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14 books of 336 · oldest first
Mesopotamian divination and magic 1
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1st millennium BCE
Šurpu
Purification incantations for misfortune whose precise supernatural cause is unknown.
Greek and Roman mysteries 1
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undated
Grimoires and ritual magic 1
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1801
The Magus
Book by occultist Francis Barrett
Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala 1
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1834
Lives of the Necromancers
1834 book by William Godwin
Christian theosophy and Swedenborg 1
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composed c. 1770–72; first complete printed edition 1899
Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings
The theological foundation of his system. It was not conceived as a public occult handbook, and publication came more than a century after his death.
Theosophy and its descendants 1
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1934
A Treatise on White Magic
A practical and theoretical account of spiritual development and magical service.
Thelema 3
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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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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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1963, posthumous
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Semi-autobiographical narratives of his search for wisdom.
Twentieth-century magic 3
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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.
Modern witchcraft 1
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1959
The Meaning of Witchcraft
A broader defence and historical interpretation of modern witchcraft.