Being new to the studies (only began about 5 years ago) I found out right away that there is a lot of material on the internet, but there is a lot of trash-talking about who has what and how good it's value is for study. Getting recommendations from someone who's been using it for 40 years is a huge help! I'll do the google searches to get those titles tomorrow. Again, thank you!
You're most welcome. :-) Anything by Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie, Frater Albertus, and a few others would be excellent; I gave you titles of their works I have found particularly useful, but there are plenty of others that are good. You should also get a good textbook on geology, and one on physical chemistry and biochemistry, if you don't already have them, so that you can learn the properties of minerals and organic substances, which is very useful when learning alchemy, qaballah, and Magick. Two other types of reference I have found particularly useful, many examples of which I have in my own personal library, are good texts on astrobiology and fire science/scholasticism. I've reviewed a number of these on my blog; click on the following tags to see them: http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/astrobiology, http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/peter%20d%20ward, http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/stephen%20j%20pyne, http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/books (and, if you like, follow up with the tags that come up on posts accessed via these links). Along with my literary partner, Rich Ransdell, I have written a number of novels in a science-fiction series called Here There Be Dragons, published versions of some of which can be found at http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookSearchResults.aspx?Search=dragon%20drive. One of the central characters of that series is an astrobioligist, a man named Monty Eisenstein, who is also a Ceremonial Magickian. So we've had to do a lot of research on the science as well as the mysteries. :-)
Just realized: you might also find these links of use: http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/magick, http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/qaballah, http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/alchemy, http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/astrology, http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/dragons, http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/vesta, http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/poetry. Some of the posts accessed via these links include material on various esoteric subjects.
And last, but not least, is http://polaris93.livejournal.com/tag/fire -- fire has been with us for at least two million years, it seems now. We are unique in our ability to make and deploy fire and secondary sources of high heat. Neurologically and spiritually, our relationship with fire is deep in the human makeup. The science, mythology, mystique, and historical use of fire by human beings is therefore intimately intertwined with Magick as we use it: Magick is the Art and Science of causing change in conformity with Will, and anthropogenic fire is one way we have wrought enormous changes in the natural and human world.
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Being new to the studies (only began about 5 years ago) I found out right away that there is a lot of material on the internet, but there is a lot of trash-talking about who has what and how good it's value is for study. Getting recommendations from someone who's been using it for 40 years is a huge help! I'll do the google searches to get those titles tomorrow. Again, thank you!
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