The Modern Occult Revival in Ten Books

Levi published the Dogme in 1854 and the Rituel in 1856. The atlas describes it as the founding work of the modern occult revival, joining Kabbalah, tarot and ceremonial magic, and linking the twenty two trumps to the Hebrew letters.

These folios, dated by the atlas to about 1870 to 1880, are written in a substitution cipher and sketch the grade structure that became the Golden Dawn. They were presented as old Rosicrucian documents, though the paper carries an 1809 watermark and the cipher is Trithemius's, printed in 1561.

Paschal Beverly Randolph published this in 1874. It sets out the sexual and magical doctrine of his Brotherhood of Eulis in guarded language, written for initiates and meant to be completed by personal instruction.

Blavatsky's first major work, from 1877, attacks both scientific materialism and dogmatic religion in the name of a hidden ancient wisdom. The atlas notes that it laid the groundwork for Theosophy.

Published in 1888 as a commentary on the Stanzas of Dzyan, it presents root races and planetary cycles and teaches karma, reincarnation and hidden Masters. It became the central scripture of the Theosophical movement.

Crowley's core instructional volume, dated 1929 here, belongs to the larger Book Four. Its Wikipedia source says he reported being commanded to write Book 4 by an entity named Abuldiz, and the book defines magick as causing change in conformity with will.

A 1931 French compilation issued under Randolph's name but assembled by Maria de Naglowska. Scholars regard much of it as her own editing, so its authenticity as Randolph's work is disputed, which links this stop back to Eulis.

Dion Fortune's 1935 exposition of the Hermetic Qabalah explains the Tree of Life, the sefirot and the paths. It treats the Qabalah as a living framework for meditation and magic rather than as Jewish scripture study.

Israel Regardie's four volume publication, dated 1937 to 1940, disclosed the grade ceremonies, knowledge lectures and practical methods of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Its release made a complete system of ceremonial magic publicly available, and it completes the line begun at the Cipher Manuscripts.

Crowley's 1944 treatise on the tarot accompanies the deck he designed with Lady Frieda Harris. It reads the seventy eight cards through Kabbalah, astrology and Thelemic doctrine, and it closes the path with the revival's tarot legacy that began with Levi.