I have read the first few chapters of Christopher Penczak's "Inner Temple" and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. It's well written and quite informative. There are a few things he says that I completely disagree with such as his assumption that Witch and Wiccan are synonymous. I do not subscribe to that particular theory at all. However, just because I disagree doesn't mean that I don't think the book is good. I have not gotten to the chapters where he actually has the lessons so I'm not ready to say that this is definitely going to be the right direction for me to take my path. It has held my interest long enough for me to at least give this system a chance before I say it's not for me. If nothing else I will have a nice reference book for the basics of Witchcraft regardless of my disagreement with the author's opinions.
As I said before, right now I am just reading through the books without actually doing any of the exercises or "homework" in them. Once I get started with that I will probably be able to write more entries on how I'm doing with this particular path and how I feel about it. Once again anyone who is interested is most welcome to join my discussion group at Yahoo if you wish to join me in studying these books. The link for the group is on my profile page.




I hear you on the disagree part. It seems like there is something that I disagree with in almost every Pagan book out there- but like you said, that doesn't mean that you can't find the lessons within, anyway. :)
IvyI have Penzcak's chant CD's (I think they are from the Outer Temple book) and they are great. I highly recommend them. :)
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