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Summary: SWEET
Review: DUDE!!!!!!!
I think I will take this to to the Tool concert on July 21st
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Summary: THERE IS NO BETTER THAN THIS SPIRITUAL PRIMER!!
Review: For understanding the scope of spiritual subject matter, this is your guide!! What else can I say; this paperback volume is much easier to carry around also, than the big heavy hardback volume with all the beautiful paintings and pictures!! This will help you understand the "Kingdom Within" and to reactivate your understanding of the reminder Jesus gave when he said: "All these things that I do ye shall do also". Other similar reminders were masonic: you will reap what you sow; and Platonic: Know Thyself.
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Summary: New cheap edition on unworthy cheap pulp paper
Review: I agree that this book is venerable. It mentions psychoactives in the Mysteries and cites an 1845 book that also mentions them -- demonstrating that Graves (and Wasson) were by no means the first 20th-Century scholars to recognize this connection.I would be happy with the cheap new edition, less tall and wide but thicker, with arabic rather than roman page numbering -- if only it used decent, worthy paper. I can't stand the look and feel of pulp paper. I can't believe that decent paper is too expensive. We still need a mid-priced version, on good paper. I recommend the larger format versions if you can afford them. I'd be glad to pay a few dollars more to get this new edition on decent-quality paper.
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Summary: New cheap edition on unworthy cheap pulp paper
Review: I agree that this book is venerable. It mentions psychoactives in the Mysteries and cites an 1845 book that also mentions them -- demonstrating that Graves (and Wasson) were by no means the first 20th-Century scholars to recognize this connection. I would be happy with the cheap new edition, less tall and wide but thicker, with arabic rather than roman page numbering -- if only it used decent, worthy paper. I can't stand the look and feel of pulp paper. I can't believe that decent paper is too expensive. We still need a mid-priced version, on good paper. I recommend the larger format versions if you can afford them. I'd be glad to pay a few dollars more to get this new edition on decent-quality paper.
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Summary: Facinating Overview of the Mysteries
Review: I can not add better insight to the review given by "finnegan@exploremaine.com". However, there is strength in numbers, and I want to add my voice to encourage those who might be interested in reading this book. It's true there was a paperback version of this book as well. This particular work focuses on some of the mysteries from the cradle of Western Civilization. It is also interesting to review this from the stand point of mainstream religions and the odd periphery of the origins of these (mostly western) religions. Although there is much more to the book than just that. If you enjoyed "Focault's Pendulum" this book gives great background to some of Umberto Ecco's arcanum. Conspiracy theorist will also enjoy the section on Francis Bacon.
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Summary: THIS BOOK REPRESENTS A CULTURE UPON FACTS OVER FICTION.
Review: I have had this book twice in my life.In which both times i myself had read thoroughly,and have a new understanding on life.And lifes forces that are constantly among us. For all those non-believers that allways criticized my actual accounts and experiences.This book in which I have had twice , both times a month or two after reading it,someone or something had broke into my home and stole it. They took nothing but this mystical book,
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Summary: All-inclusive, Beautiful, Comprehensive
Review: I must agree with all the positive reviews I read before buying this book. It is indeed replete with beautiful artwork, chronologically laid out for easy-to-follow topics, and an in-depth analysis and discussion of each topic presented.
I cannot praise this tome enough---for it is indeed a tome, not just a mere book. To paraphrase another reviewer, if I were to have just one volume for my collection of esoteric information, it would be this one. It's, as subtitled, an encyclopedia, therefore a reference work. Thus it can be read at any one chapter depending on the reader's interest at the time.
The immediate reaction I had on perusing the book was that it appears to be a lifetime of work on the part of more than one
author. This, of course, is not the case, but it still is that comprehensive a volume to be Manly P.Hall's life's work.
I cannot praise this work enough for anyone, beginner or adept, to have this reference work in his/her library.
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Summary: Finally, Something Practical.
Review: I own the big version, which I love, but I am so glad to have the book in this format. First, it is much easier and lighter to tote around with me. Second, it is much easier to read. Third, I'm glad that this book is being made more widely available to the general public. Buy this version to read and study, but try to get the original too. It's simply beautiful.
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Summary: A neccessity for every initiate and scholar
Review: I remeber the first time that I was shown this tome nearly twenty years ago. My father pulled this volume down from his bookshelf and let me read through it, watching my expressions as I beheld its beauty. I was left with a thirst of wanting more. His copy was an older paperback edition that he acquired in some little esoteric bookstore and at that time this was not an easy book to find, now its much easier (for better or worse) to gain secrets that were once privy to the few. Since I first beheld this magical book, I was able to procure the large (very large) hardcover limited edition signed by the author - the true gem of my library, priceless. This is a masterpiece of esoteric literature, one that you'll never part with. Truly a must have volume that belongs in the library of every Freemason, Kabbalist, or Rosicrucian. The title says it all. You'll spend hours upon hours in reflection and enthralled at the details of the text and illustrations. The full color plates are beautifully rendered and will literally leap off the pages. Now that this volume is more easily available and you are at least looking for it (or you wouldn't be here, now would you?) I have one suggestion - BUY IT
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Summary: Finest publication of its kind
Review: I've read this book several times over the last 20 years, and always find fascinating new information... also a great reference. I haven't seen it in any of the reviews, so thought it would be good for new readers to know that Hall was a devotee of Gorges Gurdjieff... just to give you an indication of his philosophical bend. Truly a magical book.
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