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Books that have changed your life!
I am most interested to see what books you have read that have changed your life!
In a very large part this network exists because of books written by our very members and teachers!
To kick it off then, I will add those very books.
Please share with us which ones have been important to you!
Blessings
Lon MIlo DuQuette - My Life with Spirits
In my life with Spirits Lon describes his magicakal beginning and journey.
The joys and bumps along the way. As usual it is an entertaining read, I giggled several times, but it really gave me a healthy perspective on a magickal life.
Pamela Jaye Smith - Inner Drives
Inner Drives helped mt to understand CLEARLY the way the chakra's operate and create the people we are today. Written as a writers guide, Pamela breaks down what you would expect from a person dominated by each of the charkras, what they would wear, how they would act etc.
Again, easy to read, but so fantastic.
Art Rosengarten-Tarot of Nine Paths
Although Art's take on the tarot is unconventional, it gave me a greater understanding of the power of tarot in general. The new cards he has created indeed add value, and after reading it I have never looked at the tarot in the same way.
In a very large part this network exists because of books written by our very members and teachers!
To kick it off then, I will add those very books.
Please share with us which ones have been important to you!
Blessings
Lon MIlo DuQuette - My Life with Spirits
In my life with Spirits Lon describes his magicakal beginning and journey.
The joys and bumps along the way. As usual it is an entertaining read, I giggled several times, but it really gave me a healthy perspective on a magickal life.
Pamela Jaye Smith - Inner Drives
Inner Drives helped mt to understand CLEARLY the way the chakra's operate and create the people we are today. Written as a writers guide, Pamela breaks down what you would expect from a person dominated by each of the charkras, what they would wear, how they would act etc.
Again, easy to read, but so fantastic.
Art Rosengarten-Tarot of Nine Paths
Although Art's take on the tarot is unconventional, it gave me a greater understanding of the power of tarot in general. The new cards he has created indeed add value, and after reading it I have never looked at the tarot in the same way.
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Permalink Reply by Leanne on -
ah so many books it almost seems cruel to narrow it down...
1. The Course in Miracles: if i only had one book to take with me to a desert island it would be this one....this book is in my molecular structure!
2. Keys of Enoch (not the ancient text but the modern book 'exuded' by Hurtak) I have no idea why this book had such an impact on me (and continues to do so...) because i barely understand a word of it (LOL) But, it is almost as if to 'survive' it you have to switch into another form of conscousness..one that is far more in alignment with the Spirit within (not so linear/logical)....a form of consciousness that was (I believe) once part of the ancient mystery schools of Egypt and the path of initiation...The way it makes me switch into that consciousness is more important to me than the information itself. It is almost as if you can only take it by osmosis...
3. Initiation by Elizabeth Haich....i read this book recently and was totally blown away...it was synching in with my life and experiences in a major way.
4. Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill ...this book, i believe, is now out of print.. it was written by a woman about a century ago. It had a huge impact on me at the time because it outlined in a very coherent/logical way that which is normaly seen as quite 'airy fairy'....direct mystical experiences of God. I loved it!
I really want to track down the books you mentioned Vanese...they sound wonderful!!!
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Permalink Reply by Vanese Va Voom on -
You don't have to narrow Honey!
I have plenty more to add too!
BUT what a shock - I have read not one of yours! EXCEPT I do have the Keys on Enoch in my library- have not read it yet. But after your description - I am going to have to pull it out. I remember having to get it at a weird place....did you?
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Permalink Reply by Leanne on
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LOL....i haven't read any of your books either!!! There are so many great books out there hard to know where to start sometimes so this sort of discussion (on books) i find really helpful... It's at the stage now where i figure if i am meant to read it then it enters into my awareness somehow and then i get 'buzzed'
The Keys of Enoch is one of those sort of books that does not call out to you until the time is right somehow...i actually really connected with it at Adyar Bookshop in Sydney and when i picked it up it was like being hit by this beam of Light from Heaven.....The fellow in the bookshop said that, unlike other books, the book itself is somehow imbued with an energy..and you are not meant to read a facsmilie for example...you need to read the 'real' thing...i swear it is impregnated with Energy somehow.
I am really keen to track down some of your books you mentioned. I am still reading Initiation by Alice Bailey but also looking into Hindu Thought....if anyone knows of a good insightful book in this area i would greatly appreciate it. Ultimately i think everything is connected so its like trying to fit this massive jigsaw puzzle together....great fun!
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Permalink Reply by Cole Vasquez on -
Frater Achad(Charles Stansfield Jones)- Anatomy of the body of God
One of the first PDF's that set my head on fire a Genius's concept of the Tree of Life and what it offers geometrically.
Rabbi Ben Lamed Clifford (Lon Milo Duquette)- The Chicken Qabalah
A hilarious exposition of most every simple concept and more. An amazing book for those starting out with the Qabalah.
Lon Milo Duquette-Understanding Crowley's Thoth Tarot
Another great work of Art by Lon and another great start for those interested in the thoth deck. There are many treats in this book some easier to find than others.
Frater Achad (Charles Stansfield Jones) comments by 666-A Master of the Temple
A publication in class b, this journal and commentary takes you through the trials and tribulations of an initiate of the Mysteries. And what a ride!
Hermann Hesse-Damien
The book that began my search for an unknown Order of people who's goal was to Love in a glorious Way, whose path was one of evolution through the Great Work. This taught me to look deeper.
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Permalink Reply by Leanne on
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Thanks for these lists of books....i particularly wanted a good back on the Qabbalah so i will track down LMD "Chicken Qabbalah" I have also read HH's Damien....great book! But i read it so long ago its made me want to read it again...
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Permalink Reply by Jaefar S.A.B.N.W. on -
Most of all, I have been changed by Al Qooraan for the better. The results of science, history, and logic applied to this text was impressive to say the least. My intellectual self opened the way, but my mystical self was the one to accept it first. The musical quality, social order, justice, eloquence, prophecies, knowledege and wisdom of this book which matches the earliest copies to the letter continues to move me. More recently I have noticed and been confirming the supreme numeric and letter patterns therein. The more I know about and use it, the more I want to.
Next would be the Bibles (whether they be Eastern [4 Vedas & 108 Upanishads], Western [The Bible in whatever version], or Middle Eastern [the major Hadith collections). These books which are probably all mostly authentic and true material have served for untold amounts of inspirtation and enjoyment.
The other books that have changed me most are the ones I've started on or finished writting myself. Of these included HBRV THLYM (Hebrew Prayers), ENOKhYAN EVYNA (Enochian Prayers), and an account of a five nightly visions in the fourth month of 1423 called MDT NT MAAeT WAe (The Words Of Truth One. Each of them has reformed my orthodoxy and orthopraxy.
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Permalink Reply by Leanne on
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I have always wanted to read the Koran but have not got to it as yet..any chance of starting a discussion of this book and posting your insights into it?
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Permalink Reply by Erik Stalenhoef on -
Lynn McTaggert - The Field
Lynn really gets into the power of intention and she showed me that we all have to deal with that Field. I perceived that field as what we are manipulating while working with Magick.
Alexandar David Neel - The secret oral teachings of tibetan buddhist sects / immortality & reincarnation
Two books, but an incredible view on reincarnation and a nearly unbelievable description of reality. Alexandra travelled in Tibet and was initiated in several esoteric buddhist practices. Her descriptions are very lively, and she taught me that, even though tibetan buddhism is rather difficult to comprehend, the basics are only grasped after a lifetime study and leaves you wondering why you have overlooked that simplicity all that time.
Maybe I should mention the Necronomicon here as well, as it was the first book i bought about Magick, leaving me utterly confused by its darkness, but also giving me a lifetime study in magcik, babylonian and egyptian stuff, and later tibetan esotericism. The book was transformed into a theatre piece which was more of a cleanup, completely accepting my darker sides. The lovely god Marduk was featured as a naked woman hanging upside down for the full 50 minutes, while the audience was handed bottles of brandy, and invited to dance underneath him inside a burning pentagram. Surprisingly enough many of them dared not...
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Permalink Reply by Vanese Va Voom on
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Erik I really want to read this....
How does she say the best way to work with the field is??
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Permalink Reply by Vanese Va Voom on
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Man Joel, there sound FASCINATING!!!!!!!! With the exception of the Hermetica I have not even heard of one of these!
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Permalink Reply by Juan F. Suescun on -
A couple of books I love:
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now
One of those you may want to keep near as well as read more than once. It describes itself as a playing part in the transformation of human consciousness by acting as a catalyst to those who are ready for a radical inner transformation. Tolle has tried to write it in such a way as to "draw you into this new consciousness as you read … to give you a taste of enlightenment."
James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy
Great interesting story with deep content, even turned into a movie but I really do prefer books, a lot is lost in the way. This one shows and explains some important things we feel in life giving you understanding and consciousness of this great transition we are all living. I was never a good reader and have read this one 3 times already. Other two books follow this one on the same track, I've read the first one, great too, but it's important to get started with “The Celestine Prophecy”.
Hope you enjoy them !! Any questions please feel free to ask.
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Permalink Reply by Vanese Va Voom on
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I read Celestine A LONG TIMA ago - I think it is due for a re read! I see people referencing it a lot : )
Love Tolle
Thank you Juan!!!
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