This book takes one deep into the understanding of magical evocation. The book explores the ideas of grimoire creation, a history.
It's axioms prove most helpful in that one can make use of them for any magical practice, especially that one must understand what the symbolism behind the tools mean and the significance of ritual movement.
Highly recomended

I applaud this book and its author. FINALLY, someone said what needed to be said and that is, that the great mass of New Age "teachings" out there simply do not work. Period. They claim this and they claim that. Yet anyone who has worked their heart out over months or even years doing what they were instructed to by these modern books, have found there rewards to be very, very paltry at best (you do delude yourself a lot though, because you NEED help, have nowhere else to turn, and so want to think magic "works" even when the results are not there. I know because I was this way myself for many, many years.)

But this author went a step further. He gives what DOES work, although it is a very hard Path indeed, just as some other reviewers pointed out here. That is, it is not easy, and it is far, far from simple. But the important thing is that this book WORKS! As far as I am concerned, this is all that counts. And the reason for this is that he advocates working ONLY from what he calls, "Old System" magic books. In short, from the Grimoires (Grammar of Magic) of the middle ages. And he begins by giving you the simplest of all to start from.

I was one who bought this book right from the publisher when it first came out last fall. At first I thought the author was crazy to want you to go through all the rig-a-ma-role he demands you have to go through. But then I realized it was only what the old grimoires themselves told you to do! Then when I read it a second time and realized even more - that his "Magical Propositions and Axioms" explain WHY you have to do these strange things and (in a way) he `simplifies' those strange actions you are to take in order to work the magic (by this I mean getting all the hard to find items the grimoires tell you are necessary.) I then put these two realizations together, began the work, and after a lot of trouble, did exactly as he said. And now I KNOW why he is so down on the New Age, and why I was so disgusted with it myself. When I finished my first evocation following his book, I got magical results of the kind I only read about before. This type of magic is REAL and it DOES work no matter what ANYONE else says or complains about!

For me, I have had enough of failure and the New Age senselessness that is being hailed from the rooftops by people who continually fail to get what they want from magic, but who are absolute "experts" at fooling themselves because they are too lazy to do what the New Age "taught" them they don't have to do. I am sticking solely to the "Old System" magic from here on, because the results ARE there whether it pleases - or displeases anyone, like some of the ignorant, lazy, and dull negative reviewers here - or not. I recommend this book highly, and am going to buy this writer's other books now, seeing the results I got from his first one.