Magician's Tables: A Complete Book of Correspondences Hardcover – August 1, 2006

This book is a very fine production and I found it very enjoyable to read. Excellent quality for a subject like this. I think the author did a great job extolling the virtues of correspondences for all magicians. As for the author of the other book on correspondences who heavily criticized the author of this book for supposedly stealing from his book, I say nonsense. Nobody has the trademark on correspondences. They are open to all and all alike.Even if this book had similar information on correspondences, a creator only has to create something 10% new to claim it as his or her own. Since I believe this book is much more than 10% new material on correspondences from this other author's famous magickal book, I believe this author has every right to his very own authentic version of correspondences.And they were packaged so well too! This is a beautiful book worthy of any true magician. Well worth the effort for both the author and the reader. I applaud you Alan Richardson! Keep up the Great Work!

This beautiful, magical book has golden pages inside and presents golden ideas of old. It reminds me of changing books Lucy sees in her adventures in C.S. Lewis's book "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe." Every time she goes back to the book there are different messages in the pages.

This book is just as described. Very informative.

Beautiful book

A great book, all the info needed I found in this book

After reading two 1-star reviews I initially bought Skinner's work instead of this one (I did not notice at the time, that Skinner himself gave Richardson's work 1 star). However, about two weeks later, while browsing the metaphysical section of a discount bookstore, I spotted two attractive maroon books with gold inlays... Richardson's works of art. One reviewer stated Richardson did not cite sources, yet we read on page 6 that he used the best of the Golden Dawn, more relevant tables from Crowley, Mathers, and Wescott, modern associations of William G. Gray,and via internet material from Cornelius Agrippa, Francis Barrett, and John Dee "to name but a few." 74 sources are cited throughout the text and appear as end notes on pages 257 and 258. Richardson provides a good summary of his book when he states that his work "gives accessible correspondences that utilize runes, ogham, Egpytian neters, Norse, Indian and Celtic deities." Richardson points out that his "correspondences" cover making talismans, communicating with angels, invoking elemental powers, creating magical weapons, expanding consciousness...but there is more, for example in the talisman section [page 68] there is discussion of 'magic squares' and 'signs and sigils.' We also find values of the Hebrew alphabet [pg. 55] and a chapter on the I Ching [beginning on pg. 236] Each of Richardson's 15 chapters includes well written text, not bland tables of small symbols as seen in some other works. The book is organized as follows:Introduction1. The art of correspondences2. The tables of space and time3. The Kabbalah4. Tarot correspondences5. The gods and goddesses on the Tree6. The colour scales7. Astrological correspondences8. Medical astrology and its corresponcences9. Mineral, vegetable and animal corresponcences10. Assorted angels and demons11. Egyptian magic12. Celtic magic13. Ogham14. The runes15. The I ChingAppendix: Plant correspondencesEndnotesIndexAcknowledgementsAs for the quality of the book: the binding is top notch, the paper his a high quality gloss with golden patterned borders, the typeface is a dark maroon (which looks good on white surrounded by gold), the symbols and alphabets, including hieroglyphics and runes are much larger than the regular type face. There is much more (all positive) that I could say about this book... but space does not permit, and I actually think you won't appreciate this book until you see a copy up close. Yes, Skinner's book has more information. Table after table after table... and while the content might be great and more complete, that book, in my opinion, is not aesthetically pleasing. Richardson's book looks and feels as though magic radiates from it. Skinner's has more information... but simply is not as enjoyable to read or browse through.

The majority of correspondences, in a list or a book, are repetitions seen again and again, hardly inspiring one to buy. In the digital age, the 'classic correspondences' can nearly all be found in an online or digital source.Richardson utilizes both his knowledge to give us the standards from diverse sources, then adds the wonder of imagination and creativity to demonstrate less common (I dare say a few are even unique) concepts to expand the magical mind. This is a tome for a new generation of practitioner that desires to know the foundations, so as to build upon them in a paradigm shifting way, to acknowledge the Christian magical era, then moving toward a system with roots in other cultures and systems, such as, Egyptian, Celtic, Norse, and Buddhist.If one wishes to concentrate and explore the ancient tomes seeking 'lost and neglected' grimoires, this is not the book for you. There are other, much more extensive treatments of those subjects currently available.This is my ready reference as I work outside the monotheistic systems, this work proves very helpful and inspiring.My only complaint is that I wish it were longer. There is so much to explore.

This book appears to be a complete rip-off of the much larger and more comprehensive "Complete Magician's Tables" by Stephen Skinner published in 2006 by Golden Hoard Press and Llewellyn. Even the book's title is a mis-appropriatiation of the original book's title! The contents are a subset of the original book, having less than half the number of tables. The introduction even uses similar arguements and phrases. I know I am biased, but when anyone labours for years to produce a standard work, they do not expect to find a pale copy of it produced by another author without any acknowledgement several years later.