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For some time already I'm trying to assemble a comprehensive collection of grimoires that are most rare, most expensive, most popular etc.
a top list of must have grimoires which would then be called "The occult bible".
Something like a careful selection of quality grimoires and making sure no rubbish gets into the "canon"
I have even consulted ChatGPT with a series of questions to refine my results and to include some more books and must say that ChatGPT gave me satisfactory results and offered some rare grimoires I wasn't aware of.
The criteria for such occult bible is this:
1. Include only grimoires written before 19th century
2. Include only most rare grimoires
3. Include only most expensive grimoires (price of physical books)
4. Include the oldest grimoires
6. I made sure no rubbish books get in, although I'm not entirely able to determine what should be considered rubbish
7. I made sure to get only those PDF's which where processed by OCR if possible so that it's searchable, although there are several which are not.
8. Also since there are multiple PDF versions for some of grimoires I made sure to get best looking ones, that is as close to original as possible and if possible without ads.
Here is a link to ChatGPT discussion (although not the original one):
This occult bible consists are 45 such grimoires, the following is a list with their authors in parentheses:
D:\grimoires> (Get-ChildItem .\ -File).BaseName
I would like to hear from you:
1. What other criteria can be used to improve the list, either to reduce it or to expand it?
2. Is there any book in the list you think is a rubbish and not worth to be part of this list?
3. Is there any grimoire you think is worth to be added to the list?
4. Any other suggestion you think might help to develop the occult bible?
Most of these grimoires are easily found in book shares and elsewhere online,
if you're missing some let me know and I'll be happy to share it in book shares.
a top list of must have grimoires which would then be called "The occult bible".
Something like a careful selection of quality grimoires and making sure no rubbish gets into the "canon"
I have even consulted ChatGPT with a series of questions to refine my results and to include some more books and must say that ChatGPT gave me satisfactory results and offered some rare grimoires I wasn't aware of.
The criteria for such occult bible is this:
1. Include only grimoires written before 19th century
2. Include only most rare grimoires
3. Include only most expensive grimoires (price of physical books)
4. Include the oldest grimoires
6. I made sure no rubbish books get in, although I'm not entirely able to determine what should be considered rubbish
7. I made sure to get only those PDF's which where processed by OCR if possible so that it's searchable, although there are several which are not.
8. Also since there are multiple PDF versions for some of grimoires I made sure to get best looking ones, that is as close to original as possible and if possible without ads.
Here is a link to ChatGPT discussion (although not the original one):
This occult bible consists are 45 such grimoires, the following is a list with their authors in parentheses:
D:\grimoires> (Get-ChildItem .\ -File).BaseName
Al Azif Necronomicon - Book of the Dead (Abdul Alhazred)
Alchemical hieroglyphics (Nicholas Flammel)
Arbatel - Concerning the Magic of the Ancients (Joseph H. Peterson)
Ars Notoria - The Notory Art of Solomon (Robert Turner)
De Nigromancia (Roger Bacon)
Grimorium Verum - A handbook of black magic (Joseph H. Peterson)
Heptameron or Magical Elements (Pietro d'Abano)
John Dee's Five Books of Mystery (Joseph H. Peterson)
Munich Manual - Forbidden Rites - A Necromancer’s Manual of the fifteenth century (Richard Kieckhefer)
Picatrix - A medieval treatise on astral magic (Dan Attrell & David Porreca)
Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Johann Weyer)
Sepher Rezial Hemelach - The book of Angel Rezial (Steve Savedow)
The Black book of Carmarthen (John Gwenogvryn Evans)
The Black Books of Elverum (Mary S. Rustad)
The Black Dragon - The Infernal Forces Subjugated by Man (Sarah Kane French)
The Black Pullet - Science of Magical Talismans (Anonymous)
The Book of Abramelin - A New Translation (Abraham Von Worms, Georg Dehn, Steven Guth, Lon Milo Duquette)
The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts (Arthur Edward Waite)
The Book of Gold (David Rankine, Paul Harry Barron)
The Book of Oberon - A Sourcebook of Elizabethan Magic (D. Harms, J. R. Clark, J. H. Peterson)
The Book of Soyga - Aldaria sive Soyga Vocor (Jane Kupin)
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (S. L. MacGregor-Mathers)
The Complete Grimoire of pope Honorius (David Rankine, Paul Harry Barron)
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes
The Enchiridion of Pope Leo III (Sarah Kane)
The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (Robert Turner)
The Galdrabok - An islandic grimoire (Stephen Flowers)
The Gardnerian Book of Shadows (Gerald B. Gardner)
The Grand Albert - Admirable secrets of Albert the great (Paul du Ternois)
The Grand Grimoire - Red Dragon
The Grand Grimoire - The Authentic Red Dragon and the black hen (Joshua A. Wentworth)
The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (Hans Dieter Betz)
The Grimoire of Armadel (S. L. MacGregor Mathers)
The Grimoire of Saint Cyprian (Stephen Skinner, David Rankine)
The Heptameron (Marguerite de Navarre)
The Key of Solomon the King (S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers)
The Lesser Key of Solomon (Joseph H. Peterson)
The Magus - A Complete System of Occult Philosophy, Volume 1 - (Francis Barrett)
The Magus - A Complete System of Occult Philosophy, Volume 2 - (Francis Barrett)
The Necronomicon - The Complete Simon Necronomicon (Ed Simon)
The Petit Albert (Tarl Warwick)
The Secret Grimoire of Turiel (Marcius Malchus)
The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses (Joseph H. Peterson)
The Sworn Book of Honorius - Liber Iuratus Honorii (Joseph H. Peterson)
The Testament of Solomon (F. C. Conybeare)
Three Books of Occult Philosophy (James Freake)
I would like to hear from you:
1. What other criteria can be used to improve the list, either to reduce it or to expand it?
2. Is there any book in the list you think is a rubbish and not worth to be part of this list?
3. Is there any grimoire you think is worth to be added to the list?
4. Any other suggestion you think might help to develop the occult bible?
Most of these grimoires are easily found in book shares and elsewhere online,
if you're missing some let me know and I'll be happy to share it in book shares.
