Originally published in 1978, The Occult Sourcebook has been compiled primarily for the many people who are for the first time becoming engrossed by the numerous and often confusing possibilities underlying the occult sciences. It consists of a series of articles on key areas, providing the reader with easy access to basic facts, together with a carefully planned guide to further reading. Critical comments on the recommended books allow the reader to select those which best suit their interests. The authors have also included a ‘Who’s Who of the occult’ to provide short biographies of some of the more amazing figures who have already travelled down the mystic path. The book offers a programmed system of exploration into the realms of the unknown. It will be invaluable to the increasing number of people who are concerned with the exploration of enlarging human consciousness.
Introduction
Part I: Source Areas
1. ESP
2. Meditation and Biofeedback
3. Dreams
4. Reincarnation
5. The Origins of Magic
6. Supernatural and Occult Beings
7. Ritual Magic
8. Ritual Consciousness
9. Magical Equipment
10. The Golden Dawn
11. Magical Cosmology
12. The Qabalah
13. The Tarot
14. The Tattvas
15. Magical Attack
16. Sexual Magic
17. Aleister Crowley: Lord of the New Aeon
18. Hypnotism, Auto-Suggestion and Relaxation
19. Trance Consciousness
20. Out-of-Body Consciousness
21. Drugs and Mystical Consciousness
22. Shamanistic Magic
23. Ghosts and Hauntings
24. Spiritualism
25. Possession
26. Exorcism
27. Faith Healing
28. Vampires
29. Traditional Witchcraft
30. Modern Witchcraft
31. Traditional Satanism
32. Modern Satanism
33. Voodoo
34. Eastern Mysticism
35. Eastern Influence on the Occult
36. Theosophy
37. I Ching
38. Astrology
39. Numerology
40. Palmistry
41. Lost Continents
42. Inner Space Rock Music
43. Occult Art
Part II: Who’s Who in the Occult
Index
Biography
Gregory Tillett, Nevill Drury
