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296 books of 370 · showing 151–200 · oldest first
Hermetism 1
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1908
The Kybalion
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Astrology 4
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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...
Freemasonry 3
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1866
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1872
Morals and Dogma
book by Albert Pike
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1882
Mesmerism and Spiritualism 6
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1857
The Spirits' Book
A structured series of questions and answers on God, spirits, reincarnation, morality and the afterlife.
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1861
The Mediums' Book
A practical and theoretical manual on mediumship, manifestations and methods of testing communications.
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1864
The Gospel According to Spiritism
Interprets Christian teaching through reincarnation and Spiritist ethics.
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1865
Heaven and Hell
Rejects eternal damnation in favour of progressive spiritual development.
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1868
The Genesis
Attempts to reconcile cosmology, miracles and spiritual law with contemporary science.
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1874
Eulis!
An explicitly occult work developing his theories of love, sexuality, magic and spiritual transformation.
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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1910
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
The textual companion to the deck illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.
French occultism 7
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1860
History of Magic
An influential but highly mythologised history linking ancient mysteries, Kabbalah, magic and Christian esotericism.
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1861
Key of the Great Mysteries
Develops his occult philosophy of correspondences and universal equilibrium.
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1886
At the Threshold of the Mystery
An introduction to occult doctrine and symbolism.
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1887
L'Occultisme contemporain
A survey of the contemporary occult revival.
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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 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 15
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1877
Isis Unveiled
A sprawling attack on materialism and dogmatic Christianity, coupled with a defence of occult and ancient wisdom traditions.
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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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1889
The Voice of the Silence
A devotional and mystical text presenting an ideal of spiritual compassion in strongly Buddhist-influenced vocabulary.
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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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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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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 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.
Twentieth-century magic 1
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1905
Earth Inferno
An early artist's book combining drawings, aphorisms and a private cosmology.
Modern witchcraft 1
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1899
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
book by Charles Godfrey Leland