David19
November 25th, 2006, 03:28 PM
I thought i'd start a thread to see who your favourite occultists are, they can be ancient (as in from 'pagan' times), old (Medevial, Renaissance, etc), modern (probably from 1900s - today), or whoever, as i think it would be interesting to see who people admire or respect.
I'm not that experienced in magic, but some of my favourite occultists so far that i've read are Dion Fortune, i've got her books The Mystical Qabalah and Psychic Self-Defence of PDF download, and i think they're great, and she seems to know her stuff, unfortunely, she does seem a bit racist at times (e.g. i think she sees the 'white race' as better, etc), but i think this is due to the time period (and many occultists and magic users of the same time period were like that, e.g. Crowley was radical in many ways (having sex with guys, etc), yet was also an extreme anti-Semitie, Gardner probably had some racism (or maybe homophobia?) too (just a guess considering his age and the period he lived, etc), and i don't like her treating gods as archetypes but aside from that, she seems very cool.
Peter Carroll(sp?) who wrote Liber Null and Psychonaught(sp? i hope i've spelt that right) also seems very cool, and i like his book Liber Null (again, i've got it as a PDF download).
There's a lot of Golden Dawn writers that i really like the sound of, and i'd like to read too.
And recently, i like what i've read so far of Iamblichus, an ancient Neo-Platonist(sp?), who wrote 'On the Egyptian Mysteries' or 'The Egyptian Mysteries' (i think one of those is the title?), and 'On Daemons' (again, can't remember if that's the actual title).
He seems like a very cool person, who knew his stuff, and i'd like to learn more about him (as well as if Neo-Platonism is compatible with 'hard' polytheism).
And, i can't think of anymore, there probably are others i like, and i'll add them if i remember them, but there's also a few Jewish Kabalah (which aren't the Kabalah Centre of the U.S. celebrities) books i want to get, and i'd like to get the 'Greek Magical Papyri', as i think it sounds interesting.
But, anyway, what occultists do you like, admire or have influenced you in your practices and/or beliefs, even religion?.
Thanks.
BTW, i would have made a poll, but there's just so many, that it would've gone on forever!.
I'm not that experienced in magic, but some of my favourite occultists so far that i've read are Dion Fortune, i've got her books The Mystical Qabalah and Psychic Self-Defence of PDF download, and i think they're great, and she seems to know her stuff, unfortunely, she does seem a bit racist at times (e.g. i think she sees the 'white race' as better, etc), but i think this is due to the time period (and many occultists and magic users of the same time period were like that, e.g. Crowley was radical in many ways (having sex with guys, etc), yet was also an extreme anti-Semitie, Gardner probably had some racism (or maybe homophobia?) too (just a guess considering his age and the period he lived, etc), and i don't like her treating gods as archetypes but aside from that, she seems very cool.
Peter Carroll(sp?) who wrote Liber Null and Psychonaught(sp? i hope i've spelt that right) also seems very cool, and i like his book Liber Null (again, i've got it as a PDF download).
There's a lot of Golden Dawn writers that i really like the sound of, and i'd like to read too.
And recently, i like what i've read so far of Iamblichus, an ancient Neo-Platonist(sp?), who wrote 'On the Egyptian Mysteries' or 'The Egyptian Mysteries' (i think one of those is the title?), and 'On Daemons' (again, can't remember if that's the actual title).
He seems like a very cool person, who knew his stuff, and i'd like to learn more about him (as well as if Neo-Platonism is compatible with 'hard' polytheism).
And, i can't think of anymore, there probably are others i like, and i'll add them if i remember them, but there's also a few Jewish Kabalah (which aren't the Kabalah Centre of the U.S. celebrities) books i want to get, and i'd like to get the 'Greek Magical Papyri', as i think it sounds interesting.
But, anyway, what occultists do you like, admire or have influenced you in your practices and/or beliefs, even religion?.
Thanks.
BTW, i would have made a poll, but there's just so many, that it would've gone on forever!.