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214 books of 370 · showing 151–200 · oldest first
Egyptian religion and magic 4
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The Book of Gates
ancient Egyptian funerary text
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The Book of What Is in the Duat
literary work
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Mesopotamian divination and magic 1
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1999
Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives
Essays on exorcistic texts and practices in ancient Mesopotamia. The collection examines how incantations and rituals worked in their social, medical and religious settings.
Jewish scripture and tradition 1
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1939
Greek and Roman mysteries 5
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The Golden Verses
literary work
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The Life of Apollonius of Tyana
work by Philostratus
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The Orphic Hymns
collection of 87 short religious poems composed in either the late Hellenistic or early Roman era
Natural philosophy 1
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Gnosticism 1
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The Gospel of Thomas
Coptic-language early Christian non-canonical gospel, part of the Nag Hammadi library
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 2
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1926
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Islamic esotericism 1
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2018
The Occult Sciences in Pre-modern Islamic Cultures
Studies of arithmology, physiognomy, astrology, divination, geomancy, lettrism, alchemy, magic and gnosis in pre-modern Islamic cultures.
Alchemy 6
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written 1520s–1541; collected in English 1894
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
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.
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Grimoires and ritual magic 3
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The Grimoire of Pope Honorius
17th to 18th century grimoire
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Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala 1
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The Magical Calendar
esoteric calendar by Johann Baptist Grossschedel
Witchcraft and demonology 5
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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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The Discoverie of Witchcraft
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...
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Rosicrucianism 1
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Freemasonry 1
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1922
Christian theosophy and Swedenborg 1
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French occultism 1
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The Golden Dawn 1
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four volumes, 1937–1940
The Golden Dawn
Rituals, knowledge lectures and practical instructions from the Stella Matutina, published in defiance of initiatory secrecy.
Theosophy and its descendants 5
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1922
Initiation, Human and Solar
Describes a hierarchy of Masters and the stages of spiritual initiation.
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2021
Occult Roots of Religious Studies: On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900
Studies of the exchanges between occult and esoteric currents and the emerging academic study of religion around 1900.
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Thelema 3
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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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written at the Abbey of Thelema; printed 1929
Liber Samekh
A long recension of the invocation Crowley had printed at the front of the 1904 Goetia, divided into lettered sections with a commentary that gives each of the barbarous names...
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1944
The Book of Thoth
Crowley's account of the Tarot system embodied in the deck painted by Frieda Harris.
The Fourth Way 1
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2025
The Teachings and Legacy of G. I. Gurdjieff: Conference Anthology
Proceedings from a 2024 Harvard conference on Gurdjieff, the Work and their reception. The volume combines scholarship with reflections by practitioners and...
Twentieth-century magic 2
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1928
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
A large illustrated survey of mystery religions, alchemy, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Tarot and symbolic philosophy.
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1935
The Mystical Qabalah
A readable synthesis of the Golden Dawn Tree of Life, Christian mysticism and Fortune's own psychological interpretation.
Traditionalism 1
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2021
Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements
A multidisciplinary handbook on the histories, ideas and institutions of Islamic and related movements, including chapters on Sufism, René Guénon and Gurdjieff.
Modern witchcraft 1
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Late-modern and chaos magic 1
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Quareia: The Apprentice
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,...