not for the fluffy bunniesAugust 24, 2007 9 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you're sickened by the patty cake club that the Silver Ravenwolf types have degenerated Witchcraft into, especially here in America, then you will enjoy the MUCH darker take that is offered here by Michael W. Ford. Life is not made up of unicorns, faerie wings, and group hugs - and if you deny the darkness within us all, you are deluding yourself. As always, BALANCE is the Key. The Dark needs the Light - and vice-versa.
Ye GodsJanuary 24, 2007 6 out of 21 found this review helpful
Turgid, over written, and a mish mash of "interesting Ideas"
The author seriously needs to review what niche market there is "traditional Witchcraft" as the material herein is already covered elsewhere in a more ethical, efficient, and straight forward manner. Whilst I can see the need for some people to be as dark an mysterious as they can, puleeeze, this is way OTT. Surely the market for dark-childe-ov-kaos is pretty limited.
For anyone interested even in the darker currents of Trad-Craft, I would not recommend this book. I consider it wasted money.
Okay, but...January 6, 2007 14 out of 18 found this review helpful
The information presented in this book is valuable and interesting, so far as I can tell. I have no problem with it. However, this tome is poorly edited at best. It's an English major's nightmare. If you can get past the typographical errors and obvious grammar and mechanical errors, then this might be a good buy for you. Otherwise, you might want to turn to more professionally edited literature. Also, throughout the text the author arbitrarily chooses when to cite other sources and what information should be cited. There is no index; nor is there a list of references. From where does this information come?
Excellent BookMay 18, 2006 4 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a good place to start with Mr.Ford's works. There is a hardback edition as well.
Description of BOOK OF THE WITCH MOONMarch 29, 2006 33 out of 36 found this review helpful
The Choronzon edition of BOOK OF THE WITCH MOON is the completely new version which is extended to 455 pages, with new chapters and material. The grimoire is centered around the cult of Hecate, from the practice of Luciferian and Satanic Witchcraft which exalts the dark feminine and masculine as a balanced perspective of magick. Containing both old and new sections, a focus on the path of vampirism, or predatory spiritualism is a foundation focus of the Luciferian Path. LIBER NEHEBKAU, ORIGINS OF THE VAMPIRE IN ANCIENT EGYPT, THE TUAT - Abode of the Serpents of the Evil Eye, LIBER AAPEP, VAMPIRISM AND THE RED AND BLACK SERPENT, Vampirism as Technique, The Nine Angles, THE HELL GATES OF DUZHAHU, INVOCATION OF ASTWIHAD & DRUJ NASU - THE BLACK SUN RITE OF VAMPIRISM, Nature is More Atrocious - Sex Magick andThe Birth of a Lunar Intelligence, The Nine Angles and Satanic Magick - A study of the symbolism of the ONA, ALPHABET OF DESIRE, A Ritual of Qlippothic Descent and Luciferian Ascent, Shades of Algol, The Sabbats, CHI AS THE ELIXIR OF IMMORTALITY and much more. Introduction by Peter J. Carroll, author of Liber Null/Psychonaut and Liber Kaos writes "If you choose to embrace and live the cthonic murk and stygian darkness of the following chapters you will certainly get some return on your investment of belief, for it has been well crafted by a master.Beware of the pale Hecate. Create your Gods with care, for they will reform you in their own image." The Choronzon Edition of BOOK OF THE WITCH MOON presents the forbidden works of Chaos, Vampiric and Luciferian Sorcery. Containing a grimoire outlining the dark feminine current of HECATE, the book outlines the practice of Satanic or Luciferian Witchcraft from a Cunning craft viewpoint. Witch Moon explores ritual and dream Lycanthropy, Chaos Sorcery and Luciferian Ritual practice. The foundation of Book of the Witch Moon is in the darksome practice of Vampirism and Predatory Spirituality. The Nine Angles and the Trapezoid workings, inspired by Anton LaVey and presented around the cult of Daeva-Yasna, the persian demon-sorcery of Yatuk Dinoih.Contains the Rituals of Dream, ritual and astral vampirism as an initiatory tool, other Cabalistic workings presenting the Qlippoth and the Tree of Da'ath or hidden wisdom. Contains the Grimoire based on Ancient Egyptian Vampirism, LIBER AAPEP, Luciferian Magick practice,The Chaos Cult Workings of Choronzon as Vampire, The Rites of Hecate, the Infernal and Luciferian Sabbat, and the foundations of Satanic practice in Magick. Containing in this massive grimoire is also a study of the ORDER OF NINE ANGLES from a Luciferian perspective, centered around their forbidden workings including the appearance of Lilith-Babalon as Baphomet, the Mistress of Blood. Illustrated Elda Isela Ford Nathaniel Harris (Author of WITCHA - Book of Cunning) and various other sources. The Book of Left Hand Path Witchcraft and Adversarial Sorcery, the very foundation of the Luciferian Gnosis from a modern perspective of practice. This is the ritual-chaos of Vampirism and predatory spirituality. "Can you look into the Eye of Algol, blazing darkness and embers of blackened light? Would you work in the Eye of Algol, from wherein Lilith and Ahriman would devour you? the Eye in the Flesh (Algol fallen) is Cain, Wherein Lucifer dwells, the inner imagination and fire of the self as God. When Algol falls into flesh, and the Eye opens in the clay, the knife falls into Abel, in a swift orgasmic passion of self-love .To know Cain is to know Life, the possibility and the gaping void of death...."
