Ishtar Books

I ran across ishtarpublishing site on:

Code:

http://www.ishtarpublishing.com/new-age-book/Magick.html

Don't know any value (not money) of this books but I'm especially interested in Book of Deadly Names and in Magus Gate.
May be a great disappointment...

Looks interesting! Have you read any of Nineveh Shadrach's books?

Khephra wrote:Looks interesting! Have you read any of Nineveh Shadrach's books?

No
We really need a database or a list of books...
Anyway I just found out that the Magus Gate is 400$, What? Why? How?

I found something:

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http://www.filefactory.com/file/ah3d0ca/n/Magus_Gates_rar

Only few pages

RRR123408 wrote:We really need a database or a list of books...

We're working on that.

Nineveh's books are good... he translates Arabic Manuscripts and writes his own books on arabic magic...

but guys I know about the piracy here is "an act of love"... i too am a pirate... but there must be a place where one must draw a line... I mean this guy is not dirty rich due to writing those books... I know this guy personally...

He's being very careful not to release ebooks... ofcuz I know all these words will be of no use... once somebody buys his books they'll scan it and spread on the net.. no more business... Think about it.. if many people have bought his books by now one of them would release a digital copy... he has very few sales... most of the time its only his students who buy them...

All that Golden Dawn crap and western magic books have almost nothing of good value... Finally someone is actually writing some good occult books... so let's not scare him off... I've been waiting all my life for arabic magic books to be translated in to english...

I know that Knowledge must be free...

You know what... lets discuss this.. why should Nineveh's books be pirated?

Sic.sick6, have you studied any philosophy or logic? Are you familiar with the concepts of a affirming the consequent, bifurcation, and subjectivist fallacies?

First of all, not everyone is able to buy books from web...In my country it is pain in the ass, doing transactions with foreign currency and so on... It's still harder for someone in china where government had banned this kind of books...
Anyway I can imagine for someone in America or GB to buy it , it's not much to give 20-100$ for it, but imagine what it's like in countries with low standard, 100$ + custom duty (?)+ taxes...
And imagine a look on thy face when they realise what a crappy book they bought... And well it almost always happens...
If I remember correctly his books (Nineveh's) were sold for about 500$ at first...

EDIT:
Good pointing Khephra

No Khephra... WOW... I didn't even think these stuff were even written about... Thank you for that... I'm just understanding these stuff so No... I am not familiar with those concepts...

@RRR123408 - I live in a 3rd world country too... I live in a country where even if you had the money you can't bring occult related books through customs...
I'm not here to protect Nineveh's prices... I didn't know about the $500 thing either... It's not like I like to spend the money either...

I understand what you said about govt. banning the books.. but there is no way just to provide the "truly needy" people with the books without it also being leaked to the rest of the world.

Whats the best thing to do in a situation like that? Leak it or Keep it?

I'm asking because I wanna know.. not to try and prove a point... I realy don't know..

Peace

also about the crappy book thing... I'd say get Nineveh's "Magic that Works" that's a good book to start with...

but if your looking for real arabic magic I'd say learn arabic...

I don't know about the other Content Team members, but I for one am intending to start doing a lot of work on bringing non-English texts (and other resources) into future releases. At the moment, I have a small handful of Latin texts, and a large one of Polish, but whenever I can find texts in other languages, I plan to do what I can to make them available. Some of them will be translated from English - and the English text will be elsewhere in the Releases - while some will be translated to it; having other languages available makes it easier for those who don't understand English as clearly to understand what is being said, and those who speak multiple languages to have access to the original texts. Seems a win-win in my book. So if I can get hold of Arabic versions of various books and such, I will definitely submit them as well.

As to the "rightness" of providing occult works, such as the ones mentioned above, that may still be under copyright... There are many angles to this situation.

On the one hand, some occult authors get all of their income from what they write. Those authors tend to starve rather quickly, though, because even though larger book stores are starting to have "New Age" sections with every occult reference they can find stuffed in, the purchase of occult volumes is still far behind that of any others. And very few authors - in any genre - get much in the way of profit from a book - that honor rests with the publishers. Those that aren't so stubborn they die before having the chance to write another book ... well, they wouldn't get any of the benefit of me buying the book anyway, so I don't see the point in caring, in that case.

On the next hand (I'm not sure how many hands I have today; we'll see when I've finished here...), most occult authors, realizing that being an occult author alone won't help them survive, get other jobs. Some of these are as authors of other works in other genres. Many are instructors of some sort, as at universities. Most have jobs that would be considered "normal" - construction, programming (though not many of those exist; computers and the occult tend to be considered mutually exclusive for some odd reason), secretarial, or even CEO. In this case, they never expected to get much off the book anyway, and besides that, the next hand comes into play here.

What is the next hand, you ask? Well, the one thing that most copyright "industries" seem to miss. A digital copy of something most often leads to purchasing of the original item. People like to hold paper when they read (there is a thread about this). People like having the actual DVD for their DVD players. People like CD versions of albums less often these days than they once did, but the music industry has already moved most of their distribution online anyhow as music stores slowly go out of business. People may not like to pay for everything, but if something's good enough, and they really like it, they tend to pay for it.

That leads me to another hand. Many of the occult works out there - regardless of their actual value to a given individual (and it's important to remember that what has no value for one has immense value for another) - are written and distributed by occult organizations rather than single individuals. These organizations tend to be the same ones that charge sometimes extravagant fees just for membership, which is usually also required for access to said texts and other works. Without getting into the ethics of charging for spiritual development, the amount of money brought in through daily operations is generally such that the books and other works are merely given a price tag because everything else is. These organizations may complain because we're "exposing" some of their most closely-guarded secrets, which might cause a bit of a problem if any of them consider calling them trade secrets, but for the most part, none of them really pay attention to that. No real financial harm done there. And besides, there's still the previous point.

Looks like I have five hands today, though this is a special case that actually falls outside the reach of what you're referring to. There are many works out there without copyright protection. Some of them are old enough to have passed into Public Domain. Some have merely been granted CopyLeft. Others were never given any protection at all. Most were designed and are distributed entirely online, and entirely free. I don't believe there is any question at all over whether to include these works or not. Still, it's an important category of works to remember, and the vast majority of occult works falls into this category, whether through age or author's intention.

In all of the first four cases, there's a bit of unsteady balancing going on, but all are justifiable. The fifth has no challenges to it at all, of course. The conclusion of this, at least in this commenter's opinion, is that every occult work that can be accessed in some fashion or other should be made available to the public. If they like it enough, they'll pay whatever fees are associated with an "official" copy; otherwise, nobody wastes anything but the time it takes to form an opinion. And a bit of bandwidth. My vote is for "include everything".

- Sendoshin

I'd like to see more of my favorite "occult" authors doing tele-workshops. That's something I'd rather pay for, and then all the $ goes to who I'd like instead of an intermediary (e.g., publishers, distributors, legal, etc).

All this reminds me of a great book I recently read - Charles Leadbeater's We-Think: The Power of Mass Creativity. Here's a vid he made to introduce his thesis: