/lit/ - Literature

This thread is for the discussion of texts related to Hermetism, Neoplatonism (in its mystic manifestations), Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Cabala, Angel Magic, Alchemy, Paracelsianism, Boehmeian Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Illuminism, Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism, as well as the more recent branches of the esoteric tree (Golden Dawn, Traditionalism, Blavatskian Theosophy, e.t.c.).

Recommend books, ask for recommendations, post nice excerpts, ask burning questions, e.t.c.

>>13220529
Occultism is about discovering God (or the lack thereof). You may be atheistic but you are agnostic and not gnostic thus no better than an agnostic theist...

Occult practitioner /lit/:

Beginner
>Robert Anton Wilson - Prometheus Rising
>Peter J. Carroll - Liber Null & Psychonaut
>Phil Hine - Oven-Ready Chaos
>Lea and Angerford - Thundersqueak
>Ramsey Dukes - SSOTBME
>Gordon White - Chaos Protocols

Intermediate
>Crowley - Liber ABA (contains four books, get the blue brick, covers meditation, yoga, magic, mysticism, and the thelemic vision) and Magick Without Tears (this is a kind of FAQ for the magick section of Liber ABA)
>Austin Osman Spare - Book of Pleasure and Zos Speaks!
>Dion Fortune - Mystical Qabalah
>Kenneth Grant - The Magickal Revival
>Andrew Chumbley - Azoetia

Advanced
>Eliphas Levi - Transcendental Magic
>Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa - Three Books of Occult Philosophy
>Imablichus - De Mysteriis

Ascended
>Stephen Skinner - Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian and Solomonic Magic
>Jake Stratton Kent - Encyclopedia Goetica

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>>11625665
More recommendations: (should probably make a chart or something)

Shulgin Index (hardcore chemistry)
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss (mckennas brother man)
Psychedelic Prayers (i like leary sue me)
Politics of Experience (i think this is laing not leary)
Quantum Psychology (bob wilson)
Prometheus Rising (bobby)
Angel Tech (post-bobism)
Magick Without Tears (mister crowley)
In The Morning Of The Magicians (satanic hippie panic)
Liber Null & Psychonaut (chaos!)
Thundersqueak (muh favorite)
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (eliade's a nrx but good book)
The Sacred and the Profane (same as above)
The Varieties of Religious Experiences (James the Nitrous Huffin Hegelian)
DMT: The Spirit Molecule (i saw the movie once at a shpo
Tryptamine Palace (is this neurosoup? Worth reading alongside Pickard for the other side of the story)
The Road To Eleusis (mystery cultism)
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (the holy mountain... is a mushroom)
Psychedelic Information Theory (can be found free online)


Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra
Raoul Vaneigem - Revolution of Everyday Life
Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle
Baudrillard - America
Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
Anna Tsing - The Mushroom At The End Of The World
William Leonard Pickard - The Rose of Paracelsus
Colin Wilson - The Outsider
Lionel Snells - Thundersqueak
Gordon White - Chaos Protocols

>Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum (conspiratorial mayhem of a more scholarly vein than Illuminatus!)
>Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow (psychedelic orgies and bananas)
>Brautigan - In Watermelon Sugar (like the Zappa of literature)

Austin Osman Spare - Book of Pleasure
Kenneth Grant - The Magickal Revival, Zos Speaks!
Nick Land - Fanged Noumena

Judge Schreber - Memoirs of my Nervous Illness

Robert Graves - The White Goddess

Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra
Raoul Vaneigem - Revolution of Everyday Life
Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle
Baudrillard - America
Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
Anna Tsing - The Mushroom At The End Of The World
Colin Wilson - The Outsider
Lionel Snells - Thundersqueak
Gordon White - Chaos Protocols

Best online resources:

>Sacred Texts
https://www.sacred-texts.com
>The Hermetic Library
https://hermetic.com
>Temple of Solomon the King
https://mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ

>>11450370
Gurdjeff puts me to sleep too often for a writer who's supposed to be waking me up.