Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #626841 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 270 pages

Customer Reviews

A Practical Guide to the Runes
Jan Fries has brought us a very good book on runes. It covers everything from early history through to the various uses of runes for meditation, chant and trancework, healing and divination, and he does so with a great sense of humour. The result is a thoroughly enjoyable read that comes over as being unique in its approach. The rune meanings are extensive, but the author leaves room for his readers to think for themselves in this regard also. Jan Fries is not only informative, he encourages further experimentation by beginner and scholar alike to arrive at a more personal view.
As it says in the Havamal: Veistu hve freista skal? (Know how to test them?) in the sense that we should see how the runes work for ourselves.
Illustrated throughout with the author's strange and absorbing artwork, this is one of the best rune books of the present day.

Terrific!
This is a wonderful book for modern mages and witches. The book appealed to me because I was searching for a more indeep, no -new-age crap type of book about runes. This is a very refreshing take on the subjects of runes and magic indeed.

It's chaos magic in the sense of ecclectic modern magic, not in the sense of mind-game egotistical magic.

I'd like to read more books like this one, never mind the label.

An excellent post-modern handbook on Runic Magick
Jan Fries has done a brilliant job in creating an effective and pactical system based on the Runes.

However, I should point out one thing for those serious runesters out there. His system of rune magick is a complete system and well researched--though, for rune purists, be warned, his system is presented with a Thelemic bent with frequent references to Liber AL. My point here is that if you are looking for a system that is more authentically Germanic, then check out the work of Edred Thorsson or Freya Aswynn.

For me this integration works, in part because his context is very contemporary (so for you Thelemites who are looking to explore the runes, here's the book for you).

And, for anyone just looking for a great book on magick, this is definately one to check out.