Siddhartha – an Indian Tale by Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha – an Indian Tale by Hermann Hesse is about a son of a Brahman who in his quest for the truth rejects his father’s faith. His way is through asceticism, meeting with the Buddha, love adventures and a secular life until he calms down and finally finds enlightenment. In many ways the novel is [...]

Beyond No Self – by Nirmala

The spiritual journey is a movement away from over-identification with the body and mind to the rediscovery of our true identity as infinite Being, and this can be two different movements. The first is disidentification with the body and mind. Since identification is simply a movement of thought, dis-identification is simply a movement away from [...]

Reading the Mind

‘Reading the Mind’ is a compilation of teachings by a Thai female teacher, Kee Nanayon (1901-1978); who established a Dhamma centre, Khao-Suan-Luang in 1945. Upasika Kee attracted Dhamma students, and her followers came to include both female lay devotees and white-robed nuns. These Dhamma talks were mainly given to the women who stayed at her [...]

Essential Themes of Buddhist Lectures

‘Essential Themes of Buddhist Lectures’ by Sayadaw U Thittilla is a huge collection of his expanded notes on talks on Buddhism. The book answers a number of questions about Buddhism, its history and different sects, such as Mahayana, Theravada and others. It also gives detailed explanations about rebirth, meditation and lots more. Download the 415 [...]

The Tao Teh King

Here is the classic Tao work ‘The Tao Teh King’ by Lao-Tse in the James Legge translation. Download full text here: Lao-tse The Tao Teh King

SUFISM: THE PERSIAN MYSTICS – JALALU’D-DIN RUMI

The word Sufi is derived from the word suf, meaning “wool”. When a little Persian sect at the end of the eighth century A.D. broke away from the orthodox Muslim religion, and struck out on an independent path, they ignored costly robes and worldly ostentation, and clad themselves in a white wool garment. Hence they [...]

Cosmic Memory by Rudolf Steiner

Cosmic Memory with the subtitle: ‘Prehistory of Earth and Man’ is Rudolf Steiners introduction to his own cosmology. From the foreword: “The philosophical outlook of Rudolf Steiner embraces such fundamental questions as the being of man, the nature and purpose of freedom, the meaning of evolution, the relation of man to nature, the life after [...]

The Mystics of Islam by Reynold A. Nicholson

Academic introduction to the origins of Sufism. In The Mystics of Islam, Reynold A. Nicholson draws lines to old Christian, gnostic, neoplatonistic and even the Buddhist influences from where Sufism origins. The book is rich on examples, poems and references to Sufi masters and writers. Dowload here (84 pages): Mystics of Islam

Tabjuman Al-Ashwaq – A Collection of Mystical Odes

‘Tabjuman Al-Ashwaq – A Collection of Mystical Odes’ by MUHYI’DDIN IBN AL-’ARABI is a collection of three individual sufi manuscripts that have been edited together here. This scanned edition was published by The Royal Asiatic Society in London 1911. Download here (172 pages/6.7MB): Ibn Al-Arabi Tarjuman Al-Ashwaq

Advanced Course in Yoga Philosophy

‘Advanced Course in Yoga Philosophy and Oriental Occulism’ by Yogi Ramacharaka was first published in English in 1904 by the Yogi Publication Society Chicago, Illinois. It deals with the inner yoga as a spiritual path more than the physical exercises.  Please keep in mind that this book might be fake, since there is no other [...]

Divine Justice or The problem of Evil

Divine Justice or The problem of Evil by Javad Shayvard is published by the World Organization for Islamic Services in Tehran in 1977. It deals with the problems of justice, moral and concepts as evilness from a Shia point of vie. Download the 38 pages here: Divine Justice or The problem of Evil

Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P. D. Ouspensky follows the unsuccessful struggle of Ivan Osokin to correct his mistakes when given a chance to relive his past. The conclusion fully anticipates the Fourth Way Philosophy which typified Ouspensky’s later works. The Magician, a minor but important character who makes appearances at the beginning and [...]

The Psychology of Mans Possible Evolution

P. D. Ouspenskys ‘The Psychology of Mans Possible Evolution’ was published shortly after his death in 1947 together with In Search of the Miraculous. 100 pages/605KB – download here: Ouspensky The Psychology of Mans Possible Evolution

In Search of the Miraculous – P. D. Ouspensky

Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky has the subtitle: ‘Fragments of an Unknown Teaching’. In this 396 page work P. D. Ouspensky for the first time introduces the Enneagram to the western world which he learned about from the teachings of the Greek-Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff. Download the book here: THIS WORK HAS [...]

The Fourth Way by P. D. Ouspensky

When P. D. Ouspensky was asked if he intended to publish his lectures, he answered: ‘What is the use? The most important is not the lectures but the questions and answers.’ This book consists of verbatim extracts from talks and answers to questions given by Ouspensky between 1921 and 1946. Chapter I is a general [...]