Product Description

Casting sigils is a highly effective form of sorcery and Sherwin provides a sound overview of the process. He cuts through the cant, rhetoric and old-fashioned moral baggage associated with magical practice and shows us how to use sigils to influence the subconscious, bypassing the often contradictory and usually self-sabotaging internal dialogue of the conscious mind. The Book of Results was first published in 1978 just as Chaos Magick was emerging from the stygian depths of the primordial occult oozo and it was essentially a book about the practise and theory of sigils as espoused by Austin Spare at the turn of the Twentieth Century. However, Sherwin takes the process of working with sigils and develops it into a fully ritualised technique. In this book he describes a daily regime that, at first glance, seems to owe more to Abra-Melin (probably from ABR MLAIM –‘powerful consecrations’) though much more compact and personalised than to Chaos Magick. However, this is Chaos Magick in its true form without much chaos. The chaos in this book is anything but disorganised. The discipline described by Sherwin is far from the adhoc, make-it-up-as-you-go-along rituals that often seems to accompany much of what Chaos Magick has become over the years. The true Chaos Magick that Sherwin describes is the chaos of abandoning all established theory and running barefoot ahead with no boundaries. This sort of writing is where Chaos Magick came from. Letting go of the cobwebs of doctrine and dogma - left over by the likes of Crowley, Mathers or The Key of Solomon - is what Chaos Magick was supposed to be about. Having said that Sherwin isn't afraid of referring to the likes of Crowley but he takes what he needs and builds from there. The book includes a great deal of practical advice, which can be very useful at the beginning of a magical career and is a breath of fresh air to any one who wants to learn REAL Magick. This revised version of The Book of Results includes additional chapters which are both thought provoking and innovative. Some may think he strips magic (k) of its mystery, romance and grandeur, if so you should look elsewhere if you are seeking enlightenment, union with the Divine, or fancy a chat with your Holy Guardian Angel. However, if like most of us, you simply want to create and fire a number of sigils to help you manifest your desires (sex, wealth, material things); THE BOOK OF RESULTS provides the information you need.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #394792 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-23
• Released on: 2005-03-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 86 pages

About the Author
Ray Sherwin is known in occult circles as the author of The Book of Results and The Theatre of Magic and one of the first popularly acknowledged Chaos magicians. He created the Illuminates of Thanateros along with Peter Carroll in the late 1970s.

Customer Reviews

A good study
A well written book. I found it extremely helpful. You will in fact get results if you practice what is taught in the book. This book belongs in everyone's library regardless of what level of magik you are working with. It is worth every bit of four stars.

I do not like this book
Of the eighty pages of this book, twenty are dedicated to technical aspects of how to make incense, which might be of interest to perfumiers, but is not what a magician buying this book will want to read. Sure, perfume and incense have applications in magic, but they simply are not discussed in this book; what's discussed is the process of getting ingredients, mixing them and making incense.

Another chapter is a boring political rant of no relevance.

Ray Sherwin's methods of identifying and exorcising personal demons are of value, but - in a mindboggling piece of bad editing - are split between the first chapter and the tenth. Five or six pages from the first chapter are repeated verbatim in the tenth! Was this book never proofread at all?!

All in all, a bad book.

great book!
I was quite impressed with this book and just a little disappointed in myself for not having read it before- it was written in 1978.
Anyone reading Frater U.D., Peter Carroll, or Phil Hine will find that this book will fill in some small gaps in the information given by these three authors as to how to go about creating a sigil. Again, an excellent little book.