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Recommended Reading
Largely co-opted from our
Primate, with amendments. Our library is in
association with Amazon.com, where you can purchase many of
the books listed below (and a tiny piece of the proceeds goes
to support Monsalvat). For the rare, unusual and out of print
stuff that even Amazon doesn't know about, try Bookfinder.
On Liber XV:
- Crowley, Aleister; Book 15: Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae
Canon Missae, in Magick:
Book IV, Parts I-IV, 2nd Revised Edition; edited, annotated
and introduced by Hymenaeus Beta, Red Wheel/Weiser, York Beach,
Maine 1998
- Crowley, Aleister; "Liber XV; O.T.O. Ecclesiae Gnosticae
Catholicae Canon Missae, the Gnostic Mass; Edited from the Ancient
Documents in Assyrian and Greek by the Master Therion" Edited
and harmonized by Mordecai Shapiro, in Ecclesia Gnostica,
Vol. I, No. 3, E.G.C., Emeryville, California 1981, reprinted
in The
Equinox, Vol. III, No. 10, Ordo Templi Orientis, Red
Wheel/Weiser, York Beach, Maine 2001
- Soror Meral; "Additional Stage Directions and Commentary
to Liber XV" in In
the Continuum, Vol. II No. 4, College of Thelema, Oroville,
California 1979
- Tau Apiryon and Helena; Mystery of Mystery: A Primer of
Thelemic Ecclesiastical Gnosticism (Red Flame No. 2), Oakland,
California, July/November 1995
On Comparative Symbolism in Eucharistic Ritual:
- Frater Achad; The
Chalice of Ecstasy, being a Magical and Qabalistic Interpretation
of the Drama of Parzival, Yogi Publication Society, Chicago
1923
- Hoeller, Stephan A.; The Mystery and Magic of the Eucharist,
The Gnostic Press, Hollywood, CA 1973/1990
- Inman, Thomas; Ancient
Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism [1869/1874],
Kessinger Publishing, Killa, Montana 1998
- Jung, C.G.; "Transformation Symbolism in the Mass"
in Psyche
& Symbol, Violet de Laszlo, ed. (R.F.C. Hull, trans.),
Princeton Univ. Press 1991
On Gnosticism:
- Couliano, Ioan P.; The
Tree of Gnosis, Harper San Francisco 1992
- Mead, G.R.S.; The Complete Echoes from the Gnosis
[1906-1908], Chthonios Books, Hastings 1987
- Mead, G.R.S.; Fragments
of a Faith Forgotten [1900], Kessinger Publishing, Killa,
Montana 1997
- Rudolph, Kurt; Gnosis,
(Robert McLachlan Wilson, trans.) Harper & Rowe, San Francisco
1987
On Sacerdotal Science:
- James, E.O.; The Nature and Function of Priesthood,
Barnes & Noble, New York 1955
- James, E.O.; Sacrifice and Sacrament, Thames &
Hudson, London 1962
- Ledbeater, C.W.; Science
of the Sacraments [1920], Quest Books 1988
On Eucharistic Ritual:
- Brightman, F.E.; Liturgies Eastern and Western, Oxford
at the Clarendon Press, Oxford 1896
- Davies, J.G. & Raymond George, Eds.;"A Select Liturgical
Lexicon", Ecumenical Studies in Worship, No 14. Lutterworth
Press, London 1963
- Donoghue, Thomas A, S.J.; The Rubrics of the Low Mass,
Woodstock College Press, Woodstock, Maryland 1939
- Drower, Ethel.S.; Water
into Wine: a Study of Ritual Idiom in the Middle East
[1956] AMS Press 1994
- O'Connell; Msgr. Laurence J., and Walter J. Schmitz; The
Book of Ceremonies, The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee
1956
- Thompson, Bard; Liturgies
of the Western Church, Fortress Press, Philadelphia 1980
On Comparative Symbolism:
- Blavatsky, H. P.; Isis
Unveiled, Vol. II: Theology [1891], Kessinger Publishing,
Killa, Montana 2001
- Harrison, Jane Ellen; Themis; a Study of the Social Origins
of Greek Religion [1912/1927], University Books, NY 1962
- Hislop, Rev. Alexander; The
Two Babylons [1916], Kessinger Publishing, Killa, Montana
1998
- Ragon, J-M., La Messe et Ses Mystères, comparés
aux mystères anciens, troisième édition,
E. Dentu, Paris 1882; réimpression par Les Éditions
du Prieuré, 1992
On Thelema and Magick in General
- Liber
AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law), Red Wheel
/ Weiser, York Beach, Maine 1989 (there are many editions
of this, including online,
but we still like to have hardcopy of this seminal book with
"the original in the writing of the Beast" -- which
this edition has)
- Eshelman, James A.; The
Mystical and Magickal System of the A.'.A.'., College
of Thelema, Oroville, California 2000
On the Grail Mythos and Related Subjects
On the Templars and Related Subjects
On or by Various Mystics
- de Molinos, Miguel.; The
Spiritual Guide, Christian Books Publishing House, 1985
- Ibn al-'Arabi, Muhyi ad-Din; The
Bezels of Wisdom (R.W.J. Austin, ed.), Paulist Press,
Ramsey, N.J., 1980
- San Juan de la Cruz; The
Dark Night of the Soul (Mirabai Starr, trans.), Riverhead
Books, 2002
- San Juan de la Cruz; The
Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross (Kieran Kavanaugh
& Otilio Rodriquez, trans.), Institute of Carmelite Studies,
Washington D.C. 2001 (actually, we recommend this one most
highly, but it's quite difficult to get hold of)
The Companions enjoy marking up their books with the very excellent
BookDarts, and recommend
you do too.
Articles
Parsifal / Grail Myths
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
Templar / Masonic
Links
- Ordo Templi Orientis
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- College and Temple of Thelema
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- Ordo Sunyata Vajra
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- Ecclesia Gnostica
Catholica
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- The
Invisible Basilica of Sabazius
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- The
Exposed Adytum of Dionysus Thriambos
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- Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
Hermetica
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- The Apostolic Johannite
Church
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- The Internet
Sacred Text Archive
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- Thelema Lodge, OTO
(our nearest local body)
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- the other Monsalvat
- the compleat Wagner's Parsifal
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- The 'net's most comprehensive Templar History site