Konx Om Pax (Illustrated): Essays in Light

Possibly one of Crowley's most influential works, this short book of four short stories is clearly a master in prose, poetry, language and the elusive. 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' is not the subject here, but rather a symbolic IT is also a tell-tale of the fobidden knowledge for those that know and those that dont know. As was written in parenthesis; "Explanatory notes in Latin and Hebrew for the Wise and Prudent."

I am usually pleasantly surprised by the quality of most of the newer public domain print-on-demand Crowley editions on Amazon, especially the ones with Penguin Classics-style covers like this. Anubis Books, Black Magick Books, and a couple of other publishers (whom I suspect are actually one in the same) have all released collections of Crowley's works, and they are excellent reading copies, well edited.So, I hoped for more of the same here. There is nothing like beginning reading the first lines of the beautiful poetic prose of Konx Om Pax, only to find:"When the Neophyte enters upon the Path of Evil, there confronteth him the great Wangel Samael."Samael, the Wangel...Hmm. It looks like, based on the free PDF I was easily able to find online, the initial W from "When" gets carried over into the text if you try to copy/paste from the PDF.Some basic proof reading is needed here. The images are nice, but if we are going to give you money for a reprint of a public domain text, at least make sure it is appropriately edited from the source HTML file or PDF.

Even if we decide to ignore the fact that this is one of Crowley's most entertaining books, Konx Om Pax (Light in Extention) truly helps the "Children of Light" to understand the difficulty of the magickal path - while clearly illustrating its immeasurable worth. I recommend this book to anyone who has even the slightest interest in Magick or Crowley.

It's good to get in touch with Crowley's sense of humor. This nice red little book contains 4 very different symbolically charged stories. It doesn't take itself too seriously and pokes fun at a lot of things in a wry, cynical way that is not disillusioned. It's a quick read and I'll read it again.

good book, but no marginal notes...? makes it a bit useless . might as well get the pdf