Recommended reading
Some of the books mentioned in this section may not always reflect the philosophy and views of the BMO but are listed here to provide food for thought. What should be sought after is not simply the accumulation of encyclopaedic knowledge, but an expansion of the mind resulting from trying to understand the challenging ideas contained in some writings.
General esoteric subjects
| Author | Book title |
| Henry Cornelius Agrippa | Three Books of Occult Philosophy |
| Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki | Highways of the Mind The Shining Paths Sacred Cord Meditations Inner Landscapes The Forgotten Mage (editor) |
| Elizabeth Anderton-Fox | Rituals of the Light Within Journeys in the Light Within: Meditations by Elizabeth Anderton Fox |
| W E Butler | Lords of Light Magic Practical Magic Apprenticed to Magic The Magician, His Training and Work Magic and the Qabalah Magic, it’s Ritual, Power and Purpose |
| Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts | Tarot Revelations |
| Paul Foster Case | The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order |
| Paul Christian | The History and Practice of Magic |
| Michael A Cremo & Richard L Thompson | Forbidden Archeology |
| Karl von Eckartshausen | The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary |
| David Fideler | Jesus Christ, Sun of God |
| Dion Fortune | The Cosmic Doctrine The Training and Work of an Initiate The Machinery of the Mind The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage The Psychology of the Servant Problem Esoteric Orders and their Work Applied Magic Psychic Self-Defence Glastonbury: Avalon of the Heart What is Occultism? Mystical Meditations of the Christian Collects An Introduction to Ritual Magic Practical Occultism |
| Dion Fortune & Gareth Knight | The Circuit of Force |
| Count St Germain | The Most Holy Trinosophia |
| Adrian G Gilbert | Magi |
| Manly Hall | The Secret Teachings of All Ages |
| Christmas Humphreys | Concentration and Meditation: Manual of Mind Development |
| Olga Kharitidi | Entering the Circle |
| Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas | The Second Messiah |
| Gareth Knight | The Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism The Magical World of the Tarot Magic and the Western Mind |
| Samuel Noah Kramer | Sumerian Mythology |
| Eliphas Levi | The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum The Paradoxes of the Highest Science Letters to a Disciple The Mysteries of the Qabalah Transcendental Magic The Book of Splendours The Key of the Mysteries |
| Adam McLean | The Alchemical Mandala |
| Lynn Pickett & Clive Prince | The Templar Revelation |
| A S Raleigh | Occult Geometry and Hermetic Science of Motion and Number |
| Israel Regardie | The Garden of Pomegranates |
| Mouni Sadhu | The Tarot – A Contemporary Course on the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism |
| Gershom Scholem | On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism The Origins of Kabbalah Major Trends of Jewish Mysticism |
| Zev ben Shimon Halevi | Kabbalah and Exodus Psychology and Kabbalah Anatomy of Fate School of the Soul The Way of the Kabbalah The Work of the Kabbalist Adam and the Kabbalistic Tree Forbidden Archeology The Book with Fourteen Seals |
| John Stroheimier & Peter Westbrook | Divine Harmony |
| Evelyn Underhill | Mysticism |
| A E Waite | The Unknown Philosopher |
| Andrew Welburn | The Book with Fourteen Seals |
| Oswald Wirth | Tarot of the Magicians |
| Yogananda | Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels |