Ancient Philosophy

The Art and Practice of Geomancy was published in 2009. I read it in 2019. It is the best book around on Medieval Western Geomancy. The book is valuable to anyone who wants to start learning this medieval art of divination and magick. The written style of Greer is always understandable and easy to follow.

The Hermetic Tablet is a bi-annual journal of Western Ritual Magick edited by Nick Farrell of the Magical Order of Aurora Aurea. Is has an excellent font, decorated first letters for each article, bibliography at the end of each article, and it is easy to read. Its price is a disadvantage, but with a self-publication, there is not much you can do.

Start studying philosophy with the platonic dialogue Axiochos! This specific dialogue is considered by some not to have been written by Plato, however, the teachings are Platonic so the text is written by a Platonist.

This book is in the category for the beginner’s book list for starting philosophy or specifically Platonism. It is very brief, only 44 pages in length. This means that it can be read quickly and if the reader wishes he can re-read it easily. However, even if it is a beginner’s book to Platonism, what is different in this book compared to the other books by Plato is that it lacks the dialogues because Socrates provides both the questions and the answers himself since he is in a trial defending himself in court.

This book of neoplatonic philosopher Iamblichos is a great synopsis of many teachings of ancient hellenic philosophy. I found pythagorian, platonic, aristotelic, neoplatonic teachings as well as pre-socratic, orphic... with the platonic current lead all the way to the end. Inside there are basic teachings from all schools written in a clear way, with a great flow of thinking and many of the teachings are repeated, so the reader consolidates them.