Great Books!

[TheLunatic]

Yes very interesting book. I found it abit hard to completely understand in places but that’s probably just me.

quote:Originally posted by Frater N.V.L.

"Modern Magick" by Donald Michael Kraig, is a good book for those interested in getting started in Ritual Magick.

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[Michael_E]

quote:Originally posted by Nita

Hello Adept
   I also want to comment that there is a website called www.buddhanet.net that has free downloads of ebooks. One of them called cittiunpassana is really interesting. It is watching your own thought patterns and mind. The book is essential because magic is deadly if you fool yourself on your motives or do not know your own thought process's.
   The methods help to prevent rationalization. They make it so you look at yourself and how you act and react. It can save you a lot of problems in your regular life and magical life.
   Nita

I did a search for "cittiunpassana" on the site with no results and couldnt find any meditation guides for it in the meditation links or other related links. Has anyone else had any luck finding this meditation on buddhanet.net?

[T_Kman0610]

im into the book "SETH, dreams and projections of Consiousness" it has really gotten me into Astral projection for quite sometime. at first it wall a little confusing but in the end i understood everything! anyonelse here who has read the SETH books?

[Tisha]

A Preferred Reading List[]
of Little Known New Age Literature
Irreverently Written and Composed
by Joseph Jochmans

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The Aquarium Gospels of Jacques the Cousteau, by Levi and Strauss

The Opening of the Clown Chakra, by Swami Farbeyondananda

The New and Used Testaments, including the Gossip According to Saint Germane

Canceling Psychic Predictions Due to Unforeseen Circumstances, by Jeanne Mason-Dixon

Biofeedback Prevention...Overcoming Peace of Mind, by the Out-of-Brain / Mind Bull-etin

Karma Krunchies...Reaching into the Bag of Life and Pulling Out the Same Chip, by Miso Frito Ley-Line

There's a Sucker "Born Again" Every Minute, by P. T. Falwell

Out on a Lamb...Prancing in the Blinding Light, by Surly Big Mac Lain

Ramparktha...Story of a 35,000 Year Old Hindu God Who Discovered Hollywood, by Kray Z Fly-by-Knight

Pharoah-Bics...Exercising Your Way to Mummification, by Jane Fonda Farewell

Atlantis and Lemuria...How to Make Fast Money in Real Estate, by Rudolf the Red-Nosed Steiner

The Ten Absolutes to Spiritual Freedom...Finding your God in Someone Else, by Swami Kissmyananda

The Egyptian Book of Dead Jokes, by Pharoah Hohohotep of the 16th Dynasty rerun, translated by E. A. Wallet Bulge

Silver Cord Extensions for Long Distance Astral Travel, by C. W. Bedwetter

Everybody Needs Samadhi Sometime, by Paramahanna Yogananda Parlen-voua?

Master Cute Humi Speaks on the Obssene Gospels, by Elizabeth Cleared Profit

Readings From the Ashkanic Records, The Great Circular Files of the Etheric Planes, by H. P. Bladdervatsky

Nirvana Nervosa...Dieting to Higher Consciousness, by Oedipus Anerexia

Foot Refriedology...Healing Through Fire-Walk Massage, by Dr. Tredsoftly

The Perishables of Christ, by Torkum Serendipity

New Age Video Games, by Avatari, including: Tarot Pac-Man, Donkey-Tai Chi and Battlestar EST

The Midget Psychic Who Escaped from Prison, by a Small Medium at Large

The Maple Leaf Raga, by Scott Ravi Shankar Joplin

Past Life Savings and Loans, by Rajneesh Baksheesh

Training Seeing Third-Eye Dogs for the Psychically Blind, by Alistaire Growley of the Old and Drawn Society

Let Us Hold Hands and Contact the Living, by Sybil Sleek

Black Money-Belt Karate and Acu-Punching, by Mohammed Ali Babaji

I Never Metaphysics I Didn't Like, by Hello Dali Lama

Cosmic Unconsciousness...When The Lights Are On But Nobody's Home, by Dione Misfortune

Here Today, Sodom Gomorrah, by Billy Graham Bell

Uranus Rising to Full Moon...Hindsight Astrology Exposed, by Great Dane Rude-Year

The Book of the Whoopi...Take Two Medicine Wheels and Call Me in the Morning, by Rolling Sun and Bear Thunder

The Pearl of Great Price, Now on Sale at Great Savings, by Bringham Young and his All Wife Band

Silver Dollar Mind Control, by Jose Hi Ho Silva

Death Before Dying...Crossing the River Styx Without a Paddle, by Elizabeth Kublai-Khan-Ross

Beyond Fire Walking...Huna Lava Surfing, by Maximum Freedom Short

New Age Hypno-Therapy...Does the Name Pavlov Ring a Bell?, by Sigmund Jung Supthen

Drop-Ins and Walk-Outs...Seeking an In-the-Body Experience, by Ruth Montgomery Ward and Carol Perished-Hurrah

The Bigfat-Gita...Sacred Hindu Texts of Krishna's Teachings in Brooklyn

Tibetan Break-Jogging and the Shamballa Kabala, by T. Hopalong Rampa

The Excedrin Headache #5 of Oversoul #7, by Jane Oral Roberts

Your Taurus Horroscope...Between the Horns of Dilemma is a Lot of Bull, by Zolar Dollar Sun Signs

You Take My Wife, Pleiades...A Close Encounter of the Not-Too-Sirius King, by Spaced Brother Hilarius of the Ozone Ranger Command

Solar Initiations of the Third Ray on the Sixth Floor of the One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Street Building, Suite 46A, by Alice Cooper Bailey and the Lucid Trust Me

Bonehenge Decoded and the Deja Vu Over Atlantis...Dowsing for Waylaid-Lines and Hibernating Druids, by John Michellob

HaHa Yoga...Life's a Joke and You're the Punchline, by Swami Pollyannananda

Secrets of the Keystone Coptic Brotherhood, by Hermes Tre-me-get-the-gift-of-this, Master of Rockti Shakti Crystal Power and the Ephemeral Tablets

I Think, Therefore I Ching, the Chinese Book of Small Change, by Tau Jones Industrials

Opening the Third Ear...Listening to People Talk Behind Your Back, by Vera Stanley Livingston Idler

Disintegrated Awareness Techniques...Developing Your Telepathic Powers, by Connie Issac Wayne Fig Newton

The Teachings of Don in the John, by Careless Castenetta

Hare-Back...Initiations of a Young Egyptian in the Left Ear of the Sphinx, by Isha Swallow de Lubejob

Om, Om on the Range...Spectrum Sweet From Inside Mount Everest, by Steve Halpert and the Tibetan Brass

Agony Yoga and the Kundalini Kick...Getting the Cosmic Boot in the Root, by Sr. Bindu Spinefire, certified Cairo-practor and Gyne-Numer-Irid-ologist

Life and Teachings of the Mistresses of the Wild West, by Swami Crayolananda

Meditation While you Sleep...Manifesting Your Realities Into Dreams, by Guru Sigh Baba Gnu

The Grossly Overpriced Oversized Enclyclopedia of Crushedrosian, Hermetically-Sealed, Freemasonjarian, Alcomical and Pithygorean Esoteric Wisdom, by Mainly Pied Hall

A Course in Miracle Whip...Manifesting Salad State Consciousness, by Judith Skutch Tape

Karmic Alimony...The Dangers of Past Wife Regression, by Bounty on the Mutiny

The Recalcitrant Messiah, God Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnibored, by Richard J. S. Botched

The Spiritual Warrior Gone Berserk...Placing Your Etheric Phasers on Slaughter, by the Beige Brotherhood

Carwash of the Gods...Evidence of Extraterrestrial Tourism, by Karmapa and Erich von Manniken

The Hundredth Retelling of the Hundredth Monkey Story, by Kenneth Keyholes

The Prophet Hobbit...Lord of the Wringed Poetry, by Killed Cliche Gibran Tolkein

Megaton Vitamins and Microbionic Cooking...Fifty Thousand Flies Can't Be Wrong, by Dr. Asa Rol

The Secrets of Flounderhorn...Talks With the Kleenex Devas, by Peter and Eileen Caddyshack

My Night in the Egyptian Hall of Records Without a Record Player, by Dr. Appalled Blunton

Edgar Cantsee...The Sleeping Profit Margin, by Jest Astern

Secret of the Great Pyramid...Built with Tofu Blocks and Tahini Sauce, by Peter Tombkins

Teachings of the Great Off-White Brotherhood, by Annie Oakly Besant

The Not-So-Great Planet Earth...Therapy Ward for the Universe, by Lind Halsey

Hari Kari for the New Age, or How To OD on Enditol, by Swami Mai TymesUp

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©  Copyright 1985, by Joseph Jochmans, the Happy Hierophant,
with permission to reprint whenever needed to Lighten Up the Light.

HE WHO LAUGHS, LASTS!
 

[PATxKUSH]

Caroline Myss has written 3 books. I recommend them all.

Michael Talbot has written "The Holographic Universe". An excellent read.

"Lessons" by Alex (channeled by Michelle LaVigne-Wedel)

"Dream Healer" by Adam. www.dreamhealer.com

[Ceriel N]

Don't have to buy books...

http://www.hermetic.com

=D

And a scientific view of esoteric knowledge:

http://www.laurency.com

=D

For those who want to be in association with a secret order:

http://www.outercol.org/

And we must not forget the kind people of Ordo Tempeli Orientalis:

http://oto-usa.org/

=D

Which naturally brings us to their joint effort:

http://www.the-equinox.org/

Now if one just had the time to read all of that... =)

[skymageinfinity]

If anyone is interested in metaphysics

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot is my strong recommendation.

[aleshah]

Tought power, by sri swami sivanandaDesribe the efforts of pure toughts and purity.
Also if thee are to much words,short sense.Worth of reading it.
Trance boy (Fast seduction)Not read it completly yet, but interesting psychological facts/sexuality.
Mind Power Seduction(by Amargi Hiller)mind of higher dimensional realms.
The book of Lies(Aleister Crowley)A lot of wisdom, hidden here.
The book of pleasure(Self Love) by austin osman spareImportant, for surviving in this world.

[McArthur]

quote:Originally posted by Tisha

And, for the record everyone:  Kabbalah/Qabala is a word that simply means "collection."  

Hi, actually it means "mouth to ear" because it was considered so Holy that it was never put into writing but verbally from Master to student (until about the 12th century anyway).

Anyway, some classic (and hard to find free) Magical texts you can find here;
http://www.golden-dawn.com/temple/index.jsp?s=library

here;
http://www.angelfire.com/ab6/imuhtuk/index.html

Franz Bardons "Initiation into Hermetics" in pdf format here;
http://www.geocities.com/alex_sumner/hermetics.pdf

Castaneda books(amongst others) here (if you class them as Magic(k)) ;
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/psychology/download.shtml

And here you will find about 1000 free esoteric texts;
http://fraktali.849pm.com/text/archive/index1.html

edit: some good ones here too;
http://fnordfiles.rtfm.com.au/texts/eBooks/ebooks.htm

and here;
http://www.hermetics.org/ebooks.html

[__--nezabaleta--__]

If this post is OFF TOPIC, I'm sorry... but, have you read or hear about a manuscript called VOYNICH ?

Certain people says about it that's an elaborate hoax. Is a text undecriptable actually, a melange of many aspects as:

a Herbal section (mostly unidentified and fantastic plants),
an Astronomical section (with most zodiac symbols),
a Biological section (with some "anatomical" drawings and human figures),
a Cosmological section (with circles, stars and celestial spheres),
a Pharmaceutical section (with vases and various parts of plants) and
a Recipes section (with many short paragraphs).

More info at http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/evmt.htm

Some mystics say that at astral plane one knows every languages. If that assertion is true, could be used such a capability for to study the manuscript ?

NEZabaleta

[Spider Circus]

The Voynich Manuscript ... most excellent.  A must have for any true Magickians library in my opinion.  Why?  Because roger Bacon was obsessive compulsive and the Ms. is written in an obsessive compulsive loop.  Making it highly evocative, even if you don't know why until you go Astral.

  Crowley was a man, yes, and therefore a fool.  But all fools are wise.  If anyone believes this man was just a drug addled idiot, they need to read through his material again.  Better than he though are his 3 primary students.  A. O. Spare, Kenneth Grant, and John W. Parsons.

  Waite was a Christian fundementalist who intentionally translated magickal texts wrong, anyone who reads this mans work should do so for intellectual reasons only.  He was a bitter jack-ass in my opinion.

  Mathers and Levi are both good material, but too lop-sided for exclusive practice.  Okay, if you want to be a preachy broke-ass fruit seller though.

  The Necronomicon, whose author is Stephen Sennit by the way, is not a bad read either but I would suggest that if you find this material evocative you just read the Gilgamesh Epics and other Babylonian and Sumerian mythos.  Sennit and another dude named Staley have some interesting excrement floating around.

  John Dee's stuff is pretty interesting, I have just recently finished studying his material.  He should be studied with Crowley's material on Enochian, and Kenneth Grants Astral revelations.

  I also recommend the prophecies of Revelation, Nostradamus.  The Authurian Mythos of the Graal, the Edda's, and Egyptian and Sumerian mythology.

  I personally, do not share the dislike of the Left-Hand path I have noticed among many on this board.  I have followed it for many years to no personal harm.  Evocation does not have to be dangerous and can be highly enlightening.  I learned an organic approach to Magick while studying with the Hiada Indians on the coast of BC.  They teach an emphasis on astral travel, spirit communion, and the use of sex and drugs in magick.  I am 27, have practiced for the last 5 years and write for several online magazines regarding the subject and have been asked to write a book outlining my approach to the Great Art.
   The LHP has provided me with a comfortable life and ridiculous income which in turn allowed me to spend the last 3 years studying the subject I love exclusively, like taking a university course in magick.  The tantric's teach the best approach to sex magick in opinion as well as many useful avenues for the use of drugs to speed the intiates learning curve and experential knowledge.  An approach encouraged by AO Spare, Crowley, The Yaqui, The Hiada, actually virtually any Native Spiritual Path, the Tantrists, RA Wilson, Timothy Leary and many others.  I have a saying, that if you want to sit in your ghetto apartment in the Lotus Position doing your Anja meditation for the next ten years before you get meta-physic results, you go ahead.  I'll be the guy driving by in a Jag with two hot tantrik preistesses in the car.  The Christian belief that the true intiate is the one who sits in poverty suffering on behalf of the world and his/her beliefs is immoral.  And also the reason they do not take the nessecary steps to correct the problems they see around them, since the White Light will do it for them.

  The LHP was accepted magick up until the approach of the 13th century as far as Western Ceremonial adaptations go.  Up until this point the Inquisition, headed by the Bush clone Torquemada, had burned virtually any book which didn't advocate Levi's sickly preacher approach to transcendence.  The only reason they didn't wipe out the Christian Gnostics and the Alchemists, which they were beginning to do, was because at the beginning of the 13th century the Black Plague happened and decimated their power base.
  And trust me when I say the Alchemists were most definitely tripping their balls off.  I have studied this path as well, with great interest, and I know what they had bubbling in the Philosophers Cauldren.  The mixtures of acid and metal and other harsh chemical compounds, heated over flame in a small enclosed room, as per their instructions, would get you about as bombed as smoking some DMT while sitting over a open, slightly warm barrel of gasoline in a small room wallpapered in acid sheets.  Many of the Great purists, like Levi and other gnostics practiced this Art, as it was considered holy.  Keep that in mind.

Spider

[Mathias Jonsson]

Hello!

If your looking for great practaical guide books on ceremonial magic, I warmly recommend the books of W.E. Butler!
Especially his books:
MAGIC & ITS RITUAL, POWER AND PURPOSE
THE MAGICIAN - HIS TRAINING AND WORK
APPRENTICED TO MAGIC
MAGIC & THE QABALAH.

I'm unsure which of these are still in print but Thoth Publications has some of Butler's books.
Together with the books of Franz bardon, Butler's books are arguably the best in terms of practicality.
Butler studied magic under the legendray female occultist Dion Fortune in her Society of the inner Light, later on he formed S.O.L together with Gareth Knight.

Butler gives a lot of excellent excercises, for concentration, visualization, astral projection, etc. coupled with lots of profound wisdom, humour and sound advice. He also pushes for morality in magic, which I agree with as being fundamental, as ceremonial magic in essence, is a system of spiritual development, rather than personal enpowerment.

There is also an excellent questions-answers book called LORDS OF LIGHT (now probably out of print) which is a very amusing read, where Butler in his old age gives wonderful answers to everything from the Qabalah, delaing with elementals, to exorcism, etc.

Butler's books are so much better than Craig's Modern magick, which I don't give much for. Ok, it is a decent guidebook, but I think that he leads his readers astray in his personal mishmash of Golden Dawn/tantric/wicca system. Why not write a book called Golden dawn magick for the solitary practitioner instead (using the original versions of the original rites)??

[Nick]

A new book by Merkur Publishing http://www.merkurpublishing.com that I would recommend is:



While Memories of Franz Bardon is only a mere 104 pages, it is a nice insight into this Czech adept, as told by his son Dr. Lumir Bardon and his student, Dr. M.K.

[TriCelticFive]

Has anyone heard of the book called The Sorcerer's Handbook?  Well I was thinking of getting it but I THOUGHT the spells inside were of "dark" magick so, I didn't get it.  Does anyone know if the spells inside it of a "dark" nature?  I also like the information in the book Mordern Magick (but again I didn't get it; not because of it having "dark" spells in it though); it also looks like a great read.

[emily_phd]

Phillip Cooper's "Secrets of Creative Visualization" is the most positive and helpful book on the subject of magic I have ever read.   best wishes,  emily