The Kybalion Basic fundamental occult and metaphysical concepts. A must-read for any neophyte. An Introduction to Sorcery Very short overview of a few magical techniques from a chaos magic perspective. Energy Work Very useful meditation and visualization techniques for healing, clearing energy centers, etc. These techniques can easily be applied in other occult practices.

Initiation into Hermetics One of the most popular self-initiation systems, contains a myriad of useful techniques and practices. Posting a companion reader for it I found online as well. Vampire's Way to Psychic Self-Defense A collection of useful astral combat techniques, to help you beat up ghosts and demons.

A few archives of old /fringe/ threads I had saved, as well as the Sunflower Magic 101 thread which gives some useful fundamental ideas for magical practice as well as ideas of where to go from there.

Uncle Chuckie Books All of his books are available for free on his website but I'm posting them here anyway. Contains a lot of good ideas about the practical applications of magic from a "left hand path" perspective. Also has a lot of info about radionics and magical technology/tools if you're interested in that.

>>1102 Lesser and Greater Keys of Solomon

Order of Nine Angles NAOS Vampire Are - Stephen Kaplan Hatha Yoga Pradipika Simple Kabbalah Dharana Darshan

Frabato the Magician Occult novel based on Franz Bardon's life. Apparently it was actually written by his secretary even though it's attributed to him. Interesting read.

Tulpas are real. >https://tulpanomicon.guide >https://www.tulpa.info * * * A lot of reposted videos about Qabalah: https://www.youtube.com/@CosmicNexus/videos

A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Melvin Powers >https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22814 (self-)Hypnosis can be used for motivation, sleep, OCD, nicotine addiction... or anything. On Geomancy by (Pseudo?) Agrippa. >https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/agrippageomancy.html Art and Practice of Geomancy by John Michael Greer is a newer book that's highly recommended. Also, see this Geomancy 101 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBbt-2VeoSU

All three books are about the same topic: spirit releasement therapy, involving spirit attachment and possession. Very useful guides for those who are, or know someone who is, suffering from these issues. Shakunta Modi - Remarkable Healings: A Psychiatrist Discovers Unsuspected Roots of Mental and Physical Illness William J. Baldwin - Spirit Releasement Therapy: A Technique Manual William J. Baldwin - Healing Lost Souls: Releasing Unwanted Spirits from Your Energy Body

Falun Gong/Falun Dafa books In reading order: Great Consummation way Zhuan Falun (optional) Essentials 1&2 ZF v2 Note: These are old translations which have since been wiped off the Internet and are not available anywhere. I just have them saved since 20 years back. The author used to channel information from a deity prior to 2015, but lost contact with her. Any edits or revisions posted after this time are no longer valid, and can be dangerous to apply. I'm posting these because ZF and the exercises can still be used, if you know exactly what you are doing, but I would recommend anyone reading these to stay away from any "practitioners" or "disciples". Just earlier this year their main branch in NY were reportedly exposed for money laundering, and there are further investigations ongoing about them withholding salaries or just plain slave driving activities, although they use the term "volunteer work".

>>2965 This is the instruction for a cleansing practice with two formulas in Chinese, associated with FG. They can still be used as they are stand-alone methods. With nothing else to fall back on, I've still successfully driven off glowie psychic attack using these as late as last year. Strongly focus while reading out loud the formula you want to use, along with assuming the position as shown, and focus on "eliminate" ("mie" in Chinese) until the attack stops.

>>3481 "Do what thou wilt" essentially meant "do what your higher self wants to do" or "do God's will". Someone who doesn't know or understand the implications of this statement shouldn't be writing books on magic. But so many people succumb to believing themselves to have "figured out" that the world is filled with useless books.

Some John Kreiter books

>>3686 I just read this post and nodded along not remembering I probably wrote it myself not two months ago.

>>5379 >Way of the Projectionist Been trying to read this for the past week but holy cow is it a slog to get through. There is so much padding and fluff. Part of the issue seems to be that it's trying to be accessible to neophytes even though the subject matter is quite advanced. I will say that the "observing the subjective realm" meditation from chapter 1 is quite useful. It's essentially Jungian active imagination, feels like having a dream while awake.

William Walker Atkinson The Arcane Formulas or Mental Alchemy A Supplementary Volume to The Arcane Teaching

I'm not sure if linking Reddit directly from here is a good idea, so I'm just going to do it like this. Pic related and the link contain the same text. I encourage that you seek out this user's posts in these two threads for further reading, because there are a lot of dots that can be connected with what he explained. If you make it fit into what you already know, a lot of mysteries can be revealed to you. https://tinyurl.com/yfdpcjk3

>>6202 So, just for teh lulz I fed this checklist to an AI to see if it could make sense of it and write something useful, and holy shit I'm surprised. I don't want to fill the board with even more AI slop, so I'll just paste the links here because I think they contain valuable info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_(theology) https://www.sacred-texts.com/swd/hh/hh01.htm https://selfdefinition.org/hearing-voices/articles/wilson-van-dusen-presence-of-spirits-in-madness.htm https://www.ecosophia.net/blogs-and-essays/the-well-of-galabes/foundations-of-magical-practice-divination/ https://northernshamanism.org/soul-map.html https://thenightgarden.substack.com/p/dao-of-dream-continues

http://www.chaosmatrix.org/ A collection of old chaos magic writings from the 90s and 2000s. Some interesting stuff in here.

Thelema Basically everything Crowley wrote plus a lot of other stuff, neatly organized and with great quality. https://keepsilence.org/the-equinox/ If you're interested in technical books for rituals, correspondences, etc., check out this listing instead: https://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/index

Basically thousands and thousands of texts. Check out the subdirectories! https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/religion.occult.new_age/

Some Chaos Magic books

Neville Goddard Law of Attraction stuff (very basic but useful to remember)

>>1097 Hi anons Any books or sites with the topic of visualization training in a simple and straightforward way? >Also I am also looking for something about lucid dream training although I only found a site about a scientific researcher who explains the phenomenon very well, but I haven't tried to find if she has any books yet. https://www.susanblackmore.uk/articles/lucid-dreaming-awake-in-your-sleep/ Thanks in advance. >Pic no related

>>6455 Just spend some time every day practicing visualizing something. These might also help >>1617

Golden Dawn magic, but explained by one of the greatest of this time. My library is 80GB+. What the fuck am I doing.

1987 - Opening to Channel, How to Connect With Your Guide - S. Roman, D. Packer >>8799 > My library is 80GB+. What the fuck am I doing. My library is similar sized. Most of the books that I collected back in my hoarding phase a decade ago. I read I think barely 10% of those books. Always thought I will have a nice, calm stage in my life when I will have time to read them and practice properly. Life didn't think that way. So I had to develop my magic as I lived my life. There was a phase when I didn't know what I was doing and searched through my books and always had a pdf talking about what I didn't understand, so I cannot call it completely useless... but sadly I can't recommend a single good book on magic to anyone. I am not saying that all of it is trash... it's just, I don't know which will help any aspiring magician. Criticizing a book is always easier than understanding it. I never had a book that I fell in love with at all. I have my own astral tablets and scrolls handed to me by entities for a long time. I don't really read those either. If I need them I read them but otherwise they go onto the pile. They say a good book can change a person. But not all of those changes are desirable. Especially because some changes cannot be undone easily. Here a book that I never read but seems useful and figured out half it's contents during my own practice anyway. I don't know how good it is, but I don't want to besmirch this thread with not posting a PDF, so here it is. TL;DR Hoarding is a phase most of us went through. Completely normal for Initiates. Even Adepts read through them time to time to see if they missed something. I too should go back reading some books to make sure I didn't miss something important. But why strain your eyes when you can listen to the voices already?

ONA Primary https://archive.org/details/Naos-APracticalGuideToModernMagick Unfortinately the file for NAOS is 44MB so I can't upload it here, and this above is not the exact same copy, but that's what I can do for now, will post what I have here now aside from that one.

An Experiment with Time and Serial Universe are a series (in that order). Atwater is a bit new-agey, but I think the book has good information in it. Bid Time Return is a novel, but Matheson based his fiction on real accounts, and consulted with mediums and such. This one is probably one of the less grounded in reality, but the technique used for time travel is remarkably similar to "shifting" techniques (which work and are sound in theory). Moreover, it's one of those stories you wish you could forget so that you could read it again.

I don't think I ever shared this guy's channels, but there are some very interesting nuggets in there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00fWJe5raM[Embed] The guy's story itself is pretty interesting. From what I remember (it has been a while), he had a heart attack after being very reckless with Bardon's techniques. https://www.youtube.com/@11faustia11 https://www.youtube.com/@faustia-TheFirstFivePages

Ophiel books. I really like his style of writing. He's my second favorite occult writer after Uncle Chuckie. I don't see him discussed much anymore though.

Old /fringe/ astral projection books

Old /fringe/ astral projection books part 2

Old /fringe/ astral projection books part 3 + an extra mp3

'I' A Sutra; less that 10 copies worldwide. An extremely rare and precious manuscript making a case for and detailing results of the reality of natural reincarnation. Never before posted online. PDF attached

Sefer Yetzirah - the book of creation Ancient kabbalistic manual for the creation of Golems.

Looking for the book of knowledge listed in the /fringe/ essentials guide.

>>13362 Thank you, I didn't expect such a quick reply. Appreciate it friend!

>>13361 >>13362 Is it normal that I don't read almost anything recommended here? It's just that whenever I try, I end up finding some nonsense about new thought or new age hippie stuff, and it becomes unbearable how they mix everything together. The truth is, I only like traditional theurgy and other magical orders things about magic. I don't know why the hell they mix all that hippie stuff with magic wtf is merkaba energy? wtf is psy-mind powers? what the fucking hell is ''chakra-akashic-para-nirvana whatever shit they mix up? Seriously, reading Crowley mixing and exploring yoga techniques is one thing. Reading the Golden Dawn taking influence and techniques from the chinese book The Secret of the Golden Flower to create their energy-visualization rituals is another thing. Reading Dion Fortune and the western yoga and other cringe shit of psy powers is another But I think this is ridiculous and more like acting like an idiot than wanting to reach a magical path just by mixing nonsense. I think it would be easier to go to LOA and deal with the nonsense of sigils than this shit. One day here i even read some nonsense about theosophy and ascended masters, which comes from a fucking American brainwashing cult. There's even that Falun Gong garbage, but they took original Chinese techniques and adapted them to their cult lore. Do I really have to read academic stuff to get into the world of traditional magic? I no longer feel like I'm on Fringe, I feel more like I'm on Cringe. Maybe I'm blind, but I feel like I'm just reading about contradictory systems and I can't create my own because it's fucking ridiculous. I feel like I only read trash and pop culture crumbs compared to magical lodges, I'm tired of this shit.

>>13364 If you were willing to look at the energy behind texts instead of getting caught up in semantics you'd be able to understand it easily. You really need to learn to humble yourself and try to understand other peoples' point of view rather than instinctually taking an adversarial stance towards anything the moment it starts going against the grain of your thoughts. If you did that you might just be able to learn something.

>>13364 Maybe you could try reading the corpus hermetica and books from long before the new age existed. Books from antiquity and medieval times.

>>13364 robert anton wilson speaks about reality tunnels and the nature of perception. Things are just put into unique terms and structures to fix the specific reality tunnel they are operating in.

>>13364 >Do I really have to read academic stuff to get into the world of traditional magic? yes >>13366 >corpus hermetica and ESSWE >>13368 >robert anton wilson speaks about reality tunnels and the nature of perception. Post-modern approach but still good a cool dude >how to get started in traditional hermeticism (academic approach) >Emerald Tablet >Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus >Corpus Hermeticum >Asclepius >Poimandres >Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth Prayer of Thanksgiving >Cyranides >Liber Hermetis (astrological) >Korē kosmou >The Book of the Secrets of the Stars >Emerald Tablet (There're other emerald tablets) >The Secret of Creation >Kitāb al-Isṭamākhīs >Liber Hermetis de alchemia and I can go on and on even though there are texts in Arabic. >why not read the kybalion bullshit? https://digitalambler.com/2023/07/07/psa-faq-the-kybalion-is-not-a-hermetic-text/ https://arnemancy.com/articles/hermeticism/what-to-read-instead-of-the-kybalion/ >Some guide for texts https://arnemancy.com/articles/hermeticism/the-best-books-on-hermeticism/ https://digitalambler.com/2021/06/17/hermeticism-faq-part-i-overview-and-history/ https://digitalambler.com/2021/06/18/hermeticism-faq-part-ii-texts/ https://digitalambler.com/2021/06/19/hermeticism-faq-part-iii-doctrine/ https://digitalambler.com/2021/06/20/hermeticism-faq-part-iv-practice/ >That which is above is from that which is below, and that which is below is from that which is above. This is a more accurate and faithful translation of the original. Good luck.

>>13369 Funny thread lol https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/37910412

>>13364 >>13366 >>13369 >ESSWE Maybe this help https://archive.4plebs.org/x/search/text/ESSWE/

>>13369 Nah, the Kybalion is great for beginners. Only armchair academic types who treat magic as a branch of sociology care that it's "not real hermeticism".

>>13372 >Nah, the Kybalion is great for beginners. Only armchair academic types who treat magic as a branch of sociology care that it's "not real hermeticism". I agree but I just suggested older hermetic literature because >>13364 said he wasn't interested in New Thought.

>>13364 >I don't know why the hell they mix all that hippie stuff with magic >wtf is merkaba energy? wtf is psy-mind powers? what the fucking hell is ''chakra-akashic-para-nirvana whatever shit they mix up? If you don't understand the vocabulary, why not do some web searches or use an online dictionary for yoga or kabbalah? You're going to face new terminology if you decide to learn new things. That said I've skimmed the recommended books and found nothing useful in them, so I looked elsewhere. I posted those I've actually used(to varying degree) above >>1102 >>1103 >>1104 >>2965 >>2966 tulpa.info is also a good resource.

Fren's Library (from Frenschan). Mostly politics, but some interesting stuff, like pre-holocaust literature. https://archive.org/details/frenschan

is khans stuff worth looking at? I never followed him or his work.

>>13471 It's quite basic. He deleted his youtube channel tho. His stuff explains some basics, but nothing really groundbreaking. You can skim it fast to make your judgement.

>>13520 I disagree. If anon is at the level where he will benefit from Khans material, he should study (and practice) it thoroughly. It benefits no one to pretend we are all ascended masters who know and can do everything about magic. Even Elmo's ABC can teach you something if you need to learn it.

>>13565 I don't know what level is Anon at. Khan's PDF has a bunch of techniques that were somewhat widespread back then and Khan's stuff helped those newcomers who knew nothing of energy work and other basics. I read his stuff when he posted them and used some of his techniques. I had results with them, but didn't become an ascended master from them. I don't know what are the standards Anon has. Khan deleted his youtube channel for a reason. If he was here today he would probably write his own posts completely differently from the PDF that was made a decade ago. People at Neophyte level might benefit from it from a lot. Everyone should make their judgement if it's good or not. It's not a very long PDF compared to most magical books. Anyone can read through it within a single afternoon. And I think Anon meant the PDF which is posted in this thread. If Anon wants to look at every post that Khan made through the archives then he is in for a long journey ahead.

Can I share philosophy videos in this thread or should I share them in the intrusive thoughts thread?

>>13593 You should make a new thread for /fringe/ videos

>>1097 >pic I've been there in Ireland. It sucked.

>>13601 What about it sucked?

>>13607 Nothing but books.

>>13744 >Slightly lower the gaze behind closed lids until awareness rests between the eyebrows This blew my mind when I first did it. It's not a typo. You lower the gaze slightly, and your attention lands on the third eye. It's subtle, and if you turn your eyeballs downward too much, it doesn't work. But if yuo do it just right, it clicks, and there's a decoupling of your attention from your physical body "inwards".

>>13744 >>13745 You post some good stuff. Thank you.

>>13749 Sadly, I used ChatGPT like a fool and the instructions are misleading. Turning the light around (回光返照), for example, consists in observing the observer, not the “heart center” as I put in that PDF. I’m sorry. These instructions at the end are better: Perplexity AI: Meditation technique called 回光返照 https://www.perplexity.ai/search/meditation-technique-called-hu-ilHAdbqYS_iMrQQcPIdHRg

I reported my own post and I hope BO deletes that PDF before it starts spreading. The details are a mess. ChatGPT really did a number on this and it’s my fault for not double checking.

Sepher Ha-Bahir “The Book of Illumination” Early kabbalistic text.

Sepher Ha-Razim, the book of mysteries, english translation. A kabbalistic book on magic which was banned in earlier centuries for being too occult. Compiled into this format in the early 1900s for the purpose of modern research. This is not the format it was originally passed around in, which can be assumed to have been more fragmented.

>>14473 >look through my 100+ gigabytes large occult library >this is my only book with the word apotheosis in it's title I forget what gems I hoard in most cases. Was certain I have more books with the apotheosis word in it's title. I should renew my book hoarder armchair occultist loisense and start getting books again..

Micheal Aquino

Khemet = black, reference to the black soil of the Nile Al-khemet = black arts, when Egyptian arts are translated to Arabic Alchemy = when the Arabic version of Egyptian arts are brought to Europe, also called black arts or black magic Worth reading for the intro, but the rest of this is confused beyond description. Just read the book of Genesis, it's the exact same content but structured so it can be used for something.