Western Timeline:

This is a basic timeline of the Western Traditions that my own practices have evolved from. In other words, these are the Authors and works that have had a direct influence on my Path. This is not to be considered an exact historical timeline, but rather a simple idea of where my Magical Practices are rooted from. i personally trace my Karmic line through the Babylonian/Chaldean Traditions and so, will be leaving out a lot of other Traditions. As for historical dates on when a certain text, grimoire, or the birth of a personage was first recorded or publicly acknowledge, i will leave that for others to piece together. In this timeline those texts that are claimed to be from certain historical people, will be linked to them; even though in truth, as science and history has made abundantly clear, these texts could not have been from them.

The Hunter/Gatherer/Early Tribal Traditions and Beliefs

James Frazer: The Golden Bough: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/frazer/

5000- BCE Babylonian/Chaldean

General: http://www.zyworld.com/Assyrian/Assyrian%20Magic.htm

Texts, Prayers, Incantations: http://www.piney.com/BabIndex.html

Good Information: http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/magic/intro.html

Texts: http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/index.htm

4004? BCE Raziel

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/raziel.html

http://www.angelcartistry.com/raziel.htm

3900? BCE Enoch

Book of Enoch: http://reluctant-messenger.com/enoch.htm

Keys of Enoch: http://www.keysofenoch.org/

2000-1900? BCE Melchizedek

http://www.wcg.org/lit/bible/heb7.htm

2000 - 1900? BCE Abraham

Sepher Yetzirah Saadia Version.

http://www.wbenjamin.org/saadia.html

Sepher Yetzirah Short Version.

http://www.webcom.com/hermit/page/sefer.htm

Sepher Yetzirah Gra Version, 231 gates, and many other treats.

http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/leadbeater/0/231gatesmain.htm

1292-1225? BCE Moses

Torah: http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htm

Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses: http://www.Sacred-texts.com/grim/

Sword of Moses: http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/sword.htm

992-925 BCE Solomon

Greater Key of Solomon: http://www.Sacred-texts.com/pag/kos/kos.htm

Goetia: http://psorcereezee.future.easyspace.com/goetia/goetia.html

Goetia: http://www.hollyfeld.org/heaven/Text/Magick/Grimoire/

Testament of Solomon: http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/testamen.htm

630-550 BCE Zoroaster

Zoroaster: http://www.avesta.org/

575-500 BCE Pythagoras

Golden Verses: http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gvp/index.htm

Biography: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html

School: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.allen/history/pythag/pythag.html

Links: http://www.sourcetext.com/pythagoras/

484 BCE Herodotus

http://books.mirror.org/gb.herodotus.html

460-377? BCE Hippocrates

http://books.mirror.org/gb.hippocrates.html

460-370? BCE Democritus

http://www.newgenevacenter.org/biography/democritus2.htm

450 BCE Empedocles

http://f.about.com/z/js/spr03.htm

427 BCE Plato

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/3963/browse.htm

300? BCE Euclid

http://books.mirror.org/gb.euclid.html

100 BCE - 200 CE Babylonian Talmud

http://www.breslov.com/talmud/talmud.htm

10 BCE Apollonius Of Tyana

Life of Appollonius: http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/a_tyana0.html

2 BCE Simon Magus

http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/AppolloniusAndSimonMagus.htm

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/m/magus_simon.htm

3-8? CE Jesus

The Questionable Jesus?: http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcno.htm

Early Christian Writings: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/

42-120? Plutarch

http://books.mirror.org/gb.plutarch.html

70-80 Compilation of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Gnostic Library: http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/library.html

100? Hermetica

Corpus Hermetica: http://www.gnosis.org/library/hermet.htm

85-165? Ptolemy

Almagest: http://books.mirror.org/gb.ptolemy.html

100-185? Pistis Sophia

Pistis Sophia: http://home.online.no/~noetic/psoph.htm

160 Valentinus

http://www.cyberus.ca/~brons/writings.htm

123-170? Apuleius

The Golden Ass: http://eserver.org/books/apuleius

205 Plotinus

Six Enneads: http://www.spiritweb.org/Plontinus/index.html

232 Porphyry

On Images: http://classics.mit.edu/Porphyry/images.html

325 Iamblichus

Theurgia: http://www.esotericarchives.com/oracle/iambl_th.htm

500 Dionysius the Areopagite

http://www.ccel.org/d/dionysius/

1135 Maimonides

Mysticism: http://www.emory.edu/UDR/BLUMENTHAL/MaimMyst.html

Guide to the Perplexed: http://www.sephardicsages.org/guide.html

1165 Isaac the Blind

1208 Albertus Magus

http://www.occultopedia.com/a/albertus_magnus.htm

1220 Roger Bacon

http://idcs0100.lib.jup.edu/scirev/SciRev_rbacon.html

1225 Thomas Aquinas

http://books.mirror.org/gb.aquinas.html

1238 Moses de Leon

Basic Analysis of Sepher ha-Zohar: http://www.users.qwest.net/~pbrian22/Zoharppr.html

Sepher Dtzenioutha: http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/dtzen.htm

 

1200-1300? Bahir

Bahir: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:j6Ta-mCtRIMC:www.geocities.com/alex_sumner/bahir.pdf+the+book+of+bahir&hl=en

 

1259 Peter de Abano

Heptameron: http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/heptamer.htm

1260 Johannes Eckhart

http://www.ccel.org/e/eckhart/

1265 Dante

http://books.mirror.org/gb.dante.html

1455 Reuchlin

http://home.istar.ca/~glaird/derudime.htm

http://www.geocities.com/webofrob/regent/papers/ReuchlinHebrew.pdf

1462 Johannes Trithemius

http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/trithemius.html

1463 Pico della Mirandola

Oration on the Dignity of Man: http://www.grtbooks.com/mirandola.asp?idx=0&sub=3

1473 Copernicus

http://books.mirror.org/gb.copernicus.html

1486 Agrippa

Occult Philosophy: http://www.esotericarchives.com/agrippa/agrippa1.htm

1491 Ignatius of Loyola

http://www.ccel.org/i/ignatius/

1493 Paracelsus

http://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/index.htm

1522? Moses Cordevero

http://www.ascentofsafed.com/Safed/Sages/remak.html

1527 John Dee

1535 John Baptist Porta

Natural Magic: http://tscnet.com/pages/omard1/jportat2.html

1542 Saint John of the Cross

http://www.ccel.org/j/john_cross/

1561 Francis Bacon

http://books.mirror.org/gb.bacon-francis.html

1596 Descartes

http://books.mirror.org/gb.descartes.html

1628 Molinos

Spiritual Exercises: http://www.ccel.org/m/molinos/

1698 Ba'al Shem Tov

http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion_and_Spirituality/Faiths_and_Practices/Judaism/Movements_and_Sects/Hasidic/Baal_Shem_Tov_Israel_ben_Eliezer__1698_1760_/

1743 Cagliostro

http://www.occultopedio.com/c/cagliostro.htm

1749 Goethe

http://books.mirror.org/gb.goethe.html

1770-1780? Francis Barrett

http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/barrett.html

1810 Levi

Transcendental Magic Part 1: http://w3.one.net/~browe/pdf/DogmaEtRituelPart1.pdf

Transcendental Magic Part 2: http://w3.one.net/~browe/pdf/DogmaEtRituelpart2.pdf

Dogma Et Rituel Part 1: http://www.private.org.il/GD/DogmaEtRituel_Part_I.pdf

Dogma Et Rituel Part 2: http://www.private.org.il/GD/DogmaEtRituel_Part_II.pdf

The Key of the Mysteries: http://ads.yourfreedvds.com/creatives/popunders/monsterspu_3_176.html

Letters on the Qabalah: http://www.private.org.il/GD/Qabalah%20elements%20Letters%20of%20E.%20Levi.pdf

The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum http://www.blackmask.com/books30c/sanctumregnum.htm

 

1811 Paul Christian

1831 Blavatski

The Secret Doctrine: http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd-hp.htm

1842 William James

Writings: http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/james.html

1854 Mathers

Greater Key of Solomon: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/kos.htm

Sepher Dtzenioutha: http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/dtzen.htm

Abra-Merlin: http://www.grimoires.com/Abramelin/index.htm

1861 Steiner

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/steiner/weblinks.html

1865 Papus

Tarot: http://www.supertarot.co.uk/lessons/papustarot.htm

http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/papus.htm

1901 Manly P. Hall

http://www.prs.org/

1907 Robert Ambelain

The Practical Kabbalah (PDF)

1909 Bardon

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6243/