Occult Book Reviews

PsyberMagick will stimulate outrage, chaos, confusion, and insight in anyone who studies it closely. It is hard-core, in-your-face, state-of-the-art magick.’ –Alan Wicca

Before you start working with this text, you need to be accustomed to having your life turned upside down and your worldview shaken up… PsyberMagick touches on many themes appealing to chaos magicians and techno-Pagans. Fans of Robert Anton Wilson will love it. Most highly recommended. –Elizabeth Barrette, Hypatia’s Hoard

The most original, and probably the most important, writer on Magick since Aleister Crowley. –Robert Anton Wilson, author of Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati

A witty and iconoclastic commentary on magick and modern occult subculture by one of the founders of Chaos Magick. PsyberMagick contains astonishing, controversial and revolutionary ideas on the theory and practice of magick, the structure of the universe and the nature of the mind. It holds many surprises as it challenges many of the conventional assumptions and paradigms of magick.

Filled with practical techniques, PsyberMagick give you the means to undo the fallacy of “being” and reach “sideways” into imaginary time to accomplish magic(k). Done in the style of Aleister Crowley’s Book of Lies, and humorously illustrated, this book is a must for all Chaoist and Western magicians.

Review from Amazon.

Aleister Crowley’s book 777 has to be one of the best works of it’s kind and is actually a compilation of three of his other books on the Qabalah. Crowley starts off with with an essay on Gematria that is the art of rendering words into numbers for the desired result. However in Crowley’s true style 777 is full of wit and intentional errors, Crowley being an avid reader of mystery novels appears to write his own works in the same style, all the information is there to piece the jigsaw together it’s just upto you the reader to figure the plot out so it seems!

The second chapter in the book was originally published by itself as Liber 777 and contains pages of Qabalistic associations and attributions and this is the only known resource to have survived the the collapse of the The Golden Dawn and is an invaluable resource in this respect.

The final chapter is Sepher Sephiroth and is a Qabalistic encyclopedia that was originally started by Allan Benett and expanded upon by Crowley himself and others throughout the course, All the entries are in numerological order and not alphabetical, making this a very quick reference guide for anyone interested in Gematria. Overall 777 is an excellent reference guide on Qabalistic attributions and is really essential on any occultist’s bookshelf.

Aleister Crowley is well renowned for his unique writing style that can be both humorous and whimsical and can be very misleading on the face of it unless you read between the lines. This is not the case with The Book of Thoth, some say this is quite possibly his best work as he takes a deep reverent look at the Tarot in particular his version of the Tarot cards.

The Book of Thoth is not intended for divinitory purposes, Instead Crowley takes a look at the individual cards as meditative devices to alter ones consciousness and peer into the unknown world. Crowley’s meanings are an adaptation biased on the Tarot of the Golden Dawn, It is certainly a book worth reading for those of you who are searching for enlightenment.

ALEISTER CROWLEY THOTH TAROT DECK (small 80-card deck)