Seeking Recommendation Favorite Grimoires or Books on Magical Systems

[art-vark2323]

I like collecting grimoires and learning more about different magical systems. Eventually, I'd like to open up an occult book shop, so I am always looking to learn more about what other folks feel like has been interesting or helpful to their practice. I'd be really curious to hear more about other people's favorite grimoires and books on magic! Right now, I'm reading a lot of books, but the main two I can think of are the Ars Notoria (courtesy of someone here who was kind enough to help me get a digital copy) and the Hekataeon by Jack Grayle.

 

[beardedeldridge]

{Grab Ars Notoria (A&B) by Skinner if that’s not the version you’re looking at. Both are available in the book sharing forum.}

In no particular order:

Ars Notoria, Oberon, Arbatel, Honorius, Heptameron, DSIC, Agrippa, Verum, LKOS, KOS, Sefer Yetzirah, The Bible, Abramelin, 6&7 Books of Moses, Sword of Moses, GMP, …

Anything at least a couple hundred years old written by dead dudes to be honest. I haven’t worked through too many “newer” systems outside of chaos magic. Most anything translated by Peterson, Skinner, etc…. Seems like someone is always discovering a new grimoire to translate and that will only happen more and more as the old libraries keep digitizing their older more niche manuscripts. I like to read different versions of all of the above. Lot of obvious overlap but I’ve always found getting different views and styles of working with magic to be helpful. None of the works are that long so I just prefer to at least skim them all and different versions of each.

-Eld

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

"The Magus" by Barrett, or "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" by Agrippa.
Runners up -- "The Golden Dawn" by Regardie", "Magick"by Aleister Crowley. The Sword of Moses, Greater Key of Solomon. Lesser Key of Solomon.
Honorable Mentions -- "Magick in Theory and Practice" by Crowley, "777" by Regardie and Crowley, "A Garden of Pomegranites" by Cicero and Regardie.

 

[art-vark2323]

Thank you for moving it to whoever did! I haven't explored enough to know where to put things yet!

 

[Jean26]

Franz Bardon The Path of True Initiation, Franz Bardon Evocative Magic, Robert Ambelain Practical Kabbalah, 777 by Aleister Crowley, Clavicula Salomonis Manuscripts, The Goetia Aleister Crowley, Les Elus Cohen the Algiers Manuscript, Aurum Solis Philosophy and Practice of High Magic, Cornelius Agrippa Occult Philosophy, Abramelin Manuscripts, Martinez de Pasqually Treatise on Reintegration, Lenain Kabbalistic Science, Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System Of Magic, Sefer Yetsirah, Sefer HaZohar, Shemhamphorash 72 Angels.

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Franz Bardon The Path of True Initiation, Franz Bardon Evocative Magic, Robert Ambelain Practical Kabbalah, 777 by Aleister Crowley, Clavicula Salomonis Manuscripts, The Goetia Aleister Crowley, Les Elus Cohen the Algiers Manuscript, Aurum Solis Philosophy and Practice of High Magic, Cornelius Agrippa Occult Philosophy, Abramelin Manuscripts, Martinez de Pasqually Treatise on Reintegration, Lenain Kabbalistic Science, Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System Of Magic, Sefer Yetsirah, Sefer HaZohar, Shemhamphorash 72 Angels.

Arundell Overman - The Key of Abramelin.

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Franz Bardon The Path of True Initiation, Franz Bardon Evocative Magic, Robert Ambelain Practical Kabbalah, 777 by Aleister Crowley, Clavicula Salomonis Manuscripts, The Goetia Aleister Crowley, Les Elus Cohen the Algiers Manuscript, Aurum Solis Philosophy and Practice of High Magic, Cornelius Agrippa Occult Philosophy, Abramelin Manuscripts, Martinez de Pasqually Treatise on Reintegration, Lenain Kabbalistic Science, Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System Of Magic, Sefer Yetsirah, Sefer HaZohar, Shemhamphorash 72 Angels.

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Arundell Overman - The Key of Abramelin.

Alex Sumner - Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: An Abramelin Memoir​

 

[Fausto]

Motarom is ancient grimoire, Very good work.

Natasprum - a grimoure from Nepal, it's not for the weaks.