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Reading List

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Reading list

Historical

Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Pagans, Druids, and Other Goddess Worshippers in America Today
Gardner, Gerald B., Witchcraft Today.
Hutton, Ronald. Triumph of the Moon

Wiccan and Magickal

Ashcroft-Nowicki, Dolores. Highways of the Mind: The Art and History of Pathworking.
Buckland, Raymond. Witchcraft from the Inside.
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft.
Budapest, Zsuzsanna. The Holy book of Women's Mysteries.
Budapest, Zsuzsanna. The Grandmother of Time.
Budapest, Zsuzsanna. Grandmother Moon.

Cabot, Laurie & Cowan, Thomas. Power of the Witch : The Earth, Moon, & MagicalPath to Enlightenment.
Crowley Vivian. Wicca
Cunningham, Scott. Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic.
Cunningham, Scott. The Truth About Witchcraft Today
Cunningham, Scott. Wicca: a Guide for the Solitary Practioner
Farrar, Janet & Stewart with Bone, Gavin. The Pagan Path
Farrar, Stewart and Janet Farrar, with notes and Appendix by Doreen Valiente. The Witches' Way: Principles, Rituals, and Beliefs of Modern Witchcraft. Might be under the title The Witches Bible
Farrar, Stewart and Janet Farrar, with notes by Doreen Valiente. Eight Sabbats for Witches.
Farrar, Stewart and Janet Farrar. The Witches God
Farrar, Stewart and Janet Farrar. The Witches Goddess
Farrar, Stewart. What Witches Do: The Modern Coven Revealed.
Finch, Ed. A Book of Pagan Rituals.
Fitch, Ed. The Grimoire of Shadows.
Fortune, Dion. All of hers are relevant

Green, Marian. The Elements of Natural Magic.
Greene Marian. A Witch Alone
Leland, Charles Godfrey. Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches of Tuscany.
Matthews, Caitlin. The Elements of the Goddess
Monaghan, Patricia. The Book of Goddesses & Heroines.
Ryall, Rhiannon. West Country Wicca.
Starhawk. Spiral Dance
Valiente, Doreen. An ABC of Witchcraft.
Valiente, Doreen. The Rebirth of Witchcraft, and most of her other books as well.
Weinstein, Marion. Earth Magic: A Dianic Book of Shadows.
Weinstein, Marion. Positive Magic: Occult Self-Help.
Gozalez-Wippler, Migene: The Complete Book of Spells, Ceremonies and Magic (This is required)
James, William: Varieties of Religious experience

Spirituality and Self help

Williamson, Marianne. A Woman's Worth
Williamson, Marianne. Return to Love

Mythology

Bulfinch, Thomas. The age of fables Bulfinch's Mythology.
Frazer, Sir James G., The Golden Bough, etc.


Advance Reading list
*Required **on both reading list


*White Goddess by Robert Graves

*Varieties of Religious experience by William James

When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone


The Occult by Colin Wilson The Mysteries


The Tree of life by Israeli Regardie

Spells, Ceremonies and magick by Migene Gonzales-Wippler

Book of Shadows by Phyllis Currot

Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness by Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson


Alistair Crowley:


Magick without Tears

666: The Number of the Beast

*Magick and theory and practice


Ritual Magick by Elizabeth M. Butler

Dark Moon Mysteries by Timothy Roderick

The once and Future Goddess by Elinor Gadon

**Twelve Wild Swans by Starhawk

Man and his Symbols by C. Jung

The lesser and Greater key of Solomon


Transcendental Magick by E. LÉVI

The History of Magic


The Mysteries and Secrets of Magic by C.J.S. Thompson


The Alchemy of Healing: Psyche and Soma by Edward C. Whitmont

Return of the Goddess by Edward C. Whitmont

Dreams, a Portal to the Source by Edward C. Whitmont, Sylvia Brinton Perera


Ego & Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche by Edward F. Edinger, Kendra Crossen (Editor)

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion by Joseph Campbell (Paperback)


Creation of Consciousness: Jung's Myth for Modern Man (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 14.) by Edward F. Edinger

Initiation into Hermetics: A Course of Instruction of Magic Theory and Practice by Franz Bardon, A. Radspieler (Translator)

Books on the web

Bulfinch's Mythology



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