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12 books of 336 · oldest first
Twentieth-century magic 12
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.