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Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard
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Besides the main author, the contributors to this Grimoire read like a "Who's Who" of modern magickians, and include such notables as Raymond Buckland, Raven Grimassi, Amber K, and Donald Michael Kraig, among others. These varying viewpoints and expertise make for a balanced presentation and, like a good school, for an ability to maintain interest levels by having changes of pace and style.
Designed as an Apprentice-level program of studies, this book is aimed at the same folks who find Harry Potter so fascinating - those young (and young at heart) people who want to be more in control of their world.
It is broken down into seven separate "Courses" - Wizardry, Nature, Practice, Rites, Spectrum Part 1, Spectrum Part 2, and Lore. It further contains a set of appendices - A History of Magick Time Line, The Wizard's Library, Credits and References, and an Index. Each of the Courses is further broken down into six or seven "classes" (a total of 45). Be prepared to put in some serious study time and effort if you want to take advantage of the material herein!
Like Hogwarts, this book is arranged and scheduled to take seven years to complete. To the younger reader, I must say that there are good reasons for this, not the least being that one needs to become proficient in the basics before moving on.
Many youngsters may be put off by the work expected of them in the early going. Where are the charms? Where are the incantations in mystic languages? Where are the rewards? Well, just like having to finish your veggies before getting dessert; just like needing to learn basic math before moving on to algebra; just like laying a foundation before building a home; you need to acquire the basic knowledge of the magickal world before getting into the "good stuff."
As you work your way through this book (and make no mistake, you will work your way through it!), you may find yourself longing for the carefree days of school. The concepts contained within are easy to read, simple to absorb, and consuming to understand. If you think "Apprentice" means easy-to-do, think again. You will find yourself being fed a diet of ideas which may well force you to alter your perception of the universe.
Oberon covers everything from creating your magickal tools to planting and caring for a garden (Anyone who doesn't see gardening as a magickal act should consider the transformation of a seed into a plant and on to your table.); from learning to survive in the woods to learning to recognize Elementals. And all of that before he even begins to address the actual practice of magick.
Course One, Class One, Lesson Three ("1.I.3: Glossary" to use Oberon's notation system) is a handy glossary of types of Wizards which covers everything from Bards and Cybermancers to Wiccans and Wizards. If there is a description of a magick worker in the English language, it is in this glossary.
Scattered throughout this book are tables of correspondences. There are a number of them, arranged in a variety of formats, and covering a wide range of topics. There are also a large number of illustrations, many of them (almost half, in fact) from the fertile mind and hands of Oberon.
When he actually begins to discuss working magick, he takes the time to explain how and why it works. He relates it to things that all teens can relate to, and puts it firmly in the realm of things which are able to be done by anyone willing to put in the time and effort.
He explains how to set up altars (both indoors and outdoors), how to construct shrines and henges, and other items as well. He includes basic instructions on a wide variety of healing techniques. He adds constant encouragement, in the form of reassurances that practice is required, and not to get discouraged if you don't get immediate results.
This book is aimed at the total spectrum of Wizardry (like Hogwarts). It does not just cover the Ceremonial aspects of magick. It covers the spectrum from invoking angels and demons to doing simple divination; from creating planetary talismans to simple remedies for acne; and from alchemy to conjury (stage magic). Reading this book will provide a thorough understanding of Wizardry. Completing the work within this book will provide a thorough mastery of the basics of Wizardry.
He divides magick into the colors of the rainbow and more: Meditation (aqua); Healing (blue); Wortcunning (green); Divination (yellow); Conjury (orange); Alchemy (red); Beast Mastery (brown); Cosmology (violet); Mathemagicks (clear); Ceremonial Magick (white); Lore Mastery (grey); and the Black Arts (black). Thus, by adopting tabards or robes of the appropriate color Wizards who follow this system will be able to immediately identify the specialty of those they encounter.
Mythology is covered extensively, as are world religious views. While some may question their inclusion in a grimoire, it is vital for the apprentice to understand all that may be encountered in the performance of magick. Because of the vast amount of energy devoted to these topics over the millennia, they have a valid existence on other planes, and the magickian must be prepared to deal with them.
As with any competent teacher, Oberon not only expects you to complete the assigned exercises, but also assigns outside reading and independent research. He lets you know early on that there will be both theory and practice involved in progressing through this work, and both are equally important. He makes every effort to balance his opinions and beliefs, which he is careful to identify as such, with the opinions and beliefs of others covering a wide spectrum.
For those with limited cash available, he lists many websites where information may be found. Even the most cash-strapped individuals can (and SHOULD) obtain a library card and avail themselves of the resources available there, in the form of internet access, books, magazines, etc.
Pagan Times (pagantimesedfor@neogenesis.com.au)
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He puts the Wizard in wizardry!.......2007-01-29
This is a great book for young and old alike. Master Ravenheart puts his heart and soul into sharing his knowledge in an easily read and understood manner. The information is well laid out and well organized.
Grimoire For The Apprentice Wizard.......2007-01-08
This is the book that I use to teach with. The Grey Council that helped put this book together is like the cream of the whole Magick crop, and with all types of Magick included, everyone would do well to use and study this book. Witches, Wizards, Druids, Shamans, all put this book together. The best thing about it is that it is non-denominational, almost non-religious. If more books would take religion out of life, it would be best for all.
Wonderful for beginners.......2006-08-01
I loved this book. It is wonderful for beginners as well as others. It's written for the younger witchs out there, but I think that is why I liked it so much. It was easy to read and even gave you assignments like homework. It is one of the only beginner books I have read that wasn't a drag. The only problem I had with it was some of the color & word meanings; they were not the same as any of my other books, so watch out for that.
Excellent for beginners.......2006-07-31
I think this book is excellent for anyone new to the magickal path as it deals with some basic notions. It is then easier for an apprentice to choose the books necessary for further studies.
Good but misguided........2006-06-06
Other than it being directed at the younger audience, my only other problem with this book is that the author blatantly badmouths Satanists, I guess religious tolerance doesn't count with that path, and needs to freshen up his knowledge on herbs. The last time I checked, garlic was not poisonous. I would not recommend this book to any beginner on the Pagan path without supervision from a more experienced and knowledgeable Pagan. Overall, there is some decent information, however, it's got some hiccups along the way.
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"I can't think of a better, more qualified person to write a Handbook for Apprentice Wizards. Oberon is a Wizard!"
—Raymond Buckland
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We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of the companion volume to Oberon Zell-Ravenheart's Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard—Companion for the Apprentice Wizard. This new work consists not so much of informational lessons and teachings, as with the Grimoire, but rather focuses on practical exercises derived from them to develop psychic skills, plus instructions and templates for many projects to make and do. If you've wanted hands-on magickal training this is the book you've been waiting for.
Chapters are based on the sixteen Departments of Oberon's Grey School of Wizardry:
Wizardry, Magickal Practice, Nature Studies, Metapsychics, Healing, Wortcunning, Divination, Alchemy, Conjury, Lifeways, Beast Mastery, Mathemagicks, Cosmology, Ceremonial Magick, Lore, and Dark Arts
Inside you will find Materials and exercises from the vaults of the Grey School, and instruction by many of the faculty as well as from the headmaster himself, Oberon Zell-Ravenheart.
Step-by-step instructions are provided for:
How to make Fairie Wings How to make a Horned Headband with deer antlers How to make and use a Firebow Tracking animals as a magickal practice How to make and use a solar clock, solar oven, fire clock, a light catcher, a solar stone, a star magnitude gauge, and a cross staff to measure the altitude of the stars How to make a Wizard's Staff How to make a Wizard's Cloak of Invisibility How to make your own amulets & talismans Smoke-weaving Potions for all purposes Conjury illusions and special effects How to build basic henges (wood and stone) And many other amazing projects…
Companion for the Apprentice Wizard also includes a number of hand drawn full page diagrams of magickal objects drawn using the art style of Leonardo da Vinci to copy, cut out, and assemble, including:
A model of Stonehenge A Planetary Hour Calculator A Magick Circle clock A winged Dragon A model of the mystic Pyramid A model of Leonardo da Vinci's Ornithopter A model of the Milky Way Gala
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart is an elder in the worldwide magickal community, and has worked as a grade school teacher and a family and youth counselor. Through his publication of Green Egg magazine over a period of 30 years, Oberon was instrumental in the founding of the modern Pagan movement, which he so named. In 1970, he had a profound Vision of the Living Earth that he published as an early version of "The Gaia Thesis." Oberon is an initiate in several magickal traditions and has been involved in many interfaith projects. He is a theologian and ritualist, creating and conducting rites of passage, seasonal celebrations, Mystery Initiations, Earth-healings, and other large rituals. Oberon has traveled throughout the world, celebrated solar eclipses at ancient stone circles, raised unicorns, and swum with mermaids in the Coral Sea. He is author of the acclaimed Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard, and Headmaster of the online Grey School of Wizardry. Living in Northern California! , Oberon also sculpts altar statues of gods and goddesses, and is lifemate to Morning Glory, his beloved Witchy wife of 32 years.
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great for everyone.......2007-04-26
this is not a harry potter knockoff. it is a very nice wonderful book that is a wonderful reference book for magic for anyone even experianced "wizards" it is not Wicca, which i find refreshing. its basically a practical application of magick all in one place. get it for when your talking with a friend and want to reference a topic but cant remember which book that topic is in. now you can just grab this!
Companion for the Apprentice Wizard.......2007-02-14
If youngsters were doing these wonderful entertaining learning experiences, we would have a much better future for this world.
It is time we got to more basics and touching the beauty of this world we live in.
You want to be a what?.......2007-01-29
This is the companion book to his Grimoire and it is as good or better than the original book. Again, Master Ravenheart puts his love of magic on the line in an easy to read and easy to understand book. The two together will make a wonderful addition to the aspiring wizard in your life.
The Perfect Companion.......2006-04-12
Not only has Oberon Zell-Ravenheart done it again with this book, so has the faculty of Grey School of Wizardry! In between "Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard" and this book, Oberon started an online school for wizards. The very experienced faculty of the school contributed many wonderful articles to this book. In the Companion, you'll read about sixteen different areas of Wizardry, from Divination to Magickal Practice.
This book may just encourage you to sign up for the online school. (Which is VERY reasonably priced, I might add!) Even if not, there is so much to learn in the Companion, it will keep you reading, learning, and improving.
Now, I can hardly wait for the first of Oberon's Journeyman books!
The Nexus Grows.......2006-03-12
Whereas the _Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard_ was the seed, this book is the evolution of that seed into a sapling. The first fruits of the Grey Council and the Grey School of Wizardry show an emerging culture that is broad-visioned, dogma-free and inclusive without lacking discipline or focus. As such, this is a unique book, one that no occult practitioner should be without. The labor of love continues.
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- A Compendium of Ritual Lore
- An excellent guide embraces all new age ceremonial traditions.
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Creating Circles & Ceremonies: Rituals for All Seasons And Reasons
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart , and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart
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Creating Circles and Ceremonies is the accumulation of decades of circles, ceremonies, rituals, Mystery plays, initiations, rites of passage, and other magickal workings co-created by the Zell-Ravenhearts, today's foremost Wizard/Witch couple.
For more than 30 years, Oberon and Morning Glory have traveled widely throughout the worldwide magickal community—participating in gatherings, conducting workshops, and creating rituals for groups large and small. They have met and made Magick with the leaders of many traditions: Celtic Shamanism, British Dianic, Italian Strega, Welsh Witchcraft, Faerie Trad, Ceremonial Magick, Ozark Druidry, the New Reformed Order of the Golden Dawn (NROOGD), Hinduism, Native American tribes, Greek and Egyptian mythology, and the futuristic Church of All Worlds.
Here, in one easy-to-read volume, is their collection of chants, invocations, circle-castings, quarter-callings, spells, and ceremonies. It is also a "kit" to use to assemble your own rituals, for any season or reason:
Book I presents a basic ritual outline. Each element is followed by numerous examples which may be "plugged in" to customize your own ceremony.
Book II gives numerous examples of actual ceremonies: Esbats (full Moons) and special occasions; Rites of Passage; Mysteries and Initiations; spells and consecrations. These can be adapted and modified as needed for any size group—from small family gatherings in your living room, to huge outdoor celebrations involving thousands of people.
Book III provides an assortment of full rituals and ritual elements for celebrations of the eight great seasonal festivals called the Wheel of the Year. Versions of these have been commemorated for millennia in most traditional cultures of the Northern Hemisphere; and today are universal throughout the worldwide Pagan community.
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An Invaluable Resource.......2007-05-19
This is an incredible resource for anyone who is organizing, conducting or writing a ritual. I had always been a solitaire, but when I was asked to perform a sabbat ritual for a group of beginners, I jumped on the opportunity. Because my own personal rituals were highly impromptu, I knew the group ritual needed more structure. I shopped for a few good books, and I am very glad I bought this one. I highly recommend it for both beginners and those with more experience. It's not a book you would necessarily read from cover to cover (although you could), but is more of a useful collection of writings you can turn to every time you wish to create a ritual.
Great book!.......2007-04-11
This book is the ultimate guide to the solitary. It can be quite difficult to organize your family celebrations without the aid and expertise of a priest/ess. This book helps me to create rituals and circles that the whole family can participate in (children and Christians alike) at a level that everyone is capable and comfortable with. It has also been a great help in organizing my private ceremonies. Even when there is no reason to cast a circle or perform a ceremony the book contains a great deal of daily inspiration. It's truely herbal tea for the pagan soul.
A Compendium of Ritual Lore.......2006-11-10
Creating Circles & Ceremonies
By Oberon & Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart
New Page Books, 2006
Review by Anodea Judith
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and his wife, Morning Glory, have done it at last. Compiling decades of experience in creating rituals and ceremonies for all occasions, from the celebrations of the seasons to blessing your dinner or a new home, this book will provide ideas, information, theory, and practice to bring a sense of the sacred into everyday life.
Author of the acclaimed Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard, Oberon has written a Pagan bible that every practitioner of magic and ritual will want to have on a shelf within easy reach. With spells, chants, invocations, herbal recipes, and more, you won't want to go through a moon cycle without using this book.
From my many years of working together with this magical couple in the Church of All Worlds, I am delighted that our vast treasury of Pagan liturgy has finally been written down. Collected from many contributors, this compilation brings together the best of the Pagan community in poetry and song, innovation and invocation, including our Magic 101 class that was offered for many years as a primer in magical training.
The wealth of information herein is divided into three smaller sections. Book I, "The Magic Circle" outlines the basic theory and practice of creating ceremonies, such as creating sacred space, calling the quarters, invoking spirits, deities, or helpers, and basic ritual etiquette. Book II, "Rites and Rituals" describes ceremonies for all occasions, including rites of passage, marriages, and initiations. Book III: "Wheel of the Year" then applies these principles to the eight seasonal holidays that mark the solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days of the year. The final Appendices contain information you will use as a reference for years to come.
Lavishly illustrated with Oberon's unique artwork, this book is destined to be as classic a book for ritual recipes as "The Joy of Cooking" was to the culinary world.
Anodea Judith, author of Wheels of Life, and Waking the Global Heart
An excellent guide embraces all new age ceremonial traditions........2006-11-07
If the authors' names sound familiar, it's because they've spent over thirty years traveling the world's magical communities and meeting with leaders of varying traditions: CREATING CIRCLES & CEREMONIES: RITUALS FOR ALL SEASONS AND REASONS stems from these travels and blends three books under one cover: the fist outlining basic principles, the second following actual ceremonies and rites, and the third compiling full rituals for the eight seasonal festivals. An excellent guide embraces all new age ceremonial traditions.
Diane C. Donovan
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"I looked around the room and I thought, I'm the only person in this room that hasn't killed anyone." Talking to Terrorists is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and out of Joint. The writer, director Max Stafford-Clark, and actors interviewed people from around the world who have been involved in terrorism. They wanted to know what makes ordinary people do extreme things.</p>
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The Hand of Oberon (The Chronicles of Amber, Book 4)
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Corwin has a solid team with him now.......2006-02-21
In section four of the Amber series, Brand emerges as a major character and villain. Brand is the brother who had been imprisoned for so many years, and finally in this book we learn why, and Corwin regrets ever releasing him from his prison.
Which raises a question for me. Why didn't Fiona tell her brothers and sisters about the danger that Brand brought with him? Why didn't Fiona explain why Brand was imprisoned? It really isn't enough to just say that Fiona didn't trust her siblings.
Zelazny is a master of storytelling in certain ways. He can keep us very interested. He can tell us a story from various perspectives. He can mislead us by telling the story from a villain's devious point of view, and then re-tell it from someone else's. He is the one to determine what we know and what we don't know.
This reminds me of what he does in the first book of the series, when he tells his story through Corwin, and Corwin has amnesia. It is Zelazny's way of controlling what Corwin knows, and what we know. Zelazny does it again here, telling us a story as narrated by Brand to Corwin, and then telling us the same story, only "the truth" this time, by a more honest sibling than Brand.
Throughout this book and previous books I found myself wondering about Ganelon. He's stronger and smarter than Corwin. He protects Corwin from a stronger brother. And here I thought that the sons and daughters of Oberon were so much more powerful than mere humans like Ganelon. Not so. Ganelon kicks some serious butt, against a sibling of Corwin. And it is Ganelon, all along, who is coming up with all the ideas and analysis. At the end of The Hand Of Oberon, this seeming flaw in the story is more than explained, and it is no flaw. When something doesn't seem to make sense, there is a reason.
I don't like the way Zelazny resolves his conflicts. One minute there's a whole heck of a lot of trouble, and the next minute it's over, something magical has intervened, problem is solved, thank you very much. The magic arm does WHAT? Oh come on.
It reminds me of something in the Lord of the Rings movies. One moment the good guys would be surrounded by bad guys, and it would be looking very bad for them, and the next moment the victory has been attained, the bad guys routed, and the good guys none the worse for wear. Remember when King Theoden was surrounded by wargs? Poof, battle over, no more wargs, we win, break out the champagne. Zelazny does that too. Hey, poof, we win, don't worry about it guys.
Another of Zelazny's tricks is to switch good guy - bad guy on us. This fellow is a good guy. No he's not, he's a bad guy. This other bad guy is a good guy now. Son of a gun.
Anyway, this series has finally graduated from three stars to four, as Zelazny's storytelling outweighs the things about his writing style that I don't like. What I dislike most is when he goes on and on telling us about shifting worlds as we travel "through shadow" or the incomprehensible style he uses when describing the ghost world. All the incomprehensible stuff leaves me cold.
An Infinity of Deviousness.......2005-04-14
In a strange, fantastical way, Zelazny's Amber series are the archetypes of the political fiction genre. At least in the sense that there is not one character who does not have hidden agendas, schemes, and counter-schemes. And, of course, there is even a kingdom at stake. Even Amber, supposedly the closest thing there is to 'real,' is just another pea in the pattern shell game.
So when Corwin, Random, and Ganelon follow a trail to the 'really, real' pattern and discover that the damage to the pattern was the result of the attempted murder of Random's estranged son Martin, it is almost business as usual. Almost, but not quite. Random heads out to discover Martin's fate and Corwin sets about discovering who had summoned Martin into the Pattern and drawn blood. With Chaos itself poised to enter the fray, damage to the pattern threatened everything Amber stood for.
Knowing something bad has happened, and even knowing who was traitor this teime, resolves little. Enemies and friends change places once again. Corwin chases after the master of the pattern and the trumps and finds himself visiting the Courts of Chaos. As the tension gets higher Corwin finds more questions than answers, and just when things show any sign of making sense, Zelazny hits the reader with yet another cliff hanger and the only thing we can do is grab for volume five.
One has to give Zelazny a great deal of credit for keeping the reader's attention in a plot that depends entirely on a series of betrayals. It proves his mastery as a story teller. The children of Oberon are a family that makes the Borgias look like innocents, but even the bad apples are fun to read about. Magic aside this story has much that makes is a medieval melodrama, which is no surprise considering Zelazny's own literary background. Only no medieval story ever took the increasingly baroque turns that the Amber stories do.
Yet Zelazny makes no pretense at deeper, more philosophical meanings. He is first and foremost an expert at the telling of tales. His values are wonder and surprise, his heroes and villains may be flawed, but they are still larger than like. That this series is still in print after all these years is testimony to a level of quality that today's authors still strive to equal.
A turning point.......2002-08-03
"The Hand of Oberon", the fourth book of the first Amber series, is perhaps the most pivotal. Within, many of the mysteries we've followed since "Nine Princes" are finally resolved, setting us up for the big climax in "Courts of Chaos".
In addition to enough plot twists to make your head spin, it's also notable for Corwin's first real problem with Random - who finds that he might have very personal reason to take out a sibling who Corwin considers necessary for information purposes. The fact that by this book just the thought of a rift between them makes you squirm is proof of how important their relationship has been - not only because strategically Corwin needs someone to back him up but because, in a world where so much else has been suspect, we know they honestly like eachother.
I really really like the Amber series........2002-02-02
_The Hand of Oberon_ is my favorite of the books in the second half of the Amber Chronicles. And that's saying a lot.
Random's missing son Martin, Dworkin revisited, more about the mysterious Dara, and the disappearance of the Jewel of Judgement-- all these plot twists are dwarfed by the big one in Ganelon's suprise for Corwin...
LINCHPIN.......2000-05-16
THIS BOOK IS VITAL TO REALLY GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THE SERIES. I READ THIS SERIES YEARS AGO AND LIKED IT SO MUCH I JUST BOUGHT ALL THE BOOKS IN THE SERIES AGAIN. EXCELLANT
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Food is in short supply and the cold is unbearable. In a tantalizing menage a trois between a professor, his assistant, and a student, only the books bear witness to their plight.</p>
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These three plays, first published in German in the 1980s, show Botho Strauss developing an enigmatic, unsettling, and uniquely theatrical style. Set in Hamburg, <em>The Park</em> is Strauss' take on <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream. Seven Doors</em> brings together a jilted husband, a wedding without guests, and two monks with an intimate knowledge of hell. In <em>Time and the Room,</em> the room contrives to be the play's main character.</p>
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A party is taking place in a shabby Victorian terrace house on a hot midsummer's night in Manchester. In the back garden Tony and Ruth meet, thanks to a stolen can of beer. On the floor above, Don and Edie are having a party of their own. As the night progresses, love is definitely in the air, but then so is the smell of cheap lager. And even cheaper aftershave.
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