Buy These Books - Essential Library for Studying Western Esotericism & the Occult

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my bookbinding hobby may just become very useful now. print pdf, turn into hardcover leather book, put on book shelf.

A few nights ago, I went to a metal gig to see a band called Spite - brutal, awesome metal! Anyway, there was an advert for a rock group called Esoterica playing later in the month and  as I moshed the night away dodging stage divers I occasionally broke into a smile thinking of Doctor Sledge up on the stage delivering an extremely informative and witty lecture in front of a rowdy and drunken crowd, having to shove stage divers out of his way and occasionally demanding the audience forms a brutal pit in which the occupants fear for their lives!

It would be phenomenal to have Esoterica Publishing someday to reclaim, proofread, and re-print all these super expensive and out of print works, either as physical books and/or PDFs

THIS is the video I've been wanting. Filtering through countless modern ~spiritualism~ books is exhausting (especially as someone who wants to focus into astrology and astrological magic), thank you for the shortcut to the good stuff!

something i'd recommend is setting the titles to each section as headers to populate the outline and make it easier to go through. if you switch it to pageless mode (under Format) it'll also be cleaner to read on a computer. i'm excited to have a list like this

View the Bibliography here - docs.google.com/document/d/1caKNlW7sogEF7lAeYNbOQF…

Uneven is a considerable understatement. It’s been largely through your channel and Dr. Angela that I’ve distilled my library down to the good stuff

"From the ether"... .Love the delivery.

This video exemplifies why I think you're one of the best channels on YouTube (in this field, at least)! Thank you Dr. Sledge, for your commitment to transparency and empowering others to learn seriously.

Of course I skipped by the entire bibliography and instead located Volume 1 of A History of Magic and Experimental Science. Opening a page at random, I found Pliny, who is referenced often in another book I’m reading. Truly there are no coincidences. Thank you for your deep scholarship. I will now go back and acquire Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed. I’m an old woman, so these two books may last me the rest of my life.

Justin, You are truly doing wonderful, important work. I’m consistently in awe of the quality and generosity of your contributions. I do not think it is an understatement to say that Esoterica is a great gift to humanity, and I truly admire your commitment to the earnest pursuit and sharing of knowledge of these subjects. There simply is no other single source of this caliber, that covers such a broad array of subjects so deeply, in such a delightful presentation, and I do not think there will every be another. You are the secret sauce—thanks to your generosity, integrity, creativity, sweat equity, mentality, and intellect. Thank you! 🙏

I feel like I am witnessing something seminal. I feel like this library document may be a turning point for the study of “Western” esotericism.

I just ordered the Guide for the Perplexed! 🤘

My brother became very curious about all of these topics and I'm happy to say I highly recommended this channel and this video was perfectly timed. Thanks Doc!

I don't have words to express how thankful I am for this Doc, your experience is indispensable beyond description.

Thanks for the syllabus professor

The profound giving heart of the true academic is on display here, thank you for this resource Dr Sledge! I hope this little beginners list fuels not only a passion for further study amongst viewers, but a greater drive to make accessible and preserve the harder to find, and more expensive volumes. It sucks that texts go out of print.

This dropped at the perfect time for me. I've got a creative project around HP Lovecraft. I've taken the recrurring character of Randolph Carter and imagined a modern day Miskatonic student finding his lost journals. The student is then sharing Carter's notes on Lovecraft's own stories as well as on some essoteric texts that I am imagining Carter researched. Now I have a great list of texts to pull from. Thank You!

Well done sir. your vid strikes me as a modern version of the bibliography of Dr John Dee's library, But... with modern scholarship as we understand it. A very well direct discussion of the subject, from a academic perspective, not that of a practitioner. For that I applaud. Well done. I have also been studying this field for a long time. I also am a collector of such bits of subjects of forgotten lore. You sir I respect. Well Done.