/lit/ - Literature

The Golden Bough
The power of myth

>>16656052
I mean more like fiction rather than primary sources. Novels that deal with the subject within a plot rather than nonfiction.

The Magus.

>>16656052
>novels

The Club Dumas.

Snowcrash, Sumerian magic and hacking.

>>16655813

>>16655813
The way of the pilgrim maybe.

lots of philip k dick

The Course of the Heart is probably one of the best Gnostic novels I've read.

>>16657091
That looks pretty good, gonna read it next.

Also, The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino is a nice one

>>16655813
The Name of the Rose

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet

>>16657565
I dont know if I would call it very "occult" but I guess it does fit

>>16655813
most sci-fi is actually occult but most readers are too dumb to realize it. Asimov, star wars, matrix etc etc on and on also comic books

There Is Truth In Your Fiction And Fiction In Your Truth
https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/watch/there-is-truth-in-your-fiction-and-fiction-in-your-truth_CV62KsPprMWnVmL.html

>>16659258
I agree, but would like more than just subtext, a lot of books that arent explicitely mysticism are rooted in it, but I specifically want ones that are explicit and treat it as a main (or at least of some importance) plot theme, which the thread has given quite a few good ones by the look of it

>>16659303
ever read any dan brown?

>>16655813
The Recognitions is more about syncretism but definitely has some mystical elements.

There's a ton, occultists used to write fictional novels based off of occult philosophy to avoid persecution. The two most famous examples are probably The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz and Zanoni, both of which were written by Rosicrucians.

Even after people were allowed to openly write about the occult, this tradition persisted. Aleister Crowley, for example, wrote Moonchild and The Diary of a Drug Fiend which are semi-fictional novels based off of his own experiences with the occult.

Dion Fortune wrote a shit ton of these types of novels; The Goat-Foot God, The Sea Priestess, The Winged Bull, Moon Magic, Secrets of Dr. Tavener, etc.

>>16655813
>occultism
>mysticism
pick one, because those two things are different

>>16659385
They're walking down the same street, just on different sides.

>>16659391
true

>>16659310
Nope, but Ive seen the movies, are the books actually good?

>>16659385
Yeah, I know they are, but I didnt want to exclude any term that might fall into the general theme. Ive read about half of those (top half mostly), but looking more specifically for occult fiction rather than nonfiction.

>>16655813
Illuminatus

>>16655813
subjugation of the golden man

>>16655813
La Bas - J. K. Huysmans

Check out some of the titles in the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult. It contains a mix of non-fiction, classical literature, weird fiction, and novels by occultists and mystics. Sometimes has a reputation as a collection of Horror novels, but it’s much more than that.

>>16655813
Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, both parts. Faust as well.

>>16660791
Though Faust isn't a novel. But form isn't that important here, its content outweighs hundreds of such novels.

>>16655813
Conan the Barbarian is literally just Theosophy

>>16655813
John Crowley -- The Aegypt cycle (four novels)
Gustav Meyrink -- The Golem
Anonymous -- The Chemical Wedding

>>16655813
Baphomet -- Klossowski

The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly P Hall

>>16655813
Goethe's Faust

>>16659381
>Dion Fortune

What kind of books are those? I am always taken aback sometimes by the names of some occult writers like "Chic Cicero"... so hard to take seriously.