Book Discussion Do you believe in life changing books in the occult

[lightning]

While walking this path, i found some books that was very interesting and i can call as life changing, in terms of results not wishful thinking and imagination, such as reality transurfing very good book.

but in relation to Magic and working with Demons i still did not come across an impressive book that is both well explained and in same time life changing in relation to the results one achieve through it, at least, potential results.

did you find that or in magic its different?

 

[nunaphael]

Yeah I felt like everything started to really click for me when I read De Mysteriis by Iamblichus. I can honestly say that book changed my life and helped me improve myself and get over many of my childish fears, and helped me find courage and hope to endure and persist through any trial or tribulation I've had to face since. This book influenced me more than anything else I've ever read.

 

[Lurking Magician]

I had some book that were life changing at the moment I read them, and then realised much later (usually by reading more books) that they weren't as illuminating as I first thought.
But I also had books that didn't leave a lasting impression, and became a revelation years later, either by a re-read or because another book suddenly unlocked something I hadn't fully realised at the time.

 

[lightning]

I had some book that were life changing at the moment I read them, and then realised much later (usually by reading more books) that they weren't as illuminating as I first thought.
But I also had books that didn't leave a lasting impression, and became a revelation years later, either by a re-read or because another book suddenly unlocked something I hadn't fully realised at the time.

Can you give names of the ones that were illuminating? In the sense that you got results with them, not just intellectual understandings etc

 

[sirrontheshaman36]

Facts

 

[anAnarchistWizard]

Normally Christian stuff turns me off, but Meditations on The Tarot is a Christian Hermetic book that was life changing for me. You know that feeling when you finish a book and just wander around the house for a while? That was each chapter for me.

 

[HoldAll]

Liber Null & Psychonaut as well as Liber Kaos by Peter J. Carroll did it for me. Those books were nothing less than revolutionary for me because they were unapologetically about results whereas previous works from the interwar and postwar periods mainly dealt with mysticism, memorizing endless tables of correspondences, submitting to order hierarchies as well as bowing down to alleged 'ancient wisdom' with a dubious pedigree. Carroll's books were fresh and irreverent, encouraging independent thinking and overturning fusty old traditions. They emphasised the power of the individual to choose (and design) his or her own path. Highy recommended if you're longing for a breath of fresh air!

 

[Lurking Magician]

Can you give names of the ones that were illuminating? In the sense that you got results with them, not just intellectual understandings etc

Funnily enough, a few verses from the Gospels had a deeper meaning, once I had enough years of occult learning.

The Greatness of Satun by Svoboda was the missing link I needed to understand astrology - and my approch to a working praxis with it.
Sacred Gender by Ariana Serpentine changed completly my approach to binary in the occult - and my gendered bias in relating with entities.
Seven Spheres by Rufus Opus was a complex ceremonial invocation made easy(er) - and helped me understand older ceremonial rites and what their working mechanism was.