Reviews for Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1898)

The average rating for Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1898) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-11-14 00:00:00 Martha Zouzalik Rubbish. Tried to raise a dragon. Failed. Tried to raise the ghost of Jesus. Failed. Tried to win the lottery. Failed. Tried to cast fireball in a meeting at my office nemesis. Failed.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-06-22 00:00:00 Jared Humes An excellent starting point for understanding Western occultism. Move forward from here - hitting other high points over the next five hundred years, including: 1) John Dee and Edward Kelly (late 1500s)- many books available on the history and fruits of their brief but intense collaboration. 2) Rosicrucian manifestos (early 1600s; authorship unknown, typically assigned to the name 'Christian Rosenkreutz') - available from many internet sources. 3) Count Cagliostro (aka Joseph Balsamo; 1700s) - mostly biographical works. 4) Adam Weishaupt & Illuminati sects (1700s)- mostly biographical and historical works. 5) Emanuel Swedenborg (1700s) 6) Paschal Beverly Randolph (1800s) - probably the most important, influential occultist to come out of the American spirituality movement of that century. Many of his works are in the public domain. 7) Eliphas Levi (1800s) - French occultist with large output, mostly a synthesizer. 8) MacGregor Mathers (late 1800s) - founder of Golden Dawn; specialist in Enochian magic and the Kabbalah 9) Helena Blavatsky (late 1800s) - founder of the Theosophical Society; wrote Isis Unveiled. 10) Aleister Crowley (late 1800s to mid 1900s) - member of Golden Dawn, founder of AA, member of OTO, inventor of "magick" movement - Enochian magic, ceremonial magic, tantra, sex magic, various forms of yoga (list goes on and on) 11) G.I. Gurdjieff (1900s) - the Fourth Way 12) Dion Fortune (1900s) - practical magic, Kabbalah 13) Emericus Durden (2000s) - skeptical nihilism