First Three Books

[Sylvia]

Can you remember the first three titles you ever read which introduced you to your magickal awakening?

[Alex]

[Alex]

^Those were the first three I remember, there were a load of others, some of which I have blanked from my memory.

[Sylvia]

Alex wrote: "^Those were the first three I remember, there were a load of others, some of which I have blanked from my memory."

Cool!!!! Loved Farrar!!

[Davin]

What really awakened me was reading Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America at 17 & 18. That stuff blew my mind, but then the film "Kundun" sent me on a 8-9 year Buddhist trip being mainly a solitary Zen follower (Which now I'm told is not legit because I didn't have a teacher, however there were no teachers in rural Australia at that time).

[Sylvia]

Davin wrote: "What really awakened me was reading Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America at 17 & 18. That stuff blew my mind, but then the film "Kun..."

I remember flicking through this in my early days too! Such a good book! But I didn't own it at the time, so I didn't get much time to note everything I wanted to.

'Kundun' is amazing! As long as you touch base you're all good. It might be helpful to continue teaching but under a different title?

[Dale]

Even after a few years of being on this path, I can still look to these books as building the foundation I needed to branch out from what I thought I knew about the world, and into the massive universe of knowledge that is out there waiting to be discovered. If I had to get rid of all my books and only have one, The Kybalion would have to be it.

[Dillon]

My very first book was simply a collection of short descriptions about mythical and magical things (hands of glory, tales of ghosts - ships, and mourning mothers, etc.) I don't recall its name, but it also had wonderful spooky illustrations throughout. I had this at a very early age and unfortunately remember nothing of it as to locate it.
Soon after I came across the Very Scary Almanac; if I recall correctly the back 2 pages were curses. Within one you would perform a ritual and pin someone's name, or picture to an orange, and as it rotted and shriveled as did the person who suffered the curse. I recall doing this in grade 3.
At a young age the Satanic bible was the edgiest 'esoteric' book I could grab when I wandered off on my own in a mall for the first time.
Then around grade 7 I picked up 'Ascension Magick' and began moving into proper more serious study of the occult and took magic as a viewpoint of experience moreso than something to be examined from the outside.