Member Reviews
This book was fairly accessible however I am not sure that it was very helpful. It seemed very repetitive.
I'm always a bit wary when people talks about Qabalah and how to introduce into a Wiccan practice.
Hermetic Qabalah is a complex and ancient magical system and it's not easily approached as it's a mix of different cultural elements.
I think that the author did a good job in explaining and proposing how to include it into the practice.
An informative and intersting book.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine
There are many ways to spell Qabalah, and there is good reason for it. Whether you're going for the Jewish Kabbalah, or more Christian focuses Cabala, author Jack Chanek is here to show you how to use the concepts of The Tree of Life, and the mysteries of the universe in a Wiccan practice. If you're new to Qabalah and follow a more.....non-Abrahamic tradition, Chanek is here to walk you through the mysteries and apply them to your practice. He's careful not to speak down to the reader or assume you know everything there is to know about Jewish mysticism.
The book at times can be overwhelming, and I definitely recommend reading it slowly and taking the time to really embrace the material. This is not a book to power read.
A thorough and extensive resource on the Qabalah and its applications to the Craft. This is a dense read, and not something to flip through lightly. This is definitely a text to be absorbed and retained. However, it's incredibly thorough with accessible information, i.e. it's a dense read, but a fairly easy one to understand and then apply to your everyday spiritual practice. In addition to just being a well-written text, it's a unique and mostly unexplored part of spiritual witchcraft, and I appreciate such a solid resource.
Thank you Netgalley for this ARC for an exchange of an honest review.
Definitely very educational. Highly recommend it.
Qabalah is meant to be practiced as well as studied. This book gives a fairly straight forward way to do both. The need for a journal is first and foremost as the need to document and keep records of practice make progress easier. The Gods are discussed and why they are associated with certain sephira. Finally , it is all put together with spells that are examples for the practitioner to use to continue with magick and the Wiccan Qabalah. This book is a course all in itelf for starting your journey on a profound and meaningful path.
This is a great book for anyone who wants to enhance, create or understand his/her own practices in natural magic (stone, star, water, candle, magnet magic etc...) with the help of ancient esoteric teaching of Qabalah. You will be able to create or incorporate tecniques from hermetic magic into your spells as well. In this book one will also learn new insights into facets of the Tree of Life and to invoke deities with a new awareness about their qualities. All this is explained very well. Yet, more teachings about qlippothic (out of balance) aspects of Qabalah would be welcomed. Ten stations of Qabalah are not only "sunshine and flowers" but they contain harmful energies as well. Same is for deities. We all know about not only beneficial, but the bad aspects of some gods and goddesses, so clear presentation is needed. Also it would be good to avoid fuzzy sentences, like this: "Cancer is hard on the outside but vulnerable on the inside, and linking to the Chariot teaches us that this card's ambition and drive can mask a deeper sensitivity and softness", now what exactly this broadness means? This text is for anyone who wants to study the origins of Wiccan beliefs, practices and mythology.