offered something most books on the occult don't: solid strategies for successful magic without pretense or froofroo theory. Miller focuses on techniques and strategies more than on spells, and he draws techniques from sources both magical and mundane. He's also eclectic without falling into the hard relativism one so often finds in eclectic works. I found a few of his techniques unique -- they clearly derive from someone who does real magic rather than someone just fantasizing about what they would do. I'd recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand how magic can cause practical changes in life.

Two flaws mar the book for me, though. First, and most seriously, it cites its sources rather haphazardly. There's a Greek invocation, for example, with a transliteration that will be of no use (as it doesn't distinguish vowel length), yet there's no citation for the original to look it up. There's a footnote, but it's not a proper citation, merely a thanks to the translator. Such lapses are common and a serious flaw for me. A less serious flaw is the apparently complete absence of an editor. Sentences will often have multiple verbs (one, usually the second one, more precise than the other, which tells me that this is an artifact of hasty revising); verbs will not agree with subjects; apostrophes are sprinkled in with no regard for any grammatical convention. Most people might find that trivial, but it drives me nuts, and in more than several places actively interferes with the reading process. In one place, he intimates that the book went from writing to the shelf in eight months. That's fast, and it shows. The book still gets four stars, because the information is that good, but it needs an editor.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If You Actually Want To *Do* Something, This Is the Book You Need!, August 26, 2009

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Persephone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick (Paperback)

I loved Jason Miller's first book, Protection & Reversal Magick: A Witch's Defense Manual (Beyond 101), because it provided immediately useful solutions to problems that are extremely common in our world. This book takes it to the next level with strategies to accomplish most of what one could imagine using practical magick to do.

Whatever your background in magick, or even if you lack any formal training, you will find things in this book you can use. Drawing on over 20 years of experience in magick from all over the world, Miller puts together the best from many traditions, along with NLP and a healthy dose of common sense.

If you are someone who wants to achieve real world results with your magick, this book will show you how to do that. And beyond that, you'll find tech you can start using right away. While Miller includes excellent advice for developing a practice that will strengthen any spell work you choose to do, he includes lots of little tricks and tips you can try the minute you put down the book.

I like the no-nonsense way that Miller approaches magick in both of his books. If you don't have a lot of time to waste but you want your magick to work -- and especially if you're facing some pretty serious challenges and aren't finding the tech you need in other books -- pick up this book, read it, and get to work!

Persephone

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not as good as the first, September 23, 2009

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ed1300 "ed1300" (Boston, Ma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick (Paperback)

I liked this work. But, I do have a few problems with it. First it is not for a beginner, there are topics and techniques that are assumed the magician has already developed and has a good grasp of the underlying magickal process. The second problem: Though the spells and excerpts are great and given in another language, there is no pronunciation key. I think someone else mentioned this. The third is not so much a problem as a lacking. It lacks depth. This should have been a much longer book for the amount of information he covers. It almost seemed like he wanted to put his entire practice into a single book and only managed to give an overview instead of an extensive commentary. I do like how he takes magickal as well as mundane advice and weaves them together. Some of the techniques are also not detailed enough to really work them. I wish Miller would have taken a little longer before releasing this book, perhaps he will add a second or volume 2 for this one, one that delves further into explanations and answers the questions this one creates.