Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is

I love this book. It is important to know that it is not step by step instruction. I know a few people who were disappointed because of that. LMD is a freemason so he likes his secrets... just keep that in mind. Enjoy. He's a wonderful writer.

Lon Duquette has written a book so clear in its exposition and so engaging and conversational in style as to make a frightfully obtuse subject clear even to the reader for whom the concepts are entirely new, even strange. While "Low Magic: It's All in Your Head" is by no means a technical manual, better than any other work I have read it answers clearly and effectively the question "What is low magick really all about?"There are probably as many answers to that question as there are magicians, but the best I've encountered - as this work makes clear - is that it is an exploration of the darker corners of the subconscious mind, undertaken with a view toward transforming the personal demons of doubt, fear, lust and anger (among others) that assail the individual and keep him from living up to his potential - through the force of the trained and disciplined will - into promoters of growth and wholeness. The means of this transformation is the work of magick. No one ever said it better than Eliphas Levi, an adept if ever there was one, in his poem "The Magician:""Their faces and their shapes are terrible and strange,These devils by my might to Angels I will change.These nameless horrors I address without affright,On them will I impose my will, the law of light."This is the aim of low magick. Are the demonic creatures who populate its world real? Yes, says the author: they are, because they can be experienced. Do these thought forms have or are they capable of assuming an independent, semi-sentient existence? Opinion is divided but that really doesn't matter: they may fail the "lamp test" (i.e., they cannot knock over a table lamp) but they can certainly make the soul they bedevil knock over a lamp. As no less a personage than Aleister Crowley points out clearly in "The Spirits of the Goetia of Solomon the King" (1904, p. 3, "The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic"), "The spirits [of the Goetia] are portions of the human brain." Enough said. Low magick is the attempt to make those wild, maddened wraiths run in harness. Its tools are autosuggestion and the willed direction of the imagination.This is not a book that explicitly lays out the formal theory underlying low magick nor is it a book of techniques and applications (although there is enough exposition of theory and technique in it to interest the more experienced practitioner). Rather, it is a book of stories - and the stories are wittily, absorbingly and expertly told, such as (inter alia) his exorcism of a particularly nasty critter wreaking murderous havoc in a Catholic Girls' School (an aptly named "Our Lady of Sorrows"), his obtaining of a date with the beauty of his first grade class, pacifying the troublesome shade of a deceased relative and a good many others that serve as examples of what magick can - and cannot - accomplish.Mr. Duquette has done it again: a superlatively gifted storyteller, the author illustrates what can be accomplished with magick, good intentions and a generous bit of elbow grease. This book is simply a "must have" for the serious magician or student of magick.

When I bought this book I expected 1 of 2 things either he was going to divulge some of his low magick spells that he wanted to share or he was going to offer philosophy of low magick how he sees the system work, maybe even both. What this book offered was so much more. He gives insight into his life and working with low magick as a means to shape his reality. He tells story after story with such grandeur, and humility and laces it with his iconic humor. The book brings brilliant insight into the life as an aspiring magician, the humor of performing spells and the resolve you should have to finish what you start. This book is absolutely fantastic and I recommend it to any who would find this topic of interest; personally each chapter had me excited to see what came next.

Gave as a gift to a friend. They found it really enlightening, and a really nice read!

In "Low Magick" Lon Milo DuQuette gives us something unique in occult literature: a sense that magick is not just a set of bizarre operations and heady abstractions, but a Path that real, stable individuals walk. (For a certain value of "stable.") This isn't another instruction manual in a market already glutted with such, but a memoir of a life lived exploring the less traveled byways of the human psyche.That said, there is actually quite a bit of "tech" in "Low Magick," much of it concerning ways of doing magick on the fly. There is a delightful "quickie" invocation of Ganesha. In the course of an exorcism, DuQuette transfers his Circle from his home to the location by wrapping the cord used to demarcate it around his body, under his clothing. His more elaborate Workings include the use of the mythology behind the plants mentioned in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to remove a curse.But a bit of "tech" that is only mentioned once is also the main reason this book will stand, not only as an inspirational work for aspiring occultists, but an important document in the history of magick: the magical diary. Had DuQuette not faithfully kept a record of his Workings, his dreams, and his life in magick, it is likely that he would not have been able to share his experiences in such depth. In doing so, he has given us a snapshot of the mindset of a working mage.I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to do more than learn the nuts and bolts of magick, but also draw inspiration from a life dedicated to it.

Nothing crazy, some personal snippets of his personal journey and experiences. Its a quick read thats not hard on the brain.

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These stories are more than just stories. As I haven’t arrived at my understanding yet as to how much more and what much more, I’ll leave your understanding to you.On the surface though, these stories are entertaining, witty and sometimes very funny (the Mercury “invocation” especially). They may also serve a glimpses through windows and even invitations to a larger world.Enjoy as you will!

Another excellent book by this author. You don’t have to be a ceremonial magician to get a lot out of this book. I’ve always had a belief in evil -after all I am human. You don’t have to believe in demons for them to exist. Lon’s unique outlook made what he does a lot of sense to me. He’s got a great sense of humour and isn’t afraid to poke fun at himself. There’s also a lot of detail for the magician but as a practising astrologer, I was completely bowled over the the detail Lon provided around the Tarot and magical information all the down to the decans. Wow! That was very interesting.