 | Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires: The Classical Texts of Magick Deciphered by Aaron Leitch
Buy new: $25.51 / Used from: $12.99 Understanding the grimoires in context.
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 | Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and Practical Guide to the Magick of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley by Lon Milo DuQuette
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.98 Its good to have a primer on this Renaissance system that actually takes the work in the context of the time written!
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 | BOTH SIDES OF HEAVEN - A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS EXPLORING THE ORIGINS, HISTORY, NATURE AND MAGICAL PRACTICES OF ANGELS, FALLEN ANGELS AND DEMONS
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $37.21 While this has no practical advice, its a good study in magical cosmology, especially if you are going to work with actual entities.
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 | John Dee's Five Books of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic
Buy new: $42.90 / Used from: $33.95 Contains Dee's journals and information on the heptarchia.
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 | Three Books of Occult Philosophy (Llewellyn's Sourcebook) by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $29.00 This book is absolutely necessary, the first 2 chapters for practice, the last chapter for cosmological considerations. Also a good way to check golden dawn correspondences.
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 | Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim
Buy new: $27.13 / Used from: $25.00 A good summary of magic in general, plus it contains the grimoire heptameron.
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 | Veritable Key of Solomon (Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic Series) by Stephen Skinner
Buy new: $43.87 / Used from: $35.00 A very useful book containing 3 translations of the Key of Solomon, as opposed to the single translation from Mathers.
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 | The Lesser Key of Solomon
Buy new: $32.59 / Used from: $25.69 Way better than the Mathers/Crowley version, which was prematurely published by Crowley before mathers had time to finish his work.
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 | Between the Gates: Lucid Dreaming, Astral Projection, and the Body of Light in Western Esotericism by Mark Stavish
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $10.48 A great primer on astral projection and skrying in the spirit vision. A must for those doing practical work.
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 | The Goetia of Dr Rudd: The Angels & Demons of Liber Malorum Spirituum Seu Goetia Lemegeton Clavicula Salomanis with a study of the techniques of evocation ... context of (Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic) by Stephen Skinner
Buy used from: $220.75 This is useful in that it shows how a magician in times past actually USED the lesser key of solomon.
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 | Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic by Thomas Karlsson
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $85.42 I'm not usually a fan of "Left Hand Path" texts, but this one shows excellent scholarship and is a good read to understand better the Qlippothic forces.
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 | Hands-On Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation through the Ovayki Current by Andrieh Vitimus
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $28.02 Probably one of the best books on post-modern chaos/sorcery. Doesn't tie in with the rest of this list, but still useful.
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