Voices from Legendary Times: We Are a Bridge Between Past and Future

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About the book: What is the connection between lost civilizations, ancient cosmic catastrophes, and extraterrestrial visitations in prehistory? Voices from Legendary Times draws together compelling evidence from archaeology, astronomy, geology, myths, and ancient texts to prove that superior beings from outer space genetically engineered several human races on our planet. . Examines the flaws in the theory of evolution. . Proves that giants were an important, yet now forgotten part of our history. . Explains what really caused the destruction of highly advanced civilizations and continents like Atlantis, Lemuria, and Thule. . Reveals that our ancestors were familiar with flying machines and nuclear weapons. . Shows proof of extraterrestrial contact in the Bible. In the search for lost origins of humanity, Ellen Llyod demonstrates that races of men have inhabited Earth for millions of years, but not all of them were human. Ancient sources describe the past ages as world cycles. The mysteries of the forgotten past reveal that the humans and all living beings have not been created once, but are products of a continuous re-creation process performed and guided by alien gods. Learn why our history is more startling than we could ever imagine!

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What Part of Our World are we "Doomed to Repeat"?.......2007-09-27

We, on this planet, are repeatedly told; "He who forgets the Past, is doomed to repeat It; but, if we have already forgotten "it" "or...never even been told "it", where & how do we even start to get "clue one" about what "it"is? Legendary Times definitely gets a person off on the right foot, gets that foot in the door and that toe in the water! The ancient brought to light, & the public.

Legendary Times puts in one place; stories, facts, legends, recovered artifacts, scientific results, & first person accounts of humanity's origins. This compilation is written for the casual reader, yet still contains good clues for a researcher. If Legendary Times has a downside, it can be said to sort of "trail off towards the end" leaving one wishing for more data.

I bought a copy for a friend and find I am always going back to reference a fact.

Are there no editors at iUniverse?.......2007-09-03

There are a lot of problems with this book but the most glaring are the punctuation, sentence fragments and lack of continuity. If this book was translated from another language into English, where were the proofreaders? I've read lots of books translated from other languages that don't have these irritating mistakes.

With that said, I wonder about the research. Among her many assertions, she states that bones of giants found in CA were re-buried in order to suppress the true history of our origin. How does she know this? Though she has sources listed in the back of the book, there are no footnotes to indicate her source for such conclusions. I would think a mathematician, as the jacket states she is, would be more likely to demand proof. Her off-hand conclusions are not based on any arguments or proof that I found in her writing.

I believe there were civilizations prior to the Egyptian/Mesopotamian civilizations but this book is shallow and offers only wild speculation.

Save your money and eyesight.

Poorly written but worth the read.......2007-02-01

This book would be excellent if it were better written. My guess is that English is not the author's primary language. But beneath the annoyingly dropped words (especially "the"), incomplete and awkward sentences, and randomly placed commas is a wealth of substance. The author makes an excellent case that scholars should take cultural myths and legends more seriously, that there are important truths within the stories.
The tour of mysterious sites around the world, along with other evidence of long-lost great civilizations in our distant past, is relatively comprehensive and interesting. Yes, the "ancient astronauts" theory has for some time now been an object of merciless ridicule, but the ever growing body of anomalous evidence, in my opinion, continues to call conventional notions of human origins into question. Although this poorly written book would never suffice in an academic setting, it most certainly can serve well to introduce the reader to related theories proposed by the likes of Velikovsky, Alford, Hancock, Sitchen, and of course the controversial and giggle-factor encrusted popularizer, Erich von Daniken. If one is willing and able to push aside the ridicule, approach these theories objectively (and also tolerate annoying grammatical errors and typos) for the sake of understanding content, buy Voices, for it serves as a very good compilation of evidence proposed supporting ancient astronauts related claims.

Great book.......2006-08-10

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Voices from Legendary Times by Ellen Lloyd
I have to be honest from the start, I am not a lover of books that deal with visiting "crafts" from outer space as an answer to the mysteries of the past. Ever since reading Daniken's book I always felt that many statements and claims were made without the evidence to back them up, and yet Ellen Lloyd has done a superb job in uncovering a huge and bewildering amount of
data. This is not just a simple tale claiming that ships landed on the pyramids of Giza, no, this is a really good and clever investigation into hundreds of mysteries, from the Hopi indians to the Maya, oh yes, and a really good read.

There are the infamous authors on extraterrestrial visitation such as Sitchin and Daniken with all their flaws and there are many unsung authors such as Ellen Lloyd who deserve to have their voices heard. The simple reason being that Ellen has done more research and uncovered more enigmas than Sitchin and Daniken put together and all this in one book. From the
moment Ellen steps into the "theory of evolution" she had me hooked because I associated with her as she ripped it to shreds. And then, without blinking she moved headlong into a territory many so-called authors would fear to
tread - Atlantis. In her cleverly deduced assumption there was much more to this ancient tale than previously believed - not least of which involved much more advanced technical abilities in ancient times.

Whatever your thoughts on little green men; whether you think there's something at Area 51 or not, you will be hooked by this well-written book that far surpasses the many other ET books I have read before. This is not a "it happened to me" story, but a really serious investigation into areas academics fear to tread and for that alone Ellen deserves applause.
Philip Gardiner, 2006

Answers all the questions.......2006-06-05

As a true supporter of the ancient astronauts' theory, I find this book a great contribution to this field. For me personally, the AAS theory answers all the crucial questions regarding mankind's past. Who are we, were do we come from, who created us and why?
I hope that Ellen Lloyd will keep up her good work and continue where Däniken and Sitchin left off. I look forward to her next book.

Ian Martin,
London, UK

Voices of Hope in the Struggle to Save the Planet

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Feeling like there's no hope for the world? Then read on!
Compelling, informative, challenging, motivating, accesible.

Voices of Hope in the Struggle to Save the Planet
Marjorie Hope , and James Young
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At the heart of the current global environmental crisis lie difficult moral choices, which are central to religion. This book explores the connections between faith and ecology, seeking to redefine and strengthen the bond between the two. VOICES OF HOPE portrays the lives of individual women and men who are searching to give life a new or renewed vision of humans' relationship to the earth, and describes actions to nurture and protect the environment launched by faith-based environmental groups. The authors' journey begins with the prophetic voice of Thomas Berry, co-author of The Universe Story, and moves onto the lives, ideas, and beliefs about the environment of key spiritual leaders, thinkers, and activists in Judaism, Western and Eastern Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and the faiths of indigenous peoples. It concludes with a series of vignettes in which faith leaders, secular environmentalists, and religiously oriented activists have joined together to sustain the environment and prevent its further destruction.

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Feeling like there's no hope for the world? Then read on!.......2001-01-30

If you need reassurance that there are still people among uswho are committed to spiritual, moral, and ecological renewal, thenVoices of Hope is the perfect book for you. Hope and Young'sdescriptions of how activists around the world are living out theirFaith and their yearning for a better world gave me a strong sense ofenergy and hope; this book will surely provide sustenance to otherreaders who are trying to live their lives centered in Simplicity,Awareness and Love -- in a world that feels increasingly at odds withsuch endeavours.

Compelling, informative, challenging, motivating, accesible........2000-08-06

Voices Of Hope In The Struggle To Save The Planet reveals the lives of individual men and women engaged presenting a renewed vision of our relationship to the earth, describing actions by faith-based environmental groups to nurture and protect the environment. Included are the lives and ideas of spiritual leaders and activists drawn from Judaism, Western and Eastern Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, and the faiths of indigenous peoples. Each chapter includes a brief analysis of a particular faith's ecological teachings and description of the environmental problems of the country where a particular activist is living. Voices Of Hope In The Struggle To Save The Planet is compelling, informative, challenging, motivating, and very highly recommended reading for environmental studies, activists, policy makers, as well as the non-specialist general reader with an interest in religion and environmental issues.

Perversions, Insecurities and Random Thoughts of No One in Particular: the voice of an anonymous planet

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unblinkingly honest reading
unique & imaginative

Perversions, Insecurities and Random Thoughts of No One in Particular: the voice of an anonymous planet
Nathaneal Harkham
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Perversions, Insecurities and Random Thoughts of No One in Particular is a collection of anonymous feeling by authentic nameless contributors coupled with drawn photographic renderings of our random world.

This is a book of unconditional empathy…bluntly truthful, unabashedly obscure and alternatively fictional—its man-kind at their most real.

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unblinkingly honest reading.......2006-11-30

A book that is unflinching in its honesty. It's reality and observation is sometimes hard to swallow- but through the various vignettes, poems and short stories featured there is something authentic- a voice that tells it like it is. The pieces that meld the fantastical with threadbare reality are most intriguing. And the artwork that accompanies - is truly creative and unique.

unique & imaginative.......2006-09-18

The book is a compilation of unique themed thoughts and impressions. The book is a trend-setter, and is different from any book I have ever read. You may not enjoy it or find it pleasant, but it definitely awakens the senses and entertains in a very unique fashion. I thought it was great, I recommend it entirely.

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More than entertainment
Virtually unreadable
Not a bathroom read!
Thoughtful and absorbing exploration of a new scientific paradigm
A Pol Pot Daydream In Book Form

Voice of the Planet
Michael Tobias
Manufacturer: Spectra
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Release Date: 1990-06-01

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More than entertainment.......2007-07-28

I came across "Voice of the Planet" sometime in the mid nineties, a few years after it came out. I have re-read it several times since and am in the middle of reading it again right now. Never have I picked up a novel that went so deep under my skin and evoked such a range of emotions. This is a book that you either love or you don't. It is a science fiction/fantasy novel and a lot of it is bizarre and out-there. If you like bizarre and out-there, you will appreciate this book. But this novel is much more than entertainment. Lessons in geology, chemistry, biology, ecology and natural history are cleverly wrapped up in a story of adventure, fun and human drama. The science is informative but not deep enough to be intimidating. It helps to be somewhat familiar with the basic principles of the Gaia Hypothesis, also called Earth-System Science. But basically the book is easy to read and understand by anybody.
Unfortunately I missed the TV miniseries and I've been waiting for over ten years for it to be repeated.

Virtually unreadable.......2006-04-30

Perhaps because I attempted to read the book roughly 16 years after it was written (and many of the ideas set forth herein have been floating about for at least as many years) or perhaps because I simply approached the book as a (potential) good read, I found myself so disappointed by it that I could not read further than page 30. Should the novel improve astronomically past that point, let me proffer my apologies to all who might be concerned, but I would be surprised if it did.
A novel is not the place to go looking for science or (in most cases) ethics: hence, I offer no critique of the substance of what Tobias wishes to convey. Instead, I simply recommend staying away from the book because as a novel it is simply terrible. The prose is ludicrously inept, there is no characterization and, at least in the opening thirty pages, the author demonstrates no understanding of or experience with, for example, the academic world, mountain climbing, or computers.
The book is a complete waste of time. I would call it a complete waste of paper as well, but I gave it to my gerbils to chew on. They liked it.

Not a bathroom read!.......2005-09-04

I stumbled on this book in a second hand store and so enjoyed it; glad it is listed so cheaply here so my friends can have it as a gift! Like many others, I'm looking for a copy of the TBS 10 hour (Fall of 1990) series in which the two primary characters are played by William Shatner and Faye Dunaway...

Thoughtful and absorbing exploration of a new scientific paradigm.......2005-08-18

First, I should explain that I hold a masters degree in geology and Earth science, so in a sense, this book was written FOR me. However, I don't think that an advanced degree is a requirement to enjoy this book, any more than a degree in meteorology would be required to enjoy the movie "The Day After Tomorrow".
The book is based on the idea that our planet is a living organism with a soul, rather than a ball of rock which happens to have things living on it. This idea is an extension of "The Gaia Hypothesis" which may turn out to be the 20th century's most important contribution to understanding who we are and our place in the Universe, just as Darwin's work was the most important work of the 19th century.
The story revolves around a scientist who receives some messages which lead him to a monestary in Tibet, where he learns he is actually speaking with the soul of the planet. Without repeating what other reviewers have written, I'll just say that I enjoyed this book immensely, and read it at every opportunity until I was finished, and would very much like to see the TBS miniseries.
Do you enjoy shows on PBS which deal with science, such as Nova? Did you enjoy the book or the movie "Contact", by Carl Sagan? Do you consider yourself environmentally conscious? Tastes vary, obviously, but if you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, then you are probably a good candidate to enjoy this book.

A Pol Pot Daydream In Book Form.......2004-01-15

If you believe that man's primate ancestors never should have left the trees and stopped being food for predators, this book is for you.

If you believe the day that man discovered fire and the wheel was the worst thing to happen to Earth, this book is for you.

If you believe that the human race should have gone extinct at the last Ice Age, just to keep some superstitious "Mother Earth" diety happy, this book is for you.

If however, you feel that humankind is a magnificent creature, capable of good as well as evil, and has the capacity to make use of it's intelligence (whether you regard such a thing as the result of evolution or creation, the fact remains that humans are the most intelligent species on the planet and have adapted to nearly anything that "Gia" could throw at them), then this book is a blathering screed of anti-human bile. The most extreme portions of "politically correct" philosophy are to be found in this treasure chest of tripe. To hear the author go on and on about it, the human race is a disease on the planet and should just go shiver in a cave somewhere and die off to make amends to his interpretation of the Voice of the Planet", "Giaia". The "Giaia" in Tobias' global Utopia seems to be more Mommy Dearest than Mother Nature. If the "Giaia" of Tobias' imagination were an actual person, I would strongly recommend immediate psychiatric intervention for her sake and for the safety of others. Perhaps all "Giaia" needs is some Lithium or Prozac.

When I see insane dribblings such as this in book form, it's no wonder people are so put off by the "PC" mindset that they are even willing to vote for whatever Republican conservative candidates that come along. I'm a liberal Democrat myself, and yet even I would prefer to endure a nation under the iron rule of the GOP just to make sure that militant human-haters like Michael Tobias and his ilk do not get their way.

The fact that William Shatner starred in the made-for-tv version was a true sign that this once-popular man's career was definately on the way down, and for Ted Turner to endorse this insane novel into a feature format was also a turning point in the career of himself and his Turner Broadcasting empire, for the worse.

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Sixty brief folk and composed songs, movements, games, and poems for pre-schoolers; melodies use only two to five pitches, quite easy to learn; many motor skill songs; excellent resource.

Tell Me If I'Ve Stopped: Voice from the Duplex Planet

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Tell Me If I'Ve Stopped: Voice from the Duplex Planet
David Greenberger
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A Voice for the Planet
A.M. Gallo
Manufacturer: Sunstar / Fairfield, IA, 1995
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Essential Source Material

Ian Myles Slater on: Magic and Syncretic Religion

Fascinating magical texts

An important book of ancient lore.

Refreshing and exact

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the Demotic Spells: Texts

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"The Greek magical papyri" is a collection of magical spells and formulas, hymns, and rituals from Greco-Roman Egypt, dating from the second century B.C. to the fifth century A.D. Containing a fresh translation of the Greek papyri, as well as Coptic and Demotic texts, this new translation has been brought up to date and is now the most comprehensive collection of this literature, and the first ever in English.

The Greek Magical Papyri in Transition is an invaluable resource for scholars in a wide variety of fields, from the history of religions to the classical languages and literatures, and it will fascinate those with a general interest in the occult and the history of magic.

"One of the major achievements of classical and related scholarship over the last decade."—Ioan P. Culianu, Journal for the Study of Judaism

"The enormous value of this new volume lies in the fact that these texts will now be available to a much wider audience of readers, including historians or religion, anthropologists, and psychologists."—John G. Gager, Journal of Religion

"[This book] shows care, skill and zest. . . . Any worker in the field will welcome this sterling performance."—Peter Parsons, Times Literary Supplement

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Essential Source Material.......2007-04-25

This book is an absolute must for anyone interested in Greek magick, or the development of the Western Esoteric Tradition. It is full of literally hundreds of fragments and whole spells from ancient Greece, covering a huge range of areas from divination to love spells to knowledge gathering to revenge to exorcism. The Greek gods, along with other imports, are to be found throughout the texts, as well as a lot of planetary material, such as extensive use of the Greek vowels. You have to read this book if you are serious about magick, there is no excuse not to!

Ian Myles Slater on: Magic and Syncretic Religion.......2005-01-20

According to the introduction to this volume, among other competent sources, one of the more interesting shocks to the delicate sensibilities of nineteenth-century classical scholars was delivered by papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt. The serene and rational "classical" Greeks of their (mainly German) imaginations turned out to be human beings with messy fears, desires, hatreds, and jealousies, and a willingness to turn to magic (ugh!) to obtain their ends. There they were, in Greek, actual "magical papyri" -- spell books, that is, not so much documents purporting to be potent agents in themselves, in the old Egyptian manner of ritually empowered images and paintings.

A common reaction: Let's keep it a secret!

It didn't work. A younger generation of scholars (also mainly, but not entirely, German) began mining the texts for information on daily life (astrological papyri proved more helpful) and religion (more successfully) in late antiquity. Texts scattered in museums and published, if at all, in a variety of journals, had to be assembled and properly edited. Some early efforts were exemplary, some problematic (and some both). It sometimes seemed as if a curse had been laid on the enterprise. Early deaths, the First World War, and economic chaos delayed the publication of a carefully edited volume of collected papyri (Greek passages only). The second volume survived World War II only in proof copies. Meanwhile, more papyri turned up, and the project had to be re-done.

One of the more fortunate results of this delay is the present volume, a careful translation of the Greek papyri containing magic spells, along with the Demotic (late Egyptian in a native "shorthand") and Coptic (late Egyptian in a mostly Greek-derived script) passages in the same manuscripts. A team of scholars worked on the translations, which come with concise introductions and notes. It is based on the arrangement in the earlier text editions (although, frustratingly, it does not come with page-references to the first edition, used in over half a century of scholarly literature).

A second volume, including fuller references, and, above all, indexes, was announced, but so far does not seem to have appeared. This is frustrating, given the number of topics, names, and materials mentioned in just the larger manuscript collections.

As for the work at hand, it is fascinating, if inherently frustrating. We have parts of a library of someone who may have been a working magician, with the habits of a scholar, and actual charms and amulets for a less discriminating clientele. There are instructions on how to pull off party tricks, win (or torment) a lover, or influence important people, as well as protect yourself from the spells of others.

Greek gods mingle with Egyptian deities older than the Pyramids, and Mesopotamian (even Sumerian) Powers make brief appearances. Garbled bits of Jewish and Christian lore are sprinkled throughout. The extent to which any of this represents a real synthesis of religious beliefs (syncretism), or is an unthinking compilation of whatever might give access to power, is a question long debated. I suspect that every instance needs a separate answer, and in most cases we will never have one.

At least four fairly large groups of readers should find the book invaluable.

Those interested in Egypt will welcome a mass of post-Pharaonic material, a lot of it with good parallels from earlier centuries. This has a large and growing bibliography. With some reservations, I would suggest Bob Brier's "Ancient Egyptian Magic" as a place to start, with the bibliography in Betz for additional titles.

For the really serious, David Frankfurter's "Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance" (1998) will be rewarding, but not as a start. It is available in paperback from Princeton University Press in the MYTHOS series, as is a revised version of Garth Fowden's "The Egyptian Hermes: An Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind" (1993; originally 1986), another valuable work intended for relatively advanced students.

Those interested in the gods of Greece will find here much evidence of how they were viewed in popular (rather than elite) culture, and what happened to them when carried abroad by their worshippers. As supplements on these areas, I suggest two far-ranging surveys, Fritz Graf's "Magic in the Ancient World" and Matthew W. Dickie's "Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World." I have some methodological concerns with both, and with what I regard as some serious errors by Dickie (particularly regarding Mesopotamian and Jewish topics), but both display immense learning and intelligence. Graf is easier, and also has some excellent discussions of the Egyptian material to add to Brier, with more bibliography. With a narrower range, but extremely important, is Christopher A. Faraone's "Ancient Greek Love Magic," which deals directly with a whole class of texts translated in Betz et al., and places them in a long cultural context.

Thirdly, students of early Jewish mysticism will at last get ready access to texts which have been used to date "Merkabah" and "Hekhalot" texts (concerning heavenly ascents and visions of the Divine Throne), which survive only in medieval manuscripts. There is a remarkable overlap of "secret names" of God and angels, and some shared ideas of the cosmos, and how to obtain visionary knowledge. The bibliography for this is large, and I have yet to find a good introductory volume; for now, see my review of Rebecca Macy Lesses's "Ritual Practices to Gain Power: Angels, Incantations, and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism.""

Finally, the late pagan spells fade off into the Coptic literature of early Christian Egypt, although "Christian Magic" usually has received separate treatments, and is only incidentally represented in this collection. A good place to start (and containing some minor overlaps) is "Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power" (1994), translations with commentary, edited by Marvin W. Meyer and Richard Smith. The supposed limits of official Christianity, superficially Christianized paganism, fringe Christianity, and Gnosticism, are crossed and recrossed in the texts presented. This too is available, slightly revised, in the Princeton MYTHOS series of trade paperbacks (1999).

As for practicing magicians -- everyone should know that you can't just use someone else's book of spells, you need authorization and personal instruction! And a copy made personally from a manuscript....

(Reposted from my "anonymous" review, originally posted September 9, 2003 )

Fascinating magical texts.......2003-04-17

This collection of magical procedures from Graeco-Roman Egypt is powerful and fascinating. This is serious magic, and potentially dangerous; caution is advised to those who would work many of these operations.
Shortly after my wife acquired the magical papyri, I studied the spells and formulae for a research project I was involved in. Strange things began to happen. A wine bottle containing sacred water to be used in an upcoming ceremony suddenly and spontaneously shattered. Now, my theory was that the setting sun had been shining on the enclosed bottle and caused it to explode, but I still felt an occult force at work, and immediately a name jumped into my mind: Typhon/Set. Then I noticed an invocation adressed to Set as the Typhonic being who "shatters all things", to be recited at sunrise and sunset. I found a hymn to Selene - beautiful, evocative, terrifying - that expressed perfectly the essence of the Gorgon which, that very night, was guarding my doorway under the majestic and severe light of the full moon. Magical symbols began appearing to my mind's eye, and I drew one to show my wife, who was reading the papyri at the time; when I gave her drawing, she showed me the page she was reading, and there was the very same symbol.
Once again, a very powerful book, an excellent source for those researching the pagan occult arts, and not to be approached by the frivolous.

An important book of ancient lore........2001-01-10

What most people know of ancient Greece is the classics. But behind them, there were the everyday people, the women and the slaves, who had no means of improving their lives. No means but witchcraft. This is a collection of the spells and incantations they used. If you believe in "harm none", you will find this book disturbing. This book reflects the dreams, fears and hopes of desperate people who would try anything, including the use of human corpses of animal sacrifice to get what they needed. But this book also includes some very beautiful hymns and invocation, especially the one addressed to Selene/Artemis. An important book of ancient lore.

Refreshing and exact.......2000-05-04

This book lets the reader decide not only what type of spell to do, but gives many different ways of doing each spell. The one thing I didn't like was that there were no substitues or other names for the more unusal ingredients for the spell. But this book will be one of my most valued texts to study through out the years.

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