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  1. 1978

    Witchcraft for Tomorrow

    Doreen Valiente

    Presents adaptable rites for readers without access to an initiatory coven.

    Primary source Unmeasured also Modern witchcraft

    No free edition

  2. 1982

    Psychonaut

    Peter J. Carroll

    Extends the approach into group magic, paradigms and broader magical theory.

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    No free edition

  3. combined edition, 1987

    Liber Null & Psychonaut

    Peter J. Carroll

    The combined edition, and probably the defining textbook of chaos magic.

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    No free edition

  4. 1989

    The Rebirth of Witchcraft

    Doreen Valiente

    Her memoir and internal history of the twentieth-century witchcraft revival.

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Modern witchcraft

    No free edition

  5. 1992

    Liber Kaos

    Peter J. Carroll

    Pushes his magical theories in increasingly mathematical and cosmological directions.

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    No free edition

  6. 1993

    Prime Chaos

    Phil Hine

    Moves beyond beginner sigil magic toward ritual construction, group work and more developed practice.

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    No free edition

  7. 1994

    Outer Gateways

    Kenneth Grant

    A late synthesis of Typhonian magic, dream, fiction and extra-human intelligence.

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic and Thelema

    No free edition

  8. 1995

    Condensed Chaos

    Phil Hine

    Probably the most accessible introduction to chaos magic.

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    No free edition

  9. 1995

    PsyberMagick

    Peter J. Carroll

    A playful, compressed collection of advanced chaos-magical ideas.

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    No free edition

  10. 1996

    The Pseudonomicon

    Phil Hine

    Applies chaos-magical thinking to Lovecraftian imagery — illustrating the willingness to use a fictional symbolic system without requiring belief that it is historically or...

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    No free edition

  11. 1999

    Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives

    Tzvi Abusch and Karel van der Toorn, editors

    Essays on exorcistic texts and practices in ancient Mesopotamia. The collection examines how incantations and rituals worked in their social, medical and religious settings.

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Mesopotamian divination and magic

    Read at sites.dlib.nyu.edu ↗

  12. 2001

    Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe

    edited by William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton

    The collection containing Principe and Newman's “Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy”, the essay that argues the spiritual reading is a Victorian and...

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    No free edition

  13. 2008

    The Apophenion

    Peter J. Carroll

    Continues his later speculative system.

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    No free edition

  14. 2009

    A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism

    Helen Farley

    A cultural history of tarot from its use as a card game in Renaissance Italy through French occultism, the Golden Dawn and modern divination.

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Tarot

    No free edition

  15. 2010

    The Octavo

    Peter J. Carroll

    Further development of the same speculative cosmology.

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    No free edition

  16. 2012

    Contemporary Esotericism

    Egil Asprem and Kennet Granholm, editors

    An edited collection on Western esotericism since the 1950s, including studies of appeals to tradition, popular culture, new media and exchanges with other institutions.

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    No free edition

  17. 2014

    Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism: Oracles of the Gods

    Crystal Addey

    A study of oracles, divination and theurgy in Porphyry and Iamblichus, set within the religious and philosophical debates of late antiquity.

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Neoplatonism and Greek and Roman mysteries

    No free edition

  18. from 2014

    Quareia: The Apprentice

    Josephine McCarthy

    A complete modern course in practical magic, free to read. This study cites one lesson of it: Apprentice Module 2 Lesson 2, which teaches the Tree of Life as a tarot layout,...

    Primary source Unmeasured also Late-modern and chaos magic

    Read at quareia.com ↗

  19. 2016

    The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism

    Egil Asprem, in the volume edited by Glenn Alexander Magee

    Asprem's chapter 'The Golden Dawn and the O.T.O.' (pp. 272–283) is this study's scholarly anchor for both orders: what they were, when they ran, and what was new about treating...

    Secondary source Unmeasured also The Golden Dawn and Thelema

    No free edition

  20. 2018

    The Occult Sciences in Pre-modern Islamic Cultures

    Nader El-Bizri and Eva Orthmann, editors

    Studies of arithmology, physiognomy, astrology, divination, geomancy, lettrism, alchemy, magic and gnosis in pre-modern Islamic cultures.

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Islamic esotericism, Natural philosophy, Astrology, and Alchemy

    Read at opendata.uni-halle.de ↗

  21. 2021

    Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

    Muhammad Afzal Upal and Carole M. Cusack, editors

    A multidisciplinary handbook on the histories, ideas and institutions of Islamic and related movements, including chapters on Sufism, René Guénon and Gurdjieff.

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Traditionalism, The Fourth Way, and Islamic esotericism

    Read at tile.loc.gov ↗

  22. 2021

    Occult Roots of Religious Studies: On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900

    Yves Mühlematter and Helmut Zander, editors

    Studies of the exchanges between occult and esoteric currents and the emerging academic study of religion around 1900.

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Theosophy and its descendants and Twentieth-century magic

    Read at tile.loc.gov ↗

  23. 2025

    The Teachings and Legacy of G. I. Gurdjieff: Conference Anthology

    Carole M. Cusack and Gosia E. Sklodowska, editors

    Proceedings from a 2024 Harvard conference on Gurdjieff, the Work and their reception. The volume combines scholarship with reflections by practitioners and...

    Secondary source Unmeasured also The Fourth Way

    Read at cswr.hds.harvard.edu ↗

  24. undated

    The Book of Gates

    ancient Egyptian funerary text

    Primary source Landmark also Egyptian religion and magic

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

  25. undated

    The Book of What Is in the Duat

    literary work

    Primary source Landmark also Egyptian religion and magic

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

  26. undated

    The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary

    Karl von Eckartshausen

    Primary source Unmeasured also Christian theosophy and Swedenborg

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

  27. undated

    The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden

    Primary source Unmeasured also Egyptian religion and magic and Greek and Roman mysteries

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

  28. undated

    A Discourse of Fire and Salt

    Blaise de Vigenère

    Primary source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

  29. undated

    The Discoverie of Witchcraft

    Reginald Scot

    partially sceptical book published by Reginald Scot in 1584, intended as an exposé of early Modern witchcraft; contains a small section intended to show how the public was...

    Primary source Notable also Witchcraft and demonology

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

  30. undated

    The Discovery of Witches

    Matthew Hopkins

    Primary source Unmeasured also Witchcraft and demonology

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

  31. undated

    Esoteric Christianity

    Annie Besant

    Primary source Unmeasured also Theosophy and its descendants and Christian scripture and mysticism

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

  32. undated

    The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy

    Attributed to Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

    Primary source Unmeasured also Grimoires and ritual magic and Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala

    Read at esotericarchives.com ↗

  33. undated

    Fragment of a Græco-Egyptian Work upon Magic

    Charles Wycliffe Goodwin

    Formative source Unmeasured also Greek and Roman mysteries and Egyptian religion and magic

    Read at archive.org ↗

  34. undated

    The Gardnerian Book of Shadows

    Gerald Gardner

    Primary source Unmeasured also Modern witchcraft

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

  35. undated

    The Golden Chain of Homer

    Primary source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

  36. undated

    The Golden Verses

    Attributed to Pythagoras

    literary work

    Primary source Major also Greek and Roman mysteries

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗ and 2 more editions

  37. undated

    The Gospel of Thomas

    Coptic-language early Christian non-canonical gospel, part of the Nag Hammadi library

    Primary source Landmark also Gnosticism and Christian scripture and mysticism

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

  38. undated

    The Grimoire of Pope Honorius

    17th to 18th century grimoire

    Primary source Notable also Grimoires and ritual magic

    Read at esotericarchives.com ↗

  39. undated

    Heptameron

    Attributed to Peter of Abano

    Primary source Unmeasured also Grimoires and ritual magic

    Read at esotericarchives.com ↗

  40. written 1520s–1541; collected in English 1894

    The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus

    Paracelsus (Philippus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim)

    Waite's two-volume English collection of the Paracelsian corpus, whose appendix on the three prime essences states the doctrine of salt, sulphur and mercury directly.

    Formative source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    Read at archive.org ↗

  41. undated

    Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts

    Herbert Silberer

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

  42. undated

    Hieroglyphica

    Horapollo

    Primary source Unmeasured also Egyptian religion and magic and Hermetism

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

  43. undated

    A History of Magic and Experimental Science

    Lynn Thorndike

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Natural philosophy, Alchemy, and Astrology

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗ and 1 more edition

  44. undated

    The History of Witchcraft and Demonology

    Montague Summers

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Witchcraft and demonology

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

  45. undated

    The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development, and Literature

    Christian D. Ginsburg

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

  46. undated

    The Life of Apollonius of Tyana

    Philostratus

    work by Philostratus

    Primary source Major also Greek and Roman mysteries

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

  47. undated

    Light on the Path

    Mabel Collins

    Primary source Unmeasured also Theosophy and its descendants

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

  48. undated

    Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers

    Arthur Edward Waite

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

  49. undated

    The Magical Calendar

    esoteric calendar by Johann Baptist Grossschedel

    Primary source Notable also Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala

    Read at esotericarchives.com ↗

  50. undated

    Demoniality

    Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

    Primary source Unmeasured also Witchcraft and demonology

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗