Herbarium
A collection of texts I recommend relating to the use of plants, the development of plant allies and a greater understanding of the flora mysterium. The green way is very much a developing route for myself and so I envisage this list expanding and contracting as experience informs.
Viridarium Umbris
The Pleasure Garden of Shadow
Daniel Schulke
For my introduction to the magical world of plants this book has been as no other. Taking the important attitude of developing relationship and due respect to the spirit of the plants before consideration can be given to how they can be used the Viridarium has placed itself as the cornerstone of green magic.
Ars Philtron
Concerning the Aqueous Cunning of the Potion and its Praxis in the Green Art Magical
Daniel Schulke
With the knowledge garnered from the Viridarium, Ars Philtron deals extensively with the medium of potions as reified within a sabbatic-alchemical remit.
Alembick of the Wise
An Hidden Lexicon of Sabbatic Alchemy
Daniel A. Schulke
An analysis of the the various terminologies specific to sabbatic alchemy and an explanation of their greater meanings.
Veneficium
Magic, Witchcraft and the Poison Path
Daniel Schulke
A book focusing on esoteric toxicology that looks at how magic and poison have been used to both harm and to also bring about religious ecstasy and occult knowledge.
Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism
And Other Homilies on Botanical Magic
Daniel Schulke
A philosophical primer to The Green Mysteries, Thirteen Pathways serves to inform the reader on the various pathways to knowledge of the herbal craft.
Plants of the Devil
Corinne Boyer
A historical and practical work on the herbs tht are associated with the Devil, examining the folklore of the British Isles and Europe.
The Vineyard of the Resurrection
Liber Gannath Aur-Kha-Zia
Akarais Hran-Issiyah
A mystery text pertaining to the Wine of Midnight and the acquisition of the Holy Vintage.
The Epistle of the Tree
Being the Oracle of the Witch-Tree Eshemhayya
Akarais Hran-Issiyah
A mystery text pertaining to the teachings received from the body entire of the witch-tree Eshemhayya.
Alchemy Rising
The Green Book
Heliophilus
An introductory practical manual on the sacred art of alchemy.
Wassailing
The British Midwinter Blessing Custom
Simon Reed
A study of the folklore behind the British tradition of wassailing the apple trees.
Under the Witching Tree
A Folk Grimoire of Tree Lore and Practicum
Corinne Boyer
This work focuses on the rustic magical traditions that have their roots in the trees of Western Europe and North America.
Under the Bramble Arch
A Folk Grimoire of Wayside Plant Lore and Practicum
Corinne Boyer
This work focuses on magical and medicinal applications of the wayside plants, those found in the liminal spaces where the wilderness and mankind meet.
Wortcunning
A Folk Medicine Herbal / A Folk Magic Herbal
Nigel G. Pearson
An interesting book that is two books in one, each reveal by the turning of the book. The first book details the practical applications of a variety of herbs whereas the second book deals with the magical application of the same herbs.
Leechdom, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England
Thomas Oswald Cockayne
A collection of writings from pre-Conquest Britain on plants, medicine and the heavens, mostly in Old English with accompanying modern English translations.
Compendium of Symbolic and Ritual Plants in Europe
Marcel De Cleene and Marie Claire Lejeune
A modern reference work on the part played by herbs, shrubs and trees in mythology and religious and profane rituals and the symbolism that derives from them. Many customs that 21st-century man finds perfectly normal once had a far deeper significance. It is an academically sound survey of the knowledge of ritual plants over the centuries, taking a broad view, plus a critical look at how correctly plant species are named in the literature.
Pharmako: Poeia
Dale Pendell
Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft includes a new introduction by the author and as in previous editions focuses on familiar psychoactive plant-derived substances and related synthetics, ranging from the licit (tobacco, alcohol) to the illicit (cannabis, opium) and the exotic (absinthe, salvia divinorum, nitrous oxide).
Pharmako: Dynamis
Dale Pendell
Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, and Herbcraft includes a new introduction by the author and as in previous editions focuses on stimulants (including coffee, tea, chocolate, and coca and its derivatives) and empathogens (notably Ecstasy).
Pharmako: Gnosis
Dale Pendell
Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path includes a new introduction by the author and as in previous editions focuses on plant-based and derivative psychedelic “teachers” (including ayahuasca, peyote, LSD, and DMT) and on the “poison path” of substances such as belladonna, ketamine, and ibogaine.
Goddesses, Elixirs, and Witches
Plants and Sexuality throughout Human History
John M. Riddle
From the earliest times, the medicinal properties of certain herbs were connected with deities, particularly goddesses. Only now with modern scientific research can we begin to understand the basisand rationality that these divine connections had and, being preserved in myths and religious stories, they continued to have a significant impact through the present day. Riddle argues that the pomegranate, mandrake, artemisia, and chaste tree plants substantially altered thedevelopment of medicine and fertility treatments.The herbs, once sacred to Inanna, Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, and Hermes, eventually came to be associated with darker forces, representing theinstruments of demons and witches.
The Witch’s Cabinet
Plant Sorcery, Lore and Folk Tradition
Corinne Boyer
As a meditation upon the shrouded dimensions of plant folklore, The Witch's Cabinet devotes thirteen essays to mysteries of these often-disquieting plants, many of which contain keys of spiritual transformation, healing, and occult power.