Mitch in NYC. Photograph by Gabriel Dean Roberts.

Crucial Books for the Occult Seeker

A short list of metaphysical greats actually intended to be read

Mitch Horowitz
3 min readJan 23, 2020

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I was recently asked for my crucial picks of occult books. I devised this short list based not on completeness (the occult is an ancient and morphing philosophy — no list is ever complete) but on selections that I believe can alter your practice and point of view within a fixed period of time…

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China