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

The more magickal idiots I meet, the more I like my library. Here is my updated pile, because I like to brag!

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The lady can't type a paragraph without drawing in a crazy, controversial social issue. I get insight about various Pagan groups, but I feel she's a bit biased.

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A good reference book, gives a lot of background on Western magick. Has useful tables included.

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One of the best books on chakras and healing I've ever read. BUT I LOST IT AND I HAVEN'T FOUND ANOTHER COPY!!! ARGH!

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Decent introductory work into chaos magick.

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I'm still not done reading this! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bounce.gif)

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A very abridged, non-magickal introduction to the Kaballah. It has lots of pretty pictures. Wee!

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An interesting look into Alexandrian Witchcraft.

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Haven't read this yet. I own this older version, as opposed to the newer one.

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I've only read part of this book so far, and I've learned quite a few things :-)

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Very good intro to magick!

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Very useful, I incorporated the magick squares into a lot of my ritual work and sigil-making.

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It helps having a bit of Ceremonial background before reading this. This book is great for weaning one off of reading the booklet that comes with tarot decks :-)

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It is my opinion that Regardie is a pompous, arrogant, self-righteous prick who excels at being an armchair magician and little more. I only found his "Golden Dawn" book to be of any use.

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This treatise is rather fluffy, but it's highly useful. Roderick teaches the powerful tool of shadow journeying, which leads to a gold-mine of soul-searching, working out inner problems, and self-discovery.

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Shaw provides information on a variety of obscure topics, but only at a glance. It's a useful reference if you need to know something quick, but don't expect in-depth philosophical debates. Some of the illustrations are low quality.

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Haven't read this just yet.

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This book was rather light on the breadth and depth of shamanism, but the magickal techniques are very useful.

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Some useful material, but the work is very biased. Tyson writes like a judgemental jerk, and the information is very simplistic.

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This fun read has some VERY useful tables and correspondences. My only drawback is, Oberon plays the black-and-white morality theme way too strongly, and some of the information is misinformed and biased. He displays blatant intolerance against Satanists, which makes this occultist of many years look ignorant on the most basic religious understandings of tolerance.

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Has some useful techniques on magick. Belanger takes an interesting stance by defending psychic vampires as a valid spiritual path. However, the rest of the work is strongly slanted towards her own psychic vampire community, and is completely useless - I repeat, COMPLETELY USELESS - unless you are a part of House Khepru. I personally think the Kheprian views on magick are complete mis-informed hogwash, but hey - that is my opinion. If you like House Khepru, go nuts, man.

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Haven't read this yet, but from what I've glanced through, Huson sounds like a pretty dour guy.

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I'm currently reading this. I'm still in the beginning. Brennan sounds a bit fluffy, but the information she provides is priceless.

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Very useful reference to many aspects of basic magick.

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Utter crap. I found the first 20 pages to be mildly useful, and the rest is just tossing b.s. There is little solid information here.

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Haven't read these yet.

"A Witches' Runes" by Susan Sheppard: Haven't read this yet.

"Moon Magick" by D.J. Conway: Haven't read this yet.

"The Art of Sexual Magic" by Margot Anand: Haven't finished this yet, but so far the author gives sound advice. This isn't a 42-positions book, but the author gives sound, practical advice so far.

"The Book of Secrets" by Osho: Haven't finished this yet, but damn, it takes 5 minutes to digest each paragraph. There is just SO MUCH to learn!

"The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield: Bad plot, bad writing, but this work of fiction gives some very sound beginnings on spiritual awareness and searching for the meaning of existence. Doesn't give the complete answers to the meaning of existence, but it's a good place to start. Very useful for anyone.

"The Golden Bough" by Sir James G. Frazer: I started reading the Golden Bough 7 years ago, but stopped halfway through when I got sick of his arrogance. I might pick it up again some day.

"Witch Crafts" by Willow Polson: Very fun book filled with projects that are useful around the house, and in magick! When I first read through this book in a bookstore, I squealed with excitement - I squealed pretty loudly, folks - and people started looking at me funny. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

"The New Book of Magical Names" by Phoenix McFarland: I've only flipped through this once or twice.

"The Complete Book of Astrology" by Caitlin Johnstone: Utter crap. Johnstone only glosses briefly over the entire subject of astrology. This isn't even useful for a beginner.