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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
2-1 could do better!, 12 Aug 2004
By A Customer
I was really very disappointed with this book after reading the reviews here, so I'm presenting to you another perspective.I found it somewhat difficult to persevere with this book for a number of reasons. First of all I feel it is important to stress that I do not believe this to be a beginners book, some ready knowledge of the tree of life and kabbalah is, I think, necessary. The book has no index, glossary or references/footnotes. If one is going to reference 'Hegelian dialectics' some reference or simple explanation or at least pointers would be helpful. I also found the writing style and ordering of information somewhat confused and 'bitty'. I believe that the writer has been a little over ambitious and the book/writing fails to live up to that ambition. He is tackling a complex system in too short a text, which, in my opinion lacks weight and authority, it reads to me like a 1st year degree students valiant effort (sorry!) it lacks a mature writing style and the text seems unresolved. I think this book would benefit from re-writing, re-ordering, re-editing and more professional proof reading - there are some appalling typos in this book. Finally, the tarot to which the writer refers is Crowley's Deck Of Thoth and in my opinion, you'd probably be better off with the Book of Thoth rather than this little book. Tarot and the Magus reads as a great book proposal, that needs some development and refining and definitely needs more work.
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by Lon Milo DuQuette
by Lon Milo DuQuette
