Liber Al Commentaries
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I have the "Authorized Popular Commentary to the Book of the Law", Edited by Louis Wilkinson and Hymenaeus Beta. I was wandering if it is a good commentary? If anyone else has it/or has read it.
In another thread a while back Jim disregared "Motta's" version of it to be of muddled bleh. So i was wandering what everyones thoughts are on this one I bought 2 months ago.?
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It's good. The more complete Regardie-edited edition that it replaced was even better, but this one is nearly as good.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"It's good. The more complete Regardie-edited edition that it replaced was even better, but this one is nearly as good."
Awesome. I've been reading it, and so far it is excellent.
@Takamba said
"ant to say "think for yourself" and recommend you follow the format of the things you are reading and write your own line by line commentary. That's the real ticket."
Good point, and i think i will need to add it to the list of things to do.
.On that not, i have read about 'meditating; on each verse in one of the A'.'A'.' grades.
Also in the back in the book is a note of getting rid of The Book of the Law after the firs read?
is there anything to it?lol, I don't see how you could study the book that way
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@Alias55A said
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@Jim Eshelman said
"It's good. The more complete Regardie-edited edition that it replaced was even better, but this one is nearly as good."Awesome. I've been reading it, and so far it is excellent.
@Takamba said
"ant to say "think for yourself" and recommend you follow the format of the things you are reading and write your own line by line commentary. That's the real ticket."
Good point, and i think i will need to add it to the list of things to do.
.On that not, i have read about 'meditating; on each verse in one of the A'.'A'.' grades.
Also in the back in the book is a note of getting rid of The Book of the Law after the firs read?
is there anything to it?lol, I don't see how you could study the book that way"The "old comment" to the Book of the Law (the one that says, "it is forbidden" etc) is a real test of a Thelemite. I will leave the rest up to you.
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"The "old comment" to the Book of the Law (the one that says, "it is forbidden" etc) is a real test of a Thelemite. I will leave the rest up to you."
Then in that case, i will have to extend the period of time reading it (for the first time), and leave the preface for last
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@Alias55A said
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"The "old comment" to the Book of the Law (the one that says, "it is forbidden" etc) is a real test of a Thelemite. I will leave the rest up to you."Then in that case, i will have to extend the period of time reading it (for the first time), and leave the preface for last
"Also, I recommend you read every writing completely as it is presented and refrain from skipping ahead. So if what you are saying is that you will not read the book from page one to page end, I don't suggest that. Even if page one has a different numeration.
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@Takamba said
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@Alias55A said
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"The "old comment" to the Book of the Law (the one that says, "it is forbidden" etc) is a real test of a Thelemite. I will leave the rest up to you."Then in that case, i will have to extend the period of time reading it (for the first time), and leave the preface for last
"Also, I recommend you read every writing completely as it is presented and refrain from skipping ahead. So if what you are saying is that you will not read the book from page one to page end, I don't suggest that. Even if page one has a different numeration."
No, I seriously didnt read the preface yet lol! What I did was read the book of the law(without commentary) word for word, then started from the beginning in the commentary without skipping. And the last half of the book are pictures of the original, which I can't read Crowley's hand writing anyways
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@Alias55A said
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No, I seriously didnt read the preface yet lol! What I did was read the book of the law(without commentary) word for word, then started from the beginning in the commentary without skipping. And the last half of the book are pictures of the original, which I can't read Crowley's hand writing anyways"It's just a generic instruction I always give. Always read your books from cover to cover, especially if they are instructional books (which this is not) because you may need to have learned one thing first before other things will make sense. Even prefaces and intros can be useful. But in your case I don't think there's much missed, but I did enjoy the preface myself.
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"Always read your books from cover to cover, especially if they are instructional books (which this is not) because you may need to have learned one thing first before other things will make sense"
That is very true in the case of learning Hermes Hermetics with Quabalah, 2 yrs ago when i started studying the subject i was jumping left and right reading all these other texts to get a clue of what one of them were saying lmao
I will probly get to the preface in time, i just skip most introduction unless i realy dont know what the book is about or who the author is. With reading occult books for half a decade prefaces and introductions have almost become predictable, but it doesnt stop me from reading a new book from cover to cover 