Literature Recommended to Aspirants

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 (Description | Author | Plot Summery | Characters | [ Text] | [ Amazon])

• 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