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214 books of 370 · showing 101–150 · oldest first
Egyptian religion and magic 1
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1901
Jewish scripture and tradition 2
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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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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...
Greek and Roman mysteries 4
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1890
The Golden Bough
1890 non-fiction work by James George Frazer
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1891
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1903
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1911
Hermetism 2
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1906
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1908
The Kybalion
book
Gnosticism 1
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1900
Christian scripture and mysticism 1
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1911
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 2
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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 3
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1889
The Key of Solomon the King
An influential English edition of the Solomonic grimoire tradition.
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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.
Rosicrucianism 1
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1907
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 4
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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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1910
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
The textual companion to the deck illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.
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1913
The Golden Dawn 2
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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.
Theosophy and its descendants 10
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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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1889
The Key to Theosophy
A much more accessible question-and-answer exposition of Theosophical teaching.
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1896
The Astral Plane
A systematic map of the supposed astral world.
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1899
Clairvoyance
Attempts to categorise different kinds of extrasensory perception.
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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, 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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1908, with Besant
Occult Chemistry
Claims clairvoyant observation of atomic structures.
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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
Thelema 6
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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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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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parts published 1912–1936
Book 4
His principal instructional work on yoga, ceremonial equipment, magical theory and the method he called magick.
The Fourth Way 1
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1912
Tertium Organum
Higher dimensions, consciousness and the grounds of mystical knowledge.
Modern witchcraft 1
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1899
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
book by Charles Godfrey Leland