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"Mystics of Islam" is one of the earlier works to ever treat upon the subject of magic and practices within the Sufi context. As a broad academic overview, it nonetheless delves deep into the subject. From the whirling dervishes to the concept of fana and far more, Sufi spirituality is here detailed, differentiated from main-line islamic theology, and its historical basis and then-modern materials expounded upon from the days of its birth through the early 20th century.

The Mirror of Alchemy, written in the 1541 in Latin and translated to English at the closing of the 16th century, stands out both as a misattributed work (not having actually been written by Bacon) and an exceptional, if short, guide to the process of creating elixir. Categorizing the metals according to their digestion through natural processes, it posits the replication of nature in a laboratory setting as the sole way to work with alchemical materials, through cosmic forces as then understood to be true.

One of the foremost texts of all Theosophy, "Initiation Human and Solar" is a lengthy work by the highly noted Alice Bailey, containing numerous (and usually categorical) sections of hierarchies involved with the process of the initiate joining the order, being refined through time, and learning about various occult secrets and powers.Some of the content here is quite dense and so a short glossary has been added by the author which helps to explain a few of the eastern (or, in some cases, new age!) terms used.

The legendary Red Book of Appin has been spoken of for centuries. Variously theorized as a medical handbook for livestock or a manuscript on devil worship, it is presented here in its true form for the first time. The content ranges from the quite possibly French cycle-influenced, to the folkish, to the Orthodox, and ruminates on the philosophy of warfare as well as the healing arts and the then-prevalent problem of invading islamists.

Emanuel Swedenborg is one of the most fascinating minds of his era. At once a scientist, professor, inventor, and mystic, he became deeply religious after supposedly receiving visions and interactions with angelic spirits, spending his later life entirely dedicated to revealing the spiritual information he claimed he was being given.This work is one part autobiography, one part brief analysis of some of his major works and beliefs, and one part lengthy appendix listing works both by and about Swedenborg himself.

"The Supernatural" is technically a religious lecture, or oratory, rather than a booklet of its own right- a transcription of a speech delivered to a live audience. Penned by Lyman Abbott (the famous Congregationalist) it helps illuminate some of the religious debates raging at the time- an internal versus external Christian deity, the role of supernatural agency, and so forth.For the occultist, it is just as important as to the Christian- these spiritual debates continue on now even as they did a century ago or a thousand years hence, and attempt to frame even the very nature of the respective gods of mankind.

This book is one of three titles on Yoga created by Yogi Ramacharaka (thought to actually be a pseudonym for William Atkinson, a new thought pioneer in his era and prolific author and editor.) It predominantly focuses on ascent and spiritual evolution, commenting upon Lamarck and Darwin, and comparing them to certain Hindu concepts. Two entire sections are dedicated as well to different life forms and their physical composition.Although the work is perhaps humorous at times for its now-outdated evolutionary conceptualization, it is nonetheless a good read and fairly enlightening, although it should be noted that it is a decidedly Westernized view of an Eastern subject.

The Book of Tobit is one of the few Apocryphal works that managed to find its way into some canonized compilations. Present as an important Judaist work, it is absent from the KJV and most standard protestant editions. Treating on the nature of demons, specifically Asmodeus, it includes a visit by the archangel Raphael to Tobias, son of Tobit, and several rites involved with miraculous healing.

Alice A. Bailey is one of the most noteworthy figures of early 20th century Theosophy. Mostly known for her "revealed" works, she also penned several books and compilations of lectures; this being one of them, namely on the subject of the atom, its spiritual significance, and attendant subjects.Some of the claims it makes are actually accepted today (such as the energetic form of the atom, in the basic sense) while some of its material (the human as a central radiation point) is largely considered to be pseudoscientific. A fascinating look at early 1920s scientific thought as well as religion.

This little work is a collection of short segments from a rather interesting man named Francis Grierson: in his time he was a musician, poet, socialite, and of course occultist who tended to subjugate the creative to the spiritual; indeed that is largely the topic of all sections herein.He praises some of the greater minds in music and literature and other arts, and likens their virtues to the realm of spirits and of intellectual- if not always strictly spiritual- enlightenment. At times the work delves into the political, contrasting the different creative schools that existed then in France, Germany, England, and the United States.

This text, Mysteries of the Rosie Cross, is one of the better looks at the history and lore of Rosicrucianism made in the pre-modern era. Dating to the end of the 1800s, it was part of a series generally revolving around phallic worship, with such titles as "Ophiolatreia" and "the Masculine Cross." The content here is mostly second hand; verbatim copies of materials purporting to represent Rosicrucian doctrine, mentioning the freemasons, illuminati, and far more, as well as more than a small amount of alchemy.

The original Clavicula Salomonis is not the text that is generally regarded as the Solomonic Key of the modern era. A short manuscript, it appears predominantly in the form of an ostensibly Catholic text dedicated to the consecration of various tools in order to conjure demonic and angelic forces and cause them to obey the will of the master conducting such ceremonies. Dated to the 16th century, it is the most notorious magickal text of all time, and forms the very core of much modern occultism, both genuine and fabricated, both now-old and modern.

"Orange Man Big" is a collection of warped fantasies held by totally fictitious leftists about their favorite topic: Donald Trump It is unrelenting and degenerated. Tales of mental sickness and masochistic neural corpulence abound in these pages. Pages calculated to make the reader giggle with delight upon realizing that the content is barely a hyperbolic appraisal of the average obsessive, diseased mind. These little stories are not for the easily offended or for the faint of heart!

"Initiates of the Flame" is the earliest literary work by the esteemed Manly P Hall, one of the foremost mystics of his era- one that stretched on for more than half a century.Speaking of the Rosicrucians, Masons, Arthurian legend, ancient Egypt, and essentially being an explanatory endeavor aimed at the symbolism of mystery traditions, this text is one of the most important occult works of the 1920s. Both the book and its author would go on to shape the spiritual movements of the subsequent century. Fully Illustrated.

This work is one of a number of initiatory texts written by Reuben Clymer for his "Temple of the Illuminati"- this work ruminating on the teachings of Jesus Christ, differentiating them (with fairly good accuracy) from the Pharisees, Sadducees, and other contemporary groups. Clymer declares Jesus an Essene and details his somewhat mystical life, proposing various spiritual exercises and habits for the improvement of ones' life and future incarnations.

It is fairly well established that witchcraft and similar topics play a substantial role in theater. Indeed, the very act of illusion present there is occult in form; but Shakespeare, at least in the pre-modern period, plays, as it were, a more substantial part in this than most contemporary producers of on-stage entertainment.Looking specifically at "The Tempest", "Macbeth", and "Julius Caesar", and to a lesser extent several other works, this booklet, from a theosophical background, seeks to enumerate some of the more substantial occultism present therein.

The Arbatel of Magick is one of a number of early grimoires focusing primarily on white magic and the philosophical side of the occult. Well known despite its relatively short length, it is broken into a series of aphorisms which contain various spiritual knowledge. It treats on various different types of magick, arranged into seven sections.

This work is one of the finest ever penned on the subject of lycanthropy and werewolf lore. Written in the mid 1800s by the rather eccentric Sabine Baring-Gould, it covers more than 1,000 years of lore from a half dozen paths- the berserker of Norse lore, French mythology, and then-modern anecdotes of cannibalism and madness. Not relegating the werewolf just to a secular and skeptical study, nor simply to spiritual banter, Baring-Gould manages to compress an enormous span of historical material into his work; a work which is no doubt of value to the academic and those involved with the occult at the same time.

This little work is a good compilation of different prayers, spells, and spiritual poetry from around the world; cultures as far removed from one another as Mesoamerica and Persia, from the Hindu path to the pagans of Egypt. It is in essence a transcription of material from other sources, compiled for the interested by Marah Ryan at the dawn of the 20th century. To the occultist some of these spells are still useful even today. 37 pages.

"The Irreconcilable Gnomes" is a short booklet released by the FRC's leader, Reuben Clymer, at the dawn of the 20th century. It purports to elaborate and expand upon the Comte de Gabalis, a popular French philosophical and spiritual work.The first section of the work centers on dialogue involving one elemental spirit- a gnome- which expounds on various topics related to existence and being. The second speaks on the topic of certain grimoires of note, notably the Grand Grimoire but also mentioning the Black Pullet and others. It is decidedly Rosicrucian in its particular philosophical leanings.

"Morbid Stories" is calculated to be the most grueling ride through terror and evil ever concocted by the hands of mankind. Utterly depraved, mindless, filled with degeneracy and a hopelessness and resignation to torment that only true lunatics can fully appreciate. This second edition has been re-edited once more, to remove all remaining traces of errors and provide the reader with an even more satisfying look into madness and the halls of perdition itself. From the Satanic to the simply violent, from the perverted and deranged to to macabre, "Morbid Stories" offers not one story but a whole compendium of short writings, each designed to evoke a different feeling, with all feelings evoked remaining starkly negative and designed to fill the reader with disgust. In this endeavor, something more insane than splatterpunk has been designed.

Not merely a work of Hinduism (indeed one that partly omits it), DeLaurence has here managed to compile astral travel, scrying, crystal gazing, telepathy, and much more into a single Victorian volume. Known for his ads within the context of occult texts, DeLaurence should not be judged as the showman he was in order to survive in a cut-throat and bloated occult literary world, but rather as a visionary whose relevance persists to this day.

"Divine Mystery" is one of the works of Reuben Clymer, former leader of the Rosicrucian FRC. It is a somewhat eclectic mixture of content, ranging from materials adapted from Sinistrari's "Demoniality" regarding elemental spirits, to gnostic content referring to Pistis Sophia.The material contains several invocations, a conversation between the Virgin Mary and Jesus, and numerous asides of Rosicrucian philosophy, while suggesting that Jesus was the result of his mother being impregnated by an elemental spirit and that the Nephilim of the Bible were similarly spawned.

This booklet is part of the Ingersoll Lectures, presented on the topic of the evolution of ancient Greek religion over several centuries, transformed partly in response to changes in politics and social systems as Greece transformed from a largely agrarian and rural region to a powerful commercial center for the region. The effect upon conceptions of the afterlife, spirits, and immortality in general, changed drastically through time and created a philosophical backdrop to Christianity.The cult of Dionysos and the Orphic Mysteries are discussed in some depth here and the text contains a full series of notes explaining some of the references therein.

"The Deeper Mysteries" is a compilation of short sections on various subjects ranging from Swedenborg to levitation and from Atlantis to Buddhist mysticism. The third part of Farnsworths' three part series on occult subjects, it delves deeper than its predecessors into the generally paranormal and spiritual.It is a must-read for those interested in the subject matter; which is wide ranging enough to be of use well beyond Theosophy and comparable systems, although it frequently quotes and invokes Blavatsky and others.

Basil Valentine's Twelve Keys of alchemy is among the most notorious alchemical works ever crafted. Originally written at the very end of the 16th century, it was almost immediately rendered into English and widely regarded. Containing a series of parables and metaphors regarding the process of creating the Philosopher's Stone, the Twelve Keys claim that alchemy is both real and potent, able to perfect matter and create a medicinal elixir beyond comprehension. Valentine swears that the process is not as others have described, with often vague references to "special" salt and sulfur, but is far easier and much less expensive than claimed in prior works.

This little work is one of several dozen which was released in the Creation Series, of note for its linguistic content and its treatment of religious history. This text is somewhat dense, but largely understandable history about Shinto and a description of the different types of deities and spirits associated with the religion and certain rituals and holidays therefrom.There is a fairly lengthy bibliography as well which lists further works which may be referred to on the subject.

The Kybalion is one of the most enigmatic works of the 20th century. Of unknown authorship and attributed to "three initiates", it purports an ancient origin and invokes Hermes Trismegistus among other figures, proclaiming various axioms and concepts within the Hermetic path.Describing itself as technically introductory work that represents the underlying basis of further materials and ideas within this mysterious ideology, the Kybalions' content has amusingly been partially accepted by modern science- especially with regards to some of its statements about vibration, and its early academic reference to spiritual history, especially with regards to alchemy, which it proclaims as a mental and spiritual metaphor.

The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster are a collection of short, manifest-style philosophical concepts first written around the second or third century AD. They comprise a series of musings from the Gnostic path; perhaps from a certain figure named Julian the Theurgist, although the specific author is not known. To this, here, is added the Hypostasis of the Archons- a Gnostic work specifically telling the Gnostic story of Genesis, regarding the tyranny of the demiurge and the shadowy forces of what most humans consider the heavenly- for here it is Pistis Sophia and the divine realm well above these corrupted, fractured lower forces, which only from below, from the physical realm, seem high and mighty. The Gnostic philosophy here dwells upon the fracturing of existence, beyond the cosmic origin of all and the Monad, into further hierarchies at various levels, and within both texts this fracturing is seen as negative and fallen; for the demiurge of the traditional Christian here is antagonist, not protagonist.

Magnus Jensen's "Everybody's Astrology" is a sure sign of its era of manufacture; one part astrological apologism, one part distrust of the rise of non-traditional (especially psychological) science, and one part utopian admonition to engage in the study of the stars and planets, this booklet is a decent primer to the basic tenets of astrology. It additionally lends itself to use by those interested in studying more about the topic from the occult perspective, listing a half dozen other related works some of which are explicitly applauded for their rigor.