- Paperback: 356 pages
- Publisher: Merkur Pub Co (April 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1885928122
- ISBN-13: 978-1885928122
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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- #81 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Occult > Alchemy
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Book that can change your life forever!!,
By M.B. "Mike" (Palm Springs) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Initiation into Hermetics: The Path of the True Adept (Paperback)
I do not think there are words enough to communicate in what high regard I hold this book. It is, quite possibly the best book on Magick that can be bought. For instance: I read it and had been putting off making a Magic Mirror for a while, though I had all the things to make it in the house. I made the fluid accumulator and the solid acumulator in one afternoon and by that evening was successfully scrying in the mirror. He also gives recipes for herbal solutions to bathe the eyes with to strengthen Astral vision etc. His advice is extremely practical and 'mumbo-jumbo' is at a minimum. His sensing exercises for really sensing and manipulating the Astral Light or Etheric Fluid are brilliant and simple.It is good for beginners or for the more advanced. A must-have for any Magical Library. There are also a couple of recent books out by disciples of his methods which are also well worth it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Decent Start,
By A.E.V. "Alice" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Initiation into Hermetics: The Path of the True Adept (Paperback)
The truly admirable feature of Initiation Into Hermetics is Mr. Bardon's focus in the work. Of 356 pages, only 62 are spent solely on presenting a theoretical model. The remainder of the book is an outline of a very thorough, very gradual training course in meditations, simple magicks, and eventually some more "advanced" forms of evocation, scrying, and whatnot, with enough theory in the sections to elaborate on what the exercise is founded on.But. While this is an admirable approach, I have some very serious problems with this book. The first is that the theory doesn't just act as a framework to apply the exercises in; it seems many of the exercises are overly concerned with the theory in itself, concerning themselves with working on elements of the theoretical model instead of the actual goals of the workings. Crowley, whatever you may think of his ego, was far more practical and realistic about his magick than Bardon is at any point. (By the way, you don't have to be "moral" or "noble" to work magick. You just have to know how to do it.) Second, most of these exercises are truly not as basic as Mr. Bardon presents them to be. The bulk of them could be chunked loosely under the category of "energy work", which can be explained in a few simple principles and expanded upon easily by the reader's imagination. I recommend comparing this training program to the ones in Peter Carroll's works Liber Null & Psychonaut or Liber Kaos, or even the most extravagant of Crowley's training programs. While exploring the limits of magickal work and perfecting one's technique can be a lifetime of work, a program that requires years to master the basics is a poor piece of technology. Liber MMM, from Liber Null is, by comparison, generally intended to take 6 months. Third, some of Franz Bardon's theory (besides the inherently unprovable and metaphorical material) is horendously outdated. For example, the view of the unconscious mind (and even the neural anatomy he presents with respect to it) presented in Step II is just about universally rejected these days, and such discrepencies are bound to impact the performance of certain exercises. Nonetheless, this book has much to offer in the way of some of its exercises, and as a clear presentation of one simplified form of Hermeticism. My recommendation, though, would be to supplement it with some more modern training programs.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Most comprehensive mind training manual,
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This review is from: Initiation into Hermetics: The Path of the True Adept (Paperback)
This book is loaded from cover to cover with practical mind-training exercises - from developing the power of one's imagination, to training different senses and perfecting the ability to use them individually or in conjunction with each other; to working with the elements; transfering one's consciousness; generating and projecting energy; and much more. By the time you're done going thoroughly through all the exercises in this book and practicing them until you master them - your ability to use the power of your mind will increase beyond your wildest dreams - and you will have many interesting experiences along the way.
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