Harold's RecommendationsBooks
"Here are a few that are on my bookshelves" and see Colossal Turkeys for what's no more.
Click on these headings/short cuts to the lists below.

For a background in magick:

For the beginner:

  • Scott Cunningham's books
  • Al G. Manning's books
  • Anything by Dion Fortune
  • Anything by Anderson
  • You need a Bible (the electronic ones are nice, but not for extended reading)
  • The Koran
  • The Upanishads
  • The Bhagavad Gita (only a small part of the largest poem ever written)
  • The Magnetic Effect
    by Albert Roy Davis and Walter C. Rawls, Jr. (a MUST have)
  • The Complete Book of Spells, Ceremonies & Magic
    by Migene Gonzalez-Wippler
  • The Alex Sanders Lectures
  • The Way of the Wizard
    Deepak Chopra

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For the intermediate:

  • Subscribe to Gnosis Magazine (forget Magickal Blend)
  • Anything by Carlos Castaneda
  • Disneyland of the Gods
    by John A. Keel
  • Anything from Sky Books

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For the experienced:

  • Gems from the Equinox
  • The Grand Grimore
  • The Greater Key of Solomon
  • The Lesser Key of Solomon (for the especially advanced)
  • The Holy Magick of Abra Melin (for those who have spoken with their Holy Guardian Angel)
  • The Gnostic Voodoo Spell Book
  • Kenneth Grant's Books
  • Most things from Mandrake Press
  • Everything from Magickal Childe Publishing
  • Al Manning's Courses
  • A Witches Bible Compleat
    by Janet and Stewart Farrar (the book on Wicca)
  • Anything by Alice A. Bailey
  • Any book by Peter Carroll
  • Any book by Austin Osman Spare
  • Any book by Alex Sanders
  • The New Magus
    Ritual Magic as a Personal Process
    by Donald Tyson

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For reference only:

  • An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
  • Three Books of Occult Philosophy
    (the original black book)
    by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
    translated by James Freake
    edited by Donald Tyson
  • Henley's Formulas for Home and Workshop
  • The Hermetic Museum
    Alchemy & Mysticism
    by A. Roob
  • The Wizard's Bookshelf series

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Harold's favorites:

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Science:

  • Mind Machines You Can Build
    by G. Harry Stine
  • How to Build a Flying Saucer
    by G. Harry Stine
  • Field Guide to Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms of North America
    by Charles Kingsley Levy
  • Dim Mak (Dim Hsueh)
    by Lin

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Special Interests:

Click here for Harold's list of books in his other interests.

  • Necronomicon (Simon)
  • Necronomicon (purported to be the Dee copy)
  • Anything by Herman Slater
  • Selections from the Exegesis:
    In Pursuit of Valis (Vast Acting Intelligence System)
    by Philip K. Dick
  • The Gods of the Egyptians (and almost anything by E.A.Wallis Budge)
  • The Enochian Magick Series
    by Denning and Phillips
  • The Keys of Enoch
    by J.J. Hurtak
  • Other Tongues -- Other Flesh
    by George Hunt Williamson

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Attitude (Spleen):

  • Anything by P.J. O'Rourke (world-weary skeptic that he is, because he explains how to tolerate the intolerable)

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Fiction:

  • Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
  • A Thousand Nights and One Night (also called the Arabian Nights -- get the whole thing, it's four volumes)
  • Any Chaosium Book (Publishing)

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