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All 370 books · showing 301–350 · 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.
Greek and Roman mysteries 3
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The Golden Verses
literary work
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The Life of Apollonius of Tyana
work by Philostratus
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
Neoplatonism 1
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2014
Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism: Oracles of the Gods
A study of oracles, divination and theurgy in Porphyry and Iamblichus, set within the religious and philosophical debates of late antiquity.
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 1
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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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2001
Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
The collection containing Principe and Newman's “Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy”, the essay that argues the spiritual reading is a Victorian and...
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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 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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Christian theosophy and Swedenborg 1
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Tarot 1
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2009
A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism
A cultural history of tarot from its use as a card game in Renaissance Italy through French occultism, the Golden Dawn and modern divination.
The Golden Dawn 1
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2016
The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism
Asprem's chapter 'The Golden Dawn and the O.T.O.' (pp. 272–283) is this study's scholarly anchor for both orders: what they were, when they ran, and what was new about treating...
Theosophy and its descendants 3
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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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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...
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 3
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1978
Witchcraft for Tomorrow
Presents adaptable rites for readers without access to an initiatory coven.
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1989
The Rebirth of Witchcraft
Her memoir and internal history of the twentieth-century witchcraft revival.
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Late-modern and chaos magic 12
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1982
Psychonaut
Extends the approach into group magic, paradigms and broader magical theory.
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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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2012
Contemporary Esotericism
An edited collection on Western esotericism since the 1950s, including studies of appeals to tradition, popular culture, new media and exchanges with other institutions.
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from 2014
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,...