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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32096 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Lon Milo DuQuette is the author of Angels, Demons & Gods of the New Millenium; The Magick of Aleister Crowley; and My Life with the Spirits, a memoir of his life as a practicing ceremonial magician. He lives in Costa Mesa, California.

Customer Reviews

Templars and Masons and Pointed Hats
Duquette is one of the better writers in the popular occult field. His light and entertaining style makes for a fast read, so here you get the lowdown on some speculative theories about the Knights Templar, without having to invest the time required for reading the Dan Brown book. To make a short story even shorter, (spoilers ahead), Duquette speculates that the Bible is a fabrication, that the Templar's found out about it, and therefore had to be supressed by the established church, and that the Mason's retain some of the knowledge of the Templar's even though most Masons don't realize it.

After establishing in the first hundred pages, that the Bible is fake, and that people who believe in it are ignorant and superstitious, he goes on to tell how to call up Demons through a process that involves writing or chanting various names that come from the Bible. Duh?

Well, part of the pleasure of reading Duquette is to try to decipher the mind game he is playing. I doubt if most occult writers actually believe a tenth of what they are writing, but in this case there is a particularly fine line between intentional and unintentional humor. The last half of the book tells how to conjure up Demons according to the Lesser Key of Solomon method. This material is widely available from Duquette's other books, or for free over the Internet, so it seems like filler compared to the first part. Basically it entails pinning a powerful symbol to your robe, wearing a really goofy looking triangle shaped hat, and chanting the proper invocation until you start to hallucinate. Apparently these Demons, despite their malevolence and fearsome powers, are frighted by tall pointed hats. Sometimes small dogs have such fears.

Also, this is a good thing to know: You can control Demons to do anything you want, if you threaten to write their symbol on a piece of paper and burn it.

Uh, does this stuff work? According to Duquette, "... personal experiences lead me to affirm categorically that this kind of magic does indeed work."

But a few pages after this categorical affirmation, Duquette allows that no one has actually SEEN one of these Demons, but claims their presence has been felt. Then he concedes that they might just only exist in the mind. But here is a very important point: It just so happens that one of the "Seven Secrets of Solomon" states that everything exists only in the mind anyway! See how it all fits together?

It's a very good thing that these Demons are only imaginary. If he ever did manage to accidently conjure up a REAL Demon, there ain't no way in Waco that he would be able to control that sucker with some paper symbols and a funny hat.

Fantastic
This little book is packed with information. I must say it surpasses the Freemasonry label, and is written in the author's excellent style. Recommended for students of western esoterica!

Terrific intro to Solomonic Magick
Lon Milo Duquette has an uncanny knack of taking arcane material, stripping it of all the self-important B.S. and distilling its essence in an irreverent yet thoroughly complete manner. In "The Key To Solomon's Key", Duquette may rankle old-tyme ceremonial magicians by exposing spirit evocation for what it is: Isolation and direct communication with distinct aspects of one's own personality and makeup for the purpose of growth and self-awareness. I can see how this may appeal to the progressive practitioner, but also do away with the romance of projecting these aspects onto independent, self-contained "angels" and "demons". This book is NOT a manual for practicing spirit evocation, but rather a primer for those interested. Duquette does encourage the aspiring magician to read more in-depth material on the topic before jumping in, and is frank about the potential dangers of initiating dialogue with one's "dark side". However, I wish he would take it a step further and encourage the would-be practitioner to seek some form of psychotherapy in order to gain some all too important grounding before invoking potentially dangerous elements. This type of work can easily lead to obsession if one is not well prepared. There is a fine line for everything!!