The Grimoire of Lady Sheba: Includes the Book of Shadows

Before all the fluff bunny books on Wicca took over the shelves, there was very little on Wicca. I remember being very young spending much of my free time in the public library grabbing a bit from this book and a bit from that. Luckily, I had a neighbor who was a witch and that helped put all I learned together. Unfortunatly I never got to read this book back then, but had to wait for it to be republished. I wish I could have as for me it would have been like a Holy Grail. This book is from that pre Silver RavenWolf era. Many reviewers complained that there wasn't a lot of information. Well for that time this book offered quite a lot, and if the reader was interested even further, he or she would embark on studying more to learn more, as it should be. When I look at many of the books of today, yes it is nice they have "everything you need to know" but much of it is not very factual and in my opinion leads the reader not to research anything further. They become "High Pristess of the Two Books" as my current mentor and god mother likes to call them. Read this book and then let that desire for knowledge lead you to real Wicca, that which is found in nature and in community. Ask the God and Goddess to lead the way. Study their stories in mythology books, learn about the real history of wichcraft and culture through studying history, learn herbology from a real herbologist. Take notes on all that you learn. Lady Sheba made this book so one could take notes. This is not for the lazy or those who want to be spoonfed but for those who really want to know develop a personal relationship with the God and Goddess.

From what I understand, this is Witchcraft, NOT Wicca. Wicca is a weak relgion like all others because they tolerate others' faiths and aren't sure there's is true. Witchcraft is a non religious form of magick. This magick is neither white nor black. It is evil and menacing. I got disillusioned with god fearing religions as a teenager because most were poverty or pretty close. These people were sometimes better than me at school even though later on I made the honor rolls and went to 3 colleges. I got into the occult as a Christian hate thing. It was that to an extent. BUT...it was still religious and they were not certain it was true. So then I got into the grand daddy of them all, Aleister Crowley. Crowley blew everyone away and has been since the 1960s a genuinely cool thing. I loved Crowley's magick because they were mostly simple. I was looking for more simpler magick that was evil and defied LaVey. This was it! Wiccans, while sexually attractive I had an interest in sexually but otherwise didn't care for. Same with satanism. This book is the holy grail of witchcraft.

Then this book is it trust me, one of the most vivid books that has created with great passion. A must for all wiccans.

Perhaps one of the reviewers laughed this book off the shelf when it first appeared, but there were a lot of people who loved it, and who are delighted to see it in print again. It was one of the first books from which I learned to practice witchcraft. It contains some beautiful and powerful material. The author was completely sincere in what she wrote. There were some witches who were scandalized and jealous because of what she put into it. It's worth a look.

I feel this book can help anyones walk down this path of Wicca. Her words are very well written...I have recommended this book to the group that i study with....Blessed Be!