Thread 40958413

Where do I begin with occult literature?

>>40958413 (OP)
start with the greeks lol

First you have to cope with the stress of its occurrence. Occultism is not enlightenment, it is confronting yourself with serious factors that


influence our daily life. The system that determines this is merciless to you and here you understand for the first time that you are not the center of the universe.
>>40958413 (OP)

>>40958413 (OP)
Start with whatever system you're most interested in. If you're into Enochian magick try Enochian Magick in Theory by Frater Yechidah, The Essential Enochian Grimoire by Aaron Leitch. If you're a Castaneda guy read all his books, the books by Florinda Donner, the books by Taisha Abelar.

In the end you can read all you like but to truly 'get' the Occult you need firsthand experience.

>>40958618
Not even wrong actually. Plato and Aristotle helped me get over my atheist phase. Then you learn theres this body of literature from hermetics to egyptian inspired magical papyrii, early alchemists, pythagorean maths and numerology
Op you only need to start

>>40958413 (OP)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pmZ7EzvvkFzaa3u13iCcE4K3-IJO8Z2d?usp=sharing here, read the Liber falxifer from 1-3

>>40958413 (OP)
start with the aryans

>>40959027
I don't know what the systems are

>>40958413 (OP)
Start with Carl Jung, try Man and his Symbols

>>40959245
Fucking lazy motherfucker
Just tell us what you wanna learn and we'll tell you where to go

>>40959336
I'm not OP sorry I was joking but since you're so kind I want to talk to entities

>>40959336
>Where do I begin with occult literature?
Lol OP literally asks where to begin. It's fair to assume he doesn't even know what in particular he's interested in.

>>40958413 (OP)
You just wanna read and not practice? Hmm... help us help you by describing what you think about what you think about the occult.

Ok...
Ergodic literature...
The house of leaves...
Going to have to work for it...
Otherwise a quick google...
Can save ya a butt load of time...

For historical perspective, Hannegraaf's Western Esotericism is a great jumping off point
For practical purposes, SSOTBME by Ramsey Dukes is the absolute best starting point
The Book of Pleasure by Spare is essential. Plenty of other authors are good for inspiration--Crowley, Dion Fortune, Florence Farr, Agrippa, Peter Carroll, Jan Fries, Kenneth Grant, Michael Bertiaux, Phil Hine, Hakim Bey, William S Burroughs, and Genesis P-Orridge will all give you a great time

>>40959345
You really dont want that. But thats gained more from direct practice than reading.
Try looking for buddhist temples near you. Preferrably belonging to vajrayana traditions

>>40958413 (OP)
do what I do. I read das kapital, the tetragrammaton, sefer yetsirah, talmud, and all those other writings every day. I read them at work too. If I am traveling, I will read them in public places, and even sometimes in a plane. I especially like reading all the jew works.

I write them on toilet paper with my asshole, look at them, see the exact same thing as in those books, then send them off for the toilet jews to read.

>>40959027
>Start with whatever system you're most interested in. If you're into Enochian magick try Enochian Magick in Theory by Frater Yechidah, The Essential Enochian Grimoire by Aaron Leitch. If you're a Castaneda guy read all his books, the books by Florinda Donner, the books by Taisha Abelar.
>you need firsthand experience
but all those people seem like scammers, even though densely weird the original john dee stories I still avoid giving it a strong weight on me, you understand the system and its ok.
but for castenada lmao, the dude is a total bullshitter.

>>40959843
Why not?

>>40958413 (OP)
Manly P hall then work backwards to Hermes Trismegistus

>>40958413 (OP)
check that torrent from /omg/ tbqh

>>40958634
Could you be more instructive? Actual suggestions?

And no shit about not being center of the universe

>>40961139
Castaneda has Don Juan smoking mushrooms. That was the biggest red flag that the books were 100% bullshit.

>>40958413 (OP)
Just go to the metephysical section of a used book store and see what catches your attention. Also browse the religion and philosophy sections. Some people will mention the Kyballion. It's definitely not bad, but you can learn the exact same stuff from zen, with about 75% less words. So grab some zen books, just nothing by westerners or anything academic.

>>40961698
Cause most people are riddled with demons

>>40958413 (OP)
>Where do I begin
Buy an armchair...

>>40961964
Wouldn't be good to know they are there then and be able to converse or make them go away?

>>40960308
Don't read Das Kapital. Marx didn't understand economics or the labor market. Try anything else, even Hayek.

>>40961824
Could you be little more instructive?