But Wouldn't It Be Cool?: Microfeed for "Appeal for Help: Magic Tomes" http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/archives/005451.html Comments for the entry "Appeal for Help: Magic Tomes" en-us Movable Type v3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:25:15 -06:00 Comment from Marsha Malleus Maleficarum
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
Disquisitionum magicarum
Magick in Theory and Practice
The Waye of the Wyrde

(It sounds like fun, Jer!)

]]> 5451@http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/#c79308 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:25:15 -06:00 Comment from Paul Jessup I think some in the post directly above mine are copyrighted by Lyllwyn- but I could be wrong :)

Anyway here some fictitious ones:
The Booke of Unwinding Paths
Labyrinth Magic
Maeser's Guide to Unspoken Realms
The Orange Booke of Aalise

]]> 5451@http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/#c79367 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:54:41 -06:00 Comment from Kyle Niedzwiecki The Enneads by Plotinus
Chaldean Oracles by Julianus the Theurgist
The Corpus Hermetica by Hermes Trismegistus
Mysteries of the Sacred by Iamblicus
Theosophy by Severus of Antioch
The Sibylline Oracles
The Golden Flowers by Appollonius of Tyana
The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King, trans. by Aleister Crowley
The Key of Solomon The King, trans by S. L. MacGregor Mathers
Sefer Yetzirah by (supposedly) the Biblical Abraham
Sefer Ha-Bahir by various first century Mishraic sages

(All of the above have at least some basis in real life, either as philosophical texts or due to their supposed authors' importance.)

]]> 5451@http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/#c79399 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:10:40 -06:00 Comment from Jeremiah For fictional don't forget the Mythos:

Robert Bloch: Cultes des Goules; De Vermis Mysteriis
Ramsey Campbell: Revelations of Glaaki
Lin Carter: Ponape Scripture, Zanthu Tablets
August Derleth: Celaeno Fragments, R'lyeh Text
Robert E. Howard: Unaussprechlichen Kulten
H. P. Lovecraft: Dhol Chants, Necronomicon, Pnakotic Manuscripts, Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan
Brian Lumley: Cthäat Aquadingen, G'harne Fragments
Clark Ashton Smith: Book of Eibon

]]> 5451@http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/#c79418 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:23:08 -06:00 Comment from Scott Marlowe The Necronomicon, of course. Used in the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

]]> 5451@http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/#c79420 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:37:17 -06:00 Comment from John Joseph Adams I forget the exact name of it, but there's a magical tome in Chris Willrich's Persimmon Gaunt/Imago Bone stories in F&SF ("Penultima Thule" etc.). It's called Mashed Rags Bound in Dead Cow or something like that.

Also, I think there's one in one of the Matt Hughes Henghis Hapthorn stories, but I don't recall if it has a name.

]]> 5451@http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/#c79513 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:14:52 -06:00 Comment from Laird "Liber Loagaeth," and "De Heptarchia Mystica," by Dee.

"Steganographia," by Trithemius

"Dictionaire Infernal," by de Plancy

]]> 5451@http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/#c79786 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:41:40 -06:00 Comment from Chris Willrich Khazar Dictionary, or Lexicon Cosri (from the novel Dictionary of the Khazars, by Milorad Pavich)

Encyclopedia of Tlon (from the story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," by Jorge Luis Borges)

Voynich Manuscript (mysterious real-world book sometimes used as a mystical tome in fiction -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript)

Codex Unicornis and the Magnalucius Notebooks (fictional manuscripts in the art/puzzle books Unicornis and Quest: In Search of the Dragontooth, written and illustrated by Michael Green)

The Workbook and Journal of Gerald McIntyre (from "Green Magic," by Jack Vance)

Have fun with the project! And JJA, thanks for linking to this, and for mentioning my own "book" (you got the title right.)

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