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The first time I met Monsieur DuQuette, at a booksellers' convention in Los Angeles, he read my fortune with tarot cards. I was about to move, he predicted. Irritated, I huffed "that was ridiculous," I'd just moved into my boyfriend's house. When I arrived home from the convention, my aforementioned boyfriend told me he'd had a change of heart and would I please move out as soon as possible! The next time I sat down with DuQuette, at the same conference (several years later in Chicago), he regaled me with witticisms and stories. I was struck by his sincerity, self-revelation, and personable nature. This is the first time a true magician has written an autobiography since The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, and it's the next best thing to being able to sit with the charming and adept DuQuette. It's intimate, straightforward, and neither self-deprecating or egotistical. It contains excruciatingly honest revelations by a contemporary individual attempting to understand the universe and how it works. Here's a man who comfortably accepts himself and urges the reader to do the same. If you are not interested in magick, think of this as a fascinating autobiography. If you are, it's required reading. --P. Randall Cohan

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3.0 out of 5 stars An excellent survey of how religiosity turns into aesthetic roleplay, Jun 30 2008

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Juviebetfixer "X" (Turin, Italy) - See all my reviews

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For all of those kindred spirits out there who have dabbled in magick, perhaps achieved cosmological bliss or perhaps turned to bitter reproach, this is an excellent read that will equal a single summer afternoon and a bottle of good wine.

I have the utmost respect for DuQuette, whose widely praised sense of humour and informed *but unorthodox* commandeer of knowledge makes for a GREAAAAAT read. Really excellent. What I'd like to point out in this review, brief as it is, that DuQuette has filled a void left my Crowley's _Confessions_: an honest account of how mystical fervour, usually connected with institutional dogma, becomes transformed into counter-cultural esoterica. Even for people who could care less about Enochian codes or vivid spectrum of locusts Gods, this is a fun read which analyses, without Freud or other bastions of pretentious theory, how adolescent infatuation with religious imagery becomes transformed into eclectic occultic "mysticism". I have no interest anymore for the Wise Man archetype, but this book provided a high degree of religious honesty that you will never find in the New York Times or 'Soccer Mom Catholic!" podcasts.

Excellent, quick read, for the fallen and the devout.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Enlightening read, full of Humor, Jun 21 2004

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Jeffrey M. Willis (Clovis, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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After reading this book i have found that it is not only a great book about a great man, but an look into the life of the modern magician. I find great wisdom in the words of a man who can honestly say that he has been there.

A great read for anyone who is currently walking the path or thinking about starting a magical path in the future.

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4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good i must admit, May 5 2004

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the magician "fire is aroused by air" (brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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first off, i've read all the hype surrounding this guy (lmd) and this particular book so much that i had to get a copy myself.
i must say that this guy is a humorous person and has a friendly, humble personality. i bet to meet him in person and if he told you that he practices the dark arts, it would throw you off.
anyway, the book was so good that i've read it all the way through once i had opened it's pages. i even had a few laughs. needless to say the reason why i give the rating 4 stars instead of 5 is because (to me) lon threw me off near the end of the book, going into his enochian workshop experiences. but he does explain in the beginning how he will leave bits and peices out of his life so i can only guess that these enochian experiences was a very important theme in his life. but to me, i don't find those chapters suitting (in a way) for an autobiography, it should of been in another book of his, then again it is one of his occult experiences that he would like to share and it's interesting.
but that's just me, don't let my 4 stars discourage you. it is a very good book and even though this is the first magickal autobiography that i actually now have, i'm sure it's one of the best ones out there.

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4.0 out of 5 stars good and funny
Unlike a lot of writngs by magicians who go on and on about things that are frankly ridiculous, DuQuette writes a good, down to earth book about the way magick actually happen... Lisez davantage

Published on Jan 18 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Orabas!!! Orabas!!! Orabas!!!
It is customary to honor a helping spirit by a monument or by spreading the spirit's name in legend and lore and that's exactly what LMD has done. Lisez davantage

Published on Dec 13 2003