**Thank you for the ARC!! All opinions are completely my own.** 4 stars. Wonderful for any beginner. My one comment is that the formatting feels a bit cramped.

—Thank you so much to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the chance to review an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is great for beginners as it covers all the basics. It is also a great refresher.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing me the ARC to review!

Mastering the Art of Witchcraft is a great tool for beginner to intermediate witches alike. As someone who has studied magick for 15 years, it’s not really the best book for me as I didn’t really learn anything new. The tone the author takes is very informative and not too wordy as a lot of witchcraft books can be. The way the book is laid out to chronologically makes it flow from one chapter into the next based on what you would want to know next.

Again I’m not the intended audience, but this was a great refresher for basics and an excellent book for any beginner witches out there.

Frater Barrabbas has written an eye opening manual for the aspiring practioner. What is refreshing is the amount of real information and not fluff or wishful thinking IMO. The concepts are clearly explained and the things that other authors omit or just dont know are explained. The section on Deity and obligations is an eye opener and is rarely discussed elsewhere. This book will start you off with a solid base and practices that are not all that difficult to master nor are exotic materials needed. Excellent and honest.

A wonderful book for beginner witches who are interested in ceremonial magic and ritual, occult, deity, and grasping the concepts for themselves rather than relying on a coven structure for teaching. It's much different than the beginner books that focus on correspondences, sabbats, candle magic, kitchen craft, etc. - I love those texts as well, but they're much lighter reads than this. This is a true study text that brings in the religious aspect of practice much more than most modern witchcraft books. Don't let the smaller size fool you, as it's densely packed with information and ritual.

Love! I’m super into witchcraft and learning more about it. Whenever I can I’ll grab a witchcraft book and read it. This one did not disappoint. It was informative without being dense.

Let me start this off by saying I realize this book isn't exactly for me at this time. I have no place to make an altar, nor do anything in this book. I am mainly in the broom closet as it where. It doesn't mean that it didn't make an impact on me, nor give me ideas as to what I can do once I have a place I can practice. A lot of it made sense in the respect it's common sense to me.

I don't have a community of folks to talk to about any of this. Every time I find a group of folks or a coven that might be ok to talk with, they turn out not to be as I don't follow their rules and think different then them. Or they don't understand my physical limitations. The author seems to understand that there are people like me who just don't exactly fit in.

This is a book I think all witches should have, even if it doesn't advance their practice. Despite me not having a community to talk with about any of the witchy stuff, I would love to have this to help anyone along I should I meet that needs and/or wants it.

This book is written for the beginning witch who wants to start a solitary practice. Discusses steps towards independent practice include collecting the tools and material and choosing a space. Emphasizing the practical aspects of witchcraft, emphasizing the foundations of witchcraft, liturgical practices, magical rituas, tools and spells and divination. Advanced magical practices. Appendix. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index.

If you're in this particular system of magic and mysticism, then this book will be very helpful to "join the dots" how all its methods can be incorporated. It is kinda shorter book and brief read which is fine for busy world, but still few more explanations would be welcomed (Forex little more about working with different aspects of deities). Of course you can use this text on its own as a basic occult introduction to magic. Also it is interesting to see how methods in this system are changing in years, now being more concise and practical. I also advise readers to authors early title Disciple's Guide to Ritual Magick.

Very informative book
As a witch who already understands my way around my craft. I found this book would be very helpful for those who struggle and wish learn more
Well write and worth a read