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| Publisher : | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 28, 2010) |
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| Language : | English |
| Paperback : | 468 pages |
| ISBN-10 : | 1456492055 |
| ISBN-13 : | 978-1456492052 |
| Item Weight : | 1.51 pounds |
| Dimensions : | 5.98 x 1.05 x 9.02 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank: | #3,852 in Magic Studies (Books) |
| Customer Reviews: | 49 ratings |
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Very helpful!
In understanding the parts of the mystery this knowledge is beneficial. It’s very helpful in learning how this information relates to my own interpretations.
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Maskim Hul
Great information,great book…a must have for your book collection of Magick. Deals with ancient knowledge and how we can awaken those powers in ourselfs. Mr.Ford has many books on The Luciferian path,this one caught my sight,and it’s a 5 star…know thy self….
4 people found this helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five Stars
My freind who I purchase the book for loves it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Tremendous Work, rich in illustration
I received my hard bound copy recently and am impressed with it – so far well written and without the grammatical and spelling errors that accompanied previous works. This is also a wonderfully illustrated book, the artworks evoke sinister and antinomian feelings. The content is rich and i particularly am happy with this as having read Ford’s other works i really was drawn to the references to babylonian and other mesopotamian lore and magic in thos works and was hoping for a greater expansion on this by him. like his other this is a grimoire and a sourcebook for one’s own ‘subjective synthesis’ if they seek to visit the Great Below, (if there be your heart then go you must)
7 people found this helpful
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Sincerely, i prefer to read tons of books to …
Sincerely, i prefer to read tons of books to achieve informations about mesopotamian tradition instead of this book.It’s historically correct but interpretation of several entities are not correct and to use that tradition from a luciferian perspective doesn’t fit with the tradition self.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
puctuational pilatherly plyest perioust
the purpose of michael ford books seems to be lost on those who read them.this is not a history book. this is a creative attempt to glorify the dark aspects of a pantheon for ritual use.each of michael ford’s pantheistic delves are to give nigromancers a platform for dark spiritualism.think of them as companions to his art and think of the core assumption, this is chaos magick-blending is necesaary.the vade mecum cure all, et theosophicumin point the theories and principals to build a foundation in a specific regions deific masks.shaitan wears many masks s/he takes which ever form s/he needs be.ford built his foundation for magic in his other works these grimoires give his followers toolkits to work with deific masks of the pantheons they most align with.book of the witch moon- anglo saxon god/dess’, necromonon- egyptian god/dess’, dragon of two flames- cristio judaic god/dess’, magick of ancients- greek go/dess’, and maskim hul- babelonian god/dess’.however as it is chaos magick one would be wise to mix and match the energies are at their highest when collided the ensuing friction releases a trigger that tricks the subconscious into hypercosciousness hence psychodrama.magick works by triggering excitement that you are doing something out of the ordinary some folks need the added boost that dark archetypes trigger.think of it as a sociopathic rush if good magick triggers no excitement it won’t work. if the dark frightens you on a spiritual level them embrace that fear and ride its excitement to spiritual adepthood.the fear of the evil makes us good in heart, drawing light to our darkness, we utilize our fear for growth, the eldritch frightens and intrigues but its not the darkness we seek, the darkness is already there inside all of us, our fear is a reflection of that which we seek to undo,magick is sympathetic like attracts like. but energy is neutral neither good nor evil.you can attract positive change by utilizing dark rites. you can’t however affect any change if you can’t excite your will the seat of every magicians power is in his ability to excites his senses when performing a rite.evil is not evil, the fear of evil excites the senses. the purpose is to excite and excite alone.dogma is imperative without belief magick shall fail.therefore a new age deviation from the true history is necessary for a practitioner if it is psychodrama to believe the contrary for his practice to work.simple k? the first chapters of ford’s genre specifc books gives the foundation of a mythology as it pertains to the work at hand, magick will not work without principal explantations this is building the ground for the myth. then the trappings of wicca and new age occult builds the formularies for how it works. then come the genre specific rites and prayers based on the foreground. they deviated from true histories insomuch that they express the dark archetypical energies that nigromancers need to project.i can’t stress how much it is a foundationb not a fact. its the dark take.the lack of explanatin is necessary for the practitioner to improvise magick is not a science its not meant to be factual it is an arte and it is meant to be felt and practiced not read, you cannot expect magick to work if you read it word for word and practice it like so many others. in order for it to function it needs original thought to inact its energies the foundation keeps the intent pure but the ritual needs to evolve and one worrying if they did it right is wrong it works if it excites you and you believe whole heartedly it will.woft a tuff of willow wick smoke,a soul released from its fiery prison upon a spoke,by thou will shall mote it be,
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Bleh
I picked this book from a friend to advance in my research paper on Inanna/Ishtar and the modern interpretation of this goddess.Sorry for my bad english, but heck, his was simply horrible. “Ishtar split blood” (Ford, pg 210). Really? Split blood? That was on page 210 if my memory serves right. That’s without the lack of verbs in many sentences, or lack of words period. There is a huge lack of consistency also, going from past tense, to present tense then back to past tense in a single sentence. That’s time travel for ya’, I’d need to list to whole book of all the grammatical mistake I saw, and my english is TERRIBLE for university level, so for me to notice, it was just awful and painful to read.Plus, some informations were wrong. Ishtar the huntress, a hymn? Since when is she a huntress? Warrior, yes, huntress??? She’s not Artemis! Another thing in the hymn; she supposedly said she is “invoked above and below” (pg 351). Now there’s a flaw here, since when Inanna decided to go below, she died, and had the send her husband in her place in “The Descent of Inanna.” And as I will say later, Inanna/Ishtar was only allowed to walk on earth and sky, hence her sister was simply livid when Inanna wanted to walk in Irkalla also. So really, the above and below does not really apply, especially in the mentality of the time period. Little things like this were all over, which made the overall simply off-track. Or what was not were actually taken almost word for word from another book.By curiosity I read on Ereshkigal’s part, and my my. She chose to be in the underworld? She chose Nergal? For the underworld, she (the goddess) clearly states in one translation jealousy towards her sister Inanna being able to walk on the earth and sky, while she, send there as a kid, has to stay below, eating clay and drinking muddy water. She does not have photophobie as Michael Ford says; she’s stuck in the underworld! As for Nergal, many scholars believe nowadays that he was added later on as more patriarchal societies took over. I forgot which book, for I did not quote it for my research, but the author clearly mentioned the Sumerian for being less “macho” in this sense to agree to have an underworld deity, unlike the Akkadian. This is easily found, yet he bears no mention of this.Aside from that, and the jiberish in some places, what astonished me the most is that he clearly plagiarized; almost word for word.He even used the same quotation marks for “Inanna of Sunrise” and “Playground of Inanna” that are in Jeremy Black and Anthony Green’s book Gods, Demons and Symbols ( Ford: pg 209-2010, Black and Green pg 108-109). Then when he quotes “The Descent of Inanna,” it is almost word for word the translation of Stephanie Dalley. The only word that was changed when Namtar “kills” Inanna was “diseases” to “demons” (sorry, I did not note the page of Ford’s book since I am not using it for my research, and I do not have Dalley’s book on me at the present moment).The pictures used else than the artist are not sourced either, so I do not even know where the cuneiform pictures comes from. What if you write, oh I don’t know, “stupid” instead of “Nergal” on the forehead of the human skull used in a ritual/incantation in the book?Which then, brings me… TA DAHH! His bibliography! I have never seen someone who did not even look online how to do a bibliography. Not even in alphabetical order, some text even lack an author. Some have dates, some do not, some do not even have the full title written, such as The Treasures of Darkness: A history of mesopotamian religion by T. Jacobson. Forget about the press company; only one per four sources have that. It’s just a nightmare.As the content, although I disagree with some it, it could be more interesting if it did lack the mistakes and the plagiarism that just made my eyes bleed ( it’s really annoying when you know you read this exact line somewhere else!). As for the pictures drawn by the artist, it would be great to have a deeper interpretation of them. And also, the artist could use some tutorial online for charcoal; he did some common beginner mistakes in there, but I mean, I’m still extremely curious of the meaning behind these artworks.Anyhow, it’s not worth the 20 bucks in the state it’s in, and it need a serious editing, and some source. Seriously, cite your s***! Especially when Mr. Ford has a COPY WRITE on HIS book that maybe a third ISN’T his words…Bibliography for this thing (Because, yes, I did use other sources)Black, Jeremy, and Anthony Green. Gods, Demons and Symbols of ancient mesopotamia: an illustrated dictionary. Austin: University of Texas press, 1992 pg. 108-109Dalley, Stephanie. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford Unity Press, 2009. Print.Ford, Michael F. Maskim Hul: Babylonian Magick. Succubus productions. Houston, Texas, 2010Jacobson, T. The Treasures of Darkness: A history of mesopotamian religion. New Haven: Yale University Press; 1st Edition, 1978. Print.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
chartreuse anyone?
As you might have known I’m a deliberate fan of konstantinos. His works are darker than any evil book. Try reading his nocturnal witchcraft book on a cold autumn night snuggled up in bed, and you can’t deny that the room suddenly feels twenty degrees cooler and you have a eldritch feeling of dread like evil is watching you. Sleep well mwhahaha!Ford takes konstantinos’ so called good dark and goes a way way way too far. If you don’t believe me just read liber hvhi the inverse name of God. The inverse rite of possession scared the eff outta me. Don’t get me wrong I’m a devout Satanist, and by Satanist I mean that I worship my own ego, but we all do so I’ll see you all in hell. We are all at the center of our own universe’s, and we see ourselves as the thing that matters most in our universe’s. I’m not preaching hypocrisy, I’m preaching reality. But what’s the point in preaching at all? If you are shaking your head at this review in contempt, you might as well stop reading it now. Go ahead, skip right to the next negative review, and the next one, and the next one. Come to think of it, how many books have you gone through, looking for that one hidden secret. That one darkest of dark lesson that satisfies the desire to use the artes to vex your enemies for every slight that alienated you. Do you want to know that secret, because I can tell it right here and now. It’s so simple that you how could possibly miss it. That secret magick is that there is no secret magick. Huh? What is guy some sorta scam artist, a fluff bunny on crack. No. When you come to the craft with hate brewing in your gullet, you’ll never be satisfied with what you find. Oh, you might find something that you think is the one big thing. But you’ll quickly realise that something is amiss. It doesn’t feel right, something’s missing. And quickly you’ll be on to the next book, and the next, and still the next. magick is not in a book of spells, or a fancy implement, or some lost forgotten relic. Magick is in you. It always has been. The world is a magickal place, but only if you see it through a child’s eyes. No not those eyes. Your eyes. Start believing the world is magickal and soon you see. But not with yo u r eyes at all but with your heart. Go out into the wilderness where no-one can hear you, and let that anger and hatred out. Shout, scream and throw a good tantrum, make sure you have a good cry. And when it’s all through, look all around you, and then you will finally get it. But most importantly once you get it don’t let it go. Keep constantly reminding yourself of that feeling, and keep it alive. And if you can’t go out into the woods and do it again, and again, and again until you finally get it right. Don’t be afraid, don’t feel foolish or embarrassed, just feel. Don’t dismiss what I’m saying or make an excuse not to do it. You can do this, I believe in you. Find your magick and you’ll be free.
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Maskim Hul-Babylonian Magick:1
Wer Michael W. Ford kennt, wird auch hier nicht enttäuscht! Mit klarer Beschreibung erklärt er die Zusammenhänge und die Götter der Babylonischen Zeit! Schritt für Schritt wird man hier eingeführt! Ich kann es nur weiterempfehlen, da wie gesagt ja auch jedes seiner Bücher aufeinander aufbaut. Ich bin seit über 30 Jahren Satanist, doch solche Bücher habe ich gesucht! Doch leider gibt es solche Bücher leider nicht auf dem deutschen Markt zu haben! Aber in Michael W. Fords Büchern finde ich mich wieder!
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Ford ist von den besten Magier. Das Buch ist erstklassig.