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 Liber Null and Psychonaut is a powerfull an sulfuric work in nature December 17, 2006
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
Liber Null and Psychonaut is a powerfull an sulfuric work in nature
it is explorative of passion void and vision black to red
a work from the hart Chaotic and sulferic
and smells like a progression from the visionary
to the deeply and passionatly S4NO scented
this is a directed informative and real acount of a parsons drift through a life of magic
 LUCID EXEGESIS OF CHAOS MAGIC July 19, 2002
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
Liber Null, illustrated by Andrew David, and Psychonaut, with same by Brian Ward, are two separate books. The first is again divided into Libri MMM, LUX, NOX et AOM, and in these books Pope Pete deals with gnosis, divination, evocation, enchantment, sigils and "random belief," something that really amused me. Psychonaut is a collection of fascinating essays on, inter alia, new aeon magic, the rites of chaos, chemognosis (with a particularly interesting discussion of hallucinogens like the amanita and psylocybe mushrooms and the solanum species), shamanism, gnosticism, magical paradigms and magical time. My only problem is the - to say the least - disturbing illustrations by Ward. To someone with a sensitive disposition, these detract somewhat from the pleasuree of the reading experience. The text is richly enlivened by diagrams, figures, glyphs and perhaps to its detriment, by those eerie pictures. Apart from that, it's a no-nonsense magical handbook in a lucid and engaging style. A classic of sorts, I guess. Heartily recommended to fans of "The Addams Family" movies.
The single most important magickal work of the 90s January 5, 2002
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Peter Carroll has managed to construct the first genuinely innovative magickal technique in many, many years, unafraid of causing offense and controversy as he does so. A startlingly honest stripping down of magickal techniques, removing the glamour to see the raw psychology which lies underneath. Carroll has managed to present a workable, results-oriented system of sorcery that dispenses with the need to learn pompous and unnecessary magickal terminologies before putting one's Will into effect. Buy this book.
Amazing stuff written in a pompus and annoying manner. January 22, 2001
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
What almost everyone says in the other reviews is true. The writing style is annoying, his attitude is pompus and overbearing, and you regularly want to throw the book to the other side of the room. but I've given it five stars because if you can get beyond these stylistic points the book has wonderful, unique, content. A book that has stayed with me, physically or otherwise, for years.
 Ambitious, not only because it looks at black & white magick December 9, 2000
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
The book does have an allure when you first look at it. The contents page and the illustrations emit an intriguing fascination. However once you start reading this fades away to become only 'interesting'. I had never heard of the IOT before. Both books make the almost pioneering step of not only mentioning the prime Magical dual (Black and White) but adumbrating techniques in both. Some of the material discussed is truly shocking. The author has ambitiously defined Magical terms (invocation, evocation, enchantment, sorcery and more) that the beginner would probably think of as synonomous. It is, from the standpoint of categorisation, a very fine work. Would I recommend it? To the beginner yes. However I feel the book lacks the quality of specialisation that even an intermediate Magician is after. It is more a work of philosophy than specific technique. To be honest I don't think I would read it again, but it has it's place on my book shelf.
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