Konx Om Pax

Read this wonderful, confounding book. Crowley isn't yet in full humbug mode when writing this... he's young and impetuous, full of rage and all the delight of a man straight out of college. He's not setting down orders, he's not giving you instructions, he's having some fun telling you some of his ideas. "Thien Tao" and "The Wake World" are the most important pieces in the book. "Thien Tao" is Crowley's mutant autobiography up to that point. He casts himself as an ancient Chinese sage, and explains the fall of the Golden Dawn in an amazingly subtle, very sharp satirical voice. "The Wake World" is a fairy tale about the progress of the student of Qabalah. It is reminiscent of "The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreuz". This copy was a 1990 reprint, very lush and warm.

Happy with product!

This book especially in the story about the Prince, was exactly how I considered my own spiritual journey. So excellent.

Amazing.

I would have given it 5 but he writes as if every knows what he's talking about. It was beautifully descriptive. If reality had an imagination it would sound something like what he wrote in this book.

Good value for the price.

I am fond of the contents, all of which you may find in the public domain, but the Thelemic Brethren edition of Konx Om Pax is... not what I had hoped. Don't get me wrong - having a physical version of the works within, at a painless price, is quite nice. It's just rather sloppy in execution. The back cover copy is, well, copied (though with credit) from Wikipedia without editing, so that the little notation used to indicate a need for clarification (Wikipedia's "[by whom?]" tag) was left in. The cover image and the images inside prefacing each work were used without care for resolution; they've been carelessly resized and have the blurry rasterized text to show for it. Special characters were not transcribed properly - the various symbols and Greek letters used in Wake World's poem, for example, are rendered incorrectly. It's okay enough and I do appreciate a new printing, but it makes me want to just stick to my better digital version instead.

love the cover, love the text