DusterBoy Posted May 30, 2016 Report Share Posted May 30, 2016 Basic The Book of Three Rings Dweomercraft for Apprentices The Book of Changes The Lazy Man's Guide to Enchantment Diabolism for Dabblers The Book of Prayers in Common The Prayer's Handbook The Lore Plain Authentic Thaumaturgy Approved Practical Catechism Orthography of Phydaux How to Do that Hoodoo So You Do it Well Holbytlan Codex of the West Low Common Clerical Errors Justice Incorporeal Dangers Interdimensional A First Bestiary Intermediate The Book of Forty Kings The Arduous Grimoire A Field Guide to Forces Analects that Confuse Us The Bell Book The Codex of Silence The Book of Changes The Monstrum Manual Handbook of Alchemy and Metaphysics Libram of Useful Herbs The Joy of Hex Auric Onager Pictorial Key to the Law The Classic Way of Virtue The Limb of Gold Which World? Doctrine and Ceremony of the Great Work Book of the Undead Seer's Catalog A Second Bestiary Scroll of Saving Advanced Uncommon Clerical Terrors The Book of the Well Done Cow The Book of Splendor The Donjon Mystic's Guide The Book of Changes Metamagical Themas The Cryptic Codex The Jade Tablet The Tome of Mausoleus A Brief Mystery of Tomes Circles of Arepo Forbidden The Tome of Horrors Scroll of the Bones The Sorcerer's Codex The Incunabulus of Diabolotry The Club of the Month Book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Necromancy The Suzerain in Saffron Oracle of the Thousand Hands The Unspeakable Cult of the Unpronouncable Name The Seven Hobbits of Highly Defective Purple Occult Blood Book of Fifty Shadows Songs of the Barred The Zornwil Effect Lucius Alexander The palindromedary appears in Circus of Words Seer's Catalogue, Joy of Hex and Analects that Confuse Us? Bad Lucius! No cookie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 Writings of the Purple Sage Lucius Alexander Book of the Palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted February 11, 2017 Report Share Posted February 11, 2017 A reference of books referenced in the Cthulhu mythos stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_in_the_Cthulhu_Mythos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted February 11, 2017 Report Share Posted February 11, 2017 If anyone wants lore as well as titles, one might be able to adapt some of the occult texts I used in my Supermage campaign. As well as the tomes cited in The Ultimate Mystic/The Mystic World, here are some ones I created: SUPERMAGE OCCULT TEXTS SEPHER GILGALIM The "Book of Whirling Motion" teaches thaumaturgy from a foundation of Hebrew Kabbalism. Mages have kept it secret for centuries. Understanding the Sepher Gilgalim requires an expert knowledge of kabbalism. The book is specially meant to carry on from the Sepher Yetzirah or "Book of Formation," which tells how cosmic forces link the realm of archetypes to the worlds of physical manifestation, but a student who wants to study the Sepher Gilgalim also ought to read other kabbalistic texts such as the Sepher Raziel, Sepher Sephiroth and of course the great Zohar. Sepher Gilgalim tells how to put this theory into practice. LIBER ASCLETARIONIS The "Book of Ascletarion" is the grimoire of a Roman mage. It has become one of the most popular handbooks for thaumaturgy in the Western world, thanks to the copious annotations added by later mages. Ascletarion was an early Neo-Platonist and describes his magic in those terms. The later commentators added comparisons to Hermetic and kabbalist magic theory. Ascletarion's grimoire is a good source of information about magical doings in 1st century Rome, because the magus tossed in anecdotes about supernatural people and events around him. Ascletarion was also a prophet: He correctly predicted that the emperor Domitian would be eaten by dogs after his death. Liber Ascletarionis includes twenty prophecies about the future, all of which have been fulfilled. The last one to be fulfilled concerned the establishment of a lineage of Guardians of Light to oppose a lineage of Sons of Darkness. [Reference to a PC in my Supermage campaign, and to the Sylvestri clan.] PATTERNS OF GEOMETRICAL SYMBOLISM This eight-volume monograph by folklorist I. O. Morlinger (Oxford University Press, 1922) is one of the last examples of a particular academic genre: the exhaustive, cross-cultural study that attempts to Explain It All. Modern anthropologists and ethnologists reject this universalist approach and charge that the 19th and early 20th century savants who used it relied on their imaginations more than on hard data. Nevertheless, Morlinger's book is the most definitive study of its kind. Morlinger studied the meanings that different cultures ascribe to shapes and patterns such as circles, triangles, stars, crossed lines, and so on. He drew his examples from dozens of archaic and modern cultures, including their occult traditions. Morlinger claimed to find universal patterns of such symbolism. Some he decided were the result of common experiences: For instance, the horizon is circular, so every culture uses the circle as a symbol of totality and completion. He thought that other patterns of symbolism, however, indicated a "primitive and intuitive awareness of forces and motions in the æther," with some rather strained comparisons to physics. A thaumaturge realize that Morlinger almost figured out some of the basic principles of thaumaturgy. His book is useful for magicians who investigate the fundamentals of their craft. DU PLESSIS CANON The premier thaumaturgical textbook of the occult society called Tetragrammaton was written in 1638 under the patronage of Cardinal Armand du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu. The famous Cardinal Richelieu was not himself a sorcerer, but his librarian Jacques Gafferel was. Even master thaumaturges find political connections and royal funding useful: Tetragrammaton and Richelieu allied to curb the Spanish and Austrian Hapsburgs and the Hermetic ritual magicians they supported. When Gafferel and other Tetragrammaton members wrote a new textbook of thaumaturgy and mystical cosmology, they dedicated it to their patron. The Du Plessis Canon consists of six thick volumes, organized according to Zoa cosmology and the six days of creation. The first volume, associated with the 1st day's creation of light, deals with magic that does not call upon extradimensional beings. The succeeding four volumes introduce the Four Zoas and magic that calls upon dimension lords aligned to each Zoa. Volume Two associates Urthona (Art) with the 2nd day (separation of waters). Volume Three associates Tharmas (Nature) with the creation of dry land and plants. Volume Four (creation of sun, moon and stars) is linked to Urizen (Order). Volume Five (birds and fish) is linked to Luvah (Chaos). Volume Six (beasts and man) discusses various unaligned dimension lords and magic that calls upon them. Much of the symbolism in the Canon is Christian Kabbalist; for instance, the Four Zoas are described as the four Holy Living Creatures from Ezekiel's vision, while dimension lords are called Sons of God. Authentic copies of the Du Plessis Canon are written in Latin. They bear the Richelieu arms on the cover, and the books are enchanted so that they reveal their true contents only to someone who touches the heraldic device and says the four Guiding Words of the Magus: Scire (To Know), Velle (To Will), Audere (To Dare), Tacere (To Keep Silent). Otherwise, each volume appears to be a copy of Richelieu's autobiography. SELEUCID SCROLLS During the Hellenistic period, the School of Antioch was the largest alliance of thaumaturges in the Western world (just as the School of Alexandria was the largest alliance of proto-Hermetic ritual magicians). The School of Antioch preserved thaumaturgical texts dating back all the way to Shamballah and Agharti, including texts from empires that were erased from history. The thaumaturges included extensive commentaries on the elder texts as well as accounts of all sorts of supernatural events in the eastern Mediterranean. Some of these books are noteworthy enough to receive titles of their own. Later magicians call the books collected and written by the School of Antioch the Seleucid Scrolls because the School flourished most during the 4th-3rd centuries BCE when Antioch was the largest city of the Seleucid Empire. Tetragrammaton estimates that it owns about 1/3 of the Seleucid texts. The others are lost and most probably destroyed. Tetragrammaton goes to considerable lengths to recover lost Seleucid Scrolls, if any should turn up. BLOOD ANNALS This ancient book is a first-hand account of vampiric activity in the eastern Mediterranean region. The author, a vampire called Enceladus, dwelled in Antioch during the 3rd century B.C. In his diary, Enceladus records the activities of himself and other vampires. Since Antioch was one of the largest and most important cities of the Hellenistic world, nearly every Western vampire passed through the city at least one in that century. They gave Enceladus reports of their activities from Persia to Spain. Even better for later scholars, Enceladus compared accounts and pointed out where they contradicted each other or information he gained from mortal travelers. In passing, Enceladus gave much information about the origin and history of vampires, their relationship to the Dragon, and all manner of other supernatural events in the Hellenistic world -- including the School of Antioch, which was a continual threat to the city's vampires. According to the Blood Annals, the 3rd century B.C. saw a struggle between vampires who remained loyal to the Dragon and undead who sought power for themselves alone; Enceladus himself was an independent vampire of little ambition who preferred to keep a low profile. According to the introduction to the Blood Annals, the School of Antioch eventually destroyed Enceladus and added his diaries to the Seleucid Scrolls. The Blood Annals remain the single best source of information about vampires in the Classical world. TESTAMENT OF IALDABAOTH Occult scholars believe that the mage Menander, a pupil of Simon Magus, wrote this anonymous Gnostic gospel and grimoire. The Testament calls the Four Zoas and other cosmic conceptual entities the Pleroma -- the sum of the truly transcendent powers -- and refers to the gods of Greater Earth as the Aeons. The Testament describes the Aeons as "reflections" of the Pleroma within the "mirror" of human thought and the Astral Plane. Yahweh is another name for Ialdabaoth, the most powerful of the Aeons. Although Ialdabaoth and the Aeons try to limit humanity and bind souls to themselves, powers from the Pleroma sometimes possess Aeons to reveal higher truths to saints and prophets. The Testament presents itself as one such revelation, granted by the Christ through the medium of Ialdabaoth. (NB: If this leaves you confused, I have adequately captured the style of Gnostic thology.] Both thaumaturges and ritual magicians find the Testament useful -- if they can make sense of its opaque writing, which combines allusions to Jewish, Christian, Greco-Roman and Egyptian myths and gospels with the obscure jargon of Gnosticism itself. The Testament tells how magical power flows from the Upper Planes through the Outer planes to the Inner Planes and ultimately to Earth. It also describes the state of the spirit world in the Classical era. Many grimoires tell how to call upon spirits, but the Testament stands out among Classical texts in explaining precisely how ritual shapes the Astral Plane and compels spirits to serve. AVERNUS CHRONICLES This book tells about demonic and Satanic activity in 17th century Italy. The author was a Florentine apothecary whose brother channeled Zontar Bok in a partnership that lasted almost 30 years. The Avernus Chronicles tell about the rise of the Sylvestri clan. They also give an account of Caibarien of Agharti, who possessed a Florentine woman and deceived Zontar Bok into becoming her lover for a short time. PROPHECIES OF HYDATIUS In the late 10th and early 11th centuries, the Byzantine monk Hydatius wrote this book of prophecies about events a millennium in the future. Hydatius describes airplanes, automobiles, genocides, skyscrapers and superbeings, though he focuses on supernatural events such as the greater plots of the Devil's Advocates. He included a prophecy about the end of the Guardians of Light lineage and the concomittant Second Coming of Christ -- or the birth of the Antichrist, he's not sure which. [sorry, another reference to my campaign.] Hydatius did not understand much of what he saw, and so his poetic imagery is hard to interpret. Hydatius was burned as a heretic. His manuscript has remained little-known since then, chiefly because sorcerers who knew of it also knew that it would not become relevant for centuries to come. RECORD OF THE BIAFRAN WORKINGS From 1969-70, Archimago dwelled in Nigeria, where the Biafran Civil War caused massive death from war and starvation. Archimago used the concentrated misery to power many potent rituals, including rituals of prophecy. He wrote accounts of 12 times in the next 100 years when the world could end. Naturally, he wrote his prophecies in deliberately obscure fashion, using a code of symbolism keyed to Satanic, Edomite and Qliphothic cults and magic. Archimago meant the Biafran Workings to be an instruction book, not a warning. In the ensuing decades, however, copies of the Biafran Workings fell into the hands of sorcerers who did not want an apocalypse. As usual with these things, the prophecies only make sense once it is almost too late. I also created some Call of Cthulhu forbidden boods, but they might be less adaptable for a pure Fantasy campaign. Dean Shomshak drunkonduty, Old Man and SteelCold 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilFleischmann Posted April 18, 2017 Report Share Posted April 18, 2017 Booky McBookface Tome Douli The Code in Binode Basic Spelling Lessons Theurgy in Nine Steps Tome in a Bottle The Book of Matches I Came, I Saw, I Conjured Symbols Resounding Poor Witches Almanac 101 Uses for a Dead Dragon Edoc Suoivbo Nancy's Fancy -Mancy (At a Glancy) drunkonduty, Lucius, tkdguy and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 On 5/24/2016 at 11:36 PM, Lucius said: How about periodicals? The Strolling Bones - The Journal of Popular Necromancy The Stew Pork Rhymes - News for those in the hospitality field, cast in verse. The Capital Pillar - Reports on the doings of kings and courts; forbidden in many kingdoms Lucius Alexander The palindromedary wonders if liches and vampires would appreciate a gift subscription....or would they be Ungrateful Undead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted January 27, 2018 Report Share Posted January 27, 2018 I got some use back in the day with The Big Little Book of Punch-Out Golems. It had perforated sections on every page, with unknown runes on both sides. If you put them together correctly ("Insert Tab Aleph into Slot Sothoth") the paper golem animated and would follow your commands. Unfortunately, it was made of the aforementioned paper, so it could be destroyed if it got wet, and it wasn't very strong. It could inflict savage, poisoned paper cuts, though! There was an article in Dragon magazine issue #082, "Spells between the Covers" by Bruce Heard, which contains a bunch of magical tomes, such as Alterations of the Intrinsic Absolutes by Math the Magician and Ordinary Necromancy by Vecna. Lucius, Cantriped and DShomshak 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted July 15, 2018 Report Share Posted July 15, 2018 On 5/29/2016 at 3:37 AM, Zeropoint said: How to Become a Lich in Five Easy Steps Everything you Wanted to Know About Hex but Were Afraid to Ask Hmm, I should go through the stacks at the university library and note some interesting names that could be tweaked a little. Sometimes no real tweaking is necessary. Lucius Alexander Sometimes you might want to feed it to a palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Vamping Your Friends for Blood and Prophets (The gentleman vampire’s guide to subverting religious institutions) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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