What's the best book to serve as an introduction to the occult?

>>8756020
My diary desu

Là-Bas, Huysmans.

Foucault's Pendulum
It's all nonsense anon
And just an excuse to blame stuff on Jews

>>8756020
Occult stuff is retarded. It's like retarded theology that's almost purposefully vague and stupid

>>8757247
>not praising a memetic chaos frog with esotric repeating numerals
lmao r u even /lit/

Check out the Corpus Hermeticum and Franz Bardon's Initiation Into Hermetics to get an intro to magic and alchemy. I don't deal much in the way of spirits and the like, so I can't really recommend any material regarding spooky ghosts.

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>>8757277
>77
all hail.

The Tanakh, Holy Bible, and Apocrypha in good translations with commentary; Apophthegmata Patrum; primary texts of kabbalah and gnosticism. Trying to understand the occult without understanding its relationship with those texts leads to New Age plebdom.

>>8757619
>Gnosticism
Nag Hammadi library is the best resource on Gnosticism, not really occult though, more like an alternate interpretation of the bible.

I'd say 'Natural Magics' by John Baptist Della Porta (orig. 'De Magicae Naturalis, Gianbattista de la Porta). Spells and stuff. The Satanic Bible has a few more (purely symbolic) if that is what you are looking for.

Aleister Crowley has a couple works (Book of Thoth, book of lies) but tend to jump around from topic to topic. Honestly I got more from just watching the documentary about him.

I think Order of Nine Angles (O9A) and Temple of Black Light (formerly, Misanthropic Luciferian Order) have a grimoire or two in PDF format, if you are into the black metally sort. Takes some time to track down online. Had to find a translation from Polish.

>>8757247
I like to read old stuff for history, speculation.

>new age plebdom
Wiccans hexing away the belly fat

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plotinus
proclus
paracelsus
pseudo dionysius
nicholas of cusa
marsilio ficino
giordano bruno
heinrich cornelius agrippa
corpus hermeticum

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>>8757636
~*+)0( BLESS'D BE )0(+*~