According to his acknowledgements, Henry Ho is a young man in his early twenties of Chinese heritage and belongs to the London Tarot Study Group. This book, he says, is his exercise book containing all his homework. He has done all his theory and has just begun his practice.
He has done his homework better than I. He has a way of grasping these huge concepts and relaying them in a way that I can see a bigger picture than I could before. He uses a lot of examples and though not all of them clicked with me, there was usually one per chapter that did, and I feel I have a better understanding from reading him.
This is not a typical, well edited, politically correct book on Thelema, as such as DeQuette or Shoemaker. Ho is very forthright and doesn't seem as near mysterious as DeQuette sometimes does. Sometimes I get the feeling that Thelemic authors are holding back, letting me come to my own conclusions, while Ho just gives me his. I liked that. I can take it or leave it and he says as much quite often.
I would recommend this book to anyone, unless they are terribly thinned skinned. Ho is bound to insult some readers, because he doesn't hold himself back or wasn't edited out.
This book is just so wide I have trouble knowing how to critique it further, but would be happy to answer any questions. I couldn't find any mistakes in his grasp of theory and he is very well read, quoted the Book of Law often, and often encourages further study. His astrology chapter is Vedic, but he says applies to western. I am not versed enough to agree or disagree.
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