Author Occult Authors Hall of Fame

[SkullTraill]

In this thread we can list out our personal opinions of the most prolific, ubiquitous, contributive, useful, underrated occult authors! Current or past.

Here's my list:

• Damon Brand
• Jason Miller
• Crowley
• Geof Gray-Cobb
• Raymond Buckland
• Scott Cunningham
• Josephine McCarthy
• Franz Bardon
• Lynn Thorndike
• Lon Milo DuQuette
• Jake Stratton-Kent
• Stephen Skinner
• Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
• Donald Tyson
• Michael Cecchetelli
• Aaron Leitch
• David Rankine
• Israel Regardie
• Joseph Peterson
• Damien Echols
• John Michael Greer
• Osborne Phillips
• Melita Denning
• Christopher Warnock
• Old man Agrippa

These guys are G.O.A.T.ed legends. Most of the books in my collection are from them.

Here's a few almost-GOATed:

• Rufus Opus
• Brother Moloch (I pray to God he rejoins WF)
• Frater Acher
• Gordon Winterfield
• Frater Ashen Chassan

I could be missing a few so lemme know.

 

[Incognitus]

I’d add Steve Savedow.

 

[SkullTraill]

I’d add Steve Savedow.

I really should read that book from him that you did a book report on.

 

[Yazata]

HP Blavatsky. I love the Secret Doctrine. Of course in today's world everybody has the internet and is an expert and jumps at the chance to say she's a fraud etc.

 

[The God-King]

Nicolaj De Mattos Frisvold should be on the list as should Edgar Kerval and Donald Michael Kraig.

 

[Scottish_Pride]

Yo we need a Hall of Infamy, too. For the ones that are famous, but maybe not always for the best reasons. cough cough Silver Ravenwolf cough cough Koetting

 

[Mider2009]

Albertus Magnus​

 

[BachausMaximus]

Andrew Chumbley

 

[fratersmaragdus]

Nicolaj De Mattos Frisvold should be on the list as should Edgar Kerval and Donald Michael Kraig.

Nicolaj De Mattos Frisvold is bad tbh... Half of his stuff come from his imagination, which sucks because there's not much Brazilian Left books translated to English, so most internationals end up using his content.

 

[BachausMaximus]

While not perfect, I really like the way Skinner presents material and provides examples in his videos. His explanations and cross cultural research is interesting and valuable for a practicing magician.

 

[Morell]

I will highlight Mikal Nyght.
First Teachings of the Immortals is impressive work of guiding one to think better way. I especially liked the part of making different definition of intention and intent. Intention understood as wishful thinking, while intent being something you pursue and intend to do no matter what. Something really worth thinking about and being conscious about when practicing.

 

[MorganBlack]

Neat thread!

Nice to see Denning and Phillips on your list, SkullTraill. You don't see Aurum Solis mentioned enough as informative influences.

In his book ' Pieces of Eight' chaos magician and shamanic practitioner Gordon White gives his recommend reading list for a minimum credible Rune Soup chaos magic library.

Many practitioners and seekers mush it all together under the all-use and ubiquitous word Persian loan-word "magic" and project a lot of their own hopes and dreams into it (as they should, so no real slam) , so I appreciate White's breakdown into more distinctive and useful categories.

I have a few I'd add, but I think this list is super solid, and I'll post it here unedited.

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Chaos Magic
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Liber Kaos – Peter J Carroll
Liber Null & Psychonaut – Peter J Carroll
Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick – Peter J Carroll
The Apophenion – Peter J Carroll
The Octavo – Peter J Carroll
Epoch: The Esotericon and Portals of Chaos – Peter J Carroll & Matt Kabryn
Pieces of Eight – Gordon White
Necronomicon - Simon (edited)

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Western Magic and Witchcraft (Practical)
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The Magical Treatise of Solomon or Hygromanteia – Ioannis Marathakis
The Lesser Key of Solomon – Joseph Peterson
Apocalyptic Witchcraft – Peter Grey
The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation – Hans Dieter Betz
The Book of St Cyprian: The Sorcerer’s Treasure – José Leitāo
Book 4 – Aleister Crowley
Three Books of Occult Philosophy – Henry Cornelius Agrippa
The Orphic Hymns - Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow
The Chaos Protocols – Gordon White

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Western Magic and Witchcraft (Historical/Contextual)
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Geosophia - Jake Stratton-Kent
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books – Owen Davies
Lucifer: Princeps – Peter Grey
Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits – Gordon White
Mystical Origins of the Tarot – Paul Huson
The Quest for Hermes Trismegistus – Gary Lachman
Thrice Great Hermetica and the Janus Age – Joseph P Farrell
Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman World – Daniel Ogden
The Classical World – Robin Lane Fox
Comparing Religions – Jeffrey Kripal
Aleister Crowley: The Biography – Tobias Churton
The Ancient Mysteries – Marvin Meyer
The Sacred and the Profane – Mircea Eliade
The Origins of the World’s Mythologies – E.J. Michael Witzel
Sinister Forces vol 1, 2 and 3 – Peter Levenda
The Red Book – C. G. Jung
Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic – Stephen Skinner
Techniques of Solomonic Magic – Stephen Skinner

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Psi and Science
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The Science Delusion – Rupert Sheldrake
Consciousness Beyond Life – Pim Van Lommel
Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics – Chris Carter
Authors of the Impossible – Jeffrey Kripal
Cosmic Trigger vol 1 – Robert Anton Wilson
Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual – Bill Mollison

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UFOs and Spirits
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Supernatural – Graham Hancock
Dimensions – Jacques Vallée
Confrontations – Jacques Vallée
Forbidden Science vol 1, 2 and 3 – Jacques Vallée
The Super Natural – Jeffrey Kripal and Whitley Streiber
The Trickster and the Paranormal – George P. Hansen
Final Events – Nick Redfern
Food of the Gods – Terence McKenna

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Economics and Probability
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Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives – Leonard Mlodinow
The Internet is Not the Answer – Andrew Keen
Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy – Charles Hugh-Smith

 

[Morell]

BlueFluke, Psychonaut's field manual
Unfinished, yet quite impressive work on chaos magic. (Also like his humor)

 

[MorganBlack]

Daaamn, Morell! Right! BlueFluke's Psychonaut's Field Manual. Great stuff and super cool comic art!

It can be found here, for anyone that's interested.

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[Morell]

Daaamn, Morell! Right! BlueFluke's Psychonaut's Field Manual. Great stuff and super cool comic art!

It can be found here, for anyone that's interested.

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

I know, right?
It's in the forum library too, by the way.

Book – PDF - BlueFluke - Psychonaut Field Manual

Goodreads: For those of you who don't know him, Bluefluke is an artist, a magician and the creator of one of the most awesome magickal manuals on Chaos magick out there. It is simple, on point and really fun to read, it is full of graphic displays and examples created by himself. Also, it can be...

wizardforums.com

I love it myself. Damn regretting that it won't be finished.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Nobody mentioned Alan Chapman yet?

 

[MorganBlack]

For us mostly in this hemisphere, and riffing off y'all and Gordon, adding these:

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Conjure, Hoodoo, Brujeria, Hechicería' - New World Witchcraft (Practical)
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Harry Middleon Hyatt - Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft & Rootwork Vols. 1-5
Catherine Yronwode - Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic
Bother Moloch - Online. For all the advice he gave us Gen-Xers coming out of the 1990's Boomer lodge magic head trip.
Malcom Mills - Potion Book (stolen and published by Herman Slater)
Starr Casas - Old Style Conjure: Hoodoo, Rootwork, & Folk Magic

Almost!
S. Jason Black (with Christopher S. Hyatt ) - Pacts with the Devil
Tarostar - Knocking off points for presenting Conjure / Brujeria as "pagan" witchcraft.
But whatever , it was the 1980's and people knew next to nothing.