|
|
|
|
|
|
HomeShop at BookSurgeReligionMysticism |
|
|  |
| Customer Reviews: | | Average Customer Review:
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Absolute Drivel Apr 16, 2008
It would be nice if Amazon would create a "0" star--giving such drivel as this a "1" seems excessive.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
The Curse Of Yet Another Whining Polemic Apr 16, 2008
This book is little more than the authors own unsubstantiated rant against his personal pet peeve - the Thelema of Aleister Crowley. The author writes this nonsensical rant of a pamphlet as a bitter and jilted response to having been kicked out of a Thelemic organization created by Dr. Christopher Hyatt and one other adept. The only positive reviews present so far are from close personal friends of the author: Basem, Amany and Lillian, some of which are rumored to be nothing more than internet personalities of the author himself.
Mr. Seraphim's unbalanced attacks on the modern Thelemic phanomenon are reminiscent of the many other polemics against religions, which highlight the expected flaws which can be found in anything, while ignoring the obvious positive aspects of the subject of his rant. So, if you are ready for yet another "My spiritual system is better than yours" book, by all means dish out the geld for this latest addition to the genre. For a book so very thin, this example of human ignorance reads with all the mind-numbing monotony of a 800 page technical manual on airconditioner repair, except that unlike the manual, The Curse of Aliester Crowley, does not inform the reader of anything of any value whatsoever.
33 of 38 found the following review helpful:
Oh, please Jun 04, 2007
This book is a joke. Even a brief look at the author's supposed CV (He's actually got the gall to put that he was a National Merit Scholar -- why not put his High School diploma on here as well?), and even more telling, the excerpt printed above:
"Cults, such as Crowley's 'Thelema' are communal totalistic in their organisation."
"Communal totalistic" -- what language is that? Surely not any English you learned in school.
"Cultic attitudes subsist amongst Initiates in 'Thelema' whom fail to see the unity between the 'Method of Science,' and the 'Aim of Religion.'"
"Whom fail to see" -- Oh, I get it, he's channeling Waite. No, I take that back: Waite at least wrote grammatically, for all his turgid prose.
"Love is more than a Light, while swimming in the Crystalline sea of agapæ, the language of both sanity and insanity ignites the stars. Forever and forever and forever."
Good gods... did he steal this from the soundtrack for some anime?
Trust me, you don't want to waste your time on this drivel.
22 of 29 found the following review helpful:
The Worst May 24, 2007
I bought this book based on the other three reviews listed and boy was I diappointed. This is one of the worst books I have ever read. The author is far too much into himself and his opinion. Instead of seeking the truth of a situation he lists his speculations as fact. Overall the book was not very well researched, nor were it's points very well presented.
8 of 21 found the following review helpful:
 The books title tells you what is inside Mar 31, 2007
I didn't understand this until I read some of The Psychopath's Bible: For the Extreme Individual by Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt. You have to read this book while consulting the DSM-IV-TR to follow along.
This is Seraphim's newest book - Babylon: Secret Rituals of Illuminati
|
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
