Books to start with

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Thus far I’ve downloaded a free Groetia. It’s all I can do at present. Which books are the best to start with for the Left Hand Path?

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Works of Darkness by EA Koetting.

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Apart from EA Koetting and the other BALG authors, I’d recommend anything published by the Gallery of Magick.

I’ve copied my personal reading list below. A lot of these I’ve added just by noting down any titles I’ve seen recommended around this forum. Enjoy.

To begin:

  • Demons of Magick - Gordon Winterfield
  • Mystical Words of Power - Damon Brand
  • Archangels of Magick - Damon Brand
  • The Kybalion - Three Initiates
  • The Miracle of New Avatar Power - Geoff Gray-Cobb
  • Liber Null & Psychonaut – Peter J. Carroll

More nerdy/theoretical/system-agnostic stuff:

  • The Apophenion – Peter J. Carroll
  • Reality Transurfing - Vadim Zeland
  • Quantum Psychology - Robert Anton Wilson
  • Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
  • The Law and the Promise - Neville Goddard
  • Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life - Maxwell Maltz
  • The Game of Life - Florence Scovel Shinn
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Other:

  • Sigils of Power and Transformation - Adam Blackthorne
  • The Complete Book of Demonolatry - S. Connolly
  • Magickal Servitors - Damon Brand
  • Inner Alchemy - Taylor Ellwood
  • Space/Time Magic - Taylor Ellwood
  • The Angels of Love - Zanna Blaise
  • Magickal Seduction - Damon Brand
  • Magickal Attack - Gordon Winterfield
  • Magickal Protection - Damon Brand
  • 72 Angels of Power - Damon Brand
  • Words of Power - Damon Brand
  • Greater Words of Power - Damon Brand
  • Magickal Cashbook - Damon Brand
  • Wealth Magic - Damon Brand
  • New Energy Ways - Robert Bruce
  • Shapeshifting - John Perkins
  • Telecult Power - Reese P. Dubin
  • Soul Traveller - Albert Taylor
  • Living Thelema - David Shoemaker
  • The Science of Being Great - Wallace D. Wattles
  • The Science of Getting Rich - Wallace D. Wattles
  • The Forbidden Parapsychology - Jose M. Herrou Aragon
  • The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  • The Neville Goddard Collection - Neville Goddard
  • Belial - Without a Master compendium - E.A. Koetting, Kurtis Joseph
  • Creating Magickal Entities - David Michael Cunningham
  • The Goetia of Dr. Rudd - Stephen Skinner, David Rankine
  • Drawing Down Belial - S. Connolly
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Also forgot to add:

  • Liber Null & Psychonaut - Peter J. Caroll
  • The Apophenion - Peter J. Caroll

These are more Chaos Magick than LHP but definitely worth a read, especially the former; the latter is quite theory-heavy and more nerdy/theoretical.

And:

  • Modern Magick - Donald Michael Kraig

Definitely more RHP and based on lot of Golden Dawn teachings iirc, but this book covers a lot of essential basics in very digestible format and is probably the one book that started me down the path proper.

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*Lucifer and Hidden Demons by Theodore Rose

*The Magick of Angels and Demons by Henry Archer