#Occult Books

[thesorceresstemple]

[eli-zab3th]

Gorgeous books at the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, pictures by me, november 2023

[astra-ravana]

Some books I really want...

[samwisethewitch]

Having fun figuring out BlueSky. I missed shortform written content.

[ceremonialmagick]

The Warburg library and its massive occult book collection is now open to the public! It is the home of Lady Frieda Harris´ Thoth Tarot paintings and other artwork related to Aleister Crowley and the Golden Dawn.

[aphantomslibrary]

❄️ I tend to read a lot of occult-based books. I like a good ghost story, sure; but I’m also a huge fan of learning different ways to look at the world.

[nyxshadowhawk]

My occult library! I’m pretty proud of this. I’ve got a nice mix of classic occult books, fluffy witch books, serious scholarship, and editions of grimoires. And on a broad range of subjects! I’ve got some ceremonial magic, some folk magic, some chaos magic, some ancient paganism, some neopaganism, some alchemy… I’ve basically covered all the bases!

Please don’t tell me how many of those I’ve actually read. 😬

[morphic-mythos]

ARCANA OBSCURA: a personal occult library

Disclaimer: this post is a perpetual WIP, serving as an archive of all the books I've read on topics of non-Hellenic paganism, witchcraft, occultism, etc. I read widely because I enjoy expanding my perspective.

This is by no means a list of recommendations (in fact, there are some titles on this list I wouldn't recommend), but feel free to treat it that way if you're looking for suggestions!

Other reading masterlists:

DIVINA OBSCURA: a personal Hellenic library

TRIVIA OBSCURA: books to honor Hekate

CULTURAL HISTORIES

A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult, D.K. Publishing

On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, Stephen T. Asma

Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, Owen Davies

Darkness: A Cultural History, Nina Edwards

The Spectral Arctic: A History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration, Shane McCorristine

The Witch, Ronald Hutton

The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World, Malcom Gaskill

WITCHCRAFT

Psychic Witch, Mat Auryn

Mastering Magick, Mat Auryn

Urban Magick, Diana Rajchel

Of Blood and Bones: Working with Shadow Magick and the Dark Moon, Kate Freuler

Year of the Witch: Connecting with Nature's Seasons through Intuitive Magick, Temperance Alden

Rebel Witch, Kelly-Ann Maddox

Witch in Darkness, Kelly-Ann Maddox

Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft, Laura Tempest Zakroff

By Rust of Nail and Prick of Thorn: The Theory and Practice of Effective Home Warding, Althaea Sebastiani

Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft, Nathan M. Hall

OCCULTISM

The Book of Hermetica, Hermes Trismegistus and the Three Initiates

Lifting the Veil: A Witches' Guide to Trance-Prophecy, Drawing Down the Moon and Ecstatic Ritual, Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone

MUSINGS & MEDITATIONS

Becoming Dangerous, Katie West

Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power, Pam Grossman

Waking Up to the Dark, Clark Strand

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

DREAMS & SYMBOLISM

The Forgotten Language, Erich Fromm

[figcatlists]

Occult and esoteric fiction reading list

A selection of literary works inspired or influenced by various currents of Western esoteric tradition and occultism, spanning from late antiquity to the present day. Includes historical novels about mages and alchemists, initiatory Rosicrucian romances, hermetic allegorical dream visions, gothic tales of elemental spirits, occult detective stories, satirical conspiracy thrillers, and more!

This chart was based on my longer list of 125 works of occult, esoteric, and initiatory fiction and poetry.

[witchcastors]

Witchy Library!

PSA to any of my occult darlings! Here's an e-library archive I found while cleaning out my likes

Subjects range from hermeticism and alchemy, to yoga, mythology, hypnosis, witchcraft, enochian magick and more. Go nuts 🔮

[antionettepilled]

occult books and references!

collections: (pdfs on google docs)

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1rQeBdU91DN74tYBRY9-qb5jp8b0fayzDFN5drULV3pk/mobilebasic

above is the holy grail for beginners! so many great resources.

satanic bible:

beginner chaos magick

mirror magick

preotection and reversal magick

72 angels

ars vercanus advanced witchcraft

art of evocation

[thesorceresstemple]

1 : Thomas Walkington’s The Opticke Glasse of Humors 2 : Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825 3 : Georg von Welling. Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum. 1735. 4 : Magic circle from The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot, 1584, Wellcome Collection, London. 5 : The Hours of the Virgin Mary (London, c. 1410): Stowe MS 16, f. 9r. British Library

[thedustycat]

1976 reprint of the 1857 "Remarks Upon Alchemy and the Alchemists"

[maeviuslynn]

This is a very rare copy of Little Essays for Truth by Aleister Crowley with a foldout Tree of Life. It was published in 1938 and another special feature of this book was that the dust wrapper has art by Frieda Lady Harris. This copy is held in the Special Collections at Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. 

[lunasapphire]

Ooo such a pretty cover! - sadly I have yet to read or hear of this book, but it looks interesting! Let me know how you like it!

totally going to add it to my tbr list😅

[creature-wizard]

For whoever needs to hear it, The Kybalion isn't some ancient Hermetic text or anything; it's an early 20th century text written by somebody (probably William Walker Atkinson) who basically believes in the history of the world as proclaimed by Helena Blavatsky. It's got a bunch of that proto-New Age conspirituality and metaphysics in it. So like, read it if you will, but be aware of who and when it actually comes from, and take it with a grain of salt.