Recommended Books For Wiccans

First I would choose between low magic and high - so go
pagan/wicca/astatru - or High Magic such as GD, Thelema

Duquette's Rituals of Thelema and guide to the Thoth Tarot
are good primers to the works of Crowley. After reading

(OTO, A.'.A.'.), BOTA or AS.

these you can tackle serious works such as Crowleys Book 4
(although read Magick without tears first). If you go

DONT buy Bucklands big blue book. He quotes himself over and
over and over and talks mostly about his own version of

Thelema then you should also read the Holy Books of Thelema.

Wicca called Seax Wicca - which supposedly is a recon of old
Anglo Saxon paganism - which as an englishman interested in

In regards to why I do not recommend Kraig's work, it is

his history and occultist I can tell you is nonsense. If you
want Wicca then read the classics by Gardner, Valient, the

exactly as was stated so well above, as well as finding
several glaring errors and (IMO) misconceptions.

Farrar's Whiches Bible is also good.

Don't get me wrong. Kraig's book did a good job of

The New Encyclopedia of the Occult is recomended - but
understand that it is PURE reference and not a "how to". The

introducing CM to many people. However, most everyone I
personaly know who started with Kraig soon outgrew Modern

book of Magicians tables is also good as is the Magicians
Companion. Crowley's 777 is also excellent as a source for

Magick. I purchased it with the intention of using it as a
guide to help me structure one of my classes on ceremonial

correspondencies and numerlology. Dont buy the Grimoire for
the apprentice Wizard unless you are 10 years old and think

magick that I was teaching. I was looking for something
other than that of an order like the G.'.D.'.'s elemental

Hogwarts is a real place.

grade approach. I did get some good ideas on how to approach
a lesson plan, but that was it.

Get some good Quabbala primers. Duquette's Chicken Quabbala
is a good primer, Regardie's Middle Pillar and Garden of

Not knocking it, but if you are looking for a good guide to

Pomegranetes is also good. Mystic Quabbala by Dion Fortune
is a classic. Lisiewski's qabbalistic handbook is also good

the Golden Dawn's system *1I would not recommend Regardie's
"Golden Dawn" for two primary reasons. First, the novice may

(he did some other Quabbala books plus a good book on
evocation also).

have some difficulty in the way that the knowledge is
presented; and secondly I.R.'s G.'.D.'. is not designed as a

Modern Magick is a good primer, as is High Magick by frater

course of study.

U.D. Kraig's is watered down GD and Thelema - which
irritates some - he also crosses his systems (blending

Initiation into the Golden Dawn".

into the daliy habits of rituals such as LBRP, Middle
Pillar, C of l, lbrh, etc. I would maybe start with Kraig -

The Cicero's worked with Regardie towards a shared the
vision to make the knowledge in the G.'.D.'. more accesible

and then change to Thelema - with Duquettes "Rituals of
Thelema" as a primer and then Crowley's book 4.

to the solitary student.

Regardies Golden Dawn is a classic and a good into to the

Include "Creating Magical Tools" and "Ritual use of the
Magickal Tools" also by the Cicero's and you will have more

grandaddy of occult movements.

than enough resource material to access the knowledge and
teachings of the G.'.D.'.