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Books on the occult

Posted: 2003-10-12 11:36pm
by Crom
I was thinking about doing some research into magic and the occult. Has anyone read any good books on the subject?

Posted: 2003-10-12 11:41pm
by haas mark
I forget who it's by, but Personal Reality would probably be a good one (it's been reccommended to myself a couple of times).

Do What Thou Wilt is a biography on Aleister Crowley.

I'll have to go through my stuff and look up more, but that's what I can think of off the top of my head.

~ver

Posted: 2003-10-12 11:41pm
by jodathalas
Email me if u really have any interest. I am wiccan so I can explain a few things.

Posted: 2003-10-13 02:34am
by Crom
verilon wrote:Do What Thou Wilt is a biography on Aleister Crowley.
Hmm ... actually the only thing I have been told, by my girlfriend at least, is to stay away from Crowley.
I'll have to go through my stuff and look up more, but that's what I can think of off the top of my head.

~ver
Thanks. I have a book called the Kybalion, it's supposedly on Hermetic philosophy. Haven't quite figured it out yet.

Posted: 2003-10-13 04:15am
by Peregrin Toker
What about "Lucifer Rising" by Gavin Baddeley?

I haven't read it, but from what I've read it seems like it's worth its price.


But STEER CLEAR of anything by William Schnoebeln!!

Posted: 2003-10-13 07:02am
by beyond hope
Stay away from any leather-bound volumes titled "Al-Azif."

Posted: 2003-10-13 12:36pm
by Crom
beyond hope wrote:Stay away from any leather-bound volumes titled "Al-Azif."
But STEER CLEAR of anything by William Schnoebeln!!
Roger that.

Posted: 2003-10-13 01:04pm
by Embracer Of Darkness
I reccomend 'Natural Magic' by Pamela J. Ball for a good perspective of the Wicca/Paganism side of things.

Posted: 2003-10-13 07:09pm
by haas mark
Crom wrote:
verilon wrote:Do What Thou Wilt is a biography on Aleister Crowley.
Hmm ... actually the only thing I have been told, by my girlfriend at least, is to stay away from Crowley.
People say to stay away from Crowley because he was an egomaniacal bastard. This wasn't written by Aleister Crowley; it's a biography on him.

~ver

Posted: 2003-10-14 04:29am
by Peregrin Toker
beyond hope wrote:Stay away from any leather-bound volumes titled "Al-Azif."
Actually, to make sense it should be called "Kitab al-Azif", which means something like "the howling of the demons".