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Offramp

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Oct 23, 2009, 9:57:44 AM10/23/09
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What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the last 2
tears?

I really liked Don Milo LaQuest's "The Magick of Aleister Crowley".

Highly recommended!

Alrah

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Oct 23, 2009, 10:09:50 AM10/23/09
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On 23 Oct, 14:57, Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I really liked Don Milo LaQuest's "The Magick of Aleister Crowley".
>
> Highly recommended!

I enjoyed Richard T. Cole's 'Thelema Revisited - In search of Alester
Crowley' recently. Also highly recommended. :-)

Erwin Hessle

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Oct 23, 2009, 11:52:58 AM10/23/09
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On Oct 23, 9:57 am, Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the last 2
> tears?

The last time I had "2 tears" I was too young to buy books.

Erwin Hessle, 8=3

Alrah

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Oct 23, 2009, 12:02:26 PM10/23/09
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*rolls eyes*

You note the 't' is positioned next to the 'y' on the keyboard?

Pose of hardman noted. lol.

Voyd

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Oct 23, 2009, 1:13:03 PM10/23/09
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None.

There hasn't been a decent book published on the subject in ages. Most
of what does hit the shelves is a rehash of material already long in
print.

Listen to the wind, read the clouds in the sky, you'll find mote magick
there than in the bookstore.

And btw. It's DuQuette, not LaQuest.

--
Voyd

Erwin Hessle

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Oct 23, 2009, 1:28:55 PM10/23/09
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On Oct 23, 1:13 pm, Voyd <V...@null.com> wrote:

> Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the last 2
> > tears?
>
> > I really liked Don Milo LaQuest's "The Magick of Aleister Crowley".
>
> And btw. It's DuQuette, not LaQuest.

You complete knobhead.

Erwin Hessle, 8=3

Alex Sumner

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Oct 23, 2009, 2:29:31 PM10/23/09
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"Offramp" <alane...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the last 2
> tears?

This is a bit of a cheat, but technically I did buy it, as I ordered a load
of copies for promotional use and for presents. It is:

"The Magus" by Alex Sumner. A lurid tale of murder, horror and gruesome
black magick rituals. http://www.amazon.com/Magus-Alex-Sumner/dp/1409288110

Regards,

AS


mika

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Oct 23, 2009, 3:10:13 PM10/23/09
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On Oct 23, 11:29 am, "Alex Sumner" wrote:
>
> This is a bit of a cheat, but technically I did buy it, as I ordered a load
> of copies for promotional use and for presents. It is:
>
> "The Magus" by Alex Sumner. A lurid tale of murder, horror and gruesome
> black magick rituals.http://www.amazon.com/Magus-Alex-Sumner/dp/1409288110
>
> Regards,
>
> AS

Do you really want us to buy your book through Amazon? yeesh! Why
not at least pimp Lulu?
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-magus/7274304

Alrah

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Oct 23, 2009, 3:18:39 PM10/23/09
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Yeah - also - Tony Bennet from Knockabout comics is a good guy to talk
to if you want distribution in the UK. He's an old hippy with good
business sense - he's fair, and he won't rip you off.

I could check the other smaller distributors and see if they're in
business. It's been a while since I published anything.

Evergreen

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Oct 23, 2009, 4:14:50 PM10/23/09
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Why recommend a book by someone with no demonstrable magickal
skills?

Crowley couldn't even cure himself of a disease that forced him
to become a junkie.

Theatrical woo-woo and magick are not the same thing.

Sid

--
Sidney Lambe
Wiccan Priest and Apprentice Magician
http://tinyurl.com/7vs9zb
usenet4444 (at) gmail (dot) com

Alrah

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Oct 23, 2009, 4:36:24 PM10/23/09
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On 23 Oct, 21:14, Evergreen <sidneyla...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> On alt.magick, Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the
> > last 2 tears?
>
> > I really liked Don Milo LaQuest's "The Magick of Aleister
> > Crowley".
>
> > Highly recommended!
>
> Why recommend a book by someone with no demonstrable magickal
> skills?

In your opinion - what qualifies as 'demonstrable magickal skill'?

> Crowley couldn't even cure himself of a disease that forced him
> to become a junkie.

Jesus couldn't stop himself from being pinned up on a cross, the
Buddha couldn't stop himself from eating a bad bit of pork and dying
from food posioning. They were also Magus. You gotta go sometime.
*shrug*

HG

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Oct 23, 2009, 4:44:22 PM10/23/09
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Offramp <alane...@gmail.com> writes:

> What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the last 2
> tears?


One of Erwin Hessle's little booklets from Lulu.com.

Can't really point out which one of them is the best. I especially like "The
Point of View of the Sun", "True Will" and "The Khabs is in the Khu", and I
would heartily recommend "Fundamentals of Thelemic Practise" as a starting
point.


But if we disregard your two year time limit, my choice would be Crowley's
"Book of Lies", as the best book on magick in my bookshelf, period.


(I'd also like to mention Guy Ritchie's "Revolver", even though it's a movie
and not a book.)


HG

Alrah

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Oct 23, 2009, 5:20:39 PM10/23/09
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On 23 Oct, 21:44, HG <h...@iki.fi> wrote:

*alrah is resolute and determined not ...to say a thing.*

Offramp

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Oct 24, 2009, 4:48:58 AM10/24/09
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I have that as well, and I also really enjoyed it. Very funny, just as
Crowley would have wanted it.

Offramp

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Oct 24, 2009, 4:51:45 AM10/24/09
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On 23 Oct, 18:13, Voyd <V...@null.com> wrote:
> Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I really liked Don Milo LaQuest's "The Magick of Aleister Crowley".

> And btw. It's DuQuette, not LaQuest.

I was not being serious. His name always looks like an anagram to me.

Offramp

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Oct 24, 2009, 5:00:16 AM10/24/09
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On 23 Oct, 19:29, "Alex Sumner" <alex_sum...@NOSPAMyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> "Offramp" <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote in message

I want to buy it but it is not on UK Amazon at the moment. It IS on
the LULU site, and the price is on pounds. So I'll get it from there.
Did the North Carolina Baptists but any for their book-burning?

Voyd

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Oct 24, 2009, 12:50:58 PM10/24/09
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Go away

--
Voyd

Erwin Hessle

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Oct 24, 2009, 2:21:40 PM10/24/09
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> Go away, you're making me look foolish.

No.

Erwin Hessle, 8=3

Alrah

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Oct 25, 2009, 5:28:12 AM10/25/09
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On 23 Oct, 17:13, Voyd <V...@null.com> wrote:

> Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the last 2
> > tears?
>
> > I really liked Don Milo LaQuest's "The Magick of Aleister Crowley".
>
> > Highly recommended!
>
> None.
>
> There hasn't been a decent book published on the subject in ages. Most
> of what does hit the shelves is a rehash of material already long in
> print.
>
> Listen to the wind, read the clouds in the sky, you'll find mote magick
> there than in the bookstore.

I like watching the flight path of birds and hearing them calling to
one another as they fly. It's quite a feat of formation flying,
especially with starlings and swifts.

Voyd

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Oct 25, 2009, 7:10:30 PM10/25/09
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Misquoting actually makes you look foolish and shows you to be on the
defensive

Leave

Now

--
Voyd

Voyd

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Oct 25, 2009, 7:10:29 PM10/25/09
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Aye, natural phenomena write a much better book on the subject than can
anyone still trapped in the ego.

And anyone free of ego simply doesn't care enough to bother


--
Voyd

Offramp

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Oct 27, 2009, 6:21:15 AM10/27/09
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On 23 Oct, 19:10, mika <mika...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 23, 11:29 am, "Alex Sumner"  wrote:

> Do you really want us to buy your book through Amazon?  yeesh!  Why


> not at least pimp Lulu?http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-magus/7274304

Thanks for alerting me to Lulu. It is a pity there is no version based
in the UK...

Tom

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Oct 27, 2009, 10:50:54 AM10/27/09
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On Oct 23, 1:14 pm, Evergreen <sidneyla...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
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> Why recommend a book by someone with no demonstrable magickal
> skills?

Does Sid now claim that he has "demonstrable magickal skills"? Last I
heard from him, he said he didn't, but was hoping to develop some
someday.

> Theatrical woo-woo and magick are not the same thing.

Neither is Usenet bullshit the same thing as magick.

Evergreen

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Oct 27, 2009, 3:29:40 PM10/27/09
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On alt.magick, Evergreen <sidne...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> On alt.magick, Offramp <alane...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the
>> last 2 tears?
>>
>> I really liked Don Milo LaQuest's "The Magick of Aleister
>> Crowley".
>>
>> Highly recommended!
>
> Why recommend a book by someone with no demonstrable magickal
> skills?
>
> Crowley couldn't even cure himself of a disease that forced him
> to become a junkie.
>
> Theatrical woo-woo and magick are not the same thing.

I see that that obnoxious and stupid person who sometimes
calls himself "Tom" has replied to my post.

He knows I don't read his worthless articles.

Tom

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Oct 28, 2009, 1:55:27 AM10/28/09
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On Oct 27, 12:29 pm, Evergreen <sidneyla...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
> I see that that obnoxious and stupid person who sometimes
> calls himself "Tom" has replied to my post.

Hi, Sid.

> He knows I don't read his worthless articles.

But he's nagged by my point of view anyway. It's uncanny how it just
won't stop biting him. It's like he just can't shake that feeling
that maybe he's really only fooling himself, no matter how hard he
tries.

Evergreen

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Oct 28, 2009, 3:13:28 AM10/28/09
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On alt.magick, Evergreen <sidne...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> On alt.magick, Evergreen <sidne...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> On alt.magick, Offramp <alane...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the
>>> last 2 tears?
>>>
>>> I really liked Don Milo LaQuest's "The Magick of Aleister
>>> Crowley".
>>>
>>> Highly recommended!
>>
>> Why recommend a book by someone with no demonstrable magickal
>> skills?
>>
>> Crowley couldn't even cure himself of a disease that forced him
>> to become a junkie.
>>
>> Theatrical woo-woo and magick are not the same thing.
>
> I see that that obnoxious and stupid person who sometimes
> calls himself "Tom" has replied to my post.
>
> He knows I don't read his worthless articles.

I have just dumped another reply from "Tom" (plus 4 other posts
of his), confident that I have missed nothing worth knowing.

If he'd ever shut his punk mouth, he might learn something
worth sharing.

Tom

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Oct 28, 2009, 3:33:41 PM10/28/09
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On Oct 28, 12:13 am, Evergreen <sidneyla...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
> I have just dumped

I guess the prunes finally worked.

Melkor

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Oct 30, 2009, 9:03:18 AM10/30/09
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:57:44 -0700 (PDT), Offramp <alane...@gmail.com> wrote:

>What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the last 2
>tears?
>
>I really liked Don Milo LaQuest's "The Magick of Aleister Crowley".
>
>Highly recommended!

in the last 2 tears?, none........but my last acquired for my library is 1923 edition of Eliphas Levi's "Transcendtal Magic", red cover, great condition; costly.

Mage Baragund "Melkor"

Alrah

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Oct 30, 2009, 2:08:41 PM10/30/09
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On 30 Oct, 13:03, Melkor <morg...@terra.com> wrote:

> in the last 2 tears?,    none........but my last acquired for my library is 1923 edition of Eliphas Levi's  "Transcendtal Magic",  red cover, great condition;  costly.
>
> Mage Baragund "Melkor"

*wince*

I mean - if you collect books as investments (as I used to) - great!
But I got a cheap paperback copy of EL's 'TM' a few years ago for
£1.99.

Melkor

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Nov 2, 2009, 9:45:12 PM11/2/09
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I understand, I have newer and cheaper copies of many books........yes, the 1923 edition is for investment and my private collection.

Mage Baragund, "Melkor"


Robert Scott Martin

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Nov 7, 2009, 9:02:26 PM11/7/09
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In article <184bba46-c494-4e01...@d23g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>,
Offramp <alane...@gmail.com> wrote:

>What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the last 2
>tears?

Cesare della Riviera, Il mondo magico de Gli Heroi.

Close runner-up, Znuz is Znees II.

Honorary mention, Alice Bertha Gomme, Traditional Games of England,
Scotland & Ireland

Tehiru

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Nov 8, 2009, 2:24:57 AM11/8/09
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The Prophet. Khalil Gibran.

Slarty

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Nov 8, 2009, 5:24:29 AM11/8/09
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On Oct 23, 6:09 am, Alrah <alrah-pub...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 Oct, 14:57, Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I really liked Don Milo LaQuest's "The Magick of Aleister Crowley".
>
> > Highly recommended!
>
> I enjoyed Richard T. Cole's 'Thelema Revisited - In search of Alester
> Crowley' recently.  Also highly recommended.  :-)

If the title is indicative, I'd love to give that 1 a real good scan @
least.

Slarty

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Nov 8, 2009, 5:33:27 AM11/8/09
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On Oct 23, 5:57 am, Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the last 2
> tears?


The only book on the I magick I've BOUGHT in the last several years is
the I Ching (excuse me, I bought the witches qbl, by Ellen Cannon
Reed, recently). There are so many goodish renditions. This is
appearantly not a great time for high magick publishing; tho it was a
decade ago and 2 decades ago; even 2 and 1/2 decades ago.

Tom

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Nov 8, 2009, 1:28:56 PM11/8/09
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On Nov 8, 2:33 am, Slarty <thaddeus.sl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 23, 5:57 am, Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What is the best book on Magick that you have bought in the last 2
> > tears?
>
> The only book on the I magick I've BOUGHT in the last several years is
> the I Ching (excuse me, I bought the witches qbl, by Ellen Cannon
> Reed, recently).  There are so many goodish renditions.  This is
> appearantly not a great time for high magick publishing; tho it was a
> decade ago and 2 decades ago; even 2 and 1/2 decades ago.

I suppose it depends a lot on what you consider "magick". I've read
lots of books recently that deal with various subjects that relate to
magick, so are those books on magick? The authors would not be
inclined to say so. It's merely my own application of the information
they provide that connects them to "magick". If a "book on Magick" is
a book about the collection of occult practices and beliefs in Europe
and North America over the past 100 years or so, that's quite a
different thing from books on Eastern philosophy stretching back a
couple thousand years or so.

Books on modern ceremonial magick, the kind practiced by the guy who
re-introduced the term "magick" to modern parlance, are almost never
financially successful and never have been.

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

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Nov 8, 2009, 4:37:26 PM11/8/09
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Tehiru wrote:
> The Prophet. Khalil Gibran.
>

I cant recall the last time i bought a book on "Magick".

I have had several i did not think much of given me, along with various
Tarot decks, ritual implements and assorted paraphernalia of its like.

I bought cinnamon incense and sunflowers about a year ago for "Magical"
purposes but that's another thing altogether.

Occasionally i have to replace a book that i already have, that i have
annotated to unreadability or worn out or lost or gave away.

But my last copy of 777 and Liber ABA were purchased over 10 years ago.

And one was actually a present i purchased only in that i had a book
store gift certificate as a b'day present and the new edition of Liber
Aba had only recently came out.

I had hesitated to purchase the one volume Liber Aba Book 4 as i had all
its parts in previously published separate editions. But the editors
introductions, commentaries and footnotes convinced me.

I have seriously considered moving to Austin Tx. just to have access to
the Harry Ransom center.

Oh and i have down loaded in the last 2 years mystical texts, but i am
not sure if they qualify as "Magick" texts. Superficially they don't,
but, in one way i think the novel Dune by Frank Herbert does, so ....
perhaps also does the Japa Sutra (Pratayagatamananda trans.) and various
other Hindu and Buddhist texts.
-
Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

Domine, dirige nos.
Let the games begin!
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Slarty

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Nov 9, 2009, 1:05:21 PM11/9/09
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Well; I havent BOUGHT anything Crowleyesque in the last 2 years.
Sorry.

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