[Help] What book(s) or author did you start with?

[lumineth Realm Lord]

Mine was Jason Miller.

 

[Sedim Haba]

Richard Cavendish

 

[pruner_tipster]

3 Dangerous Magi

 

[deci belle]

Castañeda's "Teachings of Don Juan" and the next three books that rounded out living as a warrior and devulging the sorcerers' explanation. I call Don Juan's teaching tradition Toltec Nagual shamanism.

 

[juanitos]

Gurdjieff and Carlos Castaneda books...

 

[futureshop]

Colin Wilson

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Arthur Koestler, some physics books, then Crowley.

 

[Reizo]

Very early books: The Simon Necronomicon, Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey, Scott Cunningham - Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner, Mastering Witchcraft - Paul Huson

Exploratory Era: Mastering the Art of Ritual Magic - Frater Barrabbas, Franz Bardon books, Frater U.D. - Sigil Magic, Israel Regardie Golden Dawn Books, Agrippa, The Magus

Book that really landed with me in terms of helping me find my main area: Aaron Leitch - Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires.


So essentially I'm saying for me I had to read a lot about all different eras and modalities to find something that resonated after just a general interest since I was very young.

If something like this book existed when I was just starting out it would have saved me a lot of time I think:

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[Amadeus]

Castañeda's "Teachings of Don Juan"

Those were my first ones too. All the Castaneda's books. Then some Indian guys. one was Osho. I can remember lots of books with large text OSHO on them.
Michael Newton past life regression series, I think 3 or 4 books. These were among the first ones. Although nothing to do with practical magic, they were definitely interesting.

Nearly impossible to recall what else, many years have passed.

 

[therootbeersprite]

I started with Scott Cunningham. What he talks about also gave me inspiration on which directions I wanted to further pursue - and which I didn't.

 

[hollowglasd]

I didn’t start with books but websites and forums rhe old occultcorpus and rhe neuromagick program. Also tarot to some extent but tarot came after .then I read about great magus such as Bruno and the hermetic tradition so on

 

[boymatmat]

My personal first first practical “spiritual” book I ever approached was The Miracle of New Avatar Power followed by Liber Null & Psychonaut

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[art-vark2323]

The Secret Lore of Magic by Idries Shah and Folk Witchcraft by Roger J Horne!

 

[emptymylove]

The Initiation of Petro by Lefebur, with a bunch of stuff like The Morning of Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier. It's really discovery of psychedelics and after meditative sitting practice which really triggered the thing however.

 

[misterqar]

I started with Anton LaVey, then Aleister Crowley, then Stanisław Przybyszewski, and then to the sources: antique and medieval grimoires.

 

[s4t4niccvnt]

I started with Traditional Witchcraft. The Book of Cornish Ways by Gemma Gary and Grimorium Verum

 

[Seimulluh]

Mine was Jason Miller.

Long time ago Aleister Crowley and Anton LaVey, then hibernated for couple of decades and then continued with Michael Harner, Sandra Ingerman, Josephine McCarthy, Gallery of Magick and Jason Miller...