Resources

As this blog is primarily centered around magical theory, history, and practice, we have decided to include a short sample of some of the books we have read and would recommend to our readers. We both owe much to the magicians, authors, and teachers who have pointed us in the direction of valuable literature, and hope that this list is useful to those who might stumble across it.

Books:

Abraham von Worms – The Book of Abramelin
Abu Ma’shar, Charles Burnett, Keiji Yamamoto – Great Introduction to Astrology
Abu Ma’shar, Ben Dykes – On the Revolutions of the Years of Nativities
Adam McLean – Treatise on Angel Magic
Agrippa, Donald Tyson – Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Agrippa, Donald Tyson – Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy
Al-Biruni, Wright – Introductions to the Elements of the Art of Astrology
Al-Qabisi, Abu Ma’shar, Ben Dykes – Introductions to Traditional Astrology
Ane Ohrvik – Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway
Andrew Chumbley – One: Grimoire of the Golden Toad
Antiochus, Robert Hand, Robert Schmidt – Thesaurus
Austin Coppock – 36 Faces: The History, Astrology and Magic of the Decans
Ben Dykes – Traditional Astrology for Today
Carlo Ginzburg – Ecstacies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath
Carlo Ginzburg – The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Chris Warnock – Fixed Stars, Sign and Constellation Magic
Claire Fanger – Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Late Medieval Ritual Magic
Claire Fanger – Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, 13^th to 16^th Centuries
Daniel A. Schulke – Ars Philtron
Daniel A. Schulke – Lux Haeresis
Draja Mickaharic – A Century of Spells
Draja Mickaharic – A Spiritual Worker’s Spell Book
Daniel Harms – The Long-Lost Friend: A 19th Century American Grimoire
Daniel Harms, Joseph Peterson, James R. Clark – The Book of Oberon
Daniel Harms, James R. Clark – Of Angels, Demons and Spirits
David Rankine – The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet
David Rankine – The Book of Treasure Spirits
Don Karr, Stephen Skinner – Sepher Raziel: Liber Salomonis
Don Karr, Stephen Skinner – Liber Lunae: Book of the Moon and Sepher-ha-levanah
Dorotheus, David Pingree – Carmen Astrologicum
Emma Wilby – Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits
Francis Young – A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity
Frank Klaassen – The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Franz Bardon – Initiation Into Hermetics
Franz Bardon – Practice of Magical Evocation
Frater Acher – Cyprian of Antioch: Mage of Many Faces
Frater Ashen Chassan – Gateways through Stone and Circle
Frater Ashen Chassan – Gateways through Light and Shadow
Gemma Gary – The Devil’s Dozen: Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One
Gemma Gary – Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways
Gordon White – Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantments
Gordon White – The Chaos Protocols
Guido Bonatti, Ben Dykes – Liber Astronomiae
Hans Dieter Betz – The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa – Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Holy Guardian Angel (Nephilim Press)
Humberto Maggi – The Book of Saint Cyprian
Ioannis Marathakis – The Magical Treatise of Solomon, or Hygromanteia
Ibn Ezra – On Nativities and continuous horoscopy
Ibn Ezra – Book of the World
Ibn Ezra – Book of Reasons
Jake Stratton-Kent – Pandemonium: A Discordant Concordance of Diverse Spirit Catalogues
Jake Stratton-Kent – The True Grimoire
Jason Miller – Protection & Reversal Magick: A Witch’s Defence Manual
Jason Miller – The Sorcerer’s Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick
Jim Baker – The Cunning Man’s Handbook
John Gadbury – Doctrine of Nativities
John Michael Greer – The Art and Practice of Geomancy
José Leitão – The Book of St. Cyprian: The Sorcerer’s Treasure
José Leitão – The Immaterial Book of St. Cyprian
Joseph Peterson, John Dee – John Dee’s Five Books of Mystery
Joseph Peterson – Sixth and Seventh books of Moses
Joseph Peterson, Mathers – The Greater Key of Solomon
Joseph Peterson – The Secrets of Solomon: A Witch’s Handbook from the Trial Records of the Venetian Inquisition
Joseph Peterson – The Arbatel of Magic
Joseph Peterson – The True Black Magic, Veritable Magie Noire
Kevin Klein, John Dee – The Complete Mystical Records of Dr.John Dee
Masha’allah, Ibn Sahl Bisher, Ben Dykes – Works of Sahl and Masha’allah
Marvin Meyer and Richard Smith – Ancient Christian Magic; Coptic Texts of Ritual Power
Michael Cecchetelli – The Book of Abrasax
Michael Cecchetelli – Crossed Keys
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold – Exu & the Quimbanda of Night and Fire
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold – Kiumbanda; A Complete Grammar of the Art of Exu
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold – Pomba Gira & the Quimbanda of Mbùmba Nzila
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold – The Craft of the Untamed
Nigel G. Pearson – The Devil’s Plantation
Nigel G. Pearson – Treading the Mill
Nigel A. Jackson – Call of the Horned Piper
Nigel A. Jackson – Masks of Misrule: The Horned God and His Cult in Europe
Owen Davies – Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
Olaf Pederson – Survey to the Almagest
Paul Foreman, Francis Young – The Cambridge Book of Magic
Paul Huson – Mastering Witchcraft
Peter Grey – Lucifer: Princeps
Peter Paddon – A Grimoire for Modern Cunning Folk
Philip Mason Palmer, Robert Pattison More – The Sources of the Faust Tradition: From Simon Magus to Lessing
PILLARS: Perichoresis (Anathema Publishing)
Ptolemy, G.J Toomer, the Almagest
Ptolemy, J.M. Ashmand, Tetrabiblos
Radomir Ristic – Balkan Traditional Witchcraft
Radomir Ristic – Witchcraft and Sorcery of the Balkans
Reginald Scot – The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Rhetorius, James Holden – Rhetorious the Egyptian
Richard Kieckhefer – Forbidden Rites
Richard Kieckhefer – Magic in the Middle Ages
Robert Zoller – Arabic Parts in Astrology, the lost key to prediction
Ritual Offerings (Nephilim Press)
Sahl Bin Bisher, Ben Dykes – The Works of Sahl Bin Bisher, Vol.I
Serpent Songs (Scarlet Imprint)
Sophie Page – Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe
Stephen Skinner – Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic
Stephen Skinner – Techniques of Solomonic Magic
Stephen Skinner – The Complete Magician’s Tables
Stephen Skinner, David Rankine – Goetia of Dr. Rudd
Stephen Skinner, David Rankine – Keys to the Gateway of Magic: Summoning the Solomonic Archangels and Demonic Princes
Stephen Skinner, David Rankine – The Cunning Man’s Grimoire
Stephen Skinner, David Rankine – The Grimoire of St. Cyprian: Clavis Inferni
Stephen Skinner, David Rankine – The Veritable Key of Solomon
Stephen Skinner, David Rankine, Daniel Clark, Frederick Hockley – The Clavis or Key to Unlock the Mysteries of Magic: by Rabbi Solomon translated by Ebenezer Sibley
Tamara L. Siuda – The Ancient Egyptian Daybook
Tamara L. Siuda – The Ancient Egyptian Prayerbook
The Celestial Art: Essays on Astrological Magic (Three Hands Press)
Vettius Valens, Mark Riley – Anthology
William Lilly – Christian Astrology