The History of Magic
7 best books like The History of Magic (Éliphas Lévi): Foucault's Pendulum, The Satanic Bible, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order, The Mystical Qabalah, Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic, The Book of Enoch (Ethiopian)
Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic...
| Author | Anton Szandor LaVey |
| ISBN | 0380015390 |
I grew up on the same block that Anton LaVey lived on. To me as a kid he was, "that old guy who only wore black leather, drove a black Jaguar, and lived in a big, black house with an equally big fence in front of it." Can't say I ever recall seeing him talk to anyone, though my mother would occasionally chat with...
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
| Author | Manly P. Hall |
| ISBN | 1585422509 |
A classic since 1928, this masterly encyclopedia of ancient mythology, ritual, symbolism, and the arcane mysteries of the ages is available for the first time in a compact "reader's edition."
Like no other book of the twentieth century, Manly P. Hall's legendary The Secret Teachings of All...
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 | Dion Fortune |
| ISBN | 1578631505 |
A clear explanation of the philosophical structure of the Hermetic Kabbalah, filled with easily-understandable but profound analogies and metaphors to point the way towards true understanding.
Dion Fortune, being a magician and psychic in the early 20th Century, clothed her discourse...
| Author | Peter J. Carroll |
| ISBN | 0877286396 |
I wasn't terribly impressed with this book at the time I read it, although it does contain some interesting material. Essentially it is the compiled handbooks (or "libers") of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT, worked out by Peter Carroll and others during the 1970s and early 1980s. The IOT prides...
The Book of Enoch (Ethiopian)
| Author | Enoch |
| ISBN | 0486454665 |
R. H. Charles provides a definitive translation of one of the most noted apocalyptic works still in existence. Often described as "the lost book" of the Bible, The Book of Enoch seems to have been written in Palestine by several different authors in the first and second centuries B.C. For hundreds of...
