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What are some essential serious books to read on the occult and practical magic?

>> No.9396638

>>9396633
>>>/x/

>> No.9396650

>>9396638

>he thinks /x/ is useful for anything besides succubus larping

>> No.9396655

>>9396638
/x/ is ridiculously bad, nobody there has read anything other than pasta

>> No.9396716

>>9396633
>essential serious books
>occult and practical magic

Pick one.

>> No.9396725

>>9396633
Crowley's Book 4, Grant's The Magical Revival, Ramsey Dukes' SSOTBME

Should be all you need.

>> No.9396736

>>9396725
Hi Ape.

>> No.9397162

>>9396736
Definitely not me.

>> No.9398712

>>9396633
The KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money. And Moore's "Fossil Angels" essay.

>> No.9398723

>>9396650
>>9396655
Shut up you rude blowhards. /x/ is the most /lit/ board of 4chan outside of /lit/

>> No.9398725

>>9396736
don't mention him here he might show up

>> No.9398862

>>9398725
Is he into Kenneth Grant too? Maybe I should stop ignoring him.

>> No.9398885

>>9398862
Probably. Ape is pretty well read on that stuff, but never wants to think critically about religion or magical practice and actively hates religious study, preferring to believe every book some strange dude on LSD writes down as the Lord's truth. Plus, he absolutely refuses to consider anything east of the Himalayas, which makes conversation with him tedious. I admire his dedication to his interests, and his collection has some interesting texts, but I find the man himself insufferable.

>> No.9398896
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9398896

Parmenides -- On Nature
Heraclitus -- On Nature
Anaximander -- On Nature
Empedocles -- On Nature
Philolaus -- On Nature
Mellisus -- On Nature
Epicurus -- On Nature
Plato -- Complete Works
Aristotle -- Physics, Metaphysics and De Anima
Plotinus -- Enneads
Iamblichus -- De Mysteriis
Unknown (Various) -- Greek Magical Papyri and Grimoire Tradition
Hermes Trismegistus -- Corpus Hermetica
Unknown (Various) -- The Bible, Kabbalah, Nag Hammadi, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Midrash
Agrippa -- Three Books
Eliphas Levi -- Haute Magie
Austin Osman Spare -- Complete works
Aleister Crowley -- Liber ABA
Kenneth Grant -- The Typhonian Trilogy
Andrew Chumbley -- Trimagesterion

>> No.9398906

>>9398896
Thank you bro, appreciated

>> No.9398909

>>9396725
Thundersqueak > SSOTBME

Also, no Liber Null & Psychonaut?

>> No.9399454

>>9398909
I don't get any power from those works, but I have a feeling it's a generational thing because I know younger people swear by them. I went to prep school and studied the classics and my subconscious just needs some ancient greek and hieroglyphics to get it going.

>> No.9399465

>>9398906
Yeah, thanks for recommending about 15000 pages of text as essential. Guess it's time to hit the books.

>> No.9399531

>>9398896
No Hall? Blavatsky?

>> No.9399560

>>9396633
Read Man Without a Shadow by Wilson. You will not regret it.

>> No.9399564

Came here to post COSMIC TRIGGER by RAW.

Captcha: dokter sage (RAW)

>> No.9399575

All the little brown pamphlets by Manly P. Hall. They're on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=manly+p+hall+pamphlet

>> No.9399940

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>> No.9400180

>>9399940
you alright there, mate?

>> No.9400202

>>9399940
2015 called. They want their meme back.

>> No.9400372

>>9400202
1995 called, it wants its ‘certain year called and it wants its blank back’ formula

>> No.9400398
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9400398

>>9396638
>>>/x/
not
>>>/pol/

When /x/ starts summoning ancient dead gods to influence major world event's I might listen to what they have to say.

>> No.9400400

The Harry Potter series.
Give me a few (you)'s.

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>>9399940

>> No.9400504

>>9396716
kek

>>9396633
The only serious thing about occult books is the serious dough Llewellyn rakes in from powerless, fantasy-prone scrubs. Myths and the mystical are essential in human experience, true, but recipe books describing someone else's mystical experience are not the way. Especially if that someone else is a silly rancid Englishman like Crowley.

Study, instead, what makes magic magical in the human mind.

>> No.9400554

>>9400398
Das rite

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9400556

>>9400398
Praise KEK

>> No.9402117

>>9396633

That looks like a young Nietzsche except less dorky.