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All 336 books · showing 201–250 · oldest first
Greek and Roman mysteries 1
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1911
Hermetism 2
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1906
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1908
The Kybalion
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Christian scripture and mysticism 1
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1911
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 4
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1913
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1913
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1926
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1929
The Holy Kabbalah
A massive if idiosyncratic history and interpretation of Kabbalah from a mystical-Christian perspective.
Astrology 1
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1912
Alchemy 1
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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.
Witchcraft and demonology 2
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1921
The Witch-Cult in Western Europe
Argues from witch-trial material for an organised pre-Christian religion surviving into the early modern period.
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1931
The God of the Witches
A more popular restatement of the witch-cult thesis centred on a horned god.
Rosicrucianism 1
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1907
Freemasonry 1
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1922
Tarot 2
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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
The Golden Dawn 1
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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 11
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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.
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1934
A Treatise on White Magic
A practical and theoretical account of spiritual development and magical service.
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1936–1960, later volumes posthumous
A Treatise on the Seven Rays
A multi-volume system correlating seven fundamental energies with psychology, astrology and spiritual evolution.
Thelema 5
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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 777
Tables aligning Qabalistic, astrological, elemental, mythological and magical systems. This is one of the principal mechanisms by which Golden Dawn correspondences became portable.
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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 2
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1912
Tertium Organum
Higher dimensions, consciousness and the grounds of mystical knowledge.
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1931
A New Model of the Universe
Connects cosmology, recurrence, psychology and esoteric traditions.
Twentieth-century magic 7
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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.
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1928
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
A large illustrated survey of mystery religions, alchemy, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Tarot and symbolic philosophy.
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1930
Psychic Self-Defence
Her best-known practical book, interpreting psychological and interpersonal danger through an occult model.
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1932
The Tree of Life
A systematic introduction to ceremonial magic written before his Golden Dawn initiation.
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1935
The Mystical Qabalah
A readable synthesis of the Golden Dawn Tree of Life, Christian mysticism and Fortune's own psychological interpretation.
Traditionalism 8
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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.
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1931
The Symbolism of the Cross
Uses the cross as a metaphysical symbol of multiple states of being.
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1932
The Multiple States of Being
One of his most rigorous metaphysical works.