References and Suggestions
- Ancient Mythology & Culture
- Asian & Eastern Mythology
- Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Faust
- Gnosticism
- History of the Devil & Evil
- Judaism/Christianity
- Magic/Grimoires
- Medieval/Renaissance Jewish Thought
- Northern European Mythology
- Occult History
- Witchcraft & European History
- Athanassakis, Apoltolos N. (Translator) Hesiod : Theogony, Works and Days, Shield.
- Aechylus & Slavitt, David R (Translator) The Oresteia: Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides (Penn Greek Drama Series.
- Dalley, Stephanie. (Translator). Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, & Others
- Davis, N. Carthage & Her Remains: being an account of the excavations and researches on the site of the Phoenician metropolis in Africa, and other adjacent places. London: R. Bentley, 1861.
- Friedel, David, Schele, Linda, & Parker, Joy Maya Cosmos : Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path
- Hamilton, Edith. Mythology.
- Hendricks, Rhoda. Classical Gods & Heros: Myths As Told By the Ancient Authors.
- Kramer, Samuel N. Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual & Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.
- Kramer, Samuel N. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
- Oppenheim, A.Leo Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
- Ovid Metamorphoses
- Sharer, Robert The Ancient Maya
- Taube, Karl Aztec & Maya Myths
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- Birrell, Anne. Chinese Mythology: An Introduction
- Coomaraswamy, Ananda & Sister Nivedita. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists
- Dimmitt, Cornelia & van Buitenen, J.A.B . Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas
- Flood, Gavin. An Introduction to Hinduism.
- McAlpine, Helen & William. Japanese Tales & Legends
- Narayan, R.K. Gods, Demons, & Others
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- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Demonographia: The Fountainhead of Diabolic Portraiture. Trident Books, 1999. ISBN: 1-879000-11-3. (Trident Books website)
- Davidson, Gustav. A Dictionary of Angels : Including the Fallen Angels.
- Gill, Sam D. & Sullivan, Irene F. Dictionary of Native American Mythology.
- Godwin, David. Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia : A Complete Guide to Cabalistic Magick.
- Hyatt, Victoria & Charles, Joseph. The Book of Demons. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. SBN: 671-21907-3.
- Lewis, James & Oliver, Evelyn Angels A to Z
- Robbins, Rossell H. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft & Demonology
- Turner, Patricia & Coulter, Charles Russell. Dictionary of Ancient Deities
- Van Scott, Miriam Encyclopedia of Hell
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- Butler, Elizabeth. Fortunes of Faust.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von. Faust.
- Marlowe, Christopher Dr. Faustus.
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- Jonas, Hans The Gnostic Religion
- Rudolph, Kurt. Gnosis: The Nature & History of Gnosticism
- Van den Broek, Roelof (Editor) & Hanegraaff, Wouter (Editor) Gnosis & Hermeticism: From Antiquity to Modern Times
- Williams, Michael Allen Rethinking "Gnosticism"
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- Carus, Paul. The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil
- Langton, Edward. Satan, A Portrait. London: Epworth Press. ISBN: 0848215621.
- Russell, Jeffrey. The Devil : Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity
- Russell, Jeffrey. A History of Witchcraft : Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans
- Russell, Jeffrey. Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World
- Russell, Jeffrey. Lucifer : The Devil in the Middle Ages
- Russell, Jeffrey. The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil & the Power of Good in History
- Russell, Jeffrey. Satan: The Early Christian Traditions
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- Bamberger, Bernard. Fallen Angels. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1952.
- Bernstein, Alan E. The Formation of Hell : Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds.
- Ahlstrom, Gosta W. The History of Ancient Palestine.
- Collins, John J. Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
- Charlesworth, James H. (Editor). The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha : Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments
- Langton, Edward. Essentials of Demonology. New York: AMS Press, 1981. ISBN: 0404184197. (reprint - Originally London: Epworth Press, 1949.)
- MacCulloch, J.A. The Harrowing of Hell.
- Martinez, F. Garcia (Editor). The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated : The Qumran Texts in English
- Pagels, Elaine. The Origin of Satan
- Patai, Raphael. The Hebrew Goddess.
- Schneemelcher, Wilhelm (Editor). The New Testament Apocrypha : Volume One - Gospels & Related Writings
- Schneemelcher, Wilhelm (Editor). The New Testament Apocrypha : Volume Two - Writings Relating to the Apostles Apocalypses and Related Subjects
- Stern, David (Editor)& Mirsky, Mark Jay (Editor). Rabbinic Fantasies : Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature
- VanderKam, James. Enoch : A Man for All Generations
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- Agrippa, Henry Cornelius. Three Books of Occult Philosophy.
- Barret, Francis. The Magus.
- Blanchard, Robert. Red Dragon - The Grand Grimoire.
- Bruno, Giordano. Giordano Bruno Cause, Principle and Unity : Essays on Magic.
- Crowley, Aleister. Magick : Liber Aba : Book 4.
- Crowley, Aleister. Magick Without Tears.
- Crowley, Aleister. The Revival of Magick and Other Essays.
- Kuntz, Dracy (Editor). The Magical Art Of Solomon; Being The Ars Notoria: A Grimoire.
- Mathers, S. L. MacGregor (translator). The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King
- Mathers, S. L. MacGregor. The Greater Key of Solomon
- Mathers, S. L. MacGregor. The Kabbalah Unveiled
- Mathers, S. L. MacGregor.The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
- Pope Honorius III. The Great Grimoire of Pope Honorius III.
- Twilit Grotto. Esoteric Archives CD (purchased at Magus Books).
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Medieval/Renaissance Jewish Thought (Kabbalah, Alchemy)
- Beitchman, Philip. Alchemy of the Word : Cabala of the Renaissance
- Cooperman, Bernard (Editor). Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century
- Patai, Raphael. Jewish Alchemists
- Scholem, Gershom. Origins of the Kabbalah
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- Crossley-Holland, Kevin. The Norse Myths
- Lonnrot, Elias (Editor) & Magoun, Francis P. (Translator) The Kalevala or Poems of the Kaleva District
- Sturluson, Snorri (Editor) & Young, Jean (Editor). Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Tales from Norse Mythology
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- Brann, Noel. Trithemius and Magical Theology : A Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe.
- Butler, Elizabeth. Myth of the Magus.
- Butler, Elizabeth. Ritual Magic.
- Culianu, Ioan P. & Cook, Margaret. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance.
- Faivre, Antoine.Access to Western Esotericism.
- Faivre, Antoine.The Eternal Hermes: From Greek God to Alchemical Magus.
- Faivre, Antoine.Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition : Studies in Western Esotericism.
- Gouk, Penelope. Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England.
- Matthews, John. (Editor) The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited.
- Walker, D.P. Spiritual & Demonic Magic : From Ficino to Campanella.
- Yates, Frances. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition.
- Yates, Frances. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age.
- Yates, Frances. Rosicrucian Enlightenment.
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- Ankarloo, Bengt (Editor) & Clark, Stuart (Editor). Witchcraft and Magic in Europe : The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
- Ankarloo, Bengt (Editor) & Clark, Stuart (Editor). Witchcraft and Magic in Europe : The Twentieth Century.
- Brooke, John. Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives.
- Russell, Jeffrey. A History of Witchcraft : Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans
- Scarre, Geoffrey. Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth-And Seventeenth-Century Europe.
- Scot, Reginald. The Discoverie of Witchcraft
- Summers, Montague. The History of Witchcraft and Demonology
- Turner, Robert (Translator), Hay, George (Editor), & Wilson, Colin (Introduction) The R'Lyeh Text: Hidden Leaves from the Necronomicon
- Weyer, Johann, Kohl, Benjamin G. (ed.), & Midelfort, H.C. Erik (ed.). On Witchcraft: Johann Weyer's De praestigiis daemonum. Pegasus Press. Asheville, NC, 1998.
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