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All 370 books · showing 201–250 · oldest first
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1897
The Ancient Wisdom
A systematic introduction to Theosophical cosmology.
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1897
Le Serpent de la Genèse II: La Clef de la Magie Noire
A dense study of astral forces and what he understood as black magic.
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1898; later substantially revised
The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts
A historical and critical survey of the grimoires rather than an instruction manual.
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1898
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
Introduced English occultists to the Abramelin system: prolonged purification, communion with the Holy Guardian Angel, and subsequent command of spirits.
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1898
The Manual of Astrology
Sepharial's four-book manual, arranged by the QUESTION a reader brings — the bodily form, financial fortunes, marriage, the kind of death — rather than by placement. Its...
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1899
Clairvoyance
Attempts to categorise different kinds of extrasensory perception.
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1899
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
book by Charles Godfrey Leland
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1899
Astrology for All
Leo's sign book, built on the pairing of the Sun's sign with the Moon's. It delineates each luminary through the twelve signs and then all one hundred and forty-four...
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1900
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1901
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1901–1906
The Jewish Encyclopedia
The Jewish Encyclopedia is an early twentieth-century reference work whose signed articles gather biblical, rabbinic and mystical source trails. Its accounts of variant angel...
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1902
Man Visible and Invisible
Describes subtle bodies and aura colours.
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1902
Modern Spiritualism: A History and a Criticism
A two-volume history and critical examination of modern Spiritualism by Frank Podmore, a member of the Society for Psychical Research. It follows the subject from possession and...
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1903; this printing 1928
How to Judge a Nativity
Leo's house book: the planets taken one at a time through the twelve houses, with a paragraph of delineation for each. It is where most twentieth-century English astrology got...
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1903
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received 8–10 April 1904; first printed 1909
The Book of the Law
The short scripture of Thelema, centred on the maxim 'Do what thou wilt'. Crowley said the text was dictated by a non-human intelligence called Aiwass.
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serialised from 1904; later in book form
How to Know Higher Worlds
A practical programme of inner discipline and spiritual perception.
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1904
Theosophy
Introduces his account of the human spiritual constitution and postmortem development.
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1905
Earth Inferno
An early artist's book combining drawings, aphorisms and a private cosmology.
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1905, with C. W. Leadbeater
Thought-Forms
Claims to show the shapes and colours of thoughts and emotions as seen clairvoyantly, illustrated in vivid plates.
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1906
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1907
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1908
The Kybalion
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1908, with Besant
Occult Chemistry
Claims clairvoyant observation of atomic structures.
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issued intermittently from 1909
The Equinox
A serial publication carrying Crowley's essays, rituals, received texts, fiction, poetry and instructions for the A∴A∴.
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1909
Liber 777
Tables aligning Qabalistic, astrological, elemental, mythological and magical systems. This is one of the principal mechanisms by which Golden Dawn correspondences became portable.
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1909
Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae
A short instruction in ceremonial practice: the vibration of divine names, the assumption of god-forms, and the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram, printed in The Equinox in...
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1909
An Account of A∴A∴
The A∴A∴'s description of itself, printed in the first number of The Equinox. Its own headnote states that it is Karl von Eckartshausen's Die Wolke über dem Heiligtum of 1802,...
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1909–13
The Temple of Solomon the King
A serial account of Crowley's magical career in The Equinox, which printed the Golden Dawn's rituals and instructions without the order's consent.
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1910
Occult Science: An Outline
His major esoteric cosmology, describing cosmic evolution, reincarnation and spiritual beings.
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1910
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
The textual companion to the deck illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.
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1911
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1911
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parts published 1912–1936
Book 4
His principal instructional work on yoga, ceremonial equipment, magical theory and the method he called magick.
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1912
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1912
Tertium Organum
Higher dimensions, consciousness and the grounds of mystical knowledge.
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1912
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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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1913
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1913
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1913
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1914; English 1917
Problems of Mysticism and its Symbolism
A psychoanalytic reading of an alchemical parable, later retitled Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts.
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1918; this printing 1919
The Message of the Stars
The second lookup table after Leo's, and the larger: chapters titled plainly SATURN IN THE TWELVE HOUSES, MERCURY IN THE TWELVE SIGNS, and so on through the planets.
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1919
Liber CXCIV
The O.T.O.'s constitution as Crowley published it in the third volume of The Equinox: eleven degrees arranged in three triads, and an account of what a grade is for.
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1921
The Focus of Life
An illustrated continuation of his magical and psychological system.
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1921
Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines
Establishes his distinction between traditional metaphysics and modern Western philosophy.
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1921
Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion
A hostile critique of Blavatskian Theosophy.
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1921
The Witch-Cult in Western Europe
Argues from witch-trial material for an organised pre-Christian religion surviving into the early modern period.
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1922
Initiation, Human and Solar
Describes a hierarchy of Masters and the stages of spiritual initiation.
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1922