Source books
Books
Start by searching for a title or author. Open Filters to narrow the list by tradition, the role a book played, whether a free edition is available, or how much public attention it receives. Last, choose date or name order. Every choice stays in the address, so you can bookmark the result or send the same list to someone else.
192 books of 336 · showing 101–150 · oldest first
Egyptian religion and magic 4
-
1901
-
undated
The Book of Gates
ancient Egyptian funerary text
-
undated
The Book of What Is in the Duat
literary work
-
undated
Jewish scripture and tradition 3
-
1891–1906
A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament
The standard Hebrew lexicon of the Hebrew Bible, based on Gesenius.
-
1901–1906
The Jewish Encyclopedia
The Jewish Encyclopedia is an early twentieth-century reference work whose signed articles gather biblical, rabbinic and mystical source trails. Its accounts of variant angel...
-
1939
Greek and Roman mysteries 3
-
1891
-
1903
-
1911
Hermetism 2
-
1906
-
1908
The Kybalion
book
Gnosticism 1
-
1900
Christian scripture and mysticism 1
-
1911
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 3
-
1913
-
1913
-
1926
Astrology 1
-
1912
Alchemy 3
-
1893
-
1914; English translation 1917
Problems of Mysticism and its Symbolism
A psychoanalytic reading of an alchemical parable, published as Problems of Mysticism and its Symbolism and later retitled Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts.
-
written 1471; printed 1591
The Compound of Alchymy
A verse treatise that divides the work into twelve gates, one to a chapter, from calcination to projection.
Grimoires and ritual magic 2
-
1898; later substantially revised
The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts
A historical and critical survey of the grimoires rather than an instruction manual.
-
1898
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
Introduced English occultists to the Abramelin system: prolonged purification, communion with the Holy Guardian Angel, and subsequent command of spirits.
Witchcraft and demonology 1
-
1921
The Witch-Cult in Western Europe
Argues from witch-trial material for an organised pre-Christian religion surviving into the early modern period.
Rosicrucianism 1
-
1907
Freemasonry 1
-
1922
Christian theosophy and Swedenborg 1
-
undated
Tarot 2
-
1910
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
The textual companion to the deck illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.
-
1913
The Golden Dawn 2
-
1890
Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues
A concise presentation of occult numerology.
-
four volumes, 1937–1940
The Golden Dawn
Rituals, knowledge lectures and practical instructions from the Stella Matutina, published in defiance of initiatory secrecy.
Theosophy and its descendants 9
-
1896
The Astral Plane
A systematic map of the supposed astral world.
-
1899
Clairvoyance
Attempts to categorise different kinds of extrasensory perception.
-
serialised from 1904; later in book form
How to Know Higher Worlds
A practical programme of inner discipline and spiritual perception.
-
1904
Theosophy
Introduces his account of the human spiritual constitution and postmortem development.
-
1905, with C. W. Leadbeater
Thought-Forms
Claims to show the shapes and colours of thoughts and emotions as seen clairvoyantly, illustrated in vivid plates.
-
1908, with Besant
Occult Chemistry
Claims clairvoyant observation of atomic structures.
-
1910
Occult Science: An Outline
His major esoteric cosmology, describing cosmic evolution, reincarnation and spiritual beings.
-
1912
-
1922
Initiation, Human and Solar
Describes a hierarchy of Masters and the stages of spiritual initiation.
Thelema 6
-
received 8–10 April 1904; first printed 1909
The Book of the Law
The short scripture of Thelema, centred on the maxim 'Do what thou wilt'. Crowley said the text was dictated by a non-human intelligence called Aiwass.
-
1909
Liber 777
Tables aligning Qabalistic, astrological, elemental, mythological and magical systems. This is one of the principal mechanisms by which Golden Dawn correspondences became portable.
-
1909
Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae
A short instruction in ceremonial practice: the vibration of divine names, the assumption of god-forms, and the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram, printed in The Equinox in...
-
1909–13
The Temple of Solomon the King
A serial account of Crowley's magical career in The Equinox, which printed the Golden Dawn's rituals and instructions without the order's consent.
-
parts published 1912–1936
Book 4
His principal instructional work on yoga, ceremonial equipment, magical theory and the method he called magick.
-
1944
The Book of Thoth
Crowley's account of the Tarot system embodied in the deck painted by Frieda Harris.
The Fourth Way 1
-
1912
Tertium Organum
Higher dimensions, consciousness and the grounds of mystical knowledge.
Twentieth-century magic 2
-
1928
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
A large illustrated survey of mystery religions, alchemy, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Tarot and symbolic philosophy.
-
1935
The Mystical Qabalah
A readable synthesis of the Golden Dawn Tree of Life, Christian mysticism and Fortune's own psychological interpretation.
Modern witchcraft 1
-
1899
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
book by Charles Godfrey Leland