Written in 1177, 'The Conference of Birds' is a Muslim mystical allegory dealing with the struggl...

'Njal's Saga' is rightly famous as one of the most heroic, and most poignant, of all the Icelandi...

Known to his contemporaries as the 'Myriad-Mind Man', George William Russell (1867-1935) was an a...

Helen Keller is a name associated with success in overcoming the many challenges faced by the dea...

Albert Pike was born at Boston Massachusetts in 1809, the eldest of six children.A precocious pup...

'The Cloud of Unknowing' was written in the late 1300s and is recognized as a masterpiece of medi...

Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin was originally a high initiate in Martinez de Pasqually's 'Ordre des...

Max Heindel's mysticism is set firmly in the western tradition of the Gnosis. Following a series ...

In some dystopic future, a confirmed atheist and an avid catholic find each other's beliefs so in...

Gilbert K Chesterton is probably best known today for his 'Father Brown' novels, but he was one o...

Written in 1762, 'The Social Contract' is Rousseau's attempt to describe a society in which indiv...

Modern medical science and the ancient writings are as one on the importance of correct breathing...

Famous in our own time as the author of the 'Father Brown' detective stories, Gilbert Keith Chest...

The 'Pistis Sophia' is arguably the most important Gnostic document we possess. Dated as early as...

'The Interior Castle' is a classic of Christian mysticism, written with some reluctance by its au...

'The Analects of Confucius' has had the most profound effect on Chinese Society, and influenced m...

H G Wells is one of the 'fathers' of Science Fiction. His novel 'The First Men in the Moon' chron...

German philosopher and philologist, Friedrich Nietzsche, was one of the most influential thinkers...

This colourful edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem 'The Song of Hiawatha' is specia...

Originally collected from German peasantry in the early 1800’s, Grimm’s Fairy Tales are known and...

Bulwer-Lytton's 'Zanoni' is an occult masterpiece, one of the finest examples of spiritual fictio...

Chuang Tzu (pinyin: Zhuangzi) is the name given to an enigmatic Daoist sage who was born around 3...

Although it is now an acknowledged literary masterpiece, James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist a...

From the time of the founding of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, over a hundred years ago,...

'The Secret Garden' tells the tale of ten year old Mary Lennox, a mean-tempered little girl, igno...

Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s book is ostensibly a work of science fiction.It deals with an underground ...

D. H. Lawrence’s skill at dissecting human emotions and conflicting thoughts lends a depth to his...

Born at Ekaterinoslav in Southern Russia, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (née von Hahn) contracted an ...

Charlotte Stetson Gilman was known as a crusading feminist intellectual, concerned especially wit...

Leo Tolstoy is famous the world over for his epic novels of Russian history and society. But duri...

Written at the time of the Russian February 1917 Revolution, before the Bolshevik take-over in Oc...

Published in 1898 and never out of print since that time, 'The War of the Worlds' is one of the m...

When first initiated into Freemasonry, very few candidates are aware of the number of Degrees or ...

This first collection of Emerson's essays has influenced a host of thinkers and intellectuals sin...

From Ritual to Romance is Jessie Weston's landmark study of the legends surrounding the mysteriou...

Evelyn Underhill was a brilliant scholar who spent many years researching the history and literat...

Charles Webster Leadbeater was an ordained Anglican priest who left his Church to follow the spir...

Charles Webster Leadbeater was inducted into the Theosophical Society in London on November 21, 1...

Charles Webster Leadbeater is regarded as one of the most important of the twentieth century's wr...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' is a semi-autobiographical short story drawing on Charlotte Gilman's perso...

William Morris is more widely known for his beautifully designed 'Arts and Crafts' wallpapers, bu...

Utilitarianism

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Benedictus de Spinoza's ground-breaking philosophy made him a controversial figure of 17th centur...

The early Christian Fathers such as Jude respected The Book of Enoch, as did the Essenes of Qumra...

This is Lenin’s seminal text on social revolution and how to achieve it, published some 16 years ...

John Stuart Mill was a child prodigy who, in adulthood, embraced social change, advocating the ab...

The Rosicrucian Brotherhood traces its origin to the 14th century, and claims to be heir to occul...