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5.0 out of 5 stars
Authentic and wise, Dec 30 2006
I found this book to be most wise and thorough with it's history and actual ritual in the end. Very old school and authentic in it's style.
Take heed of the warnings that come with the book not just for evocation but any ritual worth doing. Everything comes with a price.
Overall I would say it is finally some insight to my conspiracies on the Catholic church and the doings behind their closed doors. I have always seen their "door" as being very much dark.
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Dr. Lisiewski's PERSONAL student discusses his books & more, Mar 2 2006
I wanted to let everyone know that Dr. Lisiewski has a new website for his books, 8thmatrixpress, which further explains their content, and which contains a free "Kabbalistic Calculator" for the Kabbalistic Cycles book. The calculator is extremely useful if one does not have the time to calculate the hours by hand, or if one has trouble performing the calculations. Dr. Lisiewski wrote the Kabbalistic Cycles Program, I assume in Fortran 77 years ago, and most likely paid to have it converted into a web based form.
I would like it to be known that I have personally studied magic under Dr. Lisiewski for years, 'in residence' as it is called. It was not some long distance contact as some may like to think.
Before studying under Dr. Lisiewski, I scoured the bookshelves for years, studying self help and New Age books in an effort to improve my life. After thousands of hours of studying and applying what those books taught, I achieved either no results whatsoever or at best, little or partial results. As other readers may find, self help books do not let a person sufficiently overcome the psychological obstacles placed in them or fostered in them by others, from childhood on. It is these obstacles then, that prevent people from succeeding in life on their own terms. And the New Age books? It is clear to me that they do not understand magical principles whatsoever, publish haphazard nonsense, and so the individual cannot work them fully to his or her advantage. To tell the truth, while using these New Age texts, many are the times I would even obtain large negative results in my life. As anyone who has struggled to improve him or herself knows, in order to go where they want to go in their life, full positive results are needed. It is my contention that such full results can only be obtained by correctly understanding and applying the spiritual or as Dr. Lisiewski insists in his writings, "Psychic" laws of the universe. In turn, this can only be done by correctly building one's own mental matrix (knowledge and experiences) of what Dr. Lisiewski calls "Subjective Synthesis". All three of his books allow each individual to successfully build their own very necessary subjective synthesis for themselves.
Studying and applying any one of the three books will allow a person to improve their life now, from the principles stated in the text, and from the energy that will be imparted to him or her while studying these books.
The Kabbalistic Cycles book can take a person who has absolutely no knowledge of Kabbalah or occult studies and by studying and working with its instructions, apply it to everything from mundane affairs to high magical studies in a relatively short period of time by using different hours of the day and night.
Ceremonial Magic and the Power of Evocation assists a person in building a proper subjective synthesis to help them achieve full results in their life in the most dramatic way possible. Additionally, it lets a person know of what one can accomplish if they study and practice magic in a most serious manner. He states the axioms of the "old system" of magic such that the magic will work fully, while helping the individual avoid the dreaded "slingshot effect". Remember, magic is the original and only form of self-help that one will ever need. It is used to greatly improve one's own physical world in the here and now. Not in some nether world after death, which may or may not exist at it is taught and envisioned by religious beliefs.
The Kabbalistic Handbook contains topics on meditation and path working magic (using the Rider Waite tarot cards.) Although my favorite topic is the study and application of Kabbalistic Analysis, to be sure, there is much here that will be of interest and help to nearly any other magician, regardless of his or her particular magical interest. One problem it treats in detail: the magician may be preparing for a certain ritual and will study numerous texts, all of them stating the ritual is to be performed in different ways. Some have minor variations, some have huge differences. Which is correct? Kabbalistic Analysis is a scientific approach that allows a person to properly deduce how to actually perform the ritual and understand the reasons for performing it in a certain way by using the Kabbalah itself. Negative results will turn into positive results and partial results will turn into full results when applying this analysis.
As one studies Dr. Lisiewski's books, they will notice that he is anything but fond of New Age books. The reason is that he used their practices in the early years of his life, and either obtained drastic negative results or partial results. I shuddered more than I can say from the personal conversations we had concerning this, in which he related to me the details of those negative experiences, some of which very nearly cost him his life. And from seeing him in actual ritual and ceremonial practice, I personally know he is completely skilled in our "Science and Art" as he calls the study and practice of magic. When studying and applying the "old system" of magic as he calls it, with the axioms that he developed in the Ceremonial Magic book, I assure readers they will obtain the full results that they need and want and more importantly, deserve. This applying of the old system of magic does not only apply to him, but to his colleagues. And from the numerous letters that he has received from many, many readers, they too have confirmed both the partial or nothing results they obtained with the New Age approach, and the full results they have achieved by applying the "old system" of magic as he has given. The results between the two, the New Age techniques and his methods then, are as different and night and day.
So what if Dr. Lisiewski is extremely harsh on the New Age! His books are purposely designed that way, so the readers do not make the same mistakes that he and others have made in their own lives. His books give no doubletalk, nor do they contradict themselves. As he told me so many times, "If my books upset the status quo of the New Age, so what! It's about time that applecart was turned upside down! And if I can help do this even by the smallest amount, then one of my tasks will be completed.) One thing can certainly be said for his writings: they are complete, and are foundation material that will let the individual accurately and effectively use the spiritual (or psychic) laws of the universe to generate full positive results in life, now.
I am sure there will be some other future reviewers who will accuse me of being a boot licker, etc. To them, I have only three things to say. First I was and still am ONE of his PERSONAL students, and have been for over 10 years. Second, this alone uniquely qualifies me to write what I did, based upon my experiences with what he taught me privately and what he wrote in his books. Third, he did not want me or any of his other (few) students "defending" his books or him (he didn't even want public mention made of the new website. "People will find it of their own accord" he insisted.) But after seeing the speculation, ignorance, absolute error, and jealousy of what some reviewers wrote here, I chose not to hold off any longer. To be sure he will see this review sooner or later. Then I will hear about it. But in my opinion, what I wrote here HAD to be said. And that is enough.
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