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Course I
ОглавлениеGENERAL READING
SECTION I. Books for Serious Study:
LIBER CCXX. (LIBER L VEL LEGIS.) The Book of the Law. This book is the foundation of the New Æon, and thus of the whole of our Work.
THE EQUINOX, Vol. I. Nos. I.-X. The standard Work of Reference in all occult matters. The Encyclopaedia of Initiation.
LIBER ABA (Book 4). A GENERAL ACCOUNT in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers. In four parts: (I) Mysticism. (a) Magical Theory. (3) Magical Practice. (4) The Law.
LIBER II. THE MESSAGE OF THE MASTER THERION, which explains the essence of the new law in a very simple manner.
LIBER DCCCXXXVII. THE LAW OF LIBERTY, which is a further explanation of the Book of the Law in reference to certain ethical problems.
COLLECTED WORKS OF A. CROWLEY. These works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy.
"THE YI KING." (S. B. E. Series, Oxford University Press.) The "CLASSIC OF CHANGES"; gives the initiated Chinese system of Magick.
"THE TAO TEH KING." (S. B. E. Series.) Gives the initiated Chinese system of Mysticism.
TANNHÄUSER, by A. Crowley. An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soul; the Tannhäuser story slightly remodelled.
THE UPANISHADS. (S. B. E. Series.) The Classical Basis of Veda tism, the best-known form of Hindu Mysticism.
THE BHAGAVAD-GITA. A dialogue in which Krishna, the Hindu "Christ " expounds a system of Attainment.
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE: by H. P. Blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by Frater O.M.
THE GOETIA. The most intelligible of the mediaeval rituals of Evocation. Contains also the favorite Invocation of the Master Therion.
THE SHIVA SANHITA. A famous Hindu treatise on certain physical practices.
THE HATHAYOGA PRADIPIKA. Similar to The Shiva Sanhita.
ERDMANN'S "HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY." A compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. Most valuable as a general education of the mind.
THE SPIRITUAL GUIDE OF MOLINOS. A simple manual of Christian mysticism.
THE STAR OF THE WEST. (Captain Fuller.) An introduction to the study of the Works of Aleister Crowley.
THE DHAMMAPADA. (S. B. E. Series, Oxford University Press.) The best of the Buddhist classics.
THE QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA. (S. B. E. Series.)
Technical points of Buddhist dogma, illustrated by dialogues.
LIBER DCCLXXVII. Vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mysticae Viae Explicandae, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicum Sanctissimorum Scientiae Summm.
A complete Dictionary of the Correspondences of all magical elements, re-printed 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, von Rosenroth: also the Kabbalah Unveiled, by S. L. Mathers. The text of the Qabalah, with commentary. A good elementary introduction to the subject.
KONX OM PAX. Four invaluable treatises and a preface on mysticism and Magick.
THE PISTIS SOPHIA. An admirable introduction to the study of Gnosticism.
THE ORACLES of ZOROASTER. An invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical.
THE DREAM OF SCIPIO, by Cicero. Excellent for its Vision and its Philosophy.
THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS, by Fabre d'Olivet. An interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this Master.
THE DIVINE PYMANDER, by Hermes Trismegistus. Invaluable as bearing on the Gnostic Philosophy.
THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS, reprint of Franz Hartmann. An invaluable compendium.
CRUTINIUM CHYMICUM by Michael Maier. One of the best treatises on alchemy.
SCIENCE AND THE INFINITE, by Sidney Klein. One of the best essays written in recent years.
Two ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS, by Richard Payne Knight. Invaluable to all students.
THE GOLDEN BOUGH, by J. G. Frazer. The Text-Book of Folk Lore. Invaluable to all students.
THE AGE OF REASON, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition.
RIVERS OF LIFE, b y General Forlong. An invaluable textbook of old systems of initiation.
THREE DIALOGUES, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of subjective idealism.
ESSAYS OF DAVID HUME. The Classic of Academic Scepticism.
FIRST PRINCIPLE; by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnosticism.
PROLEGOMENA, by Emanuel Kant. The best introductionto Metaphysics.
THE CANON. The best text-book of Applied Qabalah.
THE FOURTH DIMENSION by H. Hinton. The text-book on this subject.
THE ESSAYS OF THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. Masterpieces of philosophy, as of prose.
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 He should be on his guard against partisanship with a favourite author. He should familiarize himself thoroughly u with the method of mental equilibrium, endeavoring to contradict any statement soever, although it maybe apparently axiomatic.
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. Where the mind is strongly biased towards any special theory, the result of an illumination is often to inflame that portion of the mind which is thus overdeveloped, with the result that the aspirant, instead of becoming an Adept, becomes a bigot and fanatic.
The A ∴ A ∴ does not offer examination in this course, but recommends these books as the foundation of a library.
SECTION 2. Other books, principally fiction, of a generally suggestive and helpful kind:
ZANONI, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Valuable for its facts and suggestions about mysticism.
A STRANGE STORY, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Valuable for its facts and suggestions about Magick.
THE BLOSSOM AND THE FRUIT, by Mabel Collins. Valuable for its account of the Path.
PETRONIUS ARBITER Valuable for those who have wit to understand it.
THE GOLDEN ASS, by Apuleius. Valuable for those who have wit to understand it.
LE COMTE DE GABALIS. Valuable for its hints of those things which it mocks.
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, by Alexander Pope. Valuable for its account of elementals.
UNDINE, by de la Motte Fouque. Valuable as an account of elementals.
BLACK MAGIC, by Marjorie Bowen. An intensely interesting story of sorcery.
LA PERU DE CHAGRIN, by Honore de Balzac. A magnificent magical allegory.
NUMBER NINETEEN, by Edgar Jepson. An excellent tale of modern magic.
DRACULA, by Bram Stoker. Valuable for its account of legends concerning vampires.
SCIENTIFIC ROMANCES, by H. Hinton. Valuable as an introduction to the study of the Fourth Dimension.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND, by Lewis Carroll. Valuable to those who understand the Qabalah.
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, by Lewis Carroll. Valuable to those who understand the Qabalah.
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, by Lewis Carroll. Valuable to those who understand the Qabalah.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, translated by either Sir Richard Burton or John Payne. Valuable as a storehouse of oriental magick-lore.
MORTE D'ARTHUR, by Sir Thomas Mallory. Valuable as a storehouse of occidental magick-lore.
THE WORKS OF FRANCOIS RABELAIS. Invaluable for Wisdom.
THE KASIDAH, by Sir Richard Burton. Valuable as a summary of philosophy.
THE SONG CELESTIAL, by Sir Edwin Arnold. "The Bhagavad-Gita" in verse.
THE LIGHT OF ASIA, by Sir Edwin Arnold. An account of the attainment of Gotama Buddha.
THE ROSICRUCIANS, by Hargrave Jennings. Valuable to those who can read between the lines.
THE REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS, by 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 WRITINGS OF WILLIAM O'NEILL (BLAKE). Invaluable to all students.
THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT, by George Meredith. An excellent allegory.
LILITH, by George MacDonald. A superb tale of Magick.
LA BAS, by J. K. Huysmans. An account of the extravagances caused by the Sin-complex.
THE LORE OF PROSERPINE, by Maurice Hewlett. A suggestive enquiry into the Hermetic Arcanum.
EN ROUTE, by J. K. Huysmans. An account of the follies of Christian mysticism.
SIDONIA THE SORCERESS, by Wilhelm Meinhold
THE AMBER WITCH, by Wilhelm Meinhold. These two tales are highly informative.
MACBETH; MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM; THE TEMPEST. by W. Shakespeare. Interesting for traditions treated.
REDGAUNTLET. by Sir Walter Scott. Also one or two other novels. I n teresting for traditions treated.
ROB ROY, by James Grant. Interesting for traditions treated.
THE MAGICIAN. by W. Somerset Maugham. An amusing hotch-pot of stolen goods.
THE BIBLE. by various authors unknown. The Hebrew and Greek Originals are of Qabalistic value. It contains also many magical apologues, and recounts many tales of folklore and magical rites.
KIM, by Rudyard Kipling. An admirable study of Eastern thought and life. Many other stories by this author are highly suggestive and informative.
For Mythology as teaching Correspondences:
Books of Fairy Tales generally.
Oriental Classics generally.
Sufi Poetry generally.
Greek and Latin Classics generally.
Scandinavian and Teutonic Sagas generally.
Celtic Folk-Lore generally.
This course is of general value to the beginner. While it is not to be taken, in all cases, too seriously, it will give him a general familiarity with mystical and magical tradition, create a deep interest in the subject, and suggest many helpful lines of thought.
It has been impossible to do more in this list. than to suggest a fairly comprehensive course of reading.
