The object of this course of reading is to familiarize the student with all that has been said by the Great Masters in every time and country. He should make a critical examination of them; not so much with the idea of discovering where truth lies, for he cannot do this except by virtue of his own spiritual experience, but rather to discover the essential harmony in those varied works.
The general object of this course, besides that already stated, is to assure sound education in occult matters, so that when spiritual illumination comes it may find a well-built temple.
"The Book of the Law" (Liber AL vel Legis; Liber CCXX), A. Crowley - This book is the foundation of the New Aeon, and thus of the whole of our work
"The Equinox I (1-10), III (1-10), IV (1-2 )", A. Crowley et al. - The standard Work Reference in all occult matters. The Encyclopaedia of Initiation
"Liber ABA (Book 4)", A. Crowley et al. - A general account in elementary terms of magickal and mystical powers
"Liber II. The message of the Master Therion", A. Crowley - Explains the essence of the new law in a very simple manner.(Liber II: text)
"Liber DCCCXXXVII. The law of Liberty", A. Crowley - A further explanation of The Book of the Law in reference to certain ethical problems.(The Law of Liberty: text)
"Collected Works of Aleister Crowley" (vol: 1, 2, 3 ) - These books contain many mystical and magickal secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy
"Yi King" (I Ching) - The "Classic of Changes"; gives the initiated Chinese system of magick
"Tao Teh King" - Gives the initiated Chinese system of magick
"Tannhauser", A. Crowley - An allegorical drama concerning the progress of the soul; the Tannhauser story slightly remodeled
"Upanishads" - The Classical basis of Vedantism, the best form of Hindu Mysticism
"The Bhagaved-Gita" - A dialogue in which Krishna, the Hindu "Christ", expounds a system of Attainment
"The Voice in the Silence", H.P. Blavatsky - With an elaborate commentary by Frater O.M. Frater O.M., 7 = 4, is the most learned of all the brethren of the Order; he has given eighteen years to the study of this masterpiece
"Raja-yoga", Swami Vivekananda - An excellent elementary study of Hindu Mysticism. His "Bhakti Yoga" is also good
"The Shiva Sanhita" - An account of various physical means of assisting the discipline of initiation. A famous Hindu treatise on certain physical practices
"Aphorisms of the Patanjali" - A valuable collection of precepts pertaining to mystical attainment
"The Sword Song", A. Crowley - A study of Christian theology and ethics, with a statement and solution of the deepest philosophical problems. Also contains the best account extant of Buddhism, compared with modern science
"The Egyptian Book of the Dead" - A collection of Egyptian rituals
"Dogme et rituel de la huate magie", Eliphas Levi - The best general textbook of magical theory and practice for beginners. Written in an easy popular style
"Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage" - The best exoteric account of the Great Work, with careful instruction in procedure. This book influenced and helped the Master Therion more than any other
"The Goetia" - The most intelligible of the mediaeval rituals of Evocation. Contains also the favorite Invocation of the Master Therion
"Hatha Yoga Pradipika - Similar to Siva Samhita
Erdmann's "History of Philosophy" - A compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. Most valuable as a general education of the mind
"Spiritual Guide of Molinos" - A simple manual of Christian Mysticism
"Star in the West", Captain Fuller - An introduction to the study of the works of Aleister Crowley
"Dhammapada", S.B.E. series Oxford U. Press - The best of the Buddhist classics
"Questions of king Milinda (SBE)" - Technical points of Buddhist dogma, illustrated by dialogues
"777", A. Crowley - A complete Dictionary of the Correspondences of all magical elements, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. It is to the language of Occultism what Webster or Murray is to the English language
"Varieties of religious experience", James - Valuable as showing the uniformity of mystical attainment
"Kabbala Denudata", Knorr von Roseenroth, also "The Kabbalah Unveiled", S.L. Mathers - The text of the Qabalah, with commentary. A good elementary introduction to the subject
"Knox om Pax", A. Crowley - Four invaluable treatises and a preface on mysticism and Magick
"The Pistis Sophia" - An admirable introduction to the study of Gnosticism
"Oracles of Zoroaster (The Chaldean Oracles)" - An invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical
"A Dream of Scipio", Cicero - Excellent for its vision and its philosophy
"Golden Verses of Pythagoras", Fabre d'Olivet - An interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this Master
"The Divine Pymander", Hermes Trismegistis - Invaluable as bearing on the Gnostic Philosophy
"Secret Symbols of Rosicrucians", Franz Hartman - An invaluable compendium
"Scrutinium Chymicum", Micheal Maier - One of the best treatises on Alchemy
"Science and the infinite", Sidney Klien - One of the best essays written in recent years
"Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus", Sir Richard Payne Knight and Thomas Wright - Invaluable to all students
"The Golden Bough", J G Frazer - The textbook folklore. Invaluable to all students
"The Age of Reason", Thomas Paine - Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition
"Rivers of Life", General Forlong - An invaluable textbook of old systems of initiation
"Three dialogues", Bishop Berkeley - The classic of subjective idealism
"Essays of David Hume" - The classic of academic scepticism
"First Principles", Herbert Spencer - The classic of agnosticism
"Prolegomena", Emanuel Kant - The best introduction to metaphysics
"The Canon", William Stirling - The best textbook on applied Qabalah
"The Fourth Dimension", H Hinton - The best textbook on this subject
The Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley - Masterpieces of philosophy, as of prose
"Zanoni", Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton - Valuable for its facts and suggestions about Mysticism
"A Strange Story", Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton - Valuable for its facts and suggestions about Magick
"The Blossom and the Fruit", Mabel Collins - Valuable for its account of the Path
"Satyricon", Petronius Arbiter - Valuable for those who have wit to understand it
"The Golden Ass", Apuleius - Valuable for those who have wit to understand it
"Comte de Gabalis", Abbe'N-de-Montfauconde Villars - Valuable for its hints of those things which it mocks
"The Rape of the Lock", Alexander Pope - Valuable for its account of elementals
"Undine". de la Motte Fouque - Valuable as an account of elementals
"Black Magic", Marjorie Bowen - An intensely interesting story of sorcery
"La Peau de Chagrin", (The Wild Asses Skin) Honore' de Balzac - A magnificent magical allegory
"Number Nineteen", Edgar Jepson - An excellent tale of modern magic
"Dracula", Bram Stoker - Valuable for its account of legends concerning vampires
"Scientific Romances", H Hinton - Valuable as an introduction to the study of the fourth dimension
"Alice in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll - Valuable to those understand the Qabalah
"Through the looking Glass", Lewis Carroll - Valuable to those understand the Qabalah
"The Hunting of the Snark",. Lewis Carroll - Valuable to those understand the Qabalah
"The Arabian Nights", Sir Richard Burton - Valuable as a storehouse of oriental magick-lore
"Morte d'Arthur", Sir Thomas Mallory - Valuable as a storehouse of occidental magick-lore
The works of Francois Rabelais - Invaluable for Wisdom
"The Kasidah", Burton - Valuable as a summery of philosophy
"The Song Celestial", Sir Edwin Arnold - The Bhagavad-Gita in verse
"The Light of Asia", Sir Edwin Arnold - An account of the attainment of Gautama Buddha
"The Rosecrucians". Hargrave Jennings - Valuable to those who can read between the lines
"The Real History of the Rosecrucians", A.E. Waite - A good vulgar piece of journalism on the subject
The Works of Arthur Machen - Most of these stories are of great magical interest
"The Writtings of William O'Neill (Blake)" - Invaluable to all students
"The Shaving of Shagpat", George Meredith - An excellent allegory
"Lilith", George MacDonald - A good introduction to the Astral
"La'-Bas", J K Huysmans - An account of the extravagances caused by the Sin-complex
"The Lore of Proserpine", Maurice Hewlett - A suggestive enquiry into the Hermetic Arcanum
"En Route", J K Huysmans - An account of the follies of Christian mysticism
"Sidonia the Sorceress" & "The Amber Witch", Wilhelm Meinhold - These two tales are highly informative
"MacBeth", "A Mid-Summer Nights Dream", "The Tempest", Shakespeare - Interesting for traditions treated
"Redgauntlet", Sir Walter Scott - Also one or two other novels. Interesting for traditions treated
"Rob Roy", James Grant - Interesting for traditions treated
"The Magician", W. Somerset Maughan - An amusing hotch-pot of stolen goods
"The Bible", various authors unknown. - The Hebrew and Greek originals are of Qabalistic value. It contains also many magical apoloques, and recounts many tales of folk-lore and magical rites
"Kim", Rudyard Kipling - An admirable study of Eastern thought and life. Many other stories by this author are highly suggestive and informative
A selection of works cited by Crowley that were written by or attributed to saints, or that give an account of their lives or teachings, far from comprehensive. Some of these listings are repeats from firsts section
"The Song Celestial and The Light on Asia", Sir Edwin Arnold
"The Bhagavad-gita"
The Works of Jacob Boehme
"The Bible"
"The Kasidah" and "The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night", Sir Francis Burton
The works of Catullus
The works of Aleister Crowley
"The Egyptian Book of the Dead"
"Rivers of Life, or, Sources and Streams of all faiths of Man in All Lands", J.G.R. Forlong
"The Golden Bough", J.G. Frazer
"Faust, parts I and II", Goethe
"The Divine Pymander", Hermes Trismegistus
"Magic, White and Black. Ed. & trans., The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians", Franz Hartman
"The Rosicrucians: their rites and Mysteries" and "Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial, Heathen and Christian", Hardgrave Jennings
"Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus", Sir Richard Payne Knight and Thomas Wright
The works of Eliphas Levi. (Alphonse Louis Constant)
"The Pistis Sophia"
"The Qur'an"
"Tao Te Ching" Lao-tzu.
The works of Martial
"Scrutinium Chymicum", Micheal Maier
"Morte d'Arthur", Sir Thomas Mallory
"The Spiritual Guide", Miguel de Molinos
"Satyricon", Petronius Arbiter
"The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", Fabre d'Olivet
The works of Francois Rabelais
"Lingam-yoni: order die Mysterium des Geschlechts-Kultus, and Was ist Occulttismus und wie erlangt man okkulte krfteÝá Theodor Reuss
"Droll Stories and The Wild Asses Skin", Honor de Balzac
"La Monde de l'Euchariste", Pierre Bion
"The Secret Doctrine and Isis Unveiled", H.P. Blavatsky
The works of Giovanni Boccaccio
E.A.W. Budge, works on Egyptian religion
"Jurgen", James Branch Cabell
"Signs and symbols of Primordial man", Albert Churchwood
"Phallic Worship", Robert Allen Cambell
"The Heavenly Kingdom of the Holy grail, in Traces of a hidden Tradition in Masonry and Medieval Mysticism", Isabel Cooper-Oakley
"The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz. (bagh-i-Muattar)", A. Crowley - Note: M.T.&P. chapt.8 "Of Equilibrium..."
"Histoire abregee des differentes cultes", Jacques-Antoine Dulaure - Part-translated as The "Gods of Generation: A History of Phallic Cults among Ancients and Moderns"
"Der Kampf um einen Geistigen Lebenshalt; Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a new Philosophy of Life" and "Sinn und Wert des Lebans. Rudolph Eucken"
"The Bacchae", Euripides - Cited: M.T.&P. chapt.1 "The Principles of Ritual"
"Musee royal de Naples: peintures, bronzes et statues erotigues du cabinet secret", Cesar Famin
"Heidenthum und Offenbarung", Engelbert Lorenz Fischer
"The Gheranda Samhita"
"L'euchariste des origines a' Justin Martyr", Maurice Goguel
"Die Christliche Mystik", Joseph von Gorres
"Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum", Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
"History I:105, 199, II:64, etc", Herodotus
"Anacalypsis", Godfrey Higgins
"The Two Babylons", Rev Alexander Hislop
"Sex-Worship: An Exposition of the Phallic Origin of Religion", Clifford Howard
"Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism", Thomas Inman
"The Chalice of Ecstasy", Frater Achad (Charles Stanford Jones)
"Psychology of the Unconscious", Carl Gustav Jung - Revised as ÝSymbols of Tranformation"
The works of Juvenal - Especially the "Sixth Satire"
"Ananga Ranga", Kalayana Malla
"The Gnostics and There Remains, Ancient and Medieval", C.W. King
"The Novellino", Salernitano Masuccio
"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten", G.R.S. Mead - Note: M.T.& P chap. 16, "Of the Invocation"
"Missale Romanum" - Notes: M.T.& P chap. 15, "Of the Invocation"; chap.20, "Of the Eucharist"
"The Hindu Pantheon", Edward Moor
The works of Alfred de Musset - Including "Gamiani: ou Deux nuits d'exces"
"The Perfumed Garden", Umar ibn Muhammod al-Nafzawi
The works of Andrea de Nerciat
"The Holy Bible (with) Arguments prefixed to the Different Books", Jean Frederic Ostervald
The works of Ernst Christian Heinrich Peithmann
"The Centre of Nature Concentrated", Ali Puli
"La Messa et ses Mysteres", Jean Marie Ragon
"Parsifal und das Enthullte Grals-Geheimnis", Theodor Reuss
"Pagan Christs", M J Robertson - Note: M.T.& P chap. 5, "The Formula of I.A.O."
"Venus in Furs", Leopold von Sacher Masoch
The works of the Marquis de Sade, Justine, Juliette, et al
"The Eucharist", Chevalier le Clement de Saint Marcq
The works of George Sand
"Die Gnosis", Eugen Heinrich Schmitt
"The Tantras"
"Kamasutra", "Vatsyayana"
"Visnupurana"
"The Secret Doctrine in Israel" and "The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry", A.E. Waite
"Rome, Pagan and Papal", Henry Wreford
"The Arcane Schools and Speculative Masonry", John Yarker
"Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social State in Man", Fabre d'Olivet - Note: Law is For all. part1-1; M.T.& P chap.21, "Of Black Magic"
"Salome", Oscar Wilde - Note: M.T.& P chap. 19, "Of Dramatic Rituals"
