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All 336 books · showing 251–300 · oldest first
Egyptian religion and magic 3
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The Book of Gates
ancient Egyptian funerary text
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The Book of What Is in the Duat
literary work
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undated
Jewish scripture and tradition 1
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1939
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 1
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1974
Kabbalah
Scholem's one-volume survey of Kabbalah: a historical essay on the basic ideas followed by encyclopaedia entries on texts, figures and terms.
Alchemy 4
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1944; English translation 1953
Psychology and Alchemy
Jung's reading of alchemical imagery as a projection of psychic processes, and the book through which most twentieth-century readers met alchemy at all.
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2001
Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
The collection containing Principe and Newman's “Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy”, the essay that argues the spiritual reading is a Victorian and...
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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.
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undated
Grimoires and ritual magic 1
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Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala 1
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1978
The Complete Enochian Dictionary
A linguist's dictionary and grammatical description of the angelic material, and the standard reference for it. Laycock counts about 250 words in the corpus, over half of them...
Witchcraft and demonology 2
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The Discoverie of Witchcraft
partially sceptical book published by Reginald Scot in 1584, intended as an exposé of early Modern witchcraft; contains a small section intended to show how the public was...
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Christian theosophy and Swedenborg 1
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Theosophy and its descendants 2
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1948
The Reappearance of the Christ
Anticipates a renewed manifestation of a universal spiritual teacher.
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undated
Thelema 4
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1944
The Book of Thoth
Crowley's account of the Tarot system embodied in the deck painted by Frieda Harris.
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received/written February–March 1946
Liber 49
Parsons regarded it as a divinely received continuation or complement to Crowley's Book of the Law.
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1949
The Book of Antichrist
A short manifesto announcing his magical identity and rejection of oppressive moral structures.
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essays, collected later
Freedom Is a Two-Edged Sword
Essays on liberty, magic and society, gathered after his death.
The Fourth Way 4
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1949, posthumous
In Search of the Miraculous
Probably the clearest systematic account of Gurdjieff's early teaching.
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1950, posthumous
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
A vast and deliberately difficult allegorical cosmology meant to interrupt habitual thought.
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1963, posthumous
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Semi-autobiographical narratives of his search for wisdom.
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posthumous, 1970s
Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'
An unfinished third series concerned more directly with inner work.
Twentieth-century magic 1
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1938
The Middle Pillar
Connects a Golden Dawn body exercise with psychotherapy and helped make the practice one of the order's most widely adopted techniques.
Traditionalism 1
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1945
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
His great critique of modern materialism and the reduction of quality to quantity.
Modern witchcraft 8
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1949
High Magic's Aid
A novel used to place ritual material into print before Gardner could write publicly about a living witch religion.
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1954
Witchcraft Today
Gardner's first public nonfiction account of the religion he called the witch cult.
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1959
The Meaning of Witchcraft
A broader defence and historical interpretation of modern witchcraft.
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1973
An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present
An alphabetical introduction joining folklore, ritual practice and the history of modern witchcraft.
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1975
Natural Magic
A practical account of magic using ordinary materials and local landscapes.
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1978
Witchcraft for Tomorrow
Presents adaptable rites for readers without access to an initiatory coven.
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1989
The Rebirth of Witchcraft
Her memoir and internal history of the twentieth-century witchcraft revival.
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undated
Late-modern and chaos magic 16
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1969
The Satanic Bible
The foundational statement of LaVeyan Satanism, combining polemic, ritual and an individualist ethic.
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1972
The Magical Revival
The first of the Typhonian Trilogies, rereading Crowley and modern occultism through Tantra, dream and hidden correspondences.
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1972
The Satanic Rituals
A collection of group rites drawing freely on literary and historical sources.
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1977
Nightside of Eden
Develops a shadow-side reading of the Qabalistic Tree and the tunnels associated with it.
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1978
The Book of Results
Ray Sherwin's early practical account of sigils and results-oriented magic.
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1978
Liber Null
A stripped-down magical curriculum emphasising altered states or 'gnosis', sigils, belief manipulation and practical experimentation.
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1982
Psychonaut
Extends the approach into group magic, paradigms and broader magical theory.
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combined edition, 1987
Liber Null & Psychonaut
The combined edition, and probably the defining textbook of chaos magic.
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1992
Liber Kaos
Pushes his magical theories in increasingly mathematical and cosmological directions.
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1993
Prime Chaos
Moves beyond beginner sigil magic toward ritual construction, group work and more developed practice.
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1994
Outer Gateways
A late synthesis of Typhonian magic, dream, fiction and extra-human intelligence.
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1995
Condensed Chaos
Probably the most accessible introduction to chaos magic.
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1995
PsyberMagick
A playful, compressed collection of advanced chaos-magical ideas.
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1996
The Pseudonomicon
Applies chaos-magical thinking to Lovecraftian imagery — illustrating the willingness to use a fictional symbolic system without requiring belief that it is historically or...
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2008
The Apophenion
Continues his later speculative system.
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2010
The Octavo
Further development of the same speculative cosmology.