Left Hand Path Reading List

[Silenciumetaurum]

Just for fun and the common good, I will add a few LHP books I like. I read these in a random order over the years, but I will order them in some kind of progression, according to how I think they might fit together. It seems that whenever I mention LaVey / Rand, people get their feathers in an uproar. So be it. I invite discussion and other suggestions as well. However, if you're going to start spouting off about Temple of the Black Light and / or the ONA, please do it on a different thread. - S+A

I. Basic Self-Liberation & Breaking Away from Groupthink (First Step):

A) LaVey: The Satanic Bible, Satanic Rituals, The Satanic Witch, Letters from the Devil, Satan Speaks. (If these were all you had, you'd have a basic foundation in the "immanent" philosophical branch of the LHP.)
B) Harry Brown: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
C) Ayn Rand: The Virtue of Selfishness
D) Jason Miller: Financial Sorcery (Not LHP per se, but packed with good advice on how to combine operative magic and good sense with money--essential if you want to break away from enslaving systems.)
E) Stephen Flowers: Lords of the LHP (Understand the path you're on.)

II. Moving Beyond Basic Self-Liberation & Engaging with the World as an Initiatory Theater:

A) Matt Zane: Transcendental Satanism (This is the bridge from the Satanic Bible to Don Webb's writings.)
B) Don Webb: Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the LHP (If you just started with this and kept with it, you would have a basic foundation in the "transcendent" philosophical branch of the LHP.)
C) John Coughlin: Out of the Shadows (Learn to see your non-LHP history as fodder for LHP initiation and understand dark archetypes.)
D) Carl Jung: The Red Book: Liber Novus (Time to grapple with your unconscious self.)
E) Michael Aquino: Black Magic (Maybe the deepest text for the transcendental LHP.)

III. Magical Embellishments (Not Absolutely Necessary for the Path, but Worth the Time.):

A) Don Webb: The Seven Faces of Darkness (Typhonian Magic)
B) Mishlen Linden: Typhonian Teratomas
C) Stephen Sennitt: Infernal Texts: NOX and Liber Koth
D) Malphas: The Black Ship
E) Don Webb: Mysteries of the Temple of Set

Follow this curriculum and you will learn a lot about the path and about yourself.