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Best book you get on the topic. Written by Israel Regardie, an former member of the GD and personal secretary of Aleister Crowley. Shared a lot of the inner knowledge of the GD what brought him a lot of hate.
Book 4 by Aleister Crowley
The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley
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Liber 777 by Aleister Crowley
The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley
Gems From the Equinox by Aleister Crowley and Israel Regardie
The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order by Israel Regardie
The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic by Israel Regardie
The Goat Foot God by Dion Fortune
The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune
The Winged Bull by Dion Fortune
Moon Magic by Dion Fortune
Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
The Dream of Scipio by Cicero
Pistis Sophia by G.R.S. Mead
Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians of the 16th and 17th Centuries by "a Brother of the Fraternity"
The Golden Bough by Sir George Frazer
The Voice of the Silence by H.P. Blavatsky
The Kybalion by "Three Initiates"
The Corpus Hermeticum by Hermes Trismegistus
The Book of Abramelin
The Three Magical Books of Solomon
I don't think "demons, aliens, and all things occult" are typically covered in a single, definitive work. Especially because "aliens" are usually part of UFOlogy and not occultism.
Regarding occult topics though:
- The New Encyclopedia of the Occult
- Three Books of Occult Philosophy
- Dictionary of Demons
- A Dictionary of Angels
- The Golden Dawn
- Gems of the Equinox
- The Complete Magician's Tables
- The Magician's Companion
There are literally hundreds of other resources available too, but these are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
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This edition:
https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Dawn-Original-Teachings-Ceremonies/dp/0738743992/ref=pd_sbs_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3CSTC1N873G04ATXD55P
is, I think the most up-to-date; though some of the reviews on Amazon point out that there are uncorrected and newly introduced errors in this 7th edition.
This edition (the 6th I think):
https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Dawn-Teachings-Ceremonies-Llewellyns/dp/0875426638/ref=pd_sim_14_8?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=AM0NAE0V1C2359V57JAQ
Is the one that was readily available for the longest time.
I'm a bit old-school, so I tend to be of the opinion that all magick students should ignore chaos magick and other modernisms (since half of them aren't very effective without a solid foundation in at least ONE tried and tested system) and learn Golden Dawn and Medieval/Renaissance occultism first. You can learn the modern basics from Golden Dawn source material. If the Golden Dawn doesn't do anything for you and you're really more interested in going back to the source of ALL western occultism, then read Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy (the version with notes by Tyson because they're very helpful in explaining obscure references), and Aaron Leitch's Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires to get a good understanding of the technology of Medieval/Renaissance magick. It'll make the Key of Solomon and The Goetia make more sense. The Key of Solomon contains planetary sigils for working with Venusian spirits.
Get the following:
The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738743992/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_zqnWBbPQ82981
The Essential Golden Dawn: An Introduction to High Magic https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738703109/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_yrnWBb98G4WRB
The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic https://www.amazon.com/dp/1567181406/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_vsnWBbPTAX7M9
Here are the basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TqvabZ9vo
You might also benefit from studying the Golden Dawn Knowledge Lectures, the first of which is here. I recommend getting Regardie's GD book if you'd like to hear it from a more authoritative source, however.