Starting out in magic books

[Blackhat1894]

so im getting into modern magick , trying to give this year a good amount of books. this is my list this year i alredy started with modern magic
Anyone witjh experiece give me your thoughts ill be more that welcomed

Month 1

• Core: Modern Magick — Donald Michael Kraig
• Support: The Chicken Qabalah — Lon Milo DuQuette
• Tarot: The New Tarot Handbook (daily pull / study)

Month 2

• Core: Modern Magick
• Support: Son of Chicken Qabalah — Lon Milo DuQuette
• Tarot: The New Tarot Handbook

Month 3

• Core: Modern Magick
• Support: Low Magick — Lon Milo DuQuette
• Tarot: The New Tarot Handbook

Month 4

• Core: The Essential Golden Dawn — Chic & Sandra Cicero
• Support: The Tree of Life — Israel Regardie
• Tarot: Continue The New Tarot Handbook

Month 5

• Core: The Essential Golden Dawn
• Support: The Magician’s Workbook — Donald Tyson
• Tarot: Finish The New Tarot Handbook

Month 6

• Core: The Golden Dawn — Israel Regardie
• Support: Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick
• Tarot: Begin 78 Degrees of Wisdom

Month 7

• Core: The Middle Pillar — Israel Regardie
• Support: 78 Degrees of Wisdom — Rachel Pollack
• Tarot: 78 Degrees of Wisdom (continue)

Month 8

• Core: The Philosopher’s Stone — Israel Regardie
• Support: 78 Degrees of Wisdom (continue)
• Tarot: 78 Degrees of Wisdom / Tarot practice

Month 9

• Core: Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition — Chic & Sandra Cicero
• Support: The Tarot Architect
• Tarot: The Tarot Architect

Month 10

• Core: Golden Dawn Magic — Chic & Sandra Cicero
• Support: Golden Dawn Rituals — Chic & Sandra Cicero
• Tarot: The Tarot Architect

Month 11

• Core: A Garden of Pomegranates — Israel Regardie
• Support: The One Year Manual — Israel Regardie
• Tarot: Optional review / spreads

Month 12

• Core: The Lost Book of Alchemy — Israel Regardie
• Support: My Life with the Spirits — Lon Milo DuQuette
• Optional / Light: The Magick of Aleister Crowley & Enochian Vision Magick — Lon Milo DuQuette
• Tarot: Final review / synthesis

Daily Rule
70 min → Core book
30 min → Support book
20 min → Banishing + meditation + Tarot practice/journaling

 

[Morell]

Sounds like a scheme for a robot. But it can work.

 

[Blackhat1894]

Sounds like a scheme for a robot. But it can work.

Thanks to be honest I tried researching with chat gpt all the books and started making the list based on reviews and YouTube recommended books .

 

[Morell]

Thanks to be honest I tried researching with chat gpt all the books and started making the list based on reviews and YouTube recommended books .

Oh men, that explains it! You ask robot with zero inteligence who thinks as a robot to design something for someone who is not a robot.
There is reason why I call artificial inteligence to be fake inteligence as it describes it better.

My honest recommendation: One book at a time.

Example of beginners routine:
Start with something with focus and meditation and some base for daily practice. Search and construct some banishing ritual. Either from Liber null, LBRP, or something else, that will give you some practical stuff to do multiple times a day (morning and evening before bed) Also find some good tutorial on meditation and start practicing that. Aim to achieve 30 minutes meditating at least once a day. Twice is better.

It is reading for 1-2 days. Then it is practice, not long, and it will be boring but even that needs to be overcome for magic to become your second nature.

Once you memorize the practice, work on improving it, and you can start reading theory on Kabbalah, if that is your aim. Book after book so you can set up understanding base. After few months of study and practicing the above, you will have some focus, along with mastered banishing ritual. Then you can start practicing Kabbalah, trying and adding more stuff to your work.

 

[Blackhat1894]

I really appreciate it , you are the first feedback I get , I'm sticking with modern magick by kraig at the moment

 

[Morell]

Sounds good.