Author Who is your favorite author?

[sajedbadir]

Name three author that changed your magickal life and how

 

[zipzapzop42]

Alan moore is the first person I was aware of who talked about magic as a real thing and a religio philosophical system rather than fiction
lon Milo Duquette is still my go to for a crash course in any given ceremonial magic subject
hermes trismegistus is the main ancient teacher I consult

 

[ZSLMH]

Probably Regardie. He can be a very tough read at times. Depending on the era of his writings he was almost intentionally verbose. There are plenty of authors out there who put things into easier to digest formats, and I've learned a lot from them. I just have such immense respect for Regardie. I am not a GD practioner, but he was hugely important in keeping a lot of knowledge from disappearing. And my daily MPR has been a big part of my progession.

 

[vulpes]

Hard to keep it to only three, but these are probably the ones that had the biggest impact on me.


Jack Grayle changed the way I approach ancient magic, especially Hekate and the PGM. What I like most is that he manages to connect historical material with actual practice without turning it into something sterile or purely academic. His work pushed me to go back to the original sources and take them much more seriously.


Jake Stratton-Kent completely changed how I looked at grimoires and the spirit tradition behind them. Before reading him I tended to see ceremonial magic mostly through the later Golden Dawn and occult revival lens. His work made the older material feel like its own living tradition rather than an incomplete version of nineteenth century occultism.


Stephen Skinner probably had the biggest influence on my interest in the technical and historical side of magic. His books made me much more interested in manuscripts, textual transmission and figuring out where particular practices actually came from rather than simply accepting modern occult lore at face value.

 

[Ilkeston Witch]

Jake Stratton-Kent was brilliant even as a free festival hippy. I believe to this day his incantation over my one year old daughter set her up for her amazingly successful life. I took his death worse than that of my late husband.

 

[Zelator2148]

Aleister Crowley
Israel Regardie
Dion Fortune

All of them were instrumental in my early work with the Hermetic Qabalah.

 

[odrep]

I've been thinking about it lately. If I were ever to write a book, the names in the acknowledgments would be Jason Miller, Rufus Opus, BJ Swain, Scott Stenwick and Aaron Leitch.