Konx Om Pax Paperback – April 8, 2015

Happy with product!

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.

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.

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.

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

Amazing.

Fair

Good value for the price.

I found the whole book full of Easter eggs waiting to be found,the hunt continues ,quite sophorific and get pulls you in 😎😎93s

I have read this before but it's very good.

delivery perfect, book very interesting

It's nice to have a bound copy of Konx Om Pax but this just gets the job done I'm afraid. The opening biography of Crowley is copied and pasted from Wikipedia, the scans from the original text are in poor resolution and look terrible and I found more than one typo in my quick scan of the editor's original notes.The editor has included a bunch of original material in this book. These thoughts represent the editors personal recommendations about Thelemic practice and also his opinions and musings on the state of Thelema, OTO and AA. I haven't read through all of this material and while I wouldn't say it is unwelcome per se it would be nice if the item description and back cover gave you a clearer idea about what you are getting.Rather than the repetitive Wikipedia biography of Crowley and the editor's personal notes at the end, I would have preferred a short but decently researched essay on the context around the writing and publishing of this book in particular.In all honesty I found some beautiful scans of an authentic edition online through the keepsilence.org site that I would recommend over this. The main benefit of this volume is having a bound copy of Konx Om Pax you can easily take along with you but don't expect a beautiful or well executed edition. Good study copy you can mark up without much regard.