Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

CURRICULUM OF A A.-. COURSE I. General Reading. SECTION i. — Books for Serious Study: The Equinox. The standard Work of Reference in ail occult matters. The Encyclopædia of Initiation. Collectée! Works of A. Crowley. These Works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy. The Yi King. (S.B.E. Sériés, Oxford University Press.) The “Classic of Changes”; gives the initiated Chinese System of Magick. The Tao Teh King. (S. B .E. Sériés.) Gives the initiated Chinese System of Mysticism. Fannhanser, by A. Crowley. An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soûl; the Tannhauser story slightly remodelled. The Upanishads. (S.B.E. Sériés.) The Classical Basis of Vedantism, the best-known form of Hindu Mysticism. The Rhagavad-Gita. A dialogue in which Krishna, the Hindu “Christ”, expounds a System of Attainment. The Yoice of the Silence, by H. P. Blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by Frater O. M. The Goetia. The most intelligible of the mediaeval rituals of Evocation. Contains also the favorite Invocation of the Master Therion. The Shiva Sanhita. A famous Hindu treatise on certain physical practices. The Hathayoga Pradipika. Similar to The Shiva Sanhita. Erdmann’s “History of Philosophy”. A compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. Most valuable as a general éducation of the mind. — 209 —