Personal Occult Collections, Those books in your rack... Options

Thought I'm gonna post the first thread here and share my collections and reviews.

Aleister Crowley's Illustrated Goetia: Sexual Evocation
Nothing new, and I kinda regret buying it. But it is a good refference book when I want to quickly browse the goetic spirits without having to load the Adobe.

Astral Dynamics
Great book on AP - I haven't quite finish it but I already got my body to vibrate and getting closer and closer to OBE.

Basic Magick: A Practical Guide
It's what it says - Basic - it however a very good intro and will be suitable for someone who have not read anything much yet.

Mysteria Magica: Fundamental Techniques of High Magick
Greek and hebrew magick here - not suitable for beginners - it has a LOT of rituals and a lot of "barbarous" words.

Liber Null & Psychonaut
Well, the library has the practical part converted (liber MMM) and the rest of the book deals mostly with principles and philosophies of Chaos Magick. Good addition to my collection.

Stealing the Fire from Heaven
One of those good book and a must have for Chaos Magick. Interesting read.

Circles of Power: Ritual Magic in the Western Tradition
A great intro and intermediate material on Golden Dawn system magick - I only skimmed it so far, but this one is a must have.

Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts
Definitely a MUST have. nuff said (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

My Life With the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician
One of my favorite book! Hillarious and fun to read about the biography of Lon Milo DuQuette and his HILLARIOUSLY FUNNY experience evoking the Goetic demon Orobas.

The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford: Dilettante's Guide to What You Do and Do Not Know to Become a Qabalist
O o - my first book on the Qabalah I've ever finished to read - This is another of DuQuette's book - a hillarious one on that too - great book when you know nothing much about the Qabalah.

The Black Arts
I like this book. Actually I LOVE it. I used it as refference and I occasionally read this when I need a refresher of some historical accounts and systems of magick.

The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power
Good combo between ceremonial magick and NLP - haven't finish reading it yet.

Creating Magickal Entities : A Complete Guide to Entity Creation
This is a good book on servitor - at least for me - it get me started in creating my first servitor (in progress now) and it does give's a some ideas not found on the net - yet that I know of.

Ceremonial Magic & The Power of Evocation: A System of Personal Power
Wow! This is a "modern" grimoire. The author talks about the Heptameron and about what you "should" do to evoke to FULL physical manifestation.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Good resource book on ancient magick.

Cicero's Golden Dawn Magical Tarot
I was looking for Hermetic tarot deck, but they are out of print, so this was the second choice - I like it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Dark Mirror of Magick, 2nd Edition
Gives me an idea how Poke Ruyon conducted his evocation. I wouldn't care about the Vassago prophecy also contained in it.

and two books of Regardie's I haven't been able to understand yet The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic and A Garden of Pomegranates: Skrying on the Tree of Life

I figured I'd throw in my collection of books that I've actually bought. What the hell, right? I don't much buy books anymore, because I can get damn near any book I want for free (e-editions), including most new books, so this collection is VERY old (about 3-4 years now), though, I think there's one new one in there, as well as some Yogi books I inherited from my father. I'm probably leaving something out though, as most of my time reading is spent reading from a computer, lol!

In no particular order or ranking:

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1. Practical Guide to Psychic Self-Defense and Well-Being by Denning and Philips


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2. Practical Guide to Creative Visualization: Manifest Your Desires by Denning and Philips


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3. My Life with the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician by Lon Milo Duquette

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4. Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot by Lon Milo Duquette


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5. Angels, Demons & Gods of the New Millennium by Lon Milo DuQuette


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6. The Magick of Aleister Crowley: A Handbook of the Rituals of Thelema by Lon Milo Duquette


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7. Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig


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8. Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda


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9. Book 4 by Aleister Crowely


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10. Generation Hex by Jason Louv


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11. Paths of Wisdom by John Michael Greer


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This cover is from the Cicero one.

12. Garden of Pomegranates by Israel Regardie (Without Chic Cicero)


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13. Tactical Magick by Seth


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This book sux ass.
14. Divination for Beginners by Scott Cunningham

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15. Advanced Course in Yogi Philosphy and Oriental Occultism by Yogi Ramacharaka (One Pen Name of William Walker Atkinson of the New Thought Movement)


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16. Fourteen Lesson in Yogi Philosophy by Yogi Ramacharaka


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17. Mystic Christianity by Yogi Ramacharaka


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The cover style is the one Amazon gives when they don't have the cover of the actual book.

18. Gnani Yoga by Yogi Ramacharaka


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19. Science of Breath by Yogi Ramacharaka


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20. Raja Yoga by Yogi Ramacharaka


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This is a newer cover. The same with the Raja, and Mystic Christianity books (Newer covers).

21. Hatha Yoga : Or the Yogi Philosophy of Physical Well-Being by Yogi Ramacharaka


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This small, little book, influenced me in so many profound ways. I can honestly say, that though my path currently resembles nothing much in this book any longer, it, or rather, it's wisdom, has helped shape the Second part of my life. (The Ramacharaka books helping to shape the First). I am currently in my Third part, for those who wish to know. It's funny....how things can help shape who you are and who you become, closer and closer until you are truly you.

20. Heaven Begins Within You by Anselm Gruen


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21. The Necronomicon by Simon



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22. The Necronomicon Spellbook by Simon


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23. Enochian Magic For Beginners by Donald Tyson


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24. What is occultism? by Dion Fortune


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25. The 72 Names of God: Technology for the Soul by Yehuda Berg


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26. The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order by Paul Foster Case

The cover style is the one Amazon gives when they don't have the cover of the actual book.

Actually it is the cover style of Kessinger Publishing (http://www.kessingerpublishing.com/), a company that puts back in print many old mystical / occult / etc. books. Have a few myself...