Seeking Recommendation Books Recommendation for beginners?

[sashataj]

Hi, I am quite new to this site. But I love the community that is built here. I’ve always been pulled to magick and I recently just started learning and practicing. I just wanted to get suggestions on reading material and such for beginners!

 

[BBMage]

What kind of magic are you interested in?

 

[morgwyn]

It really depends on what sort of magick you are interested in but for a true newbie, a book that goes over Protection magick is a great start.

I can recommend Jason Miller's book on "Protection & Reversal Magick".

 

[HoldAll]

[Help] - tips or a suggestions for beginner

hey guys do you have any tips or starting recommendation (books, authors, etc) for somone who is getting started. im mostly interested in LHP/personal power/knowledge. also is there any thing (ritual, prayer, etc) that you know of or have done to, lets say increase the...

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[Alpaca]

I also recommend psychic witch by mat auryn

 

[Winston]

Quel genre de magie vous intéresse ?

Hello, my goal is to regain control of myself because my mind tends to wander; I want to find myself again. My passion for magic began when I read a book. The main character was Bakargika, a magician I barely knew, but who, unfortunately, taught me nothing. The style of magic I enjoy often revolves around attraction In love, and I'd like to start there.

 

[Winston]

Je recommande également Psychic Witch de Ma

Cela dépend vraiment du type de magie qui vous intéresse, mais pour un vrai débutant, un livre qui traite de la magie de protection est un excellent point de départ.

Je peux vous recommander le livre de Jason Miller sur la « magie de protection et d'inversion ».

Quel genre de magie vous intéresse ?

Bonjour, mon objectif est de reprendre le contrôle de moi-même car mon esprit a tendance à vagabonder ; je souhaite me retrouver. Ma passion pour la magie a commencé par la lecture d'un livre. Le personnage principal était Bakargika, un magicien que je connaissais à peine et qui, malheureusement, ne m'a rien appris. Le style de magie que j'apprécie s'articule souvent autour de l'attraction amoureuse, et j'aimerais commencer par là.

Bonjour, mon objectif est de reprendre le contrôle de moi-même car mon esprit a tendance à vagabonder ; je souhaite me retrouver. Ma passion pour la magie a commencé par la lecture d'un livre. Le personnage principal était Bakargika, un magicien que je connaissais à peine et qui, malheureusement, ne m'a rien appris. Le style de magie que j'apprécie s'articule souvent autour de l'attraction amoureuse, et j'aimerais commencer par là.

 

[BBMage]

Hello, my goal is to regain control of myself because my mind tends to wander; I want to find myself again. My passion for magic began when I read a book. The main character was Bakargika, a magician I barely knew, but who, unfortunately, taught me nothing. The style of magic I enjoy often revolves around attraction In love, and I'd like to start there.

I don't really work with attraction love magic because it often masks or feeds into illusions. If it is the road you really want to go down, you might want to explore basic manifestation techniques like The Secret.

If you are looking to regain control over your mind you may find either a meditation practice or a ritual system the like the golden dawn useful. I have ADHD so regular meditation doesn't always work for me, but I have been able to get my mind to go into silence from doing rituals. Damien Echols does a good job teaching the basics. Thats really all you need to get started.

 

[sashataj]

What kind of magic are you interested in?

Honestly I am a true novice. I have absolutely no idea. I just feel very called to Magick. I want to do spirit work I suppose? I’ve been very interested in demonology and also practical magick for my life but also to get better on a personal level too

 

[emjrabbitwolf]

How strong is your pull?
For some there is an innate understanding of somethings, which isn’t always helped by reading too much.
I have some innate abilities, being more responsive to what I feel around me, though I’ve a whole stack of books to take guidance from, both physical and digital.
Are you just interested in magic or use of inborn gifts?
Also magic as a tool or some of the religious aspects of it, such as celebrating equinox/solstices or sabbats?

I can struggle with some structured practises as I come from a family with gifts or talents, each channelling different things.
Also different books work for different people, you might try one book on demonology, but hate the writing style,
I’m from when paganism and witchcraft was appearing in more mainstream, so tend towards a number or authors from that time period.

Deciding what you want to learn and the WHY, can be a big part. It’ll help drive your focus in studies, your manifestation and intent too. Things that can affect how effective your spell work is.

 

[GhostGirl]

Consorting with Spirits by Jason Miller

I don't care if you're not even planning to summon any spirit in your entire life. If you're a starting practitioner of ANY kind, you NEED to read this! Experienced practitioners should also probably read this if they have not yet. Every other book on this list is optional but I consider this almost required reading.

 

[skeletonkey]

Speaking as a novice myself, dabbling with reading about the occult for years with no real practice, finally, like most skills I found what seemed like a solid starting point which for me was "The Sorcerer’s Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick" by Jason Miller and I decided to focus almost exclusively on working through that and tracking my results before introducing a ton more material and information.

Yes, I consume other occult content but as far as really practicing, I've stuck with that book for the past 3 months and it's worked well.

I also started looking into chaos magick along with Austin Osman Spare's Sigil Magick technology, which I'm sure some more experienced occultists would accurately correct my description of.

The next piece for me is Aidan Wachter's book "Six Ways".

There is no single path in my view. It's a messy, scattered, zoo of occult/magick info out there. Easy to get lost. Easy to develop limiting habits or start believing things that become traps.

For me, I approached it seriously as an experiment with sincerity and low expectations, almost no expectations because I honestly couldn't believe that any of that "crazy shit" I was reading in Miller's book would actually do anything at all.

I also put some guardrails for myself in the beginning - for me they were: no summoning ancient spirits that I know nothing about...yet. Don't make pacts or start trying to build relationships with spirits willy nilly...proceed with caution and respect.

Also, I decided since practicing these things I was learning from the book would potentially open doors to potentially worlds or phenomenon that I couldn't predict and don't understand, I would proceed somewhat conservatively and not try and run rituals everyday just because I can.

So, I'm not going to say you should use that book, it's like most skills though - you have to start somewhere and it's usually better to find a solid beginner resource and kind of stick with it for a bit rather than drowning in all the stuff that's available.

There's no rush. All the stuff you are not focused on in the beginning will still be there for you to be surprised by later ;-)

 

[juji]

You could start with Gallery of magick books, like Words of power series or masterworks of chaos magick. They are very easy and result oriented.

 

[sashataj]

Thank you. I actually did grab some gallery of magick books and I’ve been learning. I have a few but I’m currently reading the 72 angels of the Shemhamforash and also the 72 demons of Goetia those two books. Ofcourse I want to perfect my LBRP and basic protection rituals before I dive into demon work or even angel work but I’m highly drawn to demon work from what I have noticed. I’m enjoying learning about it.

I also wanted to kind of learn what type of magick I do best/ currently my approach is Chaos Magick.

You could start with Gallery of magick books, like Words of power series or masterworks of chaos magick. They are very easy and result oriented.

 

[juji]

That's a good starting point. I don't know about demons but you can probably find something interesting in the Left Hand Path sub forum!

 

[sashataj]

I have been reading consorting with spirits currently. I’m going to go through all the recommendations one by one. But after reading I have realized I need protection and reversal magic first so I can protect myself before conjurations of any kind. If you got any suggestions I’m open for it!