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Book Lists

1. Mystical, Occult and Metaphysical Books and Texts
2. Religious Texts
3. Novels, Plays and Poetry
4. Important Influential Books That Don't Clearly Fit Elsewhere
5. Mythology and Fairy Tale

Mystical, Occult and Metaphysical Books and Texts

The Kybalion by Three Initiates
A book on Hermetics that offers nine keys to the universe. Understand only one and you are free of the wheel of rebirth if you so choose.

The Emerald Tablets of Hermes Trismegestus by Hermes Trismegistus
The foundation text of Hermetics by its founder.

The Sepher Yetzirah
One of the oldest known Rabbinical Kabbalistic texts.

An Introduction to the Corpus Hermeticum
An old gnostic/hermetic text.

The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali / The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali by Patanjali
One of the most important original Yoga Texts.

The Chaldæan Oracles attributed to Zoroaster

The Works of Plato by Plato

Phaedrus by Plato

The Works of Plotinus (The Enneads) by Plotinus

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Good advice.

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus
More good advice.

Religious Texts

The Bible - King James Version attributed to God
Main Christian religious text.

The Book of Mormon also attributed to God
The religious text of the Mormons

Deutercanonical Books Of The Bible by God initially, but He changed His mind
Apocryphal Books of the Bible

The Koran / The Koran
Main Islamic Religious Text

Novels, Plays, Poetry

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol

Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, The Hell, Purgatory, Paradise Comedy by Dante Alighieri
An allegorical tale of fall and redemption which stongly influenced Christian thinking.

Faust by Goethe

Siddartha by Herman Hesse
A fictional account of the life of a Buddha.

Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Reputedly the true story of the life of Saint Germaine

Important Influential Books That Don’t Clearly Fit Elsewhere

Some of these books are controversial. Here are our reasons for their inclusion.

The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine of Hippo
Profoundly influenced Christianity.

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
We don't like him either, but what we refuse to understand and look at can happen again.

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion by Anonymous
Details of a plot to rule the world by a very confidence inspiring author. This document was considered so dangerous that it was banned for many years.

The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
For centuries this man's name has been synonymous with expediency, deceit, and cunning. Have you ever wondered what it was he actually wrote.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
An old and revered Chinese book on strategy.

Mythology and Fairy Tales

The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
Classic of comparative mythology.

Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson
Story of the kings of Norway, real and mythological

Aesop's Fables / Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson

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