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		    Recommended reading list

In dealing with books on magic and other ritual practices, there are often

traps and unethical practices put forward. The following are some guidelines for you to apply when trying to judge the authenticity of the author's statements, and/or the consequences of perhaps using material found within. The occult is like any other field - you find the crap alongside the gems…

		       Practices to Avoid

1.  Ritual renunciation of your own religion as a pre-requisite of magick.

2.  The desecration of any holy symbol.

3.  The making of deals - promises to spirits, or other forms of energy in

exchange for aiding you in your desires.

4.  Threatining any entity with harm if it does not obey.

5.  Any practices dealing with revenge.

6.  Any form of manipulation.

7.  The usage of another persons belongings, such as clothes, hair, nails,

etc.

8.  Never work with a language you don't understand, nor with any symbols you

are not familiar with.

9.  Never go against your own inner voice.

The above list is from Positive Magic by Marion Weinstein and appears here in

a somewhat shortened form.

  The Book List

  MYTHOLOGY
   A Guide to the Gods - Carlyon
   Bullfinch's Mythology
   Metamorphoses - Ovid
   Celtic Myths and Legends - Squire
   Hero of 1,000 Faces - Campbell
   The Golden Ass - Apulius
   The Mabinogion - Walton (four books)
   The Egyptian Book of the Dead - Budge
   The Book of Goddesses and Heroines - Monaghan

  PAGANISM
   The White Goddess - Graves
   The Golden Bough - Frazer
   The Mysteries of Eluesis - 'Alviella
   Our Celtic Heritage - Rees
   Drawing Down the Moon - Alder
   The Great Mother - Neumann

  PSYCHOLOGY
   The Nature of Human Conciousness - Ornstein
   Actualizations - Emery
   On Death and Dying - Kubler-Ross
   Man and His Symbols - Jung

  FICTION
   The Darkover Books - Bradley
   The EarthSea Trilogy - LeGuin
   The Crystal Cave
   The Hollow Hills
   The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart
   Omega - Farrar
   The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Tolkein
   The Joan Grant Books
   The Eagle and the Raven
   Child of the Morning - Gedge
   Macroscope - Anthony
   The Goad-Foot God
   The Sea Priestess - Dion Fortune

  CRAFT
   The God of the Witches - Murray
   The Meaning of Witchcraft
   Witchcraft Today - Gardner
   Witches - Lethbridge
   The ABC of Witchcraft
   Natural Magic - Valiente
   Never on a Broomstick - Donavan
   The Spiral Dance - Starhawk
   The Grimoire of Lady Sheba - Lady Sheba
   Aradia : The Gospel of the Witches - Leland
   Positive Magic - Weinstein
   Eight Sabbats for Witches
   What Witches Do - Farrar
   Witchcraft - the 6th Sense - Glass

  TECHNIQUES
   Seeing With the Mind's Eye - Samuels
   Rainbow Book - Grahm
   Creative Visualization - Weihl
   Experimental Magic - Brennan
   All Dion Fortune Books
   Journeys Out of the Body - Monroe

  DIVINATION
   The Tarot : Psychological, Esoteric and Divinatory Symbolism
	 - Galadriel
   The Tarot - Douglas
   Maps of Conciousness - Metzner
   The Book of Changes - (I-Ching)  Wilhelm
   Secrets from a Stargazers Notebook - Kempton-Smith
   Astrologers Handbook - Aker and Sakoian
   The Dream Game - Faraday
   Hypersentience - Moore

  GENERAL INTEREST
   Earth Magic - Hitching
   William Gray books
   The Roots of Witchcraft - Harrison
   Mastering Herbalism - Huson
   Herbs and Things - Rose
   The Kybalion - The 3 Initiates
   The Carlos Castenada books
   Women's Mysteries - Harding
   The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Hall
   Vanishing Peoples - Briggs
   Findhorn - SpangW+f/'k$x     The Game of Life - Leary
   The Sacred and the Profane - Eliade
   The Book of the Goddess - Forfreedom
   The Secret Doctrine - Blavatsky
   Eliaphas Levi books
   A dictionary of Symbols - Cirlot
   Symbols, Signs and Signets - Dover Press
   A Modern Herbal - Grieve