We truly live in a golden age for Magic, the Occult and all the high strangeness that comes with it. There are many of the greatest thinkers to ever tackle these strange and weird concepts alive right now; at this very moment. Every paradigm needs its heroes and villains, but more importantly- those who broaden and illuminate the ideas which are its very lifeblood. For Magic, one person has been the greatest promulgator of thinking magically for the last 50 years- And that is Ramsey Dukes.
Ramsey Dukes is the current and most well-known pen name of Lionel Snell, a contemporary English magician, publisher, and author on magic and philosophy. He has written some of the greatest books about thinking magically as well as many other ways in which Magic shapes our understanding of the world. His Youtube channel is without a doubt one of the greatest Magical channels around and has been for nearly a decade. Be sure to grab some books as well as click the pic below to head to his homepage.
Doug’s Top 7 Favourite Ramsey Dukes/Lionel Snell Books to read by candlelight
- S.S.O.T.B.M.E. Revised: An Essay on Magic
- Uncle Ramsey’s Little Book of Demons: The Positive Advantages of the Personification of Life’s Problems
- How To See Fairies: Discover your Psychic Powers in Six Weeks
- The Good The Bad The Funny (de Arcano Nostrae Sanctissimae Mirabilisque Trinitatis)
- The Abramelin Diaries: The Nice Man Cometh
- My Years of Magical Thinking
- What I Did In My Holidays: Essays on black magic, Satanism, devil worship and other niceties
Show Notes
- Alchemy by Eric John Holmyard
- Actual Magic: On Ramsey Dukes’ SSOTBME – Weird Studies Podcast
- Kenneth Grant
- The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
- The Hellgate Chronicles by Hugo C Stj L’Estrange
- The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
- Joel Biroco
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