Aha

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Summary: Do what thou wilt
Review: Aleister Crowley is an excellent metrical poet, often expressing profound depth and sublimity, however, Aha is terrible in contrast to some of his other writing, such as Ch'ing-Ching Ching or Tannhauser. Aha brutalizes and oversimplifies the very real inner experiences which characterize the magickal path, of which Aleister Crowley was a Master. Aha strips the magickal art to it's bare bones, glorifying the mundane methodical approach to magick. However, the poem redeems itself in that it is an excellent way of introducing the layman or aspiring initiate to the path. Otherwise it is boring, go buy something else.

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Summary: Unbearably bad poetry
Review: Crowley is a maddening author, full of wisdom and insight and equally full of outrageous lies and obnoxious egotism. This is one of the examples of the latter; it's basically just extremely bad poetry pertaining to his particular teachings, at least the ones he was trumpeting at the time he wrote it. If you want to find out more about Crowley, "Magick Without Tears" and "The Book of the Law" are far more enlightening and inspired than this book, which is quite frankly tripe, and very rank tripe at that.

Rating:
Summary: Unbearably bad poetry
Review: Crowley is a maddening author, full of wisdom and insight and equally full of outrageous lies and obnoxious egotism. This is one of the examples of the latter; it's basically just extremely bad poetry pertaining to his particular teachings, at least the ones he was trumpeting at the time he wrote it. If you want to find out more about Crowley, "Magick Without Tears" and "The Book of the Law" are far more enlightening and inspired than this book, which is quite frankly tripe, and very rank tripe at that.

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Summary: Crowley at his poetic best
Review: This profoundly esoteric work highlights the two central experiences of the Path - the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel and the Crossing of the Abyss. It marks Crowley's final acceptance of The Book of the Law. He described AHA! as "An exposition in poetic language of the ways of attainment and the results obtained."

This book takes its stand among the great poetic classics of the spiritual path, in the tradition of Kabir, Tagore, and Rumi. I believe its Crowley's greatest sustained poetic epic. So did he.