Recently I stumbled across John Ottinger’s query to the Blogosphere: How Do You Organize Your Library?

These two things came crashing together today as I’m working on making the office/library my working office. All–well, a full bookcase worth–of the occult books were on the north side of the room (my desk is against the east wall), and next to me were the fiction books. I realized I don’t need the fiction leering at me while I work, and so I decided to swap these two groups. As I was pulling books, I realized there were a couple other shelves of books that hadn’t been properly filed, and now was a good time to get everything organized.

An hour later, I’ve got another bookcase’s worth of books stacked on the floor, occult books on both walls, and the fiction stacked at the back of the room. My energy is scattered–no doubt of that–but the discoveries I’ve made. There’s been a lot of acquisitions over the last few years; now, hopefully, I’ll have some time to read them all.

In the meantime, I need to get these shelves organized. A dozen or so sticky notes dividing them into smaller categories is going to help for a bit, but some of these are going to confound pigeon-holing. Like they do.

And I need a lecturn/display stand for Jung’s The Red Book. It’s too tall for any shelf, and frankly, it begs to be left open to lure in the casual reader.

They’re also a nexus point for a number of personal sites about the Golden Dawn, the O.T.O, Dr. John Dee, Enochian matters, Chaos Magick, Qabalah, the Tarot, Thelema (and the list goes on).

I hadn’t realized they’ve got all of Crowley’s Equinox material up there (wherein I finally found the picture of the Silent Watcher I’ve been looking for for the last six months). If you’re not obsessed about finding first editions, you can’t go wrong with online versions. (The link there goes to Blair MacKenzie Blake’s book on being a Crowley bibliophile, which I’m currently reading and enjoying quite a bit.)

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