Thoughts on this? I read it through once years ago and found much of it difficult to retain at least consciously, and I'm thinking of going through it again. The last time I read it over the course of a few months during a slow backshift job, this time I could devote more attention to what I read. So I humbly ask those who may have insight, how good is the quality of this as a crash-course on various ideas? Proprotionally, how much is truth and how much is lies on it's face that maybe need discernment? And would there be a better work or works to read instead on the same matters? Thanks
>>38269166For the price, probably the best introductory work on the western esoteric tradition available. Cover a tremendous amount of material, albeit in an introductory manner.
>>38269166One of the best books about esoteric matters I've ever read after Max Heindels Rosicrucian Cosmoconception.
Good at giving you a lay of the land, just remember "trust but verify".
It's interesting but works with a lot of commonly held beliefs that are just not historically correct. On the top of my head, it still makes the claim that gypsies descended from Egypt, rather than India.
