Heka: The Practices of Ancient Egyptian Ritual and Magic

I have over 128 books been collecting past 35 years, and This book "HEKA" is my favorite in all aspect of Heka/KaBuy this book, you will not regret it.

Since we only can guess at what their rituals were like most of the rituals in this book are created similar to those that the AncientGreeks wrote about plus intuition and imagination. Considering that it is gook starter book. You have everything yoiu might need to go it alone as there are not that many that can tell you if it is correct or not. I liked the calendar in the back and found that some of the listed ceremonies were on the same days as were recorded in Ancient times. IT all depends on how into it you are and how connecte to Egypt you are'

Very good book that has alot of info for the beginner! I just wish there was more to it.

Mostly accurate with some UPG, sir where did emeralds come from? Ancient egypt didn't have that...but other than a few things like that, its well researched

4 stars because i need more of that book. Really GOOD book, please make another one with more info.Easy to read, straight forward, no water here. Highly recommended. The author is good.

I thought perhaps the negative reviews were just being overly picky, as most tend to be. But NO, they are actually true! I'm glad I bought the Kindle version because if I'd paid the full $25 price I would have been much more unhappy and probably returned it.First off, the information I mainly wanted was the 'correspondences' but what I found were extremely limited and most I already had gotten off the internet already. I also found many of them didn't match what I found elsewhere- which means many times it's better to trust YOUR intuition instead of someone else's. Further, he really lost me when going through the list of gods/goddesses, he mentioned "Horus the Elder" and talked about his 'god qualities' then through in that 'Horus the Younger' was the one who fought Set... and then NOTHING about him!! So WHERE does Horus the Younger fit into the pantheon?!? Nothing was mentioned.There are MUCH better books on this subject, and I'd recommend "Ancient Egyptian Magic for Modern Witches" if you want some actual information you can use in magickal practice with the Egyptian pantheon.However, I will also say... the Egyptian gods DO NOT live in 3000 B.C., they exist NOW. They have evolved with the world, so there is actually no need to behave like an ancient Egyptian nor practice in their methods... I feel the gods want and expect us to develop our OWN modern practices to use with them in today's world.

The coverage of ancient Egyptian magic is superficial and the book itself is very cheaply produced. This might be a useful resource for a ceremonial magician but the actual information contained in it is minimal and much better sources are available elsewhere. The author doesn't go into a deeper understanding of the nature of heka (or the god Heka) or known historical practices of magic in ancient Egypt. The one good role it could fulfill is as a compendium of knowledge about the subject but I think it's too shallow to be useful for that purpose.Most of the book is listings of things and their correspondences. That's interesting for planning workings but the style makes it look like he's copied things out of his notebook (I keep voluminous notes of a similar nature myself) without any further explanations or deeper understanding of the subject. Listings of the Neteru (gods) just give the name and a brief description with a listing of an amulet, animal, color, concept, and associated symbol. Each Neter is listed on a separate page with lots of whitespace at the bottom, most likely to pad out the slim volume. The information is brief but basically correct in most cases, with the prominent exception of qualities syncretized into Hathor and Isis in late times when they absorbed the qualities of many other goddesses. Two pages on 'composite deities' are downright annoying in their incompleteness and list Sekhmet-Bast-Ra as Mut-Sekhmet-Bast, which is baffling but probably based on visual confusion in the vignette of chapter clxiv of the Papyrus of Ani.Some of the listings are clearly based on other works. For example the color and number associations on pages 76 through 82 are obviously cribbed from Symbol & Magic in Egyptian Art.The illustrations are laughable. Take a look at the cover image. That's as good as it gets.All-in-all I'd say this book might be worth a look if you're looking to work with the Neteru in ceremonial magick but doing research in the many other books available would be much more rewarding.

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This book gives a very clear view of the philosophy of Heka and some examples of working practices. It also gives excellent guidelines for the reader to carry out their own research and develop their working methods

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Great book! Has loads of correspondences and information on Egyptian/Kemetic practise! Extremely well researched and written!