What are some nice Occult books that aren't considered fiction?

>>9143521

There are two or three versions of the "key of solomon", "the lesser key of solomon", etc, which are availbe from Weiser. They all revolve around the same basic idea of summoning demons, controlling them, and then banishing them when you're done with them. One of these is actually prepared in a halfway serious scholarly fashion by an editor.

The actual stuff is very dry, though. By the simple fact that it's not "fiction" in the sense of being a prose narrative, but instead like a textbook. That's what a grimoire /is/: a technical textbook that actually purports to teach you magic of some kind: "this is magic. Here is how you do it, here is how you do NOT do it, etc."

Texts like these eventually inspired some flimf-flam man to write the NECRONOMICON, or "Simonomicon", which is commonly available in B&Ns (and which has nothing to do with Lovecraft himself, despite cribbing the name of his own fictional book). This is a cheap paperback which purports to be an old babylonian text, and the layout basically gives the novice an idea of what a grimoire is actually like, albeit as a hoax/ruse. It's actually kind of fun to read, though, as whoever actually wrote it is careful to give the text some recurring entities/characters and set up a sort of plot/cosmology of the universe. In this sense, the book is much more like a conventional prose fictional narrative, because it was spiced up as-such when written.

Of course one can still banish occult stuff under the larger rubric of "made up bullshit", but I get that you're just looking for texts that don't "work" quite the same way as conventional fiction.

>>9143569
That's basically what I'm asking for, the first part. I'm looking for more or less historical works from people who actually believe what they're writing, or it was written long enough ago that everyone believed it.

>>9143521
probably the one where it says to become immortal you sew your heart into a white goose, place it into a barrel and bury it under an ash tree. i can't fucking find it.

OP here. I found a good resource after looking around a bit. If anyone else is interested, the Occult tag on piratebay is decent, and hermetics.org is pretty alright.

>>9143521
aleister crowley is where you should go, he'll be plenty and then some.