Evocation & Spirits Book Lists, Some sources for reference Options

Courtesy of Giles Vint

Enochian:

The Complete Enochian Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Angelic Language As Revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley
Donald Laycock
Good rendition of Calls, and lists variations of Enochian words from multiple sources.

Enochian World of Aleister Crowley: Enochian Sex Magick
Aleister Crowley, Lon Milo DuQuette, Christopher Hyatt
Useful breakdown of Liber Chanokh, with chapter on Enochian sexual workings. Includes Enochian dictionary.

Gmicalzoma - An Enochian Dictionary
Leo Vinci
Enochian dictionary, new expanded edition now available.

The Vision & the Voice With Commentary and Other Papers: The Collected Diaries of Aleister Crowley, 1909-1914 E.V. (Equinox)
Aleister Crowley
Crowley’s record of his skrying of the Enochian Aethers. Various editions, including recent complete Weiser edition.

Golden Dawn Enochian Magic (Llewellyn's High Magick Series)
Pat Zalewski
Mainly the Golden Dawn papers on the parts of the Enochian system other than the Watchtowers and Aethers. Second edition includes an interesting section on the Watchtower entities.

Enochian Chess of the Golden Dawn
Chris Zalewski
Detailed study of the Golden Dawn’s Enochian Chess.

Elizabethan Magic
Robert Turner
The main part is to do with the Watchtowers and Aethers. The rest is to do with various other Elizabethan personalities, including a section on Trithemus’s Stenographia, which is almost identical with a fragment of the second book of the Lemegeton.

The heptarchia mystica of John Dee (Studies in hermetic tradition)
Robert Turner
Good source of the Enochian Heptarchy.

John Dee's Five Books of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic(formerly Five Books of Mysterious Exercises of John Dee)
Joseph Peterson
Comprehensive edition of Heptarchic part of Dee’s diaries including translations of the Latin. Small amount on the four Watchtowers.

The Enochian Magick of Dr John Dee: The Most Powerful System of Magick in Its Original, Unexpurgated Form (formerly The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee)
Geoffrey James
Good source of most of the Enochian System, including an attempt to reconstruct the Calls. Also, John Dee wasn’t a Doctor.

Enochian Magic for Beginners: The Original System of Angel Magic
Donald Tyson
Most of Enochian system, including info found nowhere else, and names and permutations not found elsewhere. Includes Tyson’s own theories too.

Enochian Magic: A Practical Manual (Llewellyn's high magick series)
Gerald and Betty Schueler
Good introduction to Enochian magick similar in style to that of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley. Includes an Enochian dictionary.

An Advanced Guide to Enochian Magick: A Complete Guide to Angelic Magick (Llewellyn's high magick series)
Gerald Schuler
Taking his book Enochian Magic further, much of which is his own ideas/findings. Still good though.

The Enochian Tarot
Gerald and Betty Schueler
Book and Deck. Uses Watchtower entities and Aethers to form Major and Minor Arcana.

Enochian Physics: The Structure of the Magical Universe
Gerald Schuler
Takes ideas in modern physics, and combines them with Magick, and the Enochian System.

Enochian Yoga: Uniting Humanity With Divinity
Gerald and Betty Schueler
A system of Magickal Yoga based on the Enochian system.

The Enochian Workbook: An Introduction to the Enochian Magical System Presented in 43 Easy Lessons
Gerald and Betty Schueler
A simplified beginner’s guide to the Enochian System.

The Angels' Message to Humanity: Ascension to Divine Union Powerful Enochian Magick
Gerald and Betty Schueler
System for devising astral temples from the watchtowers. A bit like Benjamin Rowe’s ideas, but different.

The Golden Dawn Enochian Skrying Tarot: Your Complete System for Divination, Skrying, and Ritual Magick
Bill Genaw, Judi Genaw, Chic Cicero
Double sided deck, with various attributions, including various tattwic images, and the sphinx of the watchtowers.

True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits
by John Dee (Editor), Meric Casaubon (Editor)
First publication of some of the Dee Diaries of the Enochian System, but with printing errors. The 1993 Magickal Childe edition included additional material by Lon Milo DuQuette.

Dr. Dee’s Angelic Séances
Johannes L. Pfefferborg
English translation of part one, and part of part two of what was published in Meric Casaubon’s work.

John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
Deborah E. Harkness

The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I
Benjamin Woolley
Study of John Dee.

Miscellaneous:

Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation
Konstantinos
Includes several spirits which don’t appear to be listed elsewhere.

Urban Voodoo: A Beginners Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic
S. Jason Black, Christopher Hyatt
Case histories, useful info.

Foundations of High Magick: The Magical Philosophy (combined 1st and 2nd volumes of Magical Philosophy)
Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips
Includes info on Enochian Heptarchy.

The Sword & the Serpent: The Two-fold Qabalistic Universe (combined 3rd and 4th volumes of Magical Philosophy)
Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips
Includes Theurgic and Goetic hierarchies, with theory and practical instruction.

Mysteria Magica: Fundamental Techniques of High Magick (5th volume of Magical Philosophy)
Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips
Amongst much magical data and techniques, gives the Aurum Solis papers on Enochian Magic, Greek hierarchies (Atziluth, Briah, and three levels for Yetzirah) for the thirty two paths of the tree of life, and Formulae for evocation to visible appearance in the triangle, and in the crystal (not as in skrying, but actual visible manifestation with crystal).

The Magical Philosophy was originally published in the 1970s. Along with Planetary Magick, and Magical States of Consciousness, they expounded the majority of the Aurum Solis teachings.

Planetary Magick
Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips
Info on Olympic Planetary Spirits, including colour plates and workings of the same.

Entrance To The Magical Qabalah
Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips
Info on Qliphoth, including Aurum Solis on the same.

Initiation into Hermetics
Franz Bardon
Info on fluid condensers.

The Practice of Magical Evocation
Franz Bardon
Hundreds of Spirits with sigils, many of which appearing nowhere else. Includes alternative sigils for Shem Hameforash, and others.

Kabbalah of the Golden Dawn
Pat Zalewski
Info on various spirits, and Mathers’s sigils for Shem Hameforash.

Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts
Donald Michael Kraig
Chapter on Evocation, including Goetia.

Liber Null & Psychonaut
Liber Kaos
Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic
All by Peter Carroll
Include various interesting theories on spirits and evocation.

Condensed Chaos
Prime Chaos
Pseudonomicon
All by Phil Hine
Include various interesting theories on spirits and evocation. The Pseudonomicon is Hines take on working with the Necronomicon entities from a Chaos perspective.
Also see his online eBooks on spirits and evocation.
http://www.philhine.org.uk/ (as at April 2004)

The Golden Dawn
Israel Regardie
Info on Enochian system, and Hebrew hierarchies.

Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic
Israel Regardie
Info on Enochian system, and Hebrew hierarchies. With ritual for evocation to visible appearance.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim
Edited by Donald Tyson
Various kinds of information, including Tyson’s alternate attribution of Shem Hameforash.

The Language of Demons and Angels: Cornelius Agrippa's Occult Philosophy
Christopher I. Lehrich
Don’t have this yet, but it looks interesting.

Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia
David Godwin
Many spirits, including Aurum Solis spellings of Goetia, and various from Liber 777, and others too.

The Eastern Mysteries (formerly The Key of It All volume 1)
David Allen Hulse
Amongst all the correspondences, various info on spirit hierarchies.

The Western Mysteries (formerly The Key of It All volume 2)
David Allen Hulse
Amongst all the correspondences, various info on spirit hierarchies. Including info on Enochian tablets and hierarchies not found elsewhere.

Tarot of Ceremonial Magick (the book, not the deck)
Lon Milo DuQuette
Info on evocation, Goetia, Enochian, and Liber 231, including how they can relate to the Tarot.

The Chicken Qabalah
Lon Milo DuQuette
Info on evocation, Goetia, Shem Hameforash.

Gems from the Equinox
Aleister Crowley, selected by Israel Regardie
Liber 231, Liber Chanokh, and basic version of Vision and the Voice.

A Treatise on Angel Magic
Edited by Adam McLean
Manuscript compiled/used by Elias Ashmole and others, and used as source material by Mathers. Mathers’s source for ascription of geomantic symbols to Enochian Letters.

Tetragramaton
Donald Tyson
Various info on Enochian, Shem Hameforash, evocation, and also twenty four angels Tyson has created using the same technique as used to generate the Shem Hameforash, called the Wings of the Winds.

Angel Magic
Geoffrey James
Useful history of history of Angel Magic.

Satanic Bible
Anton Szandor LaVey
Includes alternate use of demons, and LaVey’s adaptation of Crowley’s version of the Enochian Calls.

Satanic Rituals
Anton Szandor LaVey
Includes several rituals of a Lovecraft/Necronomicon Style.

Communing with Spirits
Martin Coleman
A system of Necromancy, using one’s dead ancestors.

The Myth of the Magus
E. M. Butler
First volume of her trilogy.

Ritual Magic
E. M. Butler
Second volume of her trilogy. Famous study of Grimoires. One of Sutton Publishing’s Magic in History series.

The Fortunes of Faust
E. M. Butler
Third volume of her trilogy. Study of Faust, and various Faustian tracts and Grimoires. One of Sutton Publishing’s Magic in History series.

Conjuring Spirits
Claire Fanger
Various essays and examples of Angelic and Demonic magick. One of Sutton Publishing’s Magic in History series.

Spiritual and Demonic Magic
D. P. Walker
Various essays and examples of Angelic and Demonic magick. One of Sutton Publishing’s Magic in History series.

In a Bathhouse at Midnight
W. F. Ryan
Magic, Witchcraft, and Divination in Russia and neighboring countries. One of Sutton Publishing’s Magic in History series.

Forbidden Rites
Richard Kieckhefer
Study of German Grimoiric manuscript, with many names of spirits. One of Sutton Publishing’s Magic in History series.

Magic in the Middle Ages
Richard Kieckhefer
Study of Medieval natural and demonic magic.

The Pillars of Tubal Cain
Nigel Jackson, Michael Howard
Study of origins and history up to the modern day, of Angel magic, including its influence on all aspects of modern occultism.

The Book of Fallen Angels
Michael Howard
Sequel (and prequel) to The Pillars of Tubal Cain, looks at the origins of various ‘fallen’ Angels, and Demons, including the teachings of Madeline Montalbon. Includes Azrael, Azazel, Lumiel, Lucifer, Satan, and how they fit with the usual Angels.

Call of the Horned Piper
Nigel Ashcroft Jackson
Study of Traditional Witchcraft (not Wicca), including the Horned God/Devil and his origins.

Masks of Misrule
Nigel Ashcroft Jackson
Sequel to Call of the Horned Piper, focusing specifically the Horned God/Devil in his many guises, including the Goat Headed Angel/Demon Azazel, and Lucifer.

Celestial Magic
Nigel Jackson
Study of the origins and influence of Stellar and Talismanic magic, including much material relating to Angels, some of which may not be found easily elsewhere.

Working With Angels
Discovering Angels
Both by Theolyn Cortens
Visualizations/meditation on the Archangels of the Sephiroth, and their uses.

The Sacred Magic of the Angels
David Goddard
Various magical workings with the usual Angels.

The Discovery of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot
Third edition includes Grimoiric material, including invocations/prayers incorporating the name Coronzon, the source of which may predate the publication of Dee’s diaries.

Angels, Demons, & Gods of the New Millennium
Lon Milo DuQuette
Various interesting essays.

My Life with the Spirits
Lon Milo DuQuette
Biographical stories.

Western Mandalas of Transformation
Soror A. L.
Includes reference to Mesukiel as the Archangel of Daath (see Dictionary of Angels), and Uriel (Auriel or VRIAL ?????) as the Angel of Daath.

New Millennium Magic (formerly The New Magus)
Donald Tyson
Includes discussion of evocation, including evocation to visible appearance.

Chaos Ritual
Steve Wilson
First section shows how to use spontaneous techniques to derive words, stances, hand gestures etc. for the various planetary energies, and section three includes techniques to incorporate these in evocation.

Chaotopia
Dave Lee
Included in the chapter on spirits, are various case histories of the use of different systems.

How to Make and Use a Magic Mirror
Donald Tyson
Includes history, how to make, and use a fluid condensing magic mirror.

Magic Mirrors
Nigel Clough
How to make a fluid condensing mirror and its various uses.

Crystal Vision Through Crystal Gazing
Frater Achad
Classic on using a crystal ball for skrying.

Beginners Magick
John Tindsley
Covers evocation, including the raising of energy for manifestation, and his experience of materialization of a column of mist.

Nine Doors of Midgard
Edred Thorson
Includes various Norse spirits.

Magicians Companion
Bill Whitcomb
Includes useful lists of the Watchtower and Heptarchic Enochian hierarchies, and Pantone colour references for the Aurum Solis’s colour scales (see Sword and the Serpent).

Talismans & Evocations of the Golden Dawn
Pat Zalewski
Looks at the Golden Dawns formulae and rituals for evocation to visible appearance.

The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer
Francis Barrett
Early compendium of magickal data, but with errors. Most influential.

The Flying Sorcerer
Francis X. King
Biography on Francis Barrett, including Barrett’s paper on magic mirrors and skrying.

Sexual Alchemy
Donald Tyson
Guidebook to working with spirits sexually.

Grimoire Sympathia - Workshop of the Infinite: Healing without Medicine Using the Spiritual Essence of Plants, Minerals and Precious Stones
Charubel
‘Grimoire Sympathia’ is a recent addition to this new edition of a, for want of a better word, Grimoire, wherein are give many names and sigils of Devic intelligences of many plants, stones, metals, minerals etc., whereby they are called to cure illness and disease, rather than using the plants, minerals themselves.

The Ritual Magic Manual
David Griffin
See my review on Amazon.co.uk. Gives coloured Enochian tablets for the Heptarchia, and the Zodiacal names. Also gives some Hebrew hierarchical names I haven’t come across elsewhere. Useful reference.

The Handbook of Fairies
Ronan Coghlan
Amongst numerous types of beings and mythological types, there are those that could be called fourth etc.

The Paradigmal Pirate
Joshua S. Wetzel (a.k.a Fra. Palimpsest)
Hardcore Chaos magick, including some work with spirits that will break a lot of one’s barriers down.

Chaos & Sorcery
Nicholas Hall
Suggests that skilled open-eyed visualization is necessary for evocation to visible appearance.

Tarot and the Magus: Opening the Key to Divination, Magick and the Holy Guardian Angel
Paul Hughes-Barlow
Discusses how the tarot can be used to attain the HGA, and gives a whole different take on the Goetia, and spirits of Liber 231. Check out author’s web sites, and those linked with it.
http://www.supertarot.co.uk/
http://www.rvmagic.com/
http://www.rvscience.com/
http://psiopsmanagement.com/

Ramsey Dukes/Lionel Snell
In one of his books (SSOTBME), he suggests that during the times of the Grimoires, it was accepted that a spirit could manifest, and therefore such was possible. And that nowadays, we have a lot limiting beliefs that get in the way, and hinder such a manifestation.

Familiar Spirits
Donald Tyson
Gives an alphabet of sigils, to make sigils for spirits, gods etc. similar to the Spare method. He suggests that we see spirits as though physically and audibly solid when the spirits affect our brains so that we perceive them in that way.

Creating Magickal Entities
David Michael Cunningham, Taylor Ellwood (Contributor), Amanda R. Wagener
Pulls together ideas from various traditions, for creating artificial elementals/servitors.

Summa Angelica
Leo Vinci
Lots of info on different angels, and types, and gives various aspects of working with them etc. I’ve still to read this one, quite large.

Nemesis & Other Essays
Sorcery as Virtual Mechanics
Squeezing Being
Stealing the Fire from Heaven
Addressing Power
All by Stephen Mace. Mace gives some interesting ideas on spirits and evocation, including the use of the ‘HGA’ as it is described on Abramelin. That is, it’s role in relation to spirits, and not to one’s spiritual enlightenment.

The Complete Book of Devils and Demons
Leonard Ashley
Reference.

The Powers of Evil
Richard Cavendish
Reference.

Dictionary of Demons
Fred Gettings
Reference.

Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons
Manfred Lurker
Useful reference, including pronunciation guides.

A Dictionary of Angels
Gustav Davidson
Reference, including fallen angels/demons.

Angels A to Z
James R. Lewis, Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
I don’t have this yet, but I had a look once and it does seem comparable to Davidson’s book.

Angels A to Z: A Who's Who of the Heavenly Host
Matthew Bunson

Angels A to Z: The Heavenly and Earthly Kind
Lori Carangelo