Alone With The Gods

I came across this great quote about imagination near the end of the Promethea Series by Alan Moore. It’s from the end of book five:

“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.”

As I read Michael Talbot’s The Holographic Universe, I find this notion even more striking. If reality is but a mere holograph then we certainly may be Spiritual Beings having a human experience as Chardin has suggested.

All of us are just ghosts, carelessly dancing, much like the Fool of the Tarot as we float off that ledge.

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?