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Apology of Socrates

This book is in the category for the beginner’s book list for starting philosophy or specifically Platonism. It is very brief, only 44 pages in length. This means that it can be read quickly and if the reader wishes he can re-read it easily. However, even if it is a beginner’s book to Platonism, what is different in this book compared to the other books by Plato is that it lacks the dialogues because Socrates provides both the questions and the...

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Practical Elemental Magick

Practical Elemental Magick: Working the Magick of Air Fire Water & Earth in the Western Esoteric Tradition, by David Rankine and Sorita d'Este is a great book to buy! If you are new to elemental magic you will understand the very basics you need to know. It is very useful and educational. If you are more advanced you will find useful details and practical knowledge. This book fills many gaps if you have read other books and if not, it gives...

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Hekate Liminal Rites

This book is full of ancient small-sized texts about the Goddess Hekate. Many of them could be easily found. The conclusions and the comments are very helpful too. The texts came from ancient Hellenes writers, Roman writers, Byzantine writers, PGM and Chaldean Oracles. The book has small chapters concerning many things about Hekate, like Elefsinean Mysteries, statues, ancient coins, ancient temples, curse tablets, voces magicae, herbs, metals,...

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Protection & Reversal Magick

Jason Miller is a very rare person in our days. This book is full of protection techniques with many kinds of magick inside. The practitioner of the craft would find a daily practicing routine, house protection spells, symbols and sigils for protecting againsts evil spirits, a technique to invoke a spirit in the house, aura cleansing rituals, invisibility rituals etc. all based in the ancient way of thinking. The techniques are effective, solid...

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HEKATE: Keys to the Crossroads

One of the first attempts presenting and exploring the Goddess of the Three-ways, the Goddess who hold the keys to the whole world. A leading book for 2006! Hekate is now very famous in the Witchcraft community. This books consists of 3 parts. Part one is (pg. 19-38) is a small presentation to the history of the Goddess. The writer's points derive from ancient texts. There is a small table of correspondences, some clarifications about...

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Witchcraft Today - 60 Years on

This book is written for the romantic practitioners of Wicca. Some well respected witches write about some wicca traditions and other wicca-relates traditions. Let me mention them:Gardnerian, Alexandrian, Seax, Dianic, Hedge, Solitary, Nature, Hekatean, Egyptian, Male, Eclectic. Most of the texts/essays are very good, nicely written with good structure. In part two, you will find some personal stories answering how the writers got they hands on...

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Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries

I saw this old book in the archaelogical museum of Eleusis. The author was a dedicated man who searched the mysteries of Eleusis. He was a well respected professor of archaeology in Washington University. In the first chapters there are many archaeological information about excavations and their meanings in Eleusis. A well written historical perspective follows. Then we have a written description about the place of the mysteries and how it was...

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The New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot

The Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot book comes with the deck. This set is a treasure for every Witch who practices cartomancy in a serious way and looks to find the truth behind the common images of the cards. The Ciceros have taken the classical instructions, symbols and meaning of the Book T, which is also included and they have created a deck closer to the original one of the H.O.G.D. When Sandra began this project, Israel Regardie was alive and he...

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Greek and Roman Necromancy

The ultimate book for ancient hellenic necromancy describing necromantic practices and techniques from ancient texts. The book is well organized and many things are repeated, so the reader will learn the basics from a single reading.

I read this book three times. It is very interesting. The incidents that the writer has provided to us, are drawn from ancient texts and the...

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Sorciers Grecs

I have read this book from the hellenic translation. The translation isn't good at all. The text is full of typos. Moreover, the writer is falling in the trap that he says in the introduction that other academics have fallen. He knows nothing about Witchcraft, though he expresses his personal view all over the book, saying that magick is something ultimately baneful, a habbit for idiots and poor, and maybe for women only. He doesn't understand...

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Exhortation to Philosophy

This book of neoplatonic philosopher Iamblichos is a great synopsis of many teachings of ancient hellenic philosophy. I found pythagorian, platonic, aristotelic, neoplatonic teachings as well as pre-socratic, orphic... with the platonic current lead all the way to the end. Inside there are basic teachings from all schools written in a clear way, with a great flow of thinking and many of the teachings are repeated, so the reader consolidates...

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The Inner Mysteries

In the backcover prof. Ronald Hutton writes about Janter that she is one of the most prominent writers of history and nature of modern Witchcraft. He continues that the collaboration with Gavin Bone is dynamic and interesting. The Witche's Voice characterizes the book as a refreshing honest look into the Witchcraft of both past and future. For me the book provides a progressive view in Wicca regarding both initiatory and self-initiatory. The...

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