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All 336 books · showing 151–200 · oldest first
Egyptian religion and magic 1
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1901
Jewish scripture and tradition 3
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1886–1903
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature
The standard dictionary of rabbinic Hebrew and Aramaic.
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1891–1906
A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament
The standard Hebrew lexicon of the Hebrew Bible, based on Gesenius.
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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...
Greek and Roman mysteries 3
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1890
The Golden Bough
1890 non-fiction work by James George Frazer
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1891
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1903
Hermetism 1
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1885
Gnosticism 2
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1887
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1900
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 2
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1887
The Kabbalah Unveiled
Translation of portions of Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin Kabbala Denudata, making Zoharic material accessible in English.
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English translation, 1887
Sepher Yetzirah
Helped make a foundational Kabbalistic text available to English-speaking occultists.
Alchemy 1
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1893
Grimoires and ritual magic 3
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1889
The Key of Solomon the King
An influential English edition of the Solomonic grimoire tradition.
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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.
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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
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1862
La Sorcière
essay by Jules Michelet
Rosicrucianism 1
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1887
Freemasonry 3
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1866
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1872
Morals and Dogma
book by Albert Pike
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1882
Mesmerism and Spiritualism 4
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1864
The Gospel According to Spiritism
Interprets Christian teaching through reincarnation and Spiritist ethics.
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1865
Heaven and Hell
Rejects eternal damnation in favour of progressive spiritual development.
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1868
The Genesis
Attempts to reconcile cosmology, miracles and spiritual law with contemporary science.
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1874
Eulis!
An explicitly occult work developing his theories of love, sexuality, magic and spiritual transformation.
Tarot 2
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1888
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1889
The Tarot of the Bohemians
Integrates Tarot with Kabbalah, numerology and esoteric cosmology.
French occultism 5
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1886
At the Threshold of the Mystery
An introduction to occult doctrine and symbolism.
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1887
L'Occultisme contemporain
A survey of the contemporary occult revival.
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1888
Traité élémentaire de science occulte
A hugely influential introductory manual presenting occultism as an organised science.
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1891
Le Serpent de la Genèse I: Le Temple de Satan
The first instalment of an ambitious exploration of evil, magic and occult philosophy.
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1897
Le Serpent de la Genèse II: La Clef de la Magie Noire
A dense study of astral forces and what he understood as black magic.
The Golden Dawn 4
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1887
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c. 1888
Book T
Book T is the Golden Dawn's central instructional document on tarot. It specifies card designs and connects the twenty-two trumps with Hebrew letters and Tree paths, the...
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1890
Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues
A concise presentation of occult numerology.
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1893 onward
Collectanea Hermetica
A series he edited, making Hermetic, alchemical and Kabbalistic material available to students.
Theosophy and its descendants 11
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1877
Isis Unveiled
A sprawling attack on materialism and dogmatic Christianity, coupled with a defence of occult and ancient wisdom traditions.
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1888
The Secret Doctrine
Her cosmological synthesis, presented as a reading of the Stanzas of Dzyan: cycles of evolution, root races, reincarnation and hidden spiritual hierarchies.
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1889
The Key to Theosophy
A much more accessible question-and-answer exposition of Theosophical teaching.
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1889
The Voice of the Silence
A devotional and mystical text presenting an ideal of spiritual compassion in strongly Buddhist-influenced vocabulary.
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1896
The Astral Plane
A systematic map of the supposed astral world.
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1896
The Devachanic Plane
Describes a higher postmortem mental world.
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1897
The Ancient Wisdom
A systematic introduction to Theosophical cosmology.
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1899
Clairvoyance
Attempts to categorise different kinds of extrasensory perception.
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1902
Man Visible and Invisible
Describes subtle bodies and aura colours.
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serialised from 1904; later in book form
How to Know Higher Worlds
A practical programme of inner discipline and spiritual perception.
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1904
Theosophy
Introduces his account of the human spiritual constitution and postmortem development.
Thelema 1
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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.
Twentieth-century magic 1
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1905
Earth Inferno
An early artist's book combining drawings, aphorisms and a private cosmology.
Modern witchcraft 1
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1899
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
book by Charles Godfrey Leland