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Recommended reading list
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In dealing with books on magic and other ritual practices, there are often
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traps and unethical practices put forward. The following are some guidelines
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for you to apply when trying to judge the authenticity of the author's
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statements, and/or the consequences of perhaps using material found within. The
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occult is like any other field - you find the crap alongside the gems...
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Practices to Avoid
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1. Ritual renunciation of your own religion as a pre-requisite of magick.
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2. The desecration of any holy symbol.
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3. The making of deals - promises to spirits, or other forms of energy in
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exchange for aiding you in your desires.
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4. Threatining any entity with harm if it does not obey.
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5. Any practices dealing with revenge.
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6. Any form of manipulation.
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7. The usage of another persons belongings, such as clothes, hair, nails,
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etc.
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8. Never work with a language you don't understand, nor with any symbols you
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are not familiar with.
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9. Never go against your own inner voice.
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The above list is from Positive Magic by Marion Weinstein and appears here in
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a somewhat shortened form.
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The Book List
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MYTHOLOGY
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A Guide to the Gods - Carlyon
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Bullfinch's Mythology
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Metamorphoses - Ovid
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Celtic Myths and Legends - Squire
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Hero of 1,000 Faces - Campbell
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The Golden Ass - Apulius
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The Mabinogion - Walton (four books)
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead - Budge
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The Book of Goddesses and Heroines - Monaghan
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PAGANISM
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The White Goddess - Graves
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The Golden Bough - Frazer
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The Mysteries of Eluesis - 'Alviella
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Our Celtic Heritage - Rees
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Drawing Down the Moon - Alder
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The Great Mother - Neumann
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PSYCHOLOGY
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The Nature of Human Conciousness - Ornstein
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Actualizations - Emery
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On Death and Dying - Kubler-Ross
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Man and His Symbols - Jung
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FICTION
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The Darkover Books - Bradley
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The EarthSea Trilogy - LeGuin
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The Crystal Cave
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The Hollow Hills
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The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart
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Omega - Farrar
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Tolkein
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The Joan Grant Books
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The Eagle and the Raven
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Child of the Morning - Gedge
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Macroscope - Anthony
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The Goad-Foot God
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The Sea Priestess - Dion Fortune
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CRAFT
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The God of the Witches - Murray
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The Meaning of Witchcraft
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Witchcraft Today - Gardner
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Witches - Lethbridge
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The ABC of Witchcraft
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Natural Magic - Valiente
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Never on a Broomstick - Donavan
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The Spiral Dance - Starhawk
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The Grimoire of Lady Sheba - Lady Sheba
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Aradia : The Gospel of the Witches - Leland
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Positive Magic - Weinstein
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Eight Sabbats for Witches
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What Witches Do - Farrar
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Witchcraft - the 6th Sense - Glass
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TECHNIQUES
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Seeing With the Mind's Eye - Samuels
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Rainbow Book - Grahm
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Creative Visualization - Weihl
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Experimental Magic - Brennan
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All Dion Fortune Books
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Journeys Out of the Body - Monroe
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DIVINATION
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The Tarot : Psychological, Esoteric and Divinatory Symbolism
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- Galadriel
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The Tarot - Douglas
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Maps of Conciousness - Metzner
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The Book of Changes - (I-Ching) Wilhelm
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Secrets from a Stargazers Notebook - Kempton-Smith
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Astrologers Handbook - Aker and Sakoian
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The Dream Game - Faraday
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Hypersentience - Moore
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GENERAL INTEREST
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Earth Magic - Hitching
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William Gray books
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The Roots of Witchcraft - Harrison
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Mastering Herbalism - Huson
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Herbs and Things - Rose
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The Kybalion - The 3 Initiates
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The Carlos Castenada books
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Women's Mysteries - Harding
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The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Hall
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Vanishing Peoples - Briggs
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Findhorn - SpangW+f/'k$x The Game of Life - Leary
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The Sacred and the Profane - Eliade
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The Book of the Goddess - Forfreedom
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The Secret Doctrine - Blavatsky
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Eliaphas Levi books
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A dictionary of Symbols - Cirlot
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Symbols, Signs and Signets - Dover Press
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A Modern Herbal - Grieve
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