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277 books of 336 · showing 151–200 · oldest first
Hermetism 1
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1908
The Kybalion
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Freemasonry 2
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1882
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1922
Tarot 4
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1888
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1889
The Tarot of the Bohemians
Integrates Tarot with Kabbalah, numerology and esoteric cosmology.
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1910
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
The textual companion to the deck illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.
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1913
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 2
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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.
Theosophy and its descendants 19
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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.
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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.
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1908, with Besant
Occult Chemistry
Claims clairvoyant observation of atomic structures.
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1910
Occult Science: An Outline
His major esoteric cosmology, describing cosmic evolution, reincarnation and spiritual beings.
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1912
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1922
Initiation, Human and Solar
Describes a hierarchy of Masters and the stages of spiritual initiation.
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1922
Letters on Occult Meditation
Meditation taught as part of occult initiation.
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1925
The Masters and the Path
On the Masters and the stages of the spiritual path.
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1925
A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
Her gigantic metaphysical cosmology of energies, rays, planes and cosmic evolution.
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1927
The Chakras
An enormously influential Western reinterpretation of the Indian chakra system.
Thelema 5
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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.
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issued intermittently from 1909
The Equinox
A serial publication carrying Crowley's essays, rituals, received texts, fiction, poetry and instructions for the A∴A∴.
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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...
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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.
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parts published 1912–1936
Book 4
His principal instructional work on yoga, ceremonial equipment, magical theory and the method he called magick.
The Fourth Way 1
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1912
Tertium Organum
Higher dimensions, consciousness and the grounds of mystical knowledge.
Twentieth-century magic 4
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1905
Earth Inferno
An early artist's book combining drawings, aphorisms and a private cosmology.
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1913
The Book of Pleasure
Spare's central statement on desire, the subconscious, sigils and the state he called neither-neither.
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1921
The Focus of Life
An illustrated continuation of his magical and psychological system.
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received 1923–24; published in parts from 1925
The Cosmic Doctrine
An elaborate cosmogony which Fortune said was communicated by inner-plane teachers.
Traditionalism 6
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1921
Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines
Establishes his distinction between traditional metaphysics and modern Western philosophy.
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1921
Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion
A hostile critique of Blavatskian Theosophy.
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1923
The Spiritist Fallacy
Critiques Spiritualism and mediumistic explanations of the dead.
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1925
The Esoterism of Dante
Interprets Dante through initiatory and symbolic traditions.
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1927
The Crisis of the Modern World
Diagnoses modern civilisation as spiritually inverted and cut off from traditional principles.
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1927
The King of the World
Traditions of a hidden supreme spiritual centre.
Modern witchcraft 1
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1899
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
book by Charles Godfrey Leland