(Part 2) Top products from r/thelema

93 - It matters what you want to learn. If you want to learn about Thelema itself, I recommend very specific things:

1. The Book of the Law
   
2. Duty
   
3. Liber II: The Message of the Master Therion
   
4. Liber CL: De Lege Libellum
   
5. Liber Tzaddi... Also, The Revival of Magick Has a lot of great essays in it (including 'Duty' above).
   
   Further, I recommend my own writings since I think they're worthwhile, otherwise I wouldn't have put them out there. I especially recommend the series 'The Philosophy of Thelema' and 'New Aeon Initiation.'
   
   If you come from the angle of the Tarot, The Book of Thoth is invaluable although dense and complex. If you come from the angle of ceremonial magick, Liber ABA/Book 4 is invaluable although dense and complex. Kaczynski's Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley is actually also not a bad place to start. To get moer into the detail of Thelema and its ramifications, there is no better book (other than The Book of the Law and its commentarise) than Liber Aleph, which can be seen as an extended commentary on Liber AL.
   
   If those recommendations don't last you for a while, then you aren't reading them closely. :)
   
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Are you a person that's into crafting, painting, woodworking, etc.? If so, studying a little about Thelemic symbols or magickal tools could give some ideas on how to create a unique item for using in a magickal ritual.

If not, Etsy is a fun place to find occult gifts like magickal tools (wands, pantacles, cups, swords, robes, tarot cards, talismans, crystals, art) from craftspeople that specialize in this kind of thing. Almost all aspiring magicians need some or all of these things for ritual in the Thelemic system.

You could also get 'blank canvas' type tools for the magician to create their own talismanic work: a nicely crafted blank notebook as a grimoire/magickal journal or large format blank art paper (and paint/markers/pens) to create sigils, seals, and pantacles.

The books of Thelema are nice for collecting as well, if she doesn't already have these:

• Magick: Liber ABA (Book 4) (Aleister Crowley's Magnum Opus - Magick in Theory and Practice)
  
• The Equinox (Vol 1. Nos. 1-10) (10 Volume series - The Official Organ of the A∴A∴)
  
• Gems from the Equinox ("greatest hits" of the above complete Equinox)
  
• Modern Magick (Thelemic influenced system of training, in more modern English than Crowley's writing.)

Book 4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0877285136/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_.uvZCbM4J0N1B

Get this if you're worried about the price of Liber ABA. Liber ABA consists of this book I just linked, The Book of the Law, and Equinox of the Gods which is just Crowley going into how he received The Book of the Law (though Liber ABA does have good amount of footnotes and introductions from the editor that you won't get with Book 4)

Book 4 is probably the best place to start with Crowley, and Magick Without Tears (though expensive) would be the next best.

If you're not reading the new translation I would give it a go, much more accessible. There's also a fantastic audiobook at audible.

https://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Ritual-High-Magic-Translation/dp/0143111035

This is a far superior translation of Abramelin than the MacGregor-Mathers version.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Abramelin-Hb-New-Translation/dp/0892542144/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MHRUX372XHLE&keywords=george+dehn&qid=1572886291&sprefix=George+Dehn+%2Caps%2C207&sr=8-1

It's in the first chapter of this book (which I found free elsewhere online): https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Hermes-Trismegistus-Hermeticism/dp/0801477492

I personally am a big fan of Israel Regardie's One Year Manual. In part because it places some focus on body work, an area where many occult users neglect (aside from some who do yoga). Don't be afraid to combine techniques too. I think between this and the Magick of Aleister Crowley previously recommended you can develop a good training regimen. Just remember to make haste slowly and give yourself plenty of time to let the techniques to sink into your mind.

I suggest you to get The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic by Israel Regardie. It covers a lot of stuff regarding philosophy of Thelema, initiations and traditions... its not very long, and for me it was very interesting read.

As I know Carl Jung's ideas are known to be compatible with magickal theory. This selection of writings from Jung is good for beginners imo because some of the selections are somewhat related to magickal philosophy:
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Jung-C-G/dp/0691029350

Just to make things easier for othes:

https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Egyptians-1-Wallis-Budge/dp/0486220559

Here's an amazon link for you: https://www.amazon.com/Thelema-Introduction-Philosophy-Aleister-Crowley/dp/0738751049

This is fascinating, I don't really know much about Tantra especially as it relates to Thelema. There are a few texts, which I have not read but hope to pick them up at some point, that make the connection.


Tantric Thelema: https://www.amazon.com/Tantric-Thelema-Sam-Webster/dp/0984372903

The Magickal Union of East and West: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738740446/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

I started with Lon Milo DuQuette's books on Crowley:

1. 
   [The Magick of Aleister Crowley: A Handbook of the Rituals of Thelema] (http://www.amazon.com/Magick-Aleister-Crowley-Handbook-Rituals-ebook/dp/B007P3T0XI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413728016&sr=1-1&keywords=lon+milo+duquette+crowley)
   
2. Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot
   
   And then read them again in tandem with Crowley's works.

http://www.amazon.com/Zanoni-Sir-Edward-Bulwer-Lytton/dp/0766101045

This One:
http://www.amazon.com/Magick-Aleister-Crowley/dp/0710074239/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409551763&sr=8-1&keywords=magick+kenneth+grant

I don't much trust Budge anymore. Here's an awesome resource: https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Life-Egyptian-Dimitri-Meeks/dp/0801482488/

Description: "This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of wonderment at divine doings, it treats the ancient Egyptian gods as if they were an ethnic group that captured the fancy of ethnologists or sociologists.The book begins with a discussion of the gods' community as a society unto itself. The authors describe the structures of the society of the gods and some of the conflicts that frequently upset it, with individual gods acting to protect their own positions in an established hierarchy and struggling to gain power over their fellows. The nature of their immortal but not invulnerable bodies, their pleasures, and their needs are considered. What did they eat, the authors ask, and did they feel pain? The second part of the book cites familiar traditions and little-known texts to explain the relationship of the gods to the pharaoh, who was believed to represent them on earth. By performing appropriate rites, the pharaoh maintained a delicate equilibrium, balancing the sky home of the sun god, the underworld of Osiris and the dead, and the earth itself. While each world was autonomous and had its own mythological context, the separate spheres were also interdependent, requiring the sun's daily course and the pharaoh's ritual actions to ensure the cohesion of the universe."