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296 books of 370 · showing 251–296 · 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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Jewish scripture and tradition 1
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prayers from antiquity; the order fixed in the Middle Ages
Siddur
The daily prayer book: the Amidah, the Shema and the prayers before sleep.
Greek and Roman mysteries 4
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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
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The Sibylline Oracles
collection of oracular utterances in Greek hexameter, containing Hellenistic/Roman mythology with Jewish, Gnostic and Christian stories
Gnosticism 2
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The Gospel of Thomas
Coptic-language early Christian non-canonical gospel, part of the Nag Hammadi library
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Pistis Sophia
gnostic text in the form of a dialogue between Jesus and the disciples
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 1
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The Sword of Moses
apocryphal book of ancient Hebrew magic
Alchemy 4
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Grimoires and ritual magic 7
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The Grimoire of Pope Honorius
17th to 18th century grimoire
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The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses
18th- or 19th-century grimoire, attributed to Moses; instructs the reader in the spells used to create the miracles portrayed in the Bible, with annexes of Talmudic magic...
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Testament of Solomon
Old Testament pseudepigraphical work ascribed to King Solomon
Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala 1
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The Magical Calendar
esoteric calendar by Johann Baptist Grossschedel
Witchcraft and demonology 4
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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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The Wonders of the Invisible World
book published by Cotton Mather in 1693
Rosicrucianism 2
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Christian theosophy and Swedenborg 1
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French occultism 1
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Theosophy and its descendants 3
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Modern witchcraft 1
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Late-modern and chaos magic 10
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combined edition, 1987
Liber Null & Psychonaut
The combined edition, and probably the defining textbook of chaos magic.
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1992
Liber Kaos
Pushes his magical theories in increasingly mathematical and cosmological directions.
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1993
Prime Chaos
Moves beyond beginner sigil magic toward ritual construction, group work and more developed practice.
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1994
Outer Gateways
A late synthesis of Typhonian magic, dream, fiction and extra-human intelligence.
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1995
Condensed Chaos
Probably the most accessible introduction to chaos magic.
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1995
PsyberMagick
A playful, compressed collection of advanced chaos-magical ideas.
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1996
The Pseudonomicon
Applies chaos-magical thinking to Lovecraftian imagery — illustrating the willingness to use a fictional symbolic system without requiring belief that it is historically or...
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2008
The Apophenion
Continues his later speculative system.
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2010
The Octavo
Further development of the same speculative cosmology.
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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,...