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Books : Mind, Body & Spirit : Occultism

• The Royal Road to Card Magic

  Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue

  
  
   

• Not without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted

  Kristina Jones, Celeste Jones, Juliana Buhring

  
  
   

• The Satanic Bible

  Anton LaVey

  
  One might expect The Satanic Bible at least to offer a few prancing demons or a virgin sacrifice, but if you're looking for a tour of the house of horrors, this is the wrong book. Far from a manual for conquering the realms of earth, air, fire and water, The Satanic Bible is Anton LaVey's manifesto of a new religion separate from the "traditional" Judeo-Christian definitions of Satanism. While LaVey rails against the deceit of the Christian church and white magicians, he busily weaves his own deceptions.

  The Satanic Bible claims the heritage of a horde of evil deities--Bile', Dagon, Moloch, and Yao Tzin to name a few--but these ancient gods have no coherent connection between each other or to Satanism, except that all have been categorised by Christianity as "evil". Calling on these ancient names like a magician shouting, "Abracadabra", LaVey attempts to shatter the classical depiction of Satanism as a cult of black mass and child sacrifice. As the smoke clears, he leads us through a surprisingly logical argument in favour of a life focused on self-indulgence. The Satanic Bible is less bible and more philosophy (with a few rituals thrown in to keep us entertained), but this philosophy is the backbone of a religion that, until LaVey entered the scene, was merely a myth of the Christian church. It took LaVey, and The Satanic Bible, to turn this myth into a legitimate public religion.--Brian Patterson, Amazon.com

  
   

• The Real Witches' Kitchen: Spells, Recipes, Oils, Lotions and Potions from the Witches' Hearth

  Kate West

  
  
   

• Divine Magic: The Seven Sacred Secrets of Manifestation (Hay House Classics)

  Doreen Virtue

  
  
   

• Llewellyn's 2009 Magical Almanac: Practical Magic for Everyday Living (Llewellyn's Magical Almanac)

  Llewellyn

  
  
   

• Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England (Penguin history)

  Keith Thomas

  
  
   

• Meta-magick: The Book of Atem: Achieving New States of Consciousness Through NLP, Neuroscience and Ritual

  Philip H. Farber

  
  
   

• The Satanic Rituals: Companion to the "Satanic Bible"

  Anton LaVey

  
  
   

• The Kybalion: A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

  Three Initiates

  
  
   

• Mysterious Monuments: Encyclopedia of Secret Illuminati Designs, Masonic Architecture, and Occult Places

  Texe Marrs

  
  
   

• A Witch's Halloween: A Complete Guide to the Magick, Incantations, Recipes, Spells and Lore

  Gerina Dunwich

  
  
   

• The Structure of Magic II

  John Grinder, Richard Bandler

  
  
   

• The Book of the Law: 100th Anniversary Edition

  Aleister Crowley

  
  
   

• Paradise Lost (Naxos Complete Classics)

  John Milton

  
  
   

• Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande

  E. E. Evans-Pritchard

  
  
   

• The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft

  Ronald Hutton

  
  Until recently Wiccans--the name that present day witches prefer--used to claim that their religion was a recreation, even a continuation of ancient beliefs widespread in Europe before Christianity drove them out. Most of today's Wiccans are more honest, more ready to accept that theirs is a new religion, self-consciously created to serve a need not met by existing mainstream religions.

  Ronald Hutton's The Triumph of he Moon is a history of modern pagan witchcraft, examining not only its origins half a century ago but the many ideas and enthusiasms of the last few centuries that paved the way for it. He finds powerful influences in 18th and 19th-century Freemasonry, 19th-century Rosicrucian-type societies, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as well as in the tradition of wise women, dispensers of herbal remedies and folk wisdom. Interestingly, these last, who many Wiccans would see as the main forerunners of themselves, Hutton finds to have little real significance. With the benefit of scholarly insight, he also points out the unreliability of the most influential literary and / or supposedly academic works supporting the idea of ancient European religion, such as Charles Leland's Aradia, Margaret Murray's The Witch-Cult in Western Europe and The God of the Witches, J.G. Frazer's The Golden Bough and Robert Graves' The White Goddess.

  Hutton, a regular contributor to TV documentaries about Neo-Pagansism, is Professor of History at Bristol University. The Triumph of the Moon is that rarity, a very readable academic book, which will be fascinating to anyone with an interest in the history of witchcraft. --David V. Barrett

  
   

• The Power of Kabbalah: This Book Contains the Secrets of the Universe and the Meaning of Our Lives

  Yehuda Berg

  
  
   

• The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews (Llewellyn's Practical Magick)

  Scott Cunningham

  
  
   

• Encyclopaedia of Magical Herbs (Llewellyn's Sourcebook Series)

  Scott Cunningham