/lit/ - Literature

>>20260709

>>20260723
What does that have to do with Magick?

>>20260709
Magic has no real syncretism so you will find any recommendations has strong proponents and on the flipside detractors. Chaos magic works on different premises than Thelema or Wicca. Anyone who sees value in one will tell you the others are shit or dangerous.

Are you reading as comparative religion or as “I need a guidebook to do magic shit”?

The Bible, you edgy fuck

>>20260709
Picked this up very recently, highly recommend for anyone interested in anything spiritual. It's huge and very detailed.

id recommend the fuckslaves guide to being sodomized by DEMONS forever good luck anon

>>20261002
>for the novice occultist
I think he's looking to feed into his schizo fantasies, which is why >>>/x/ is where he should look.

>>20260709
The Bible. Repent and come to God instead of Satan. Save yourself from an eternity of torment.

the pic you posted OP is the best place to start. Don't be cowed by the nuatheists or postironic catholics. /x/ is predominantly female.

>>20264480
>/x/ is predominantly female.
Can I find a schizo occultist gf there

>>20264490
most certainly. Just post leonardo dicaprio's astral chart, claim its your own, and ask what it all means. You'll be swimming in borderline personality disorder schizopussy in no time.

>>20260709

>>20260709
"novice occultist" lol...go join the AMORC and get your newsletters

>>20260709
The Typhonian Trilogies are the only books an occultist needs to set him on the right path. If you don't understand them, then you'll know not to waste your time with the occult.

Forget magick, immerse yourself in mysticism. Learn to meditate and do it two hours a day. All your problems will evaporate.

>>20264624
mysticism is gay and for boomers. Occultism is much more interesting

>>20264594
You lied anon, I didn't get a single bite

Tibetan book of the dead
Corpus hermetica

>>20264624
Meditation is a meme. Magick is for chads.

Read more Crowley

>>20260709
first you should read the bible (the old testament would do). pay special attention to anything that has to do with king solomon.
after that, read the lesser key of solomon. hopefully you will realize that almost everything stated there is wrong and then (one can only hope) you'll have an epiphany and realize that nonsense like magic and demonology aren't real.

>>20261006
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>>20264450
internet occultists are kind of dumb but still nothing compared to you underage larpers
stop pretending to be a fundamentalist christian on an anime imageboard

>>20262036
This book isnt even out yet.

>>20268892
this pleb hasnt even robbed the author at gunpoint for the book

>>20267519
satan is gonna OWN your butthole

>>20260709
https://www.quareia.com/
A complete course on it. You can also buy it in book format if you want a physical copy.

>>20260723
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>>20260709
Not really what you asked but reading Crowley's book four without reading all previous works + having a thorough understanding of the old testmemant would make for a very difficult and almost pointless read. Anyone who claims to gain any insight from book four alone is an unironic liar and retard.

The best starting points would be John Dee,
Éliphas Lévi and Helena Blavatsky, starting with these will provide the benefit of not having to unlearn modern pseud takes on the topic, as well as setting the foundation of what everyone else has ripped off and built upon over the years.

>>20267518
Why would the Bible talk so much about magic and demonology if they're not real? Doesn't it seem contradictory to say read the Bible when the Bible strenuously affirms the existence of magic and spiritual beings?

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So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake.

>>20262036
Shill your 100 dollar coffee table protector somewhere else

>>20260709
Introduction to Magic series by Julius Evola and the UR Group

Red pill me on the Golden Dawn

>>20270904
Ya, the only problem is that is more about initiation and transcendence, the occultism comes as a result. Not for beginners either, nor for those just looking to larp. Very good books though. Essays to be reread many times over.

>>20272241
Degenerated ancient wisdom, the same as all occultism. How far it has degenerated varies.

>>20260723
fpbp

>>20273132
It seems pretty cool though. I want to be a magister of a secret occult society.

>>20273741
Good money in that business.

>>20260723
fpbp

Only worthwhile "esoteric" literature is foundational Hermetic philosophy and Neoplatonism. Anything that goes farther into explicitly billing itself as "occult" is larp shit.

>>20273899
but how would you know?

>>20273741
Enforcement of the vulgar ego is the opposite aim of the requisite conditioning for all initiatory practices. Unfortunately most "occultists" don't get much farther than this, and as a result the field overall is a joke full of scammers and weird losers who think they are gods but have not even reached the level of a sane human.

>>20273937
I have direct access to the akashic record

>>20260824
Rofl

>>20273937
Other "occult" writers seem motivated by more transparent shit. Crowley was an unmedicated coomer just making up stupid shit to experiment with for his sex cult and Evola just made up verbose shit to justify his ultra-rightism. All modern occultism is McWiccans and assorted "SCREW YOU DAD I'M A WITCH" teenage girls.

>>20260709
I'm not being sarcastic btw. When it comes to occultism the reverse gears are more important than the forward gears.

>>20273976
I would recommend this instead

>>20274023
Also this unironically

>>20274031
And this also very important. There's much more but that's a start. For serious occultism any ways.

>>20273976
>>20274023
>>20274031
profane science is by definition inferior to sacred science.

>>20273968
so you are projecting certain human motivations on to them

>>20274051
>§ 10. Still less must this kind of contentment, which holds science in contempt, take upon itself to claim that raving obscurantism of this sort is something higher than science. These apocalyptic utterances pretend to occupy the very centre and the deepest depths; they look askance at all definiteness and preciseness meaning; and they deliberately hold back from conceptual thinking and the constraining necessities of thought, as being the sort of reflection which, they say, can only feel at home in the sphere of finitude. But just as there is a breadth which is emptiness, there is a depth which is empty too: as we may have an extension of substance which overflows into finite multiplicity without the power of keeping the manifold together, in the same way we may have an insubstantial intensity which, keeping itself in as mere force without actual expression, is no better than superficiality. The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself when spending and giving out its substance. Moreover, when this unreflective emotional knowledge makes a pretence of having immersed its own very self in the depths of the absolute Being, and of philosophizing in all holiness and truth, it hides from itself the fact that instead of devotion to God, it rather, by this contempt for all measurable precision and definiteness, simply attests in its own case the fortuitous character of its content, and in the other endows God with its own caprice. When such minds commit themselves to the unrestrained ferment of sheer emotion, they think that, by putting a veil over self-consciousness, and surrendering all understanding, they are thus God’s beloved ones to whom He gives His wisdom in sleep. This is the reason, too, that in point of fact, what they do conceive and bring forth in sleep is dreams.
-Lord Hegel

>>20273968
>Evola just made up verbose shit to justify his ultra-rightism
Based. Sometimes I forget why I like Evola so much. Everyone should be an ultra-Rightist.

>>20260709
the bible cover to cover to start if you get filtered you aren't making with the more esoteric texts

Anyone here got the new edition edited by Skinner?

>>20260709

>>20274511
nice

>>20274511
is that really annotated by hitler?

>>20275193
no like most occultism it’s false advertising he highlighted some passages in his copy of the book that’s the ‘annotation’

>>20275193
Yes look it up.

>>20275193
yes actually

>>20275217
Don't listen to this anon. It was literally in Hitler's library. It had underlining but also comments.

>>20275193
>>20275252
sorry forgot pic

>>20260723
Fippy bippy

>>20275267
Are Hitlers notes any good?

>>20273127
Everything you said is why I posted it

>>20273976
Pseud moment

>>20260709
the one you posted, Liber ABA is unironically a good place to start, not only for thelema, crowley takes your hand and goes through a lot of the terminology right off the bat, introduces concepts that are important in the GD, hermetic principles, qabalah, it's all there. great jumping off point.

not sure but this was a good video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA7kWOaEh54&t=964sHTS4V

>>20277785

>>20264632
>>20265949
daily reminder that practically every mystery tradition school from the reformation to today has lauded eastern mysticism for its methods, from the rosicrucians to the golden dawn, from martinism to to crowley. to pretend otherwise is to be as a wiccan mall goth or armchair occultist. practice your asana and pranayama at least.

>>20279470
Esotericism at it's core is about direct experience of the divine. Mysticism tries to attune oneself to the divine through interior mediation while the Occultist tries to force it through will.

>>20278621
That is a good video

>>20279470
>practice your asana and pranayama at least.
How to? Post a reliable resource

>>20282273
What's this about?

>>20275267
Is this book actually good, or are the Hitler annotations just a meme selling point?

>>20283379
How many books have annotations by Hitler?

"Introduction to Perennial Philosophy" by Breccio Cicciarello

>>20283315
It's a course that will take you from a total ignorant on magic to an adept. It has three levels, apprentice, initiate and adept.
You can read it for free here. >>20270383

>>20281418
Still waiting.

>>20273968
Crowley was also clearly trying to cultivate a celebrity image for himself

>>20264624
>all your problems will evaporate
>my need to eat food and breathe will evaporate
>i will LITERALLY become vapour

Don't die!

>>20260723
>Milt Greek
Is that even a real fucking name?