shawnsegler wrote:The ones I'm reading right now are "the eleventh wing" by Khigh Alx Dhiegh. I reveiwed this one a bit ago for Mike Strong...I really like it. It's one of the most lucid descriptions of the functionality of the i-ching that I've read. Very meaty.
cerebus wrote:Well, for Far Eastern esoteric subjetcs, Taoist Mysteries and Magic by John Blofeld. Also The Tantric Mysticism of Tibet by the same author. Other great volumes are Taoist Master Chuang by Michael Saso, Magic and Ritual in Tibet by Stephan Beyer, and Oriental Magic by Idries Shah.
For other esoteric works, The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Hall is worthy of a great deal of study. Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson is excellent, Portable Darkness, an Aleister Crowley Reader edited by Scott Michaelson is a very good volume on Mr. Crowley's works. The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune is an excellent intro to the Qabalah as it's used in modern esoteric practice. Initiation Into Hermetics by Franz Bardon is the most impressive curriculum of practical training exercises for altering one's mind and perceptions that I've ever encountered. The Voudon Gnostic Workbook by Michael Bertiaux and all three of the "Typhonian Trilogies" of Aleister Crowley's disciple Kenneth Grant are probably the most interesting far-out, brain-bending works on Occult practices around.
And, well... I could go on forever. So let's just leave it at that...
TaoJoannes wrote:The only caveat I'd whisper is that Robert Anton Wilson writes FICTION, and Aleister Crowley only writes to prove how much smarter he is than the rest of the world, so take it for what it's worth.
Darth Rock&Roll wrote:The Collected works of John Dee.
cerebus wrote:TaoJoannes wrote:The only caveat I'd whisper is that Robert Anton Wilson writes FICTION, and Aleister Crowley only writes to prove how much smarter he is than the rest of the world, so take it for what it's worth.
Well.... yes, Robert Anton Wilson DID write fiction... AND nonfiction. Have you ever read Cosmic Trigger? And as for Crowley, you seem to either entirely misunderstand him, or perhaps you haven't read much of his work? Check out Portable Darkness, it's a well-balanced look at his esoteric writings.
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