/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13763530]

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.

[Anonymous No.13763537]

Recommended Reading List [WIP]:
>Hermetism
Corpus Hermetica -- Copenhaver
Hermetica II -- Litwa
The Egyptian Hermes -- Fowden
The Eternal Hermes -- Faivre
Thrice-Greatest Hermes -- Mead
>Neoplatonism (in its mystic manifestations)
The Shape of Ancient Thought -- McEvilley
The First Philosophers -- Waterfield
The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library -- Guthrie
Complete Works -- Plato
Complete Works -- Aristotle
Enneads -- Plotinus
Elements of Theology -- Proclus
De mysteriis -- Iamblichus
Commentary on the Dream of Scipio -- Macrobius
Chaldean Oracles - Majercik
The Orphic Hymns -- Athanassakis
Theurgy and the Soul -- Shaw
Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity -- Uzdavinys
Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth -- Uzdavinys
Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism -- Uzdavinys
>Occult Philosophy:
Western Esotericism -- Hanegraaf
Secret Teaching of All Ages -- Hall
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic -- Kingsley
The Occult Philosophy -- Agrippa
Transcendental Magic -- Levi
History of Magic -- Levi
Prometheus and Atlas -- Jorjani
>Gnosticism
Seven Sermons to the Dead -- Jung
Nag hammadi library
The Gnostic World
>Kabbalah
Inner Space -- Kaplan
Jewish Meditation -- Kaplan
Meditation and Kabbalah -- Kaplan
Sefer Yetzirah
Bahir
Zohar
Etz Chayim
>Cabala
Platonic Theology -- Ficino
Nova de Universis Philosophia -- Patrizi
900 Theses -- Mirandola
Oedipus Aegyptiacus -- Kircher
>Angel Magic:
The Essential Enochian Grimoire -- Leitch
Five Books of Magic -- John Dee
>Grimoire tradition
Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian(/Solomonic) Magic -- Skinner
Encyclopedia Goetica -- Stratton-Kent
PGM -- Betz
>Alchemy:
Psychology and Alchemy -- Jung
The Hermetic Tradition -- Evola
Alchemical Traditions -- Cheak
>Paracelsianism:
The Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
>Boehmeian Theosophy:
Aurora -- Boehme
>Rosicrucianism:
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment -- Yates
Rosicrucian Trilogy -- Godwin
>Freemasonry:
Morals and Dogma of etc... -- Pike
>Illuminism:
The Secret School of Wisdom -- Wages
>Swedenborgianism:
Heaven and Hell -- Swedenborg
>Blavatskian Theosophy:
Isis Unveiled -- Blavatsky
The Secret Doctrine -- Blavatsky
The Mystic Qabalah -- Fortune
>Golden Dawn:
The Golden Dawn -- Regardie
>Thelema:
Magick: Book 4, Liber ABA -- Crowley
>Typhonian
The Magickal Revival -- Grant
The Nightside of Eden -- Grant
>Traditionalism:
The Crisis of the Modern World -- Guenon
The Reign of Quantity and Sign of Times -- Guenon

[Anonymous No.13763559]

>>13763537
Add the Gnostic bible

[Anonymous No.13763561]

Stop fucking including Neoplatonism and Hermeticism in your fucking personality proto-neopagan (as in make-belief) cults.

[Anonymous No.13763563]

>>13763561
ok. i will. thanks.

[Anonymous No.13763580]

i feel that there is some serious philosophy mixed in a huge load of LARPing in here

[Anonymous No.13763590]

>>13763580
Most people that get into this are retards who don't even scratch one bit of reality

[Anonymous No.13763610]

>>13763563
The only schools there with true insight is Böhme and Illuminationism (assuming that's what you mean).
Kabbalah is nothing but a plagiarism of Iamblichus and Proclus Platonism—nothing ancient about them, and sure there are individual Rosicrucians with honorably contributions (like Yeats or Sylvan Guthrie).
Blavatsky was a whore.