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All 370 books · showing 151–200 · oldest first
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eighteenth–nineteenth-century textual tradition
The Grand Grimoire
The pact with Lucifuge Rofocale, and the apparatus for compelling it.
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1800
The Spirit of Things
Attempts to read nature as a spiritual revelation.
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1801
The Magus
Book by occultist Francis Barrett
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1802
Ministry of the Man-Spirit
One of his mature statements concerning humanity's spiritual vocation.
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1827
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1834
Lives of the Necromancers
1834 book by William Godwin
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1841
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
1841 collection of historic anecdotes about human follies by Charles Mackay
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1850
A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery
The book that began the modern reading of alchemy as an inner discipline, withdrawn and burned by its author within months of publication.
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two parts, 1854 and 1856
Dogma and Ritual of High Magic
His masterpiece. Twenty-two chapters in each half implicitly parallel the Tarot trumps, building a theory and practice of ceremonial magic.
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1857
The Spirits' Book
A structured series of questions and answers on God, spirits, reincarnation, morality and the afterlife.
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1860
History of Magic
An influential but highly mythologised history linking ancient mysteries, Kabbalah, magic and Christian esotericism.
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1861
Key of the Great Mysteries
Develops his occult philosophy of correspondences and universal equilibrium.
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1861
The Mediums' Book
A practical and theoretical manual on mediumship, manifestations and methods of testing communications.
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1862
La Sorcière
essay by Jules Michelet
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1864
The Gospel According to Spiritism
Interprets Christian teaching through reincarnation and Spiritist ethics.
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1865
Heaven and Hell
Rejects eternal damnation in favour of progressive spiritual development.
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1866
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1868
The Genesis
Attempts to reconcile cosmology, miracles and spiritual law with contemporary science.
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1872
Morals and Dogma
book by Albert Pike
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1874
Eulis!
An explicitly occult work developing his theories of love, sexuality, magic and spiritual transformation.
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1877
Isis Unveiled
A sprawling attack on materialism and dogmatic Christianity, coupled with a defence of occult and ancient wisdom traditions.
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1882
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1885 English translation
Jacob Boehme: His Life and Teaching, or Studies in Theosophy
An English translation of Martensen's theological study of Jacob Böhme, combining a biography with an extended account of his theosophy.
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1885
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1886–1903
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature
The standard dictionary of rabbinic Hebrew and Aramaic.
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1886
At the Threshold of the Mystery
An introduction to occult doctrine and symbolism.
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1887
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1887
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1887
The Kabbalah Unveiled
Translation of portions of Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin Kabbala Denudata, making Zoharic material accessible in English.
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1887
L'Occultisme contemporain
A survey of the contemporary occult revival.
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1887
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English translation, 1887
Sepher Yetzirah
Helped make a foundational Kabbalistic text available to English-speaking occultists.
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c. 1888
Book T
Book T is the Golden Dawn's central instructional document on tarot. It specifies card designs and connects the twenty-two trumps with Hebrew letters and Tree paths, the...
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1888
The Secret Doctrine
Her cosmological synthesis, presented as a reading of the Stanzas of Dzyan: cycles of evolution, root races, reincarnation and hidden spiritual hierarchies.
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1888
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1888
Traité élémentaire de science occulte
A hugely influential introductory manual presenting occultism as an organised science.
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1889, fourth edition
The Influence of the Stars
The earliest of these books and the only one by a woman. Baughan writes her house judgements as semicolon-separated clauses, running a planet through several houses in one...
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1889
The Key of Solomon the King
An influential English edition of the Solomonic grimoire tradition.
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1889
The Key to Theosophy
A much more accessible question-and-answer exposition of Theosophical teaching.
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1889
The Tarot of the Bohemians
Integrates Tarot with Kabbalah, numerology and esoteric cosmology.
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1889
The Voice of the Silence
A devotional and mystical text presenting an ideal of spiritual compassion in strongly Buddhist-influenced vocabulary.
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1890
The Golden Bough
1890 non-fiction work by James George Frazer
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1890
Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues
A concise presentation of occult numerology.
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1891
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1891–1906
A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament
The standard Hebrew lexicon of the Hebrew Bible, based on Gesenius.
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1891
Le Serpent de la Genèse I: Le Temple de Satan
The first instalment of an ambitious exploration of evil, magic and occult philosophy.
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1893 onward
Collectanea Hermetica
A series he edited, making Hermetic, alchemical and Kabbalistic material available to students.
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1893
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1896
The Astral Plane
A systematic map of the supposed astral world.
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1896
The Devachanic Plane
Describes a higher postmortem mental world.