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After Haunegraff (and Manly Hall's Initiates of the Flame series):

>Pali Canon
>Bagavad Gita
>Tao Te Ching (Mair Translation; read the notes)
>Egyptian Book of the Dead
>Hermetica & Greek Papyri
>The Neoplatonists through Eriugena
>KJV, Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls / 'Gnostic Gospels'
> Ficino & Mirandola (Colonna, Strife of Love in a Dream)
>4 Occult Books of Philosophy, Agrippa
>Abramelin the Mage
>Paracelsus; Mysterium Magnum, Boehme
>Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, John Dee & Edward Kelly
>Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner,
>Crowley, A O Spare, Dion Fortune
>Jack Parsons; Dianetics; Operation Paperclip German memoirs (e.g. Walter Dornberger)
>Kenneth Grant, Peter J. Carrol, Grant Morrison, Robert Anton Wilson, Colin Wilson (Mind Parasites)

Video:

Esoterica, Modern Hermeticist (scholarly QRDs)
Glitch Bottle, Hermetix (interviews)
Foolish Fish (contemporary publishing book reviews and historical/methodological primers)
>Gigi Young (de-bullshitified 'New Age' in the Rudolf Steiner oruentation longform lectures)
>Damien Echols (20 years on death row; thorough and approachable deep dives from a pragmatic standpoint)

The 'occult' is as integral to the Western literary patrimony as the Greeks and the Church; engage with the canon holistically. I'd add Echols' books to the opening primer authors listed at the start, particularly Ritual for practical visualization and memory training. Begin with earnest without delay

>10 Zen Oxen

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