Mysticism category: 2293 books
The Gospel of Thomas
The Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
A new translation and analysis of the gospel that records the actual words of Jesus
• Explores the gnostic significance of Jesus's teachings recorded in this gospel
• Explains the true nature of the new man whose coming Jesus envisioned
• Translated and interpreted by the...
Visions and Longings
Medieval Women Mystics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1997
The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their...
Jesus after the Crucifixion
From Jerusalem to Rennes-le-Château
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2007
Suggests that Jesus survived the crucifixion, went to Egypt, then settled in France
• Reveals new discoveries that show the beginnings of Christianity in Egypt
• Presents historical and archaeological research that proves a connection between Jerusalem, Egypt, and Rennes-le-Château...
The Mysteries of Mithras
The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
An overview of Mithraism, the ancient Roman mystery religion popular in the Roman Legions
• Provides a comprehensive history of Mithraism, including its influence on Christianity and Islam
• Includes rituals, meditations, and teaching tales for readers who wish to follow the Mithraic...
Mysteries of the Bridechamber
The Initiation of Jesus and the Temple of Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
Jesus was an initiate and adept of the ancient Judaic mysteries who strove to reinstate the tradition of the bridechamber sacrament in his time
• Shows that Jesus sought to establish equity of masculine and feminine in both spiritual practice and social traditions, particularly in the sacrament...
by Alan Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
The ghost of a dead nurse haunts a modern hotel in this story of spiritual relase.
by Martin Ettington
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
God Like Powers and Abilities are the abilities of the human spirit which are supposed to be impossible, but which really exist. The abilities and powers reviewed in this book include Telepathy, Psychokinesis, Levitation, Invisibility, Invulnerability, Teleportation, Creating your future, Prophecy,...
The Dice Game of Shiva
How Consciousness Creates the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
In this fascinating book, Richard Smoley examines the roles God has played for us and reconciles them with what we today know through science and reason. In the process, he shows that consciousness is the underlying reality beneath everything in the universe. In one of Hinduism’s great myths, Shiva...
The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
New Constructs of Mind and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
The classic work that shaped the thought of a generation with its powerful insights into the true nature of mind and reality.
• Defines culture as a "cosmic egg" structured by the mind's drive for logical ordering of its universe.
• Provides techniques allowing individuals to break...
by Patrick Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
“…aspirations to perfection awaken us to our actual imperfection.” It is in the space between these aspirations and our inability to achieve them that Grant reflects upon imperfection. Grant argues that an awareness of imperfection, defined as both suffering and the need for justice, drive us...
The Russian Cosmists
The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian religious and scientific thinkers emerged, united in the conviction that humanity was entering a new stage of evolution and must assume a new, active, managerial role in the cosmos. The ideas of the Cosmists have in recent...
The Journey of the Soul into God
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
This new translation of The Journey of the Soul into God—Itinerarium Mentis in Deum—signals a milestone in Bonaventurian scholarship in North America. Based on the famed 1956 Boehner edition, this volume presents the text with a new inclusive-language translation, authoritative notes by Boehner...
by Fernando Davalos
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The Elder Domingo Diaz Porta, an initiate walker of the American continent, gave an important command to the spiritual groups that were part of his first circle: we had to go to the outside world and stop gathering in closed and hermetic brotherhoods. Mother Nature would be now our new teacher. We...
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
All and Everything, First Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
With Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff intended to "destroy, mercilessly . . . the beliefs and views about everything existing in the world." This novel beautifully brings to life the visions of humanity for which Gurdjieff has become esteemed. Beelzebub, a man of worldly...