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Manufacturer: Llewellyn Publications
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.43
EAN: 9780738705316
ISBN: 0738705314
Label: Llewellyn Publications
Manufacturer: Llewellyn Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Studio: Llewellyn Publications
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2005 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) tied Winner for Book of the Year and Winner for Best Magic/Magick Book!
As you enter the heart of witchcraft, you find at its core the power of sacred space. In Christopher Penczak's first book, The Inner Temple of Witchcraft, you found the sacred space within yourself. Now The Outer Temple of Witchcraft helps you manifest the sacred in the outer world through ritual and spellwork. The book's twelve lessons, with exercises, rituals, and homework, follow the traditional Wiccan one-year-and-a-day training period. It culminates in a self-test and self-initiation ritual to the second degree of witchcraft-the arena of the priestess and priest.
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Summary: Where have these been all of my life?!!!
Comment: I have bought and read almost all of the Temple of Witchcraft books and I am extremely pleased with them. I have been looking for a course like this for years and am glad that they are finally here! Would recommend to anyone who is looking to learn the craft!
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Summary: Great for the newbie pagan
Comment: I liked this book. It inspires and educates at the same time. Great for a learning pagan and experienced one also.
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Summary: second Temple book
Comment: This is the second book in Penczak's Temple of Witchcraft series. I read the first one, and liked it enough to read the third one... then I got around to this one. The third book references this and #1 a lot, but I would not say they are prerequisites for understanding the material. And, like all the books in this series, this book is laid out in a year-long lesson plan, one lesson per month, full of exercises and tasks, culminating in the initiation into priestess-/priesthood.
I read the book through and have not done the exercises yet, but I am looking forward to them. There are a lot of great meditations to get in touch with deities and the elements. You will complete your altar with the proper tools, learn to cast a circle, write your own spells and rituals, and develop skills in at least one form of divination. Two months are devoted to spells, one on the mechanics and one on the art. A chapter on celebrating the Sabbats, and finally two on group work and getting in touch with other Wiccans.
I liked this book because Penczak does a great job of outlining a lesson plan for a solitary who has no other guidance. He also emphasizes that each person's experience will not be the same as another's. He gives examples, sometimes several, of techniques or experiences from himself and others he knows. "Do what works for you." The exercises in this book are great, especially in the first few chapters on getting to know the deities and elements.
There are a few reasons I took a star off from this book. First, grammatical errors abound, and I found them incredibly distracting (minor point). Second, Penczak apparently loves astrology. I don't care for it, but that's me. There is so much astrology in here my eyes started glazing over. Pages and pages of charts, correspondences, days of the week, hours of the day, how to read an astrological calendar, angles the planets make with each other, I could go on. You could write a whole book and more on astrology, condensing it into parts of a couple chapters just makes it harder to grasp, and I'm more determined to stay away from it. The last reason I took a star off is the final chapter. These books are intended for solitaries, and the last chapter is on coven work? It may be important for people who want to join a coven, but for those who don't (or can't), it's kind of a waste.
Overall, I do highly recommend this series.
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Summary: Outer Temple Of Witchcraft: Circles, Spells and Rituals
Comment: This is the companion book for the Inner Temple of Witchcraft, and is the second in the series. Another excellent book, I thoroughly reccomend it.
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Summary: Outer Temple
Comment: This book guides you to a spiritual awakening of your power as a human. It covers many aspects of the 'pagan religions' as a whole, incorporating our intelligence in understanding why and how our ancestors felt and thought concerning shamans, witches, witchcraft, etc. Giving us exercises to empower ourselves now, in these days, with the same abilities that were useful in the past. If you have an open mind concerning spirituality, this would be an excellent book to begin your learning and growing experience.
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