Literature Recommended to Aspirants
(Revision as of 19:00, 4 Jul 2005)
A:.A:. Curriculum
Section 1: Books for Serious Study
- Liber CCXX: Liber L vel Legis: The Book of the Law
- Liber ABA: Book 4
- Liber II: The Message of the Master Therion
- Liber DCCCXXXVII: The Law of Liberty
- Collected Works of A. Crowley
- The Yi King
- The Tao Teh King
- Tannhauser
- The Upanishads
- The Bhagavad-Gita
- The Voice of the Silence
- The Goetia
- The Shiva Sanhita
- The Hathayoga Pradipika
- Erdmann's "History of Philosophy"
- The Spiritual Guide of Molinos
- The Star of the West
- The Dhammapada
- The Questions of King Milinda
- Liber 777
- Varieties of Religious Experience
- Kabbala Denudata
- Konx om Pax
- The Pistis Sophia
- The Oracles of Zoroaster
- The Dream of Scipio
- The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
- The Divine Pymander
- The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
- Scrutinium Chymicum
- Two Essays of the Worship of Priapus, by Richard Payne Knight
- The Golden Bough
- The Age of Reason
- Rivers of Life
- Three Dialogues
- Essays of David Hume
- First Principles
- Prolegomena
- The Canon
- The Fourth Dimension
- The Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley
Section 2: Other Books, Pricipally Fiction of a General Suggestive and Helpful Kind
- Zanoni
- A Strange Story
- The Blossom and the Fruit
- Petronius Arbiter
- The Golden Ass
- Le Comte de Gabalis
- The Rape of the Lock
- Undine, by de la Motte Fouque. Valuable as an account of elementals.
- Black Magic
- Le Peau de Chagrin
- Number Nineteen
- Dracula
- Scientific Romances
- Alice in Wonderland
- Alice Through the Looking Glass
- The Hunting of the Snark
- The Arabian Nights
- Morte d'Arthur
- The Works of Francois Rabelais
- The Kasidah
- The Song Celestial
- The Light of Asia
- The Rosicrucians
- The Real History of the Rosicrucians
- The Works of Arthur Machen
- The Writings of William O'Neill (Blake)
- The Shaving of Shagpat
- Lilith
- La-Bas
- The Lore of Proserpine
- En Route
- Sidonia the Sorceress
- Macbeth
- Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Tempest
- Redgauntlet
- Rob Roy
- The Magician
- The Bible
- Kim
- Fairy Tales
- Oriental Classics
- Sufi Poetry
- Greek and Latin Classics
- Scandinavian and Teutonic Sagas
- Celtic Folk-Lore
O.T.O. Curriculum
Section 1: Official Publications of the A:.A:.
Section 2: The Saints
Section 3: Books Cited in O.T.O. Literature