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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.
#ceremonial magick#Aleister Crowley#Crowley#Thelema#thelemite#occultism#occult#magick#hermeticism#esoteric#mysticism#tarot#high magick#esoteric books#witchcraft#occult books#paganism#astrology#Lady Frieda Harris#goth#gothic#witches#magic spells#occult library#Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn#occult podcasts#Frieda Harris#Golden Dawn#astrum argentum
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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. 😬
#occult#occultism#the occult#occult books#books#bookshelf#personal library#aesthetic#witchblr#witch aesthetic#magick#book recs
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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.
#book list#book recommendations#book recs#reading list#occult#occultism#magick#esoteric#esotericism#occult fiction#alchemy#rosicrucian#hermetic#occult books
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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
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
Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft, Laura Tempest Zakroff
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
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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 🔮
#witchy things#witch#occult#books#witchcraft#witchcraft books#occult books#elibrary#witchcraft resources#witchblr#alchemy#witchy books#mythology#hermetic library#hermeticism
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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
#occultism#occultblr#witchblr#witchcraft community#witchcraft#witchcraft resource#occultist#occult#witchy#witch books#occult books#occult resources#chaos magick#enochian#paganism#ars goetia#demonaltry#satanism
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1976 reprint of the 1857 "Remarks Upon Alchemy and the Alchemists"
#alchemy#occult#esoteric#magick#magic#hermeticism#witchcraft#witchblr#vintage books#antique books#alchemist#obscurities#curiosities#rarities#dark interiors#cabinet of curiosities#goth aesthetic#the dusty cat#dark aesthetic#occult books
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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.
#aleiser crowley#Frieda Lady Harris#Frieda Harris#thoth tarot#thelema#thelemite#crowley#occult#occultism#occult books#rare books#Little Essays for Truth
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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
#grimoires#grimoire pages#occult books#occult knowledge#magic#dark arts#esoterism#occultism#witch#sorceress#priestess
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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.
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Amor Divina, Writings on the Sexual Praxis of Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO).
This limited edition, rare Work of beauty was printed by the elusive Hell Fire Club in 2018 and includes writing by Aleister Crowley, Theodore Reuss, C. S. Jones, G. J. Yorke, Marcelo Motta & others.
I have this & many other fine occult books for sale. Topics ranging from Thelema to Psyonics, publishing quality ranging from limited edition gold embossed hard covers to zine format.
DM for more details.
#magick#occult#thelema#aleister crowley#hell fire club#rare occult books#ordo templi orientis#oto#thelemic#sex magick#pagan#witchcraft#occult authors#occult works#occult books
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My Review of The Greatness of Saturn
A Therapeutic Myth
The frequency of my writing have been decreasing as I have had my focus on my life, deepening my practice and so on. I hope that this review serve as a initial summary and representation of everything I got out of this myth without spoilering it...because why would I? it would ruin the story for you! In Any case I wanted to start this on a good start. The whole book is surrounding the Sade Sati Period or 7 and a half years where Saturn goes the sign before, in, and after the moon's natal placement, that means it spend 2.5 years in each sign. Saturn is slow and he makes it very apparent when he goes into it. For reference this is focused on the jyotish/sidereal astrological period and not on the usual less gloomy Saturn's return.
I am honestly surprised by how powerful myths can mesh and seep into our life that they become these forces that's almost a channel or a gateway for the deities and spirits to reach us through, it honestly make me think of the stories of prophets, and other mythological stories which moves us and where we really need to throw ourselves head first into them to really feel what they mean, their sorrows, happiness, and all the emotions of the stories to really be there. Anyway back to the book itself, I was mind blown by it's effect on me and my life as I started to get into the myth itself I was genuinely HOOKED during my travel and in the airplane I felt like I was seized/possessed by it and couldn't put it down almost like the spirit within the whole myth was carrying me with it. It definitely had a lot of impact considering the personal situations I was going during the time of reading it. The invocation of delay, slowness, and wanting to move but not being able to move was apparent to say the least, Saturn really makes time slow down to a halt and whatever seemed like a small time start expanding to feel like an eternity, but enough of that. The stories of the planets from Sun to the lunar nodes was quite a thriller from first chapter until the ninth then it took a very sudden turn. The Begging of the universe were Bali the asura(and future Indra) gave the land back to the devas it felt like it was setting up the scene for the theme of Time, the theme of inevitability but not of fatalism. The whole story took a very dark turn for the protagonist of the story (King Vikrama) and everything about it was about accepting the conditions, working with them, and so on. Again it is this consciously aware of the situation and the wavering faith that made King Vikrama fall into that situation even though he did the proper astrological remedies he regretted and felt uncertain of what he was doing, he really accepted his fate and fell into fatalism that threw him into that.
Ducunt volentem fota, nolentem trahunt
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
Had he accepted Saturn in the beginning, the king would never have had any problems (or at least they would have been fewer), for once he accepts, all is well. It was necessary though that someone be dragged through the depths of Saturn's "play," that the rest of us who can learn from his example might be exempted from the worse of it. Like Jesus, who was crucified that we might be saved, King Vikrama asks that others be spared his Misery.
I know, I haven't really said anything about the story or what not because I really want you to read it and go through it yourself. Other than that the aspect of the Graha/planetary forces become more of this apparent and conscious relation with the planets, we start to become more aware of it and thus more receptive to positive possession instead of being negatively possessed by it. In the end we are all getting possessed by all the forces and a thousand thing in a way, and just like that maybe we want to get possessed by positive forces instead of letting whatever come through pass through us. In a way I want to finish this review that this book have pulled forces in my life I wouldn't have been able to pull with my own ritualistically consecrated hands nor would I conceive of a way that would let me wrangle and subjugate the forces myself, the great supreme power of the myth was shown to me in action, in real life, and in words.
Salutation to Lord Saturn, I bow to him who's great Kona (the Angle), Antaka (the Terminator), Raudra (the Fierce), Yama (Death), Babhru (the Tawny), Krishna (the Black), Shani (the Slow), Pingala (the Tawny). Manda (the Slow), Sauri (the Sun's Son); reverence to that Son of the Sun who, when thus constantly remembered (by these names), removes all Afflictions. May Lord Saturn have mercy on us.
#magic#occult#witchblr#ritual#prayer#invocation#magick#myth#planetary magic#astrology#vedic#vedic astrology#witchcraft#story#review#occult books#planetary magick#Saturn
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"The Occult Underground" by james Webb, 1974
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Maybe it's not that deep and it's just me, but I feel like people who don't organize their occult books well or at all really are just showing their entire ass. If I see a mf with random books just thrown together on every shelf - like a book on New Age babble next to the Lesser Keys or something - I'm gonna just assume that they've never read them and/or don't know what those books are about. The only way I won't think that way about it is if they're alphabetized which is its own kind of insanity
#it's probably just a me thing#it makes me side eye the shit outta them and idk why 💀#occult books#boop's rambles
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