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TAO TE CHING: translation by KO HSUAM (ALEISTER CROWLEY); "If any Sinologist objects to anything in this translation, let him go absorb his Yang in his own Yin, as the Americans say, and give me credit for and original Masterpiece. Whatever Lao-tzu said or meant, this is what I say and mean—666.

LIBER THIRTY-ONE THE DEFINITIVE EDITION: by FRATER ACHAD (C.S. JONES); "I spent last evening with Therion; during our conversation, he said that he thought Nuit and Hadit were best expressed as Matter and Motion...:

ENOCHIAN WORLD OF ALEISTER CROWLEY (Enochian Sex Magick): by ALEISTER CROWLEY, LON MILO DUQUETTE AND CHRISTOPHER S. HYATT, Ph.D.; "If it is your will to be a Sex Magician, see to it that you use your Magick to face and conquer your life, not to hide from it."

THE HOLY BOOKS OF THELEMA - The Equinox Volume Three Number Nine: translation by ALEISTER CROWLEY; "Hear then the history of the system which this lection gives you the opportunity of investigating. Listen, we pray you, with attention: for, once only does the Great Order knock at any one door."

COMMENTARIES ON THE HOLY BOOKS And Other Papers - The Equinox Volume Four Number One: translation by ALEISTER CROWLEY, H. P. BLAVATSKY, J.F.C. FULLER and CHARLES STANSFELD JONES; "Let the Adeptus Minor attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel."

THE GOLDEN DAWN - A Complete Course In Practical Ceremonial Magic: by ISRAEL REGARDIE; Inheritor of a Dying World, we call thee to the Living Beauty. Wanderer in the Wild Darkness, we call thee to the Gentle Light. Long hast thou dwelt in Darkness-Quit the Night and seek the Day."

EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA: by ALEISTER CROWLEY; "Men of science are terribly handicapped in every investigation by having been trained to ignore the immeasurable. All phenomena have subtle qualities which are at present insusceptible to any properly scientific methods of investigation..."

THE EYE IN THE TRIANGLE - An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley: translation by ISRAEL REGARDIE. Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson, Preface by Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph. D.; "There is a time to speak and a time to remain silent. For me, the time has come now to raise my voice in the in the interest of clarifying the record of Aleister Crowley."

THE GRIMOIRE OF ARMADEL - Translated and edited from the ancient manuscript in the Library of the Arsenal, Paris: translation by S. L. MacGregor Mathers Comte de Glanstrae, Introduction by William Keith; "Let us become as little children at birth, for unless we be born again we shall not see the wonders of God, nor yet in any way progress in the Art."

MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS - A Personal Correspondence: ALEISTER CROWLEY - introduced and edited by Israel Regardie; "Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action."

DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND: ALEISTER CROWLEY; I can't sleep without it; I can't keep awake without it: I must be at my best to do what I have to do. If I can only bring that off, I need never take it again; I must show that I am master of it, free to say either yes or no..."

THE HEART OF THE MASTER: by ALEISTER CROWLEY; Wander alone; bearing the Light and thy Staff! And be the Light so bright that no man seeth thee! Be not moved by aught without or within: keep Silence in all ways.!

THE BOOK OF LIES: by ALEISTER CROWLEY; In the Wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I."

MAGICK - Book Four, Parts I-IV, second revised edition.: ALEISTER CROWLEY; "One cannot do one's true will intelligently unless one knows what it is."

THE BOOK OF THOTH (Egyptian Tarot): by MASTER THERION (Aleister Crowley); Seven are the veils of the dancing-girl in the harem of IT. Seven are the names, and seven are the lamps beside Her bed. Seven eunuchs guard Her with Drawn swords; No man may come nigh unto Her. In Her wine-cup are..."

THE SCENTED GARDEN OF ABDULLAH THE SATIRIST OF SHIRAZ - A Facsimile Edition w/ Introduction by Martin P. Starr: ALEISTER CROWLEY; "The passion of man for woman, May serve a lad for a span. But utterly superhuman Is the passion of man for man. Let him but taste the wine! It grips him body and soul."

THE MAGICK OF THELEMA - A handbook of the Rituals of Aleister Crowley: DON MILO DUQUETTE; "The Magician does not necessarily want the burden of existence lifted from his shoulders; he wants to understand why he is carrying it and where."

LIBER ALEPH vel CXI - The Book of Wisdom or Folly: ALEISTER CROWLEY; "Give ear attentively, O my son, while I expound unto thee the true Doctrine of Magick..."

BOOK FOUR: by ALEISTER CROWLEY; "Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence."

THE PATHWORKINGS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY -The Treasure House of Images: by ALEISTER CROWLEY and J. F. C. FULLER with contributions by David Cherubim, Long Milo DuQuette, Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D., Nancy Wasserman; O thou that drawest toward the End of the Path, effort is no more. Faster and faster dost thou fall; thy weariness in changed in Ineffable Rest. For there in no thou upon That Path; thou hast become The Way."

ROLL AWAY THE STONE - An Introduction to Aleister Crowley's Essays On The Psychology Of Hashish with The Complete Text of Aleister Crowley's THE HERB DANGEROUS: by ISRAEL REGARDIE; "At the time when Crowley wrote about these topics, the legal situation was far different from now. At that time, many of the known hallucinogenic drugs could be purchased without too much difficulty in the open market"

THE GOETIA - The Lesser Key of Solomon the King: Translated by Samuel Liddell, MacGregor Mathers, edited with an introduction by Aleister Crowley, Illustrated second edition.; Since classical Greece, Goetia has meant "low" magic as distinct from the high magic of theurgy. It is "applied" rather than "pure" magic, addressing practical human concerns-from obtaining advancement and wealth to finding love and knowledge. The manuscripts from which this edition was prepared circulated in the spiritual underground of Baroque England. They were written in the English vernacular rather than the Latin of the scholars, further evidence of the popular character of this grimoire. It is a manual of Solomonic astrological sorcery that gives detailed instructions for the ritual precautions, requisites and incantations necessary to evoke the aid of its 72 spirits, which are described in detail.

THE TREE OF LIFE: ISRAEL REGARDIE; The Tree of Life includes the most comprehensive introduction available to the Golden Dawn system of initiation, and the numerous, complex and sometimes obscure mystical writings of Aleister Crowley.

THE GOLDEN DAWN SOURCE BOOK: DARCY KUNTZ

THE GOLDEN DAWN SCRAPBOOK - The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order: R. A. GILBERT

THE ENOCHIAN MAGICK OF DR. JOHN DEE - The Most Powerful System of Magick in Its Original Unexpurgated Form: GEOFFREY JAMES; The survival of the Magical Manuscripts of John Dee was an accident, or more accurately, a series of accidents and coincidences that rival in strangeness the subject matter that the manuscripts contain..."

THE MYSTICAL QABALAH: DION FORTUNE; "The esotericist, when endeavouring to formulate his philosophy for communication to others, is confronted by the fact that his knowledge of the higher forms of existence only commences when thought is left behind."

RITUAL MAGIC OF THE GOLDEN DAWN: works by S. L. MacGregor and others edited by FRANCIS KING; "Spiritual power results from the transmutation of the gross animal nature. The various centres of sensation in the human body can be harmonized by the equipose or circulation of the contrary forces of attraction and repulsion..."

THE MAGICKIAN - A Study in Effective Magick: PHILLIP COOPER; There is energy, life force, if you like and it can be used to create. This energy is abundant and without end; there is no restriction in its supply. Human beings have access to this energy at all times. We have total free choice in the way in which we use that energy; no one sits in judgment except you. Belief patterns help establish physical results.

THE HISTORY OF MAGIC: ELIPHAS LEVI translated by A. E. Waite; "Some were looking for spiritual happiness or for some form of unknown power, but I had a practical object. I wished for a system of thought that would leave my imagination free to create as it chose and yet make all that it created, or could create, part of the one history, and that the soul's.

THE BOOK OF THE LAW: ALEISTER CROWLEY; This Book explains the Universe!

MAGICAL DIARIES OF ALEISTER CROWLEY - Tunisia 1923: edited by STEPHEN SKINNER; It's in this sense that I have succeeded in my life's work that at last I am received among the Brethern of the Star.

KONX OM PAX: ALEISTER CROWLEY

THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING: translated and edited from manuscripts in the British Museum by S. LIDDELL MACGREGOR MATHERS; He who wishes to apply himself unto so great and so difficult a Science should have his mind free from all business, and from all extraneous ideas of whatever nature they may be."