Return to Cauldron Home Page

Please donate now to pay our monthly server fees:
Donate to The Cauldron
[More Info]

Community Menu
Community Home

Message Board
Board Home
Board Rules
Board Extras:
   Arcade
   Calendar
   Links

CauldronMUX [Client]
Sister Forums:
   Asatru Lore

Menu

Home
Site Info & Rules
Site Archives
Volunteers Needed
Advertise Here

Pagan Supplies
Buy Pagan Books
Buy Pagan Supplies

Books & Media
Books Home
Games Home
Music: Free | Pagan
Online Books
Pagan Book Browser
Reviews:
   Academic Books
   Divination Decks
   Fiction Books
   Pagan Books
   Speculative Books
   DVD & Videotape
Submit Review

Pagan Features
Article Library
Auctions
Chat Log Index
File Library
Humor
Lessons
Pagan Holidays
Pagan Primer
Pagan Rituals
Pagan Supplies
Pagan Youth
Polls
Reconstructionism
Spell Grimoire [Blog]
Web Resources

Pagan Living
Cauldron Cookbook
Take Political Action

Newsletter
Back Issues
Subscribe

Other Features
eCauldronMail
Greeting Cards
Syndicated Articles
World News/Opinion

Shopping
Cheap Web Hosting
Doxy's Bazaar
Witchcraft Course
Zazzle

Old Indexes
Article Index
Webcrafting Index

Network Sites
Cauldron and Candle
Cauldron's Grimoire
RetroRoleplaying
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog
Software Gadgets
The Terran Empire

Site Search
Google
Entire Web
The Cauldron

Member - Pagan Forum Alliance
Charter Member

Get Firefox! While this web site is designed to work in all major browsers, we recommend Firefox.

This site hosted on
a Linode VPS
Formerly hosted by

Why Use Dreamhost?

Site copyright
© 1998-2009
by Randall

Home > Books & Reviews > Pagan > Practical Candle Burning Search

Book Review:
Practical Candle Burning


Author: Raymond Buckland
Trade Paperback, 210 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn
Publication date: December 1987
ISBN: 0875420486
Price & More Info: Click Here

Additional books by this author


 

This third edition of Practical Candle Burning is a bit hard to review. I remember finding a copy of the first edition in the seventies and considering myself fortunate to have obtained a copy. Information was hard to come by in the early seventies. This book's brief introduction to candle magick and its many long and complex rituals helped to open my eyes to a different way to see the world.

Unfortunately, over 25 years have passed since I picked up that first edition. Although Buckland has revised and expanded this book, I can no longer call it a must have book for most people. Most Pagans will have little use for the Christian versions of the rituals. They were probably included in the seventies in the hope of increasing the market for the book, but I think the Pagan population has increased to the point where that really isn't necessary.

The information is this book is solid and would be helpful to the beginner, but I can't strongly recommend this book any more given that there are much better books on candle magick available. For example, J. E. Auer packs more useful information into less than one hundred pages in Candle Magick: A Guide for the Novice than Buckland does in both this book and his Advanced Candle Magick combined. While a novice would certainly not be wasting her money buying Practical Candle Burning, I believe she could spend it more effectively elsewhere.

Reviewed by Randall


Additional Books by Raymond Buckland


Top | Home | Message Board | Site Info & Rules | Report Site Problems
Thanks to Cauldron Sponsors
(Sponsor The Cauldron!)

Cheap Web Hosting Report | Pagan & Magick Supplies
Witchcraft Course
Download Hundreds of Magic Spells