i would like some recomendations for occult books?

Question

anything on serious occult no new age please or wicca that just somthing prcatical also say why you recmmend it thanks

Answer 1

Occult Bondage and Deliverance
Occult ABC
by Kurt Koch

Answer 2

The Books of Occult Philosophy By Henrich Corneious Agrippa
Pagans and the Law by Dana Eilers

The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft - Ronald Hutton

Witchcraft Today - Gerald B. Gardner.

Witchdom of the True - Edred Thorsson

Wicca: the Old Religion in the New Milennium - Vivianne Crowley

Advanced Wiccan Spirituality - Kevin Saunders

The Elements of Ritual: Air, Fire, Water & Earth in the Wiccan Circle - Deborah Lipp

Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic - by Phyllis W. Curott

Positive Magic - Marion Weinstein

The Circle Within: Creating a Wiccan Spiritual Tradition - Dianne Sylvan

Book of Shadows - Phyllis Curott

The Second Circle - Venecia Rauls

The Heart of Wicca: Wise Words from a Crone on the Path - Ellen Cannon Reed

Evolutionary Witchcraft - T. Thorn Coyle

The Wiccan Path: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner - Rae Beth

21st Century Wicca - Jennifer Hunter

Witchcraft: A Concise Guide - Isaac Bonewits

Way of Four - Deborah Lipp

Answer 3

Any Dennis Wheatley book or Aleistair Crowley.

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

Born 12 October 1875
Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
Died 1 December 1947
Hastings, England
Thelema Portal
Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947; the surname is pronounced /'krəʊ.li/ i.e. with the first syllable sounding like the bird) was an English occultist, prolific writer, mystic, hedonist, aficionado of chess and mountain climbing, and sexual revolutionary.[1]

Crowley himself claimed to be a Freemason, but the regularity of his initiations with the United Grand Lodge of England has been disputed.[2]

Other interests and accomplishments were wide-ranging—he was a chess master, mountain climber, poet, painter, astrologer, drug experimenter, and social critic. He is perhaps best known today for his occult writings, especially The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. Crowley was also an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the Argenteum Astrum, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).[3]

Crowley gained much notoriety during his lifetime, and was famously dubbed "The Wickedest Man In the World."[4]

Answer 4

Aleister Crowley's "Magick" (preferable to the edited version published as "Magick in Theory and Practice") is a good overview of hermetic occult lore. His "Portable Darkness" is a terrific collection of essays for the beginning occultist.

Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" is one of the classics, and available free online at http://www.esotericarchives.com/agrippa/

Any modern occultist should study some Lovecraft (which is fiction) and read at least one version of the Necronomicon... several are in print (although the Avon Press version is most well-known). None of them are "the original," but all can be useful in your studies.

And there's a great deal to be learned from & about chaos magick; http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos_all.php has a great collection of online texts. Chaos magicians being who they are, not many of their texts are copyrighted (and those that are, sometimes have that part ignored.)

A.O. Spare's works and Chumbley's are also both very good. Some of Spare's are available online; none of Chumbley's are, and his estate is vicious about defending copyright. Chumbley is Sabbatic witchchraft; Spare might be that, or might be chaos magick, depending on where you draw the lines.

Good hunting!

Answer 5

Occult America by John Godwin

Answer 6

The Tarot, and most books on the tarot, is a great intro to what the occult is all about.
Occult simply means unseen so a good occult book would be one that describes the unseen energies of the universe.
Tarot is more about this, than it is about reading peoples fortunes

Answer 7

You could do worse than reading Colin Wilson's THE OCCULT, which I believe was published in the 1970s.

Answer 8

Try googling for the "Key of Solomon". Note that there is also a smaller version called "the index" or smth. Plenty of 'pdfs' and 'words' out there. It's been accused as a Satanist volume and is despised by the church. The writer though states God inspired his writings. Anyway it's rituals are easily acted on and it is quite well writen. Though they say Satan visits u in your sleep if you read it (OooOooOooOhhhh....). It's really so detailed that it can act as a spell-system in a rpg.

Answer 9

A couple of authors who often get overlooked are William G. Gray and Franz Bardon. Both wrote extensively on a number of topics, including Kabbalah and Hermeticism. They're on my to-read list, but my husband speaks very highly of them, as do numerous other magicians I know.

Also, Lon Milo DuQuette is another good one; I've read his "Magick of Thelema" as a preliminary to Crowley's works, and I first was introduced to the Kabbalah in his highly amusing yet educational "The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed ben Clifford". As for Crowley himself, I started with "Magick Without Tears", which is a good introduction to his writing style.

And although he's not strictly occult, I absolutely recommend the works of Robert Anton Wilson. My favorite is probably "Prometheus Rising", which is a superb guide to reprogramming yourself based largely on Leary's Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness. It's magic without actually using that word.

As to more modern forms of occultism, I suggest Joshua Wetzel's "The Paradigmal Pirate" as an introduction to Chaos magic, followed by Peter J. Carroll's "Liber Null & Psychonaut" and "Liber Kaos" in that order. I haven't read any of Phil Hine's works yet, but they also come highly recommended.

There's also Taylor Ellwood's works. "Pop Culture Magick" discusses using modern mythology in practical magic, "Space/Time Magic" is about working magic outside of linear space/time, and "Inner Alchemy", which is due to be released later this month, deals with the magic of the body, including neurotransmitters as spirit guides, DNA magic (biophotonic energy), and energy work.

Check out http://www.spiralnature.com/reviews/book/index.html for more good book reviews; also, Amazon.com customer reviews can be quite helpful as well.

Answer 10

Several authors I would recommend for a wide spectrum of reading, in no particular order, are:
Scott Cunningham
D. J. Conway
Patricia Telesco
Margot Adler
Silver Ravenwolf
Raymond Buckland
Ted Andrews
Migene Gonzalez-Wippler
Sandra Kynes