/lit/ - Literature

Try this.

Picrel is an excellent rundown of -- well, basically everything in the occidental occult milieu. Essential reading for /x/lit if you ask me.

>pre-schismatic Buddhism
>Advaita Vedanta
>Greeks through Late Platonics

Emphasis on the Neoplatonists, if we're talking Western occult literature. Late comer Qabbalahisms and Rosicrucian glosses owe considerable influence to the aformentioned to the point of marginalizing their relevance. Hermeticism and alchemy thereafter can (and ought) be approached without reference to them. New Age currents from Masonry to Theosophy to Astrotheurgy to Thelema are X-with-extra-steps that are ultimately training wheels and crutches for the less capable.

Somebody recommended this in another thread so I bought it. Hasn't arrived yet but it looks promising.
BT.w – does anyone have any deets on the Secret Masters? Occult and magical practices of Tibetan monks and Eastern shamans and such. Thanks.

Got picrel on the way.
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Fuck yeah. I'm reading Secret Teachings right now.