I'm thinking of starting an occult library. What are some essential must-have books to start with?
the bibble
>>19126826
Love without tears and Love in theory and practice
Pride & Prejudice
>>19126847
Fuck, sorry about that. It's funny that HIM albums have names similar to books. Anyways, replace Love with Magic
>>19126826
It depends on what your focus is. I prefer stuff dealing with the history of Western esoterica and cults. The Satanic Bible, Prometheus Rising, a few biographies on Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard... What do you like to read?
>>19126919
>Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard
No Gardner to complete the trifecta? Shiggy diggy.
You could do it the old fashion way and build your library by buying whatever cool books you happen across.
Have you looked into Ape of Thoth's library? There seem to be quite a few there that many would consider "essential."
>How to Socialize: The theory
>How to pick up girls
>How to think creatively
>How to create tulpas
>An idiots guide to "the stranger" methods of masturbation
>How to believe my own hallucinations
Classics, all of them.
>>19126954
And then print them out and bind them with wire binders. I did so.
>>19126826
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
>>19126984
will dried shit and leaves work for binding?
>>19127003
The way magic works there is pretty legit. The idea of mantles is also really nice, and plausible. The fairies are toally wrong, though.
>>19127013
I don't know, honestly. But why leaves?
>>19127014
I'm not so thrilled about the ghosts either. Or potions.
>>19127017
More natural and strong, duh.
I'm glad you see the resourcefulness of feces though.
>>19127020
Nah, the ghosts are like that. Imprints of a persons core at the end.
And potions would be okay if they were replaced by other stuff that works with symbolic sympathetic links. I have yet to see a potion that works which doesn't involve roofies.
>>19127049
Well, it's easier to paste something using shit than leaves.
>>19127064
the fuck am I going to use to bind them? So you expect me to just glue all of the pages together in some paper mache turd?
>>19126826
>How to be a fagg
>Fedora tips
>My /×/
>>19127084
And dries leaves mache is better?
>>19127092
Well with shit, yeah.
Same thing as a book binding just without that godless bleached paper and glue.
>>19127100
Same shit, desu.
>>19127103
No. NO IT FUCKING ISNT IT ISNT NATURAL YOURE MURDERING A TREE SPIRIT, BLEACHING IT'S BODY, AND GRINDING A HORSES HOOVES TO MAKE A BOOK.
LEAVES AND EXCREMENT ARE OFFERINGS TO THE WORLD FROM THESE CREATURES TO USE
>>19127115
So, you're a wiccan hippie fag?
>>19127120
Nah just your run of the mill shitposter
>>19127138
just shitting everywhere I can >>>19123103
>>19127138
Even worse. But you're our kind of worse.
>>19127144
Fuck me I actually appreciated the sentiment.
A true classic
>>19127174
Is there a PDF of this shit anywhere?
Liber ABA parts 1-4, The Middle Pillar, The Tree of Life, Psychic Self-Defense, The Complete Golden Dawn, Hatha Yoga Pradapika, 777, Liber O, Sepher Ha-Zohar, Sefer Yetzirah (ed. Aryeh Kaplan),Secret Teachings of All Ages, Morals and Dogma, Magick Without Tears, Clouds Without Water, Nag Hammadi, and that's just a few to get started.
>>19127218
Also, Corpus Hermeticum and Agrippa's 3 Books on Occult Philosophy
>>19127231
The Necronomicon