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239 books of 370 · showing 101–150 · oldest first
Egyptian religion and magic 1
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1901
Jewish scripture and tradition 1
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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.
Greek and Roman mysteries 3
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1891
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1903
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1911
Hermetism 1
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1906
Gnosticism 1
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1900
Christian scripture and mysticism 1
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1911
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 3
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English translation, 1887
Sepher Yetzirah
Helped make a foundational Kabbalistic text available to English-speaking occultists.
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1913
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1913
Astrology 6
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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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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
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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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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1912
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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.
Alchemy 2
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1893
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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.
Grimoires and ritual magic 1
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1889
The Key of Solomon the King
An influential English edition of the Solomonic grimoire tradition.
Rosicrucianism 2
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1887
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1907
Freemasonry 1
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1922
Mesmerism and Spiritualism 1
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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...
Tarot 3
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1888
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1889
The Tarot of the Bohemians
Integrates Tarot with Kabbalah, numerology and esoteric cosmology.
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1913
French occultism 3
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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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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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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.
The Golden Dawn 3
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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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1890
Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues
A concise presentation of occult numerology.
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1893 onward
Collectanea Hermetica
A series he edited, making Hermetic, alchemical and Kabbalistic material available to students.
Theosophy and its descendants 10
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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.
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1897
The Ancient Wisdom
A systematic introduction to Theosophical cosmology.
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1899
Clairvoyance
Attempts to categorise different kinds of extrasensory perception.
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1902
Man Visible and Invisible
Describes subtle bodies and aura colours.
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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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1910
Occult Science: An Outline
His major esoteric cosmology, describing cosmic evolution, reincarnation and spiritual beings.
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1912
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1922
Initiation, Human and Solar
Describes a hierarchy of Masters and the stages of spiritual initiation.
Thelema 4
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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
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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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.
The Fourth Way 1
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1912
Tertium Organum
Higher dimensions, consciousness and the grounds of mystical knowledge.
Traditionalism 2
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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.