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I was thinking about doing some research into magic and the occult. Has anyone read any good books on the subject?

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

Email me if u really have any interest. I am wiccan so I can explain a few things.

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.

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!!

Stay away from any leather-bound volumes titled "Al-Azif."

beyond hope wrote:Stay away from any leather-bound volumes titled "Al-Azif."

But STEER CLEAR of anything by William Schnoebeln!!

Roger that.

I reccomend 'Natural Magic' by Pamela J. Ball for a good perspective of the Wicca/Paganism side of things.

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

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".