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Required Reading (For Me At Least)

I recently moved and was therefore thrust headfirst into my book collection where I had to catalogue, arrange, box, transport and reshelve my little collection. Therefore, I thought I’d share a list, in no particular order, of my favorite esoteric reading.

Here goes:

  1. Evolutionary Witchcraft, T. Thorn Coyle
  2. The Three Selves and Astral Travel, Victor Anderson
  3. Initiation Into Hermetics, Franz Bardon
  4. Gnosis, Stephen Hoeller
  5. The Middle Pillar, Israel Regardie
  6. The Training and Work of an Initiate, Dion Fortune
  7. Angels, Demons and Gods of the New Millennium, Lon Milo Duquette
  8. Modern Magick, Donald Michael Kraig
  9. Raja Yoga, Swami Vevekananda
  10. Fundamentals of Hawaiian Mysticism, Charlotte Berney
  11. The Chicken Qabalah, Lon Milo Duquette
  12. Inner Temple of Witchcraft, Christopher Penczak
  13. The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
  14. Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, Scott Cunningham

And the list could go on and on and on. However, these are some of the specific books that have inspired, informed and enlightened over the years.

What about you?

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7 Responses to “Required Reading (For Me At Least)”

  1. Thomas Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    Strangely, though raised in a nominally Pagan household, I got my first real understanding of the Craft from The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft by Rosemary Guiley. It’s a massive book that I bought at a liquidation sale. It’s not a practitioner’s guide nor even really a religious text but it is a good overview of Witchcraft in many of its forms. It includes articles on a myriad of topics.

    Also, I’m a particular fan of The Witches’ Bible by Janet and Stewart Farrar. It centers on a very Irish school of Paganism but is still hugely useful to the eclectic practitioner. I don’t advise reading it in mixed company, though. Thick, black, books with big white pentacles on the front can put some people off. I was actually kicked out of a Waffle House for reading it once.

    This is a great list. I’ve read a number of them but this has given me some new material to look at.

    Blessings.

  2. Thomas Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

    Strangely, I used HTML tags to underline the book titles in that last post and it didn’t take. I don’t know why.

  3. brujo Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 6:05 pm

    I can fix that for you. No worries.

  4. brujo Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

    Oh and by the way, The Witches Bible is actually on my reading list.

    Waffle house? You must be in the south. Me too.

  5. Jay Says:
    August 16th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    My book wish list is already longer than I can handle now I have to add more!? ;-)

    My esoteric collections list titles like The Kybalion, Principia Discordia, and The Science of the Craft.

  6. Thomas Says:
    August 20th, 2007 at 7:05 am

    Yes, I’m in the south. Georgia, in fact. I live not far from where the original Waffle House once stood. It’s since been demolished.

    Don’t know where you are in the south but there’s a pretty major gathering coming up in west Georgia: http://www.faeriefaith.net/FallFling.html

    Don’t know if you’d be interested.

  7. brujo Says:
    August 21st, 2007 at 7:39 am

    Ah yes, I know this group. I may have to attend since I missed the last event, which I hear was a great time.

    (I’m in Nashville and was once in Alabama.)

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