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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:53 pm
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I've recently been picking up quite a few old books off've a local auction website for cheaps. Because it's not pricey I can kind of go a bit mad on stuff I might not ordinarily buy, but there's some good stuff in there too.
I picked up "Earth Power" just the other day and it arrived this morning. Has anyone else read it? What are your thoughts?
Thus far it seems like a bit of a rush job. Maybe that's just me skipping over bits I've heard a thousand times before, but the little amount of space Cunningham gives to this or that concept, and how small the book is, makes it seem a bit rushed. Given how thin the book is, I'm not sure all the pictures are necessary. That space would have been much better utilised with words. Those pictures, and the tone and briefness with which he's hitting things at this point, make it seem like it's aimed more at a child than an adult.
The general Cunningham love-and-light stuff is to be expected, and so easily tolerated if you have the stomach to do so.
On the other hand, the folk focus is refreshing. It's very... rapid in the text proper, but the way it hits this and this and this is reminiscent of a simple source book rather than one created to educate in a wider sense. This might be why the intro chapters were so rushed; perhaps Llewellyn told him after he'd written the manuscript that they wanted a little something in the way of instruction so that someone unfamiliar with witchcraft could jump right in. I'm giving Cunningham the benefit of the doubt here beause the intro doesn't seem like him.
Overall I think I like it so far. The "educational" bits are easily overlooked or discarded and the bulk of the text is very much along my own style of witchcraft. It's nice to get some inspiration for new spell ideas.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:03 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:41 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:46 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:39 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:38 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 5:32 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:30 am
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:11 am
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Violet fira By religion I mean a system of spiritual beliefs and/or mythologies governing someone’s view of the world, or at least a system of rituals or practices interconnected with mythology. A persons understanding of what magic is, how it works, and how to use it, will more often than not be influenced by their religion, if they have one. I don’t mean to say that you need to have a religion to practice magic. I think I meant that this is pretty much a general neo-pagan spell book, not a book on the history or practices of magic from a religion or particular culture. And while there’s a basic how to guide in the beginning, it just sort of scratches the surface on how magic works, from his own viewpoint.
Ah, I see. You phrased it a strange way, like there was an aspect of magic itself that was filed under "religion" or something, and I was confused.
Actually I think if you take out the Llewellynesque "omg nature" introduction, it could be used by non-Pagans quite happily as well, for the most part.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:02 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:18 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:59 pm
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