Witchcraft for Tomorrow - Doreen Valiente 1993

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Of the books listed here, I would like to mention briefly some which are in my opinion particularly helpful to the student of present-day witchcraft and paganism. Janet and Colin Bord’s Mysterious Britain gives a good outline of things to be seen which are illustrative of Britain’s mysterious past. It also indicates some of the lines of enquiry which are being followed to reveal more of our hidden and lost traditions.

Louis T. Culling’s A Manual of Sex Magick, though written in a popular and even rather naive style, nevertheless gives real information upon this subject, which Mr Culling was the first person in modern times to publish in plain words. (Incidentally, my own book Natural Magic also contains a chapter entitled ’Magic of Sex’).

The researches of Mr L’Estrange Ewen into the recorded history of British witchcraft are detailed and extremely valuable.

The occult novels of Dion Fortune are both entertaining and full of practical esoteric knowledge. They were mostly written in the 1930s and tend to reproduce the idiom of that period; but their value is lasting. The Sea Priestess contains some fine invocations in verse to the goddess of the moon.

Gerald B. Gardner’s Witchcraft Today has become a classic and been several times reprinted. It is a basic source book.

Charles Godfrey Leland wrote of witches and gypsies with real sympathy and insight. His books reveal first-hand knowledge of the subjects he devoted his life to studying. He was the first president of the Gypsy Lore Society and one of America’s greatest collectors of folklore. His publication of Aradia: or The Gospel of the Witches in 1899 was a landmark in the history of modern witchcraft. (This book is now available in several reprinted editions.)

Margaret Murray’s books, too, have become classics. In addition to The God of the Witches, I would add her other volume, The Witch Cult in Western Europe, as being indispensable to the serious student of this subject. Both are available in various paper back editions.

John Michell is a remarkably original writer about Britain’s prehistoric culture, whose books are imaginative yet carefully researched. His View Over Atlantis genuinely deserves that over worked adjective ’epoch-making’.

Philip Rawson is the outstanding present-day writer upon the Tantric traditions of the East. He has succeeded in popularizing this subject without losing its profundity, by no means an easy task.

Israel Regardie is the writer to whom we owe the unfolding of the knowledge of the Order of the Golden Dawn, with its revelation of the practical magical techniques of the western tradition. Occult students are also greatly indebted to Francis King for his researches into the history of Western occultism, though naturally I differ from his opinions about witchcraft.

Paul Screeton and John Michell continue the pioneer work of Alfred Watkins into the ley-line system and its mysterious energies. Not everyone will accept these theories; but they reveal many intriguing possibilities. Another notable pioneer of research into borderline energies is the late T. C. Lethbridge, who has written a whole series of books on this subject.

There are of course many other useful and important books for the student to discover. These notes are written in the hope of providing the beginner with some guidance in the collection of an occult library.

One final word of attribution. The words contained in the ’Affirmation’ of the Self-Initiation Ritual in Liber Umbrarum, beginning ’Beloved Pan, and all the other gods who haunt this place …’ are adapted from a prayer used by Socrates, as given at the end of the Phaedrus of Plato, which was written in Athens in the fourth century B.C.