The Free Soul
The Free Soul is another free e-book from Wayne Wirs, published here on his request. The free spiritual e-book is a shorter version, 82 pages, of his other work Mystical Oneness and the Nine Aspects of Being. The book deals with enlightenment and its requirements, with the hard work and the carefree attitude needed. It […]
The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo in one PDF
The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo in one PDF. Here on Holybooks.com you can find all the works of the Indian scholar, yogi, revolutionary and mystic Sri Aurobindo. Some years ago I started uploading the 35 volumes, every single book in a single file. For some time I have wanted to collect all of them […]
The Inner Life and the Tao-Teh-King
The Inner Life and the Tao-Teh-King was published in 1912. The work is derived from a set of lectures attempting to present a mystical interpretation of the classic text, the Tao-Teh-King. From the book: “The book is a series of nature notes; it is nature mysticism. It is a song that comes from nature’s heart and not […]
History of Mysticism – The Unchanging Testament
History of Mysticism – The Unchanging Testament by Swami Abhayananda is an authoritative history book on mysticial experiences. Other books and articles by Swami Abhayananda may be read and freely downloaded on his website at: www.themysticsvision.weebly.com, he has graciously allowed us to offer them here as well. Throughout succeeding ages mystical expericences were echoed by others who had experienced […]
The Ahrimanic Deception and other lectures by Rudolf Steiner
The Ahrimanic Deception by Rudolf Steiner – The lecture presented here was given in Zurich and Basel around 1920. In the collected edition of Rudolf Steiner’s works, the volume containing these original German texts are entitled, Der Innere Aspekt des sozialen Rätsels; Luziferische Vergangenheit, Ahrimanische Zukunft. Among the lectures are: The Etherisation of the Blood, Search for the New Isis, the […]
Echoes From the Gnosis – The Gnosis of the Mind – Six Volumes
Echoes From the Gnosis – The Gnosis of The Mind is written by G. R. S. Mead the first modern scholar of Gnostic tradition. G. R. S. Mead was the private secretary of H. P. Blavatsky and in 1906 he published the first volume of eleven in the series Echoes From the Gnosis. The works are a combination of […]
Supermundane – The Inner Life – Book I-IV
Supermundane -The Inner Life – quadrilogy was written in 1938 by Nicholas Roerich and his wife Helena. From the intro: “Friend, how can we discuss the Supermundane if energy is not yet realized as the foundation of Existence? Many will not understand at all what is meant by this, while others may think that they […]
The Sacred Books of the East – all 50 volumes
The Sacred Books of the East is an enormous project undertaken by Max Müller and various authors from 1879 and 1910. The group’s work was published by Oxford University Press and to this day many of the translations are the only ones existing or the most precise. These translations might be some of the most […]
The White Brother by Michael Juste
The White Brother with the subtitle An Occult Autobiography was written in 1927 by Michael Houghton under the pseudonym Michael Juste. Houghton was an associate of Aleister Crowley and editor of the journal the Occult Observer. The White Brother refers to his theosophical studies that he shared with Paul Brunton, and the book specifically mentions Blavatsky’s Secret […]
The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky
The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky is a double-volume work consisiting of the two books: Cosmogenesis and Antrhopogenesis. They where published in 1888 and Blavatsky claimed that the contents had been revealed to her by ‘mahatmas‘ who had retained knowledge of mankind’s spiritual history, knowledge that it was now possible, in part, to reveal. The first […]
The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect – A Paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Light of the Soul – Its Science and Effect – A Paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a translation and commentary on the teachings of Patanjali 2nd c. BCE. The Light of the Soul consists of 4 books of sutras with commentaries by Alice A. Bailey, each book being a continuation of the […]
Fiery World – Signs of Agni Yoga VOL I-III
Fiery World – Signs of Agni Yoga – is a visionary trilogy written by Helena and Nicholas Roerich and published by their Agni Yoga Foundation. The trilogy was written in the years 1933 -1935 and it should have been given directly by Master Morya, the guru of H. P. Blavatsky, a founder of the Theosophical Society. Unlike previous […]
Leaves of Morya’s Garden by Master Morya and Helena Roerich
Leaves of Morya’s Garden by Master Morya and Helena Roerich. I was pointed in the direction of the Roerich’s and Agni Yoga and especially the double volume Leaves of Morya´s Garden the other day. What caught my initial interest was the similarities between the approach of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way and Helena Roerich simultaneous developed Agni […]
Classics of Spiritual Philosophy and the Present
Classics of Spiritual Philosophy and the Present has been edited and compiled by Vladimir Antonov, Ph.D. The huge work takes the reader on a rough hike through thousands of years of spiritual traditions. Beginning with Pythagoras and Krishna Vladimir works his way through Christianity, Shamanism, Buddhism and a number of individual masters. From the foreword: […]
A Journey Through Georgia C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
A Journey Through Georgia. Journalist Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts spoke Russian and traveled widely in Russia and the Caucasus. He was acquainted with Ouspensky as a fellow journalist when he went to report on conditions there in 1919. Roberts describes a series of engaging meetings he had with “a curious individual named Georgiy Ivanovich Gourjiev” as well […]
An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner
An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner. From the intro: My knowledge of things of the spirit is a direct result of my own perception, and I am fully conscious of this fact. In all details I had always examined myself carefully as to whether every step I took in the progress of my […]
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment – by Rudolf Steiner
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment constitutes a fundamental guide to the anthroposophical path of cognition or knowledge. In human consciousness, faculties are sleeping that, if awakened, lead to life-giving wisdom. With great clarity and warmth, Rudolf Steiner details the exercises and moral qualities to be cultivated on the path to a conscious […]
Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill
Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill. Evelyn Underhill was an English writer and pacifist known for her many works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. She was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the twentieth century. No other book of its type — until […]
Studies in Occultism by H. P. Blavatsky
Studies in Occultism by H P Blavatsky. From the intro: “Occultism is not magic. It is comparatively easy to learn the trick of spells and the methods of using the subtler, but still material, forces of physical nature; the powers of the animal soul in man are soon awakened; the forces which his love, his […]
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds by Rudolph Steiner
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds by Rudolph Steiner set out to answer the question how knowledge of the higher worlds are attained. This book is a revised and enlarged edition of The Way of Initiation with Initiation and its Results. From Steiner’s intro: There slumber in every human being, faculties by means of which he can […]
Autobiography of a Yogi
Autobiography of a Yogi. More goodies for your reading pleasure today! This is the Public Domain version of Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda – it is the original 1946 version formatted as pdf e-book. This e-book has been described as a spiritual treasure and the first glance for thousands of westerners into […]
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 Struggle of the Magicians – Gurdjieff
The Struggle of the Magicians is a Ballet in five acts by G.I Gurdjieff. He wrote it in 1914 as he build he first groups of students in Skt. Petersburg which laid the foundation for his lifelong work as a spiritual teacher in Russia, Turkey, Germany and France. One of the poems from the Ballet: […]
Eight Conversations – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Eight Conversations is a collection of Jiddu Krishnamurti conversations he had with people in 1967 while he worked in the states. Download full text here: Krishnamurti Eight Conversations
Gurdjieff, Enneagram and the Fourth Way
Gurdjieff, Enneagram and the Fourth Way. This short essay will survey the Armenian mystic Gurdjieff’s central ideas, locate his sources and delineate the main reasons for his “Work”; explain chief methods and evaluate his place in the history of ideas and in the contemporary visions of human condition. From the book: What the Theosophical movement […]
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