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To: alt.magick From: oispeggy@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (MARGARET MARY-THERESA BROWN, SUNY BUFFALO) Subject: Re: Getting started in Magick Date: 14 May 1997 13:01:39 GMT In article <19970512235600.TAA26525@ladder01.news.aol.com>, mmkornnin1@aol.com (MMKoRnNIN1) writes: >I recently got interested in magick...I dont know exactly how to go about >"getting started"..Anyone with adivice please E-mail me...Thanks so much! I always recommend to beginners: 1.) Magick Without Tears - Crowley 2.) Magick in Theory and Practice - Crowley 3.) ...and most important of all.... 8 Lectures on Yoga - Crowley Beginner books written since then are mainly derivative of Crowley. They generally lack sufficient mention/explanation of Thelemic ideas such as DWTW. Exploring Thelema is IMO very good for a beginner because it helps to vaccinate against being influenced by Orders and grand poo-bas. Also, it starts the process of exploring/finding your inner-self. Item #3 has an excellent set of exercises that help you to master the basic mental/psychological techniques necessary to doing magick. I did them regularly for a year or so and still find myself going back to this book time and time again. After you are done with these, buy Donald Michael Kraig's book _Modern Magick_ (something like that) and start doing the rituals in there or start doing your own. (I did my own exclusively for 6 years before learning a few of the commonly used rituals, for the purpose of doing groupwork.) Now you're read to start with the Qabalah, in this order: o _The Mystical Qabalah_ Dion Fortune o _A Garden of Pomegranates_ Israel Regardie o _Qabalistic Symbolism_ Gareth Knight o _Meditation and Kaballah_ Areyeh Kaplan - Peggy - - Peggy -
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