What is the single most important Occult Book or media you own?

[SkullTraill]

If for some reason, the internet stopped working, and you had to relocate, and you could bring only one book with you, what would you bring?

Alternatively, let's say your memory was being erased, and your posessions taken away by aliens, but they are allowing you to keep one book!

What would it be?

 

[Jackson]

I promote Samuel Sagan's Opening the Third Eye. I encountered it's ideas first elsewhere, but something like Qigong or Taichi (I'd have to reread to see if he directly references them) are so rarely if not at all mentioned in relation to the idea of the Third Eye, whose commentary is dominated entirely by chakras/kundalini, psychic development practices etc, and the new age, leaving these potent traditions out entirely. And I think it does a good job of tying it together. I like Robert Bruce, but I think even doing something like Taichi is a more potent way to start to get at energy development.

 

[Amur]

The Golden Dawn 6th Edition by Israel Regardie

 

[rice candy]

Probably "Nothing But a Pack of Cards" by S. Rune Emerson. I'm just too nostalgic for that book!

 

[Jadugar]

Easy! Al Kindi's On the Stellar Rays. I make it a point to occasionally re-read it to freshen my practice up. It's easy for me to get lost in the mire of all this info out there, so it's nice to have a baseline paradigm to return to and remind myself of it when I feel lost, stuck, etc. Helps for trouble-shooting, too, by narrowing down a universe of possibilities into fundamental processes.

 

[Wintruz]

If for some reason, the internet stopped working, and you had to relocate, and you could bring only one book with you, what would you bring?

Alternatively, let's say your memory was being erased, and your posessions taken away by aliens, but they are allowing you to keep one book!

What would it be?

If media is extended to objects then a set of runes.

If it's strictly limited to books then this is a compelling question. We're essentially having the props kicked away and are facing Life without mediation. Therefore, I'd choose something that would help in that effort. On one hand, Jack Zipes' edition of the Grimms' first collection is a wealth of mapping nature as a place of enchantment. That could come in useful as a source for paradigms that use nature in magic. On the other hand, Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is a colossus-sized book and there's always new things to discover in there. I'd close my eyes, pick one and make the best use of it that I could.