- ISBN13: 9780738702766
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Product Description
Explore your Inner Temple–your personal sacred space where there are no boundaries and all things are possible. With study, dedication, and practice, the lessons and exercises in this book will empower you to transform the repetitive rigors of the daily grind into a witch’s web of magickal experiences.
The Inner Temple of Witchcraft is a thorough course of education, introspection, meditation, and the development of the magickal and psychic abilities … More >> The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development
February 9th, 2010 - 1:52 am
this a great book and had lots of good imfo the refs in back it does has most of tradtional symbolism and theory the second book but i think that it has good info overall worth the money but their are other book out there so do not put all your eggs in one basket.
Blessed Be; Rating: 3 / 5
February 9th, 2010 - 4:33 am
I obtained this book with eager anticipation. What I found was a mismash of “wicca” and ceremonial magic that have been done ad nausium.
“Christian wicca”? I don’t beleive he said that! Maybe, just maybe “Gnostic Witchcraft”, but “xtian wicca” is very hard to swallow. Ceremonial Magic(a branch of Hemeticism)is very loosly related to Gnosticism if you leave out Crowley, however, xtianity since the Roman takeover and magic have been at odds and even the ceremonial magicians have had to guise their writings to conform to xtian looking texts to keep their heads let alone the poor people who were hanged or burned or drowned for as little as healing the sick or eating bad rye bread made with rye grain infested with the rye rust fungus that produces alkaloids similar to LSD.
This is just another neophyte book targeted for gullible teen buyers by Llewellyn. When will they publish a decent book on witchcraft instead of the trendy “wicca movement” made popular by the television series “Charmed”? It sells books and that’s what Llewellyn is about. Thus, my guess is never. Look at some books by Weiser and Falcon Publications for some less trendy and serious books on witchcraft and ceremonial magic. Rating: 1 / 5
February 9th, 2010 - 5:11 am
this a great book and had lots of good imfo the refs in back are impressive looking forward to Temple of Outer Witchcraft fact it’s has most of tradtional symbolism and theory the second book is one i am really looking forward to see how he teaches in his second book but i think that it has good info overall worth the money .
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Blessed Be; Rating: 5 / 5
February 9th, 2010 - 7:29 am
Mr Penczak has some good ideas, and an equal amount of Fluffy bunny-ness. He ascertains that you don’t need to worry about the law of return when asking the God and Goddess for things, and that there’s nothing scary in the spirit realm!
He’s all about Love, light, and goodness- Scott Cunningham reincarnated. The sacred balance is not mentioned once! This book is mostly about how Quantum physics and magic are directly related. IMO its not magic if you need an explanation for why/how it works.
He does have good ideas, and I can almost do his meditations, and meditation for me is an ever elusive dream! So it was valuable to me only for that. The quantum physics thing was dry, and to me impossible to swallow.
If you dislike people who like to use odd spellings of the word “magic” skip this book, you’ll want to throttle someone by the end of the first chapter. The author is still using spotty history Rating: 3 / 5
February 9th, 2010 - 9:34 am
Well…the book is a good basic introduction to witchcraft 101 but contains nothing we’ve not seen time and time again. If you have anything by Cunningham or Ravenwolf, you’ve pretty much got this book already.
What I found troubling is the book’s claim that after studying it the reader will achieve “the equivalent to the first-degree level of traditional coven-based witchcraft.” My heart goes out to those who believe this and then have to face the embarassment of being laughed at when they try and own such a claim in the Craft community. This is one of the reasons why I gave the book only a two star rating, as I feel it is deceptive and misleading in this regard.
A friend told me that the author plans another book on how to become a High Priest, High Priestess, and community elder. I saw a photo of the author and he can’t be more than 22 or 23 tops. So I’m wondering where the life experience and community experience is that qualifies him to instruct others in reaching eldership!?
Despite the fact that the author’s youth and inexperience pervades the book, I do believe that in time he will be a fair writer of books on this genre.
In conclusion, for a beginner this book is as good a place to start as any. But nothing makes it stand out from the hundreds of books on this subject already in print that provide the same material. If you need yet another beginner’s book repeating material you’ve already read then this will serve your needs well. Rating: 2 / 5