John Dee’s Five Books of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic
9 best books like John Dee’s Five Books of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic (John Dee): The Shadow of the Torturer, Infinite Jest, The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual, The Sandman: Overture, The Enneads, The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order, Tantra Illuminated, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
The Shadow of the Torturer
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0671540661 |
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".
You can rarely trust the...
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| ISBN | 0316921173 |
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.
Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment...
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 0553380966 |
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes...
| Author | Éliphas Lévi |
| ISBN | 0877280797 |
The first half of his book deals with the principles and theories that underline magical work, covering the subject from the Qabalistic, Hermetic and Christian points of view; while in the second half instructions are clearly given for the prepartation of the instruments of the art and of their ceremonial...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1401248969 |
Twenty-five years since
The Sandman
first changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman’s legendary series is back in a deluxe hardcover edition!
The Sandman: Overture heralds New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman’s return to the art form that made him famous, ably...
I suppose, once again, I will prove my Platonist sympathies by reviewing this book so positively. It's not that I am always in agreement with Plotinus (I'll follow this up below), but this is such an influential and foundational work of Philosophy and Neo-Platonism that I really can't give it a lower...
The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order
| Author | Israel Regardie |
| ISBN | 0875426638 |
The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie is considered by many to be the book that started the modern occult movement. The original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which started in the late 1800s, borrowed from a wide variety of occult traditions ó Kabalah, Tarot, Geomancy, Enochian Magic, Theosophy,...
| Author | Christopher D. Wallis |
Tantra Illuminated takes the reader on a fascinating journey to the very heart of Tantra: its key teachings, foundational lineages, and transformative practices.
Since the West's discovery of Tantra 100 years ago, there has been considerable fascination, speculation, and more than a...
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive...
