Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #196194 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 342 pages

Customer Reviews

Buckland Garderian Book
This book repeats a lot of things presented in Buckland's "Complete Book of Witchcraft." If you have that book, you don't need this one. Buckland is Gardnerian and if you don't follow that path, this isn't the book for you, either. However, Buckland is a great man and has done so much for Wicca in the US that at least ONE of his books deserve a place on your reference shelf.

Excellent Resource
Raymond Buckland continues to be one of our leaders, bringing us another gem. I enjoyed Wicca for life, it filled in a few gaps "Big Blue" left, primarily the additional spell works. As a resource it's par excel-lance' but I personally missed the study guides. Highly recommend this book!

Durk Simmons author of Strings of Connection: Book One of the Witches in America Series

good book
I've never read Big Blue. Although I'm told it's a must have in any pagan library, I've still to get my hands on a copy. :D I may not bother since I now have this one and from all accounts it's the better copy. Now, I admit, I don't care for all of his theories, and the history lessons also certainly aren't the best. But there is still a lot of good info. It's like with any author, you take the good with the bad; you use what you like and ignore the rest. All Pagan authors have views you don't always agree with, just as we all have favorite authors that can do no wrong. :D Sam Cunningham is still my first pick, especially for beginners. He just gives you the info, and lets you fly with it where you would; there's no specific Path. That said, Buckland still has a lot to give, and he's a close second. Now, someone mentioned "Buckland states that prayer is magic, completely ignoring important distictions between prayer and magic." Prayer is most definately magick! Magick is just the manipulation of the energies around us to help bring us what me may need. And it doesn't matter how you do it. You could just as well get the same results by performing a perfect ritual at the perfect time & place with the perfect clothes, etc. as by just stating to the powers that be what is needed and ask them for help if they are so inclined. And that is exactly what prayer is. Rituals, Prayers, Affirmations; they are all a form of magick. I'm actually more inclined to send out a prayer to whomever is listening than performing a ritual. It's just what I'm more comfortable with and what works best for me.