*[At Times Slightly Pretentious...] READING LIST*

Ibn ‘Arabi: 'Meccan Revelations'

Shams al-Ma'arif (Turkish, Urdu, English, more versions generally) - Ahmad al-BuniManba' Usool al-Hikmah - Ahmad al-BuniTartib al-da 'awat fi takhsis al-awqat ala ikhtilaf al-iradat (Leiden) - Ahmad al-Buni

*Manuscripts*Berlin We. 1210Leiden Or. 336Leiden Or. 666Leiden Or. 736Leiden Or. 1055Leiden Or. 8371

Leiden Or. 1233 - !

Leiden Or. 947Leiden Or. 7283

Sloane MS 3824 (grimoire with pentacle for conjuring faeries)

Sloane MS 3846 (seems a book of witchcraft, attributed to William Bacon)

Wellcome MS 4669 (a collection of magical secrets)

BL MS Harley 585 - Lacnunga (Charms and prescriptions)

Kitab mabahij al-a'lam fi manahij al-aqlam - Al Bistami (Also Leiden)

Kayfiyyat al-ittifaq fi tarkib al-awfaq - al-Shaykh Ya'ish bin Ibrahim al-Umawi al-Andalusi

Kitab al-Kimya - Jābir ibn Hayyān (Geber)Warlock Asylum claims that it is based on the originals of his "Ivory Tablets of the Crow"Appears to have been a foundational text for the principles of western (chemical?) alchemy

(It was translated in 1144 by Robert of Chester as "The Book of the Composition of Alchemy")

see also: Kitab al-Sab'een by the same author

The Book of Ceremonial Magic - Arthur WaiteLook into getting material by Waite and Levi and such generally - even if they are the worst

The Testament of St. Cyprian - Jake Stratton-KentTry to obtain some more St. Cyprian and Key of Solomon grimoires generally thoughThe Grimoire of ArmadelThe Arbatel of MagicThe Comte de Gabalis (another version)

The Tarok of the Magicians - Stephen E. Flowers (book on the origins of tarot - likely to be one of the better on the subject)At The Well of Wyrd &c. - Stephen E. Flowers (get all of his Runosophy material generally)Sex Magic, Tantra and Tarot - Hyatt (get a .pdf of it for various reasons)

Aghori part 2 (whatever it's called, if the first one turns out to be good)

Various Demonolatry-related things (if the supposed curse on S. Connoly's books has not kept them off of the internet)

Snakewand - Kenneth Grant (all of Kenneth Grant's fiction is worth looking into though)

The Sinister Way - Anton Long (& various others perhaps?)

Get a decent and complete Lemegeton

En Islandsk Svartkonstbok fran 1500-taletAtlantica - Olof RudbeckFriedrich MarbySigurd Agrell

*IXAXAAR STUFF*The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses - Paul KoudounarisHeavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs - Paul KoudounarisThe Devil's Party - Per FaxneldVoudoun Gnosis - David BethDevoted to Death - R. Andrew ChesnutGrimoire of Tiamat - Asenath MasonThe Mystic Mandrake - C.J.S. ThompsonLux Haeresis - Daniel A. SchulkeChildren of Cain - Michael HowardThe Devil's Raiments - Martin DuffyThe Satyr's Sermon - Andrew D. ChumbleyHekate in Ancient Greek Religion - Robert Von RudloffPomba Gira and the Quimbanda of Mbumba Nzila - Nicholaj de Mattos FrisvoldClavicula Nox (Lucifer, Abraxas)

The Legend of the Temple - Charles W. Heckethorn

HeptameronTrue Black Magic (or the Secret of Secrets -- is this the same as Herpentil's Black Magic?)The Admirable Secrets of Albert the Great - (grimoire attributed to Albertus Magnus I think)The Little AlbertComplete Manual of Demonica, or the Tricks of Hell Uncovered. Triple Infernal Vocabulary

'The Art to Conjure the Spirits joined to the true cabals and exorcisms, with the pantacles that most serviceable, the secrets most useful, put into fruitful practice by Don Juan Alcantor, Learned Portugese'

- (supposedly a rare grimoire, it is mentioned in the back of the Black Screech Owl, see

JSK perhaps?!)

Inquisitor Nikolaus Eymerich- (look into witch trials generally, also, Knights Templar confessions - witch confessions

are gold)

Anders Ostling

Galya RazaSod Ets ha Da'athSod ha Nahash u-MishpatoSefer Beri'ah - (also known as: 'Raza de-Uvda de-Bereshit')Sepher ha-Sha'are ha-DaathDerush ha-Taninnim

*MAGAZINES*Fenrir (ONA's magazine)Black Serpent (Demonolatry)Qliphoth Opus I & II - (Try scribd maybe - Nephilim Press titles seem to be hard to find - perhaps they're not that good ...)BATRACHIA - (Esoteric Order of Dagon's magazine)Dracontias - (Dragon Rouge's magazine)Nox - (Stephen Sennitt)Voxas Rimotae IV &c. (some weird Thelemite thing I stumbled upon)Chaosphere (Chaos Magic and such)

Pathei-Mathos - (Or whatever Moult calls his Numinous Way book, if there is one)

Dragon Rouge course materials! (There will be some interesting stuff in here - try the Scribd maybe - tpavel had some at one point)

Les magiciens dans l’Islande ancienne: tudes sur la representation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources E raires norroises - Francois Xavier Dillmann

Look into Nordic/Scandinavian books of black magic - 'Svarteboks' and 'Galdr' and such. There seems to be a strong precedent for diabolism in the Northern books of magic. Seidr. Taufr. Raudskinna. fjolkyngisbækr. galdrabækr. trolldomr. tamsvondr. gambanteinn. fordæs skap.

FAUSTIAN GRIMOIRES - all of them

Noaidevuohta

Quod super nonnullis - Pope Alexander IVPractica inquisitionis - Bernard GuiDirectorium inquisitorum - Nicolas EymericFormicarius - Johannes Nider

Libellus Veneri Nigro SacerHygromanteia

Conjurationes adversus principem TenebrarumThe Grimoire of AbognazarHerpentil's True Black Magic (The Secret of Secrets)

*NAMES TO LOOK INTO*Wolf Maen RirAbaaner IncendiumJovis DracoThe Black Order - (Book of Wyrd)Vampire Temple of Atazoth - (sinister nexion of some sort or another)CamladNoctuliansTemple of the Sun (get the temple of the sun documents together)Freyja Aswynn - (Runes)616 / Aionic Star Publishing - (Kali book)Radomir Ristic - (Balkan Traditional Witchcraft) is he legit?Basil Crouch - he seems interesting