#23425 - 04/18/09 03:21 PM
Re: Books of the Left Hand Path
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Michael A.Aquino
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Shortly after the Church of Satan was founded, Anton LaVey came up with a reading list for Satanists, which was revised/augmented until about 1970. In 1975 the Temple of Set came up with its own list, incorporating some of the C/S one, which has continued to be fiddled with to the present. While it has been pirated all over the Net, probably the most coherent and reliable place to find it is as Appendix #14 to my Temple of Set, available here.
Category #6 pertains specifically to "Satanism", but as this thread illustrates, literature relevant to the LHP generally overflows into many other categories (which is why we came up with 24  ).
The books in #6 originally selected by Anton are identifiable by his "AL:" comments, while mine are "MA:" and other Setians' are IDd to them.
This list was much more essential in pre-Internet times, since today you can Google any subject and get flooded with information about it. Indeed if you see an interesting book on the list, try Googling its name. For example, there was a recent digression in this thread about the Necronomicon, which HPL noted in personal correspondence that he had modeled after Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow, about which there is an excellent site here. Of course the "model" is another "book within a book", the best takeoff on which to date being James Blish's "More Light" (difficult to find, but included herein).
As another example, William Mortensen, whose Command to Look was of key inspiration to Anton and his "Law of the Trapezoid", has a nice website here.
The only word of caution here is that there is so much information available today, on the Net and otherwise, that you run the risk of blobbing into an "armchair occultist". Keep your personal aspirations always in mind, and go after information to refine, strengthen, and correct them.
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#23802 - 04/26/09 05:47 PM
Re: Books of the Left Hand Path
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Fist
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While it has been pirated all over the Net, probably the most coherent and reliable place to find it is as Appendix #14 to my Temple of Set, available here.
Maybe I missed it, but was this a link to your reading list? The link seems to go to your list of personal writings and your CV.
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#23979 - 05/01/09 10:42 PM
Re: Books of the Left Hand Path
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Michael A.Aquino
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While it has been pirated all over the Net, probably the most coherent and reliable place to find it is as Appendix #14 to my Temple of Set, available here. Maybe I missed it, but was this a link to your reading list? The link seems to go to your list of personal writings and your CV.
Yes, the link is to my personal page, and the reading list is one of the Appendices to the Temple of Set ebook which you can download there.
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#26098 - 06/24/09 01:54 AM
Re: Books of the Left Hand Path
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god.over.djinn
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I did a search on Ligotti to see if anyone had mentioned Thomas Ligotti yet. Apparently not.
So, not all his stuff is the best, but there is a particular short story (or novella?) called "The Shadow, The Darkness", which I would like to recommend. I don't want to provide spoilers, but will say that its overall themes seem rather Satanic and very inspiring. Keep an eye out for it; it appears in a collection called Teatro Grotesquo.
Edit: so, looking at Fist's last post here, probably the same criticism about relevance will be extended to my Ligotti plug. However, the "Delete Post" button doesn't seem to work for me, so it is kind of out of my hands.
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Edited by god.over.djinn (06/24/09 02:01 AM)
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#28088 - 08/07/09 06:56 PM
Re: Books of the Left Hand Path
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god.over.djinn
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The Third Chimpanzee which deals with human evolution and our place in relation to our cousins.
Yup, if a non-fiction writer can be categorised as having merit or not according to whether or not they have a significant impact on your worldview, then Dr. Diamond is right up there. I thought Guns, Germs & Steel was even better than Rise & Fall of the Third Chimpanzee.
I also liked Stephen Jay Gould's Life's Grandeur (US title: Full House) for a counter-anthropocentric look at the statistical mechanisms that drive evolution.
Furthermore, entry-level texts on the philosophy of science generally seem geared towards developing the student's critical thinking skills. As such skills also behove the Satanist, the following books may be added to recommendations already given:
- What is this thing called science? by Alan Chalmers
- Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology by Kim Sterelny & Paul E. Griffiths
Chalmers in particular investigates many competing theories on how science ideally should be conducted, how it is actually conducted by scientists, and how much importance we should ascribe to scientific results.
Google Books has partial preview available for this book, including the table of contents. My personal favourite philosophies presented are Feyerabend's "science is a form of sorcery", and Bayesian theories of knowledge which describes truth in probabilistic terms based on the amount of supporting evidence available.
G.O.D.
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