Magic 101: Voodoo, Hoodoo, Hermetics

(You should do this reading list first and then move onto other reading list)

1.The Bible
2.The Books of Enoch: The Angels, The Watchers and The Nephilim
3.Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
4.On the Trinity by Saint Augustine
5.The Miracle of New Avatar Power
6.The Way of the Orisha by Philip John Neimark
7.The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts by Baba Ifa Karade
8.History Theory and Practice African Cowrie Shell Divination by Zolrak
9.Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance
10.African Divination Systems by Philip M. Peek
11.Kindoki An African Mystery Elucidated by Ne Kiana Mazamba
12.Secrets of Voodoo by Milo Rigaud
13.Voodoo in Haiti by Alfred Metraux
14.Voodoo & Hoodoo by Jim Haskins
15.Gumbo Ya-Ya by Francis Brett Young
16.Voodoo in New Orleans by Robert Tallant
17.The Voodoo Queen by Robert Tallant
18.Voodoo Magic Course by Frater Moloch
19.Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook by Denise Alvarado
20.Old Style Conjure by Starr Casas
21.Working Conjure a Guide to Hoodoo Folk Magic by Sen Moise
22.Power of the Psalms by Anna Riva
23.A Lapidary of Sacred Stones by Claude Lecouteux
24.Culpeper's Complete Herbal
25.The Magical Power of the Saints by Reverend Ray T. Marlborough
26.Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler
27.Black and White Magic by Marie Laveau

28.The Art and Practice of Geomancy: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the
Renaissance by John Michael Greer
29.The Chicken Qabala
30.Paths of Wisdom by John Michael Greer
31.Liber 777 and the Sepher Sephiroth
32.The Elizabethan World Picture
33.6th and 7th Books of Moses
34.The Key of Solomon
35.The Black Pullet
36.The Three Books of Occult Philosophy and the 4th book
37.Heptameron, and Drawing Spirits into Crystals
38.Arbatel: Concerning the Magic of the Ancients
39.The 72 Angels of Magick by Damon Brand
40.The Book of Abramelin
41.The Book of Wisdom of Apollonius of Tyana by Ioannis Marathakis and Nasser B.
Ayash
42.The Sworn Book of Honorius: Liber Iuratus Honori
43.The Secret School of Wisdom & Duncan’s Masonic Monitor
44.The Rosicrucian Trilogy
45.Rosicrucian Signs and Symbols
46.Atalanta Fugiens
47.The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation

48.The Philosopher's Stone: Spiritual Alchemy, Psychology, and Ritual Magic

49.The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus (Two Volumes in One) by Waite
50.The Corpus Hermeticum
51.Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum:Vol 1: Book of the Explanation of the Symbols Kitab
Hall Ar-Rumuz
52.Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum Vol. 1B :Book of the Explanation of the Symbols
53.Book of Pictures Mushaf as-suwar
54.Rituel et Dogme de la Haute Magie
55.On the Heavenly Spheres: A Treatise on Traditional Astrology
56.The Tree of Life by Israel Regardie
57.The Complete Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie, & the Flying Rolls of the Golden
Dawn
58.Rituel et Dogme de la Haute Magie by Levi
59.Liber ABA by Crowley
60.Magick Without Tears by Crowley
61.Gems From the Equinox by Crowley
62.The Essential Enochian Grimoire: An Introduction to Angel Magick from Dr. John
Dee to the Golden Dawn
63.The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee
64.Enochian Magic in Theory by Frater Yechidah

65.Enochian Magic in Practice by Frater Yechidah

66.Complete Enochian Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Angelic Language As Revealed
to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley
67.New World Witchery by Cory Thomas Hutcheson
68.The Cunning Man's Handbook: The Practice of English Folk Magic
69.The Book of Oberon: A Sourcebook of Elizabethan Magic
70.The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet
71.The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot
72.The History and Practice of Magic by Paul Christian Cnm
73.Compendium Maleficarum
74.The Malleus Maleficarum
75.Demonology of King James
76.Witchcraft in Europe 400-1700s
77.Lemegeton
78.Grimoire Verum
79.The Grand Grimoire: The Red Dragon
80.Grimoire of Honorius (demon grimoire)

Greek Mythology and Philosophy reading list

If you can, listen to the podcast called The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

1. Pope’s Translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey

2.Dryden’s Translation of Virgil and Ovid
3.Theogony
4.Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
5.Orphic Hymns
6.Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
7.Dialogues and Essays by Seneca
8.Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
9.Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Epictetus
10.Plato: A Complete Introduction by Roy Jackson
11.Plato: Complete Works
12.Aristotle: The Desire to Understand
13.The Basic Works of Aristotle
14.Plotinus: The Enneads Paperback by Lloyd P. Gerson
15.Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus

16.Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians

17.Iamblichus de Anima
18.Pythagoras: His Life and Teachings
19.The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library: An Anthology of Ancient Writings Which
Relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean Philosophy
20.The Theology of Arithmetic
21.The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
22.The Egyptian Book of the Dead
23.The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts
24.The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts
25.Stories from Ancient Canaan
26.The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel
27.Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
28.The Nag Hammadi Library
29.Pistis Sophia

Kabbalah

1.Essential Judaism: Updated Edition: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs &

Rituals by George Robinson
2.Inner Space by Kaplan
3.Meditation And The Bible by Kaplan
4.Meditation and Kabbalah by Kaplan
5.Jewish Meditation by Kaplan
6.Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
7.On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah
8.The Messianic Idea in Judaism: And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality
9.Moses Cordovero's introduction to Kabbalah: An annotated translation of his Or
ne’erav
10.Gates of Light
11.Sefer Yetzirah by Kaplan
12.Bahir by Kaplan
13.Hekhalot Literature in Translation: Major Texts of Merkavah Mysticism
14.Sepher Ha-Razim: The Book of Mysteries
15.Sepher Rezial Hemelach
16.Guide for the Perplexed
17.The Books of Contemplation Medieval Jewish Mystical Sources
18.Apples from the Orchard: Gleanings from the Mystical Teachings of Rabbi
19.Yitzchak -Luria-the Arizal on the Weekly Torah Portion
20.The Zohar

Jacob Boehme reading list

1.The Way to Christ

2.The Clavis
3.The Three Principles of the Divine Essence,

4.Forty Questions of the Soul

5.The Signature of All Things
6.Aurora
7.The Threefold Life of Man
8.Mysterium Magnum

Basic Norse and Celtic reading list

1.The Viking Spirit by Daniel McCoy

2.Prose Edda
3.Poetic Edda
4.The Saga of the Volsungs
5.The Sagas of Icelanders
6.Beowulf
7.The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
8.The White Goddess by Robert Graves
9.Celtic Gods and Heroes by Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
10.The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends
11.Le Morte D'Arthur
12.Parzival
13.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Shiva Tantra Reading List

Basic Vedanta Texts and Buddhism (so you have familiarity with Vedanta when tantra
references it)

1.Vivek Ananda’s 3 books on Yoga (Jnana, Bhakti and Raja)

2.The Bhagavad Gita
3.The Upanishads
4.The Brahma Sutras
5.Gospels of RamaKrishna
6.The Vedas
7.The Way of Zen Alan Watts
8.In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
9.Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries by Thich Nhat
Hanh

Tantra Texts
1.Consciousness Is Everything: The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism International Edition
by Swami Shankarananda
2.Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition
by Christopher D Wallis
3.

Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme by Swami Lakshmanjoo

4.Kali Kaula: A Manual of Tantric Magick by Jan Fries
5.Self-Inquiry by Swami Shankarananda
6.The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi
7.Sakti Sadhana: Steps to Samadhi by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
8.Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine, The Ten Mahavidyas by David Kinsley MAIN
TEXTS
9.The Manual for Self Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava by Swami
Lakshmanjoo
10.Triadic Heart of Shiva
11.The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir
Shaivism
12.The Heart of Recognition: The Wisdom and Practices of the Pratyabhijna Hrdayam
by Swami Khecaranatha
13.Yoga Spandakarika: The Sacred Texts at the Origins of Tantra Paperback by Daniel
Odier
14.Shiva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening by Swami Lakshmanjoo ,
15.In Praise of Adya Kali: Approaching the Primordial Dark Goddess Through the Song
of Her Hundred Names
16.The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic
17.Tantric Kali: Secret Practices and Rituals
18.Yoni Tantra
19.The magick of Kali, by Mike Magee
20.Tantric Astrology Mike Magee
21.Para-trisika-Vivarana the secret of tantric mysticism, Jaideva Singh
22.Mahanirvana tantra
23.Essence of the Supreme Reality: Abhinavagupta's Paramarthasara by Swami
Lakshmanjoo
24.Tantrasara

Taoism Reading List

1.The Way of Zen Alan Watts

2.Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
3.Zhuangzi: The Complete
4.Tao Te Ching
5.Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
6.Analects by Confucius

Taoist Alchemy and Magic

1.The Secret Teachings of Chinese Energetic Medicine: Volume 1 by Jerry Alan
Johnsonus
2.The Secret Teachings of Chinese Energetic Medicine: Volume 2
3.The Secret Teachings of Chinese Energetic Medicine: Volume 3
4.Daoist Internal Alchemy Nei Gong and Wei Gong Training by Jerry Alan Johnson
5.Daoist Magical Incantations, Hand Seals and Star Stepping by Jerry Alan Johnson
6.Daoist Mineral, Plant, and Animal Magic by Jerry Alan Johnson
7.Magical Tools and the Daoist Altar by Jerry Alan Johnson
8.Daoist Magical Talismans by Jerry Alan Johnson
9.Daoist Magical Transformation Skills, Dream Magic, Shape Shifting, Soul Travel
and Sex Magic by Jerry Alan Johnson
(Missing from this list is the essential Ge Hong, his baopuzi.)

10.Daoist Weather Magic and Feng Shui by Jerry Alan Johnson

11.Daoist Exorcism: Encounters With Sorcerers, Ghosts, Spirits, and Demons by Jerry
Alan Johnson
12.Taoist Master Chuang by Michael Saso
13.To Live As Long As Heaven And Earth (A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's
Traditions of Divine Transcendents) by Robert F. Campany
14.Fox Magic: Handbook of Chinese Witchcraft and Alchemy in the Fox Tradition by
Jason Read
15.Thunder Magic – by Jason Read

Thelema A:.A:. ( Argent Astrum ) Reading List

The Spiritual Guide by Miguel de Molinos.
Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda.
The Shiva Samhita
The Book of Chuang Tzu
Tao Te Ching
Liber ABA
Liber 777 and the Sepher Sephiroth by Crowley
Magick Without Tears by Crowley
Gems from the Equinox by Crowley
Eight Lectures on Yoga by Crowley
Konx Om Pax by Crowley
The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic
The Lemegeton
Tannhäuser by Crowley
The Sword of Song by Crowley
Time by Crowley
Eleusis by Crowley
Blue Equinox by Crowley
Equinox of the Gods by Crowley
The Book of Thoth by Crowley
Liber Aleph by Crowley
The Holy Books of Thelema
The Book of Lies by Crowley
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
The White Goddess by Robert Graves
Ararita Elaborations on the Star Sapphire by a Traveller in Darkness

Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. by Francis King

Kenneth Grant/TOTO Reading List

The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic
Read the works of H.P Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith
The Philosophy of As If: A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious
Fictions of Mankind by Hans Vaihinger
The Magical Revival
Crowley and the Hidden God
Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare
Cults of the Shadow
Nightside of Eden
Outside the Circles of Time
Hidden Lore
Remembering Aleister Crowley
Hecate's Fountain
Outer Gateways
Zos Speaks! Encounters with Austin Osman Spare
Beyond the Mauve Zone
The Ninth Arch
At the Feet of the Guru
Against the Light
Snakewand and The Darker Strain
Gamaliel: The Diary of a Vampire and Dance, Doll, Dance!
The Other Child and Other Tales
Grist to Whose Mill? A Novel of Nemesis
Earth Inferno by Spare
A Book of Satyrs by Spare
The Book of Pleasure by Spare
The Focus of Life by Spare
The Anathema of Zos by Spare