/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5032748]

Looking to get occult inspired tattoos, Where do I start with occult literature?

[Anonymous No.5032752]

LOL

[Anonymous No.5032769]

[Anonymous No.5032773]

>>5032748

[Anonymous No.5032778]

>>5032752
>>5032769
>>5032773
Okay, so can we at least explain why what I said was dumb and uninformed?

[Anonymous No.5032791]

>>5032778
The fact that you want to get something permanent on your body that has no actual representation of anything to you other than the fact that it is perceived as 'Occult'. the fact that you are so far out of the loop on what those images might even be or where to look for them shows that you have literally no connection to the genre other than as some sort of trendy tryhard to look cool bullshit.

It reeks of desperation and is quite frankly cringeworthy.

[Anonymous No.5032804]

>>5032791
I like how they look. That should be more than enough reason.

[Anonymous No.5032814]

>>5032804
Also your photo is not occult tattoos. It is Russian mafia. By all means go out and get some of those. Nothing bad can possibly happen.

[Anonymous No.5032822]

>>5032814
I'm sure. I just used a picture on google images as a placeholder.

[Anonymous No.5032834]

>>5032748
I would say that you're trolling, but I actually know people in real life who do things like this. A girl on my Facebook was going to buy a shirt with hp Lovecraft and poe on the front, and was asking people on fb who 'this Lovecraft guy' was and if she should still get the shirt even though she had no idea who he was and hadn't read anything by Poe other than the telltale heart in the 7th grade

[Anonymous No.5032847]

>>5032834
Not everyone has a strong personality or interests to draw inspiration from.

[Anonymous No.5032857]

>>5032847
Those people should be executed

[Anonymous No.5032895]

I hope OP is trolling. Or actually, I'm not. I hope OP is a 13y old who gets a full-face tatoo containing swastikas and shit and ruining his life forever.

[Anonymous No.5032923]

>>>/x/

[Anonymous No.5032931]

>>5032834
She should get the shirt if she likes it.
Also she didn't want people's opinions, she already decided.

[Anonymous No.5033046]

>>5032895
Holy shit, god forbid I try to inform myself before I jump into a major life decision. Jesus fucking christ, suck my dick you judgmental piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.5033055]

>>5033046
Hey retard, maybe you shouldn't be making an important life decision simply because you think a certain style looks cool.

Jesus how fucking stupid are you?

You know what? Scratch that. Go ahead, do it so everyone can laugh at you. The world needs more humor.

[Anonymous No.5033080]

>>5033055
What should my decisions be based on, then? I don't have any hardships or important realizations of myself that I'd like to be made clear. Am I not allowed to want a tattoo because my life is not grandiose enough? What exactly am I missing?

[Anonymous No.5033082]

>>5032791
>the genre

i dont think thats how u use that word

[Anonymous No.5033092]

>>5033082
Occult lit is not considered a genre?
>>5033080
Do what you want faggot. I'm still going to laugh at you.

[Anonymous No.5033098]

You go bro don't listen to the haters, you're gonna look so wicked decked out with all those trendy tats

[Anonymous No.5033114]

this is one of the stupidest things I have seen in a long long time

regardless, check out: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy: Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings Concealed Within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of All Ages by Manly Palmer Hall

and

The Hermetica

This is not light reading though, and I doubt your sorry ass will read either thing I suggested

[Anonymous No.5033162]

>>5033114
You just broke the OP's mind. He was expecting you to say "Necronomicon".

[Anonymous No.5033164]

Technically you should start with the Greeks but if not...

In the Morning of the Magician is a good overview of the mysticism, the occult and all kinds of conspiracies. It was very popular in the sixties with the nascent new age movement.

The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant is another good look into the occult. Although its historiography is inaccurate and verges on hagiography, it nevertheless provides an accurate summation of the magickal philosophies of the main branches of modern western occultism (subsequent books are batshit crazy, however [the author theorizes that mixing fact with fiction allows it to better penetrate the subconscious or something similarly silly]).

From there you can probably work your way into some primary texts. Thelema, Theosophy, Anthrosophy, Alchemy, Tantra, Chaos Magick, Gnosticism, Goetia, so on and so forth.


If you care less about the ideas and more about the aesthetic then you might just jump into some books by the following publishers:

fulgur.co.uk
xoanon.co.uk
threehandspress.com
scarletimprint.com
primalcraft.com
weiserantiquarian.com
teitanpress.com
ixaxaar.com

[Anonymous No.5033206]

>>5033046
Did you forget that you're on /lit/? Go to >>>/adv/ or >>>/x/ if you want to do anything but bullshit about philosophy and šhît.

[Anonymous No.5033208]

>>5033114
I was able to find these, unless they're very dense, 700ish pages is doable. Thanks.
>>5033164
Fair enough, I'll try to read some of the original books first, though.

[Anonymous No.5033225]

>>5033164
>Technically you should start with the Greeks but if not...

is that phrase a "thing" on /lit/?

[Anonymous No.5033248]

>>5033098
>likes: hot gurls with big boobys who are sluts, skulls
>dislikse: happiness, kevin robinson from school fuck you kevin stop showing evryone my deviantart you peace of shit

[Anonymous No.5033256]

>>5032748
triangles m8

[Anonymous No.5033260]

>>5033225
It is a thing but it's also true. Almost all western philosophy, including the esoteric and occult, traces its lineage back to ancient Greece. Countless secret societies consider themselves the inheritors of the Greek mystery schools and Platonic/Neoplatonic and Pythagorean ideas. Even Jewish and Christian occultism and mysticism is considered to be highly influenced by Greek thought. Modern occultism tends to look more toward the East and toward indigenous shamanic practices but the language used to talk about it still carries a heavy debt.

[Anonymous No.5033271]

>>5033225
Yes

Also, OP. Going to sympathize with you because I'm just as dumb. But I did the same shit, except I ended up going through with it and it's one of my major regrets. Which isn't saying much, because I could say the same about most of my decisions, but still. Just some forewarning.

[Anonymous No.5033282]

>>5033271
post pic of tattoo!! lol do it! you can't just tease us and not show what you did.

[Anonymous No.5033319]

>>5033098
>fuck you khaoskid663

[Anonymous No.5033470]

>>5033208
I suggest you don't read the 500 page hermetica english translation though. Read the 4 volume one, also one more title: Art and Symbols of the Occult by John Wasserman. More direct to your wants

[Anonymous No.5033503]

>>5033164

It's "The Morning of the Magicians," but yes, it's an awesome book.

>tfw I have a copy of the first American edition ca. 1964, complete with amazing proto-psychedelia-meets-modernist-etching cover art

[Anonymous No.5033577]

>>5033208
Do NOT, and I repeat, DO NOT start with Kenneth Grant. Entry level occult books:
-"The Tree of Life" and "A Garden of Pomengranates" by Israel Regardie.
-"The Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune.
-"Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie" by Eliphas Levi.

[Anonymous No.5033763]

>>5033082
>u
I don't think that's how you use that word.

[Anonymous No.5033775]

>>5033763
>word

[Anonymous No.5034178]

>>5033092
>Occult lit is not considered a genre

like u said, the op seems not 2 kno what he wants, but in the context he is using the word, i dont htink it refers to a genre of fict rather a field of study , re Madam blavatsky, Abby of Thelema Golden Boaugh, etc.

[Anonymous No.5034228]

>>5033046
>. Jesus fucking christ, suck my dick you judgmental piece of shit.

>being this phased by someone's comment

Truly you are not occult yet.