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As the title implies what are your top three favorite occult related books. The problem I find with most occult books is they can genuinely fall into one one two categories. Either they are overly academic, dry, and dense, written in a way so only very experienced people can comprehend them or they are overly fluffy, shallow and lack depth. I will tell my top three in a little bit but would love to hear others first.

Liber null = First occult book that actually made some sense.

Satanic witch = Probably the funniest book about magic.

Satanic bible = I like a huge part of this book. Not all o fit. I'm not a satanist, but I think it is one of the best pieces of 20th century literature.

Oven ready chaos by phil hine, thas was actually one of the most important books for me so far.

Ramscha wrote:Oven ready chaos by phil hine, thas was actually one of the most important books for me so far.

Is this available in print anywhere?
The only thing I can find is a pdf.

I looked it up and I can't find any print copies so far.

Wow.

My friend has a print copy and that's how I read it,by borrowing from him.[ all the way back in 1999/2000 I think.]

As far as I know there are no prints on the market anymore, but you could print out the pdf [wink]

You can do so quite legally too,as the pdf is on Phil's site:

http://www.philhine.org.uk/writings/index_e-books.html

As a book collector I am allergic to PDF's, digital reading and printouts.
It's a flaw. but I allow it.

the best books for me so far are probably modern magick, the new encyclopedia of the occult by John Michael Greer (amazing reference) and probably the essential golden dawn

The Secret Teachings of All Ages
By Manly P. Hall

The Black Art
By Rollo Ahmed

...are both good overall/historical.

The Prophet
By Kahil Gibran

...for poetic Truths.

My Favourites are too numerous to mention, but books from Llewellyn and Finbarr is worth looking into.

Anything by Llewellyn I take with a massive, massive grain of salt. Some of their writers have put out valuable stuff, but their books are on the whole very fluffy and stray away from answering or approaching some serious topics seriously. They come across sometimes as being aimed at the 'teenage 'witch market ' and alot of their works annoy me.

I am currently enjoying all the works written by by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold on Quimbanda. As someone who is following a more western traditional path I am also heavily interested in herbs and making oils, incense etc from them. To that end I dug out an old hardcover copy of paul husons mastering herbalism which though showing its age and 1970s writing style is a good read and start.

As for two oddball texts also managed to get a hold of 218 s recent book called 'The Book of Sitra Achra- A Grimoire of the Dragons ofthe Other Side-'and also a very rare copy of Liber Nigri Solis. Lots to read up on!

Also been wanting to get myself one of the newer editions of clavicula nox, but cant really justify it at the moment when my money is going to other much more needed projects of a magickal and mundane nature.