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The Enneads

Plotinus

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Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry

Barfield, Owen

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A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

Eliade, Mircea

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Rites and Symbols of Initiation

Eliade, Mircea

Connections 11Religion

Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism

Tomberg, Valentin

Connections 10Esotericism

Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical

Burkert, Walter

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Art

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Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His Art— Tarkovsky, Andrey
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Imaginal

Esotericism

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Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius
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Sympatheia Hermes Trismegistus
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The Rose of the World— Andreev, Daniel
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Sophia Apocatastasis Nikolai Fyodorovich Fedorov Daniil Leonidovich Andreev
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The Morning of the Magicians: Secret Societies, Conspiracies, and Vanished Civilizations— Bergier, Jacques
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Prisca Theologia Egregore
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The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy (2-volume set)— Blavatsky, H. P.
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Consciousness Evolution Perennial Philosophy Chain of Being Nicholas of Cusa Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex— Evola, Julius
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Initiation Henosis Julius Evola
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Introduction to Magic: Rituals and Practical Techniques for the Magus— Evola, Julius
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Theurgy Julius Evola
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Metaphysics of Power— Evola, Julius
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Julius Evola
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Metaphysics of War— Evola, Julius
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Julius Evola
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Revolt Against the Modern World— Evola, Julius
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Counter-Initiation The Hardening Julius Evola René Guénon
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Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul— Evola, Julius
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Counter-Initiation The Hardening Julius Evola
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The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts— Evola, Julius
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Initiation Maya Julius Evola
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The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art— Evola, Julius
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Solve et Coagula Nigredo Julius Evola
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The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit— Evola, Julius
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Initiation Katabasis Julius Evola
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The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way— Evola, Julius
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Kundalini Theurgy Julius Evola
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Initiation And Spiritual Realization— Guénon, René
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What Was Lost at Eleusis Initiation Perennial Philosophy René Guénon
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Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)— Guénon, René
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Perennial Philosophy René Guénon
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Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)— Guénon, René
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Perennial Philosophy René Guénon
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Perspectives on Initiation— Guénon, René
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What Was Lost at Eleusis Initiation René Guénon
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The Esoterism of Dante— Guénon, René
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Katabasis Initiation René Guénon
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The King of the World (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)— Guénon, René
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René Guénon
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The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times— Guénon, René
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Perennial Philosophy The Hardening René Guénon
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Traditional Forms and Cosmic Cycles (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)— Guénon, René
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Perennial Philosophy René Guénon
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Meetings with Remarkable Men: All and Everything, 2nd Series— Gurdjieff, G. I.
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Self-Remembering Giovanni Pico della Mirandola George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series (Compass)— Gurdjieff, G. I.
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Consciousness Evolution Hierophany Self-Remembering Giovanni Pico della Mirandola George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
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Sinister Forces II ―— Levenda, Peter
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Counter-Initiation Egregore
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Sinister Forces III―— Levenda, Peter
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Counter-Initiation Egregore
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A New Model of the Universe— Ouspensky, P D
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Consciousness Evolution Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky
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The Fourth Way— Ouspensky, P D
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Self-Remembering George Ivanovich Gurdjieff Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky
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In Search of the Miraculous— Ouspensky, P D
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Initiation Hierophany Self-Remembering George Ivanovich Gurdjieff Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky
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The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution— Ouspensky, P D
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Self-Remembering Consciousness Evolution Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky
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A Practical Manual of Meditation— Scaligero, Massimo
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Massimo Scaligero
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A Treatise on Living Thinking: A Path beyond Western Philosophy, beyond Yoga, beyond Zen— Scaligero, Massimo
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Final Participation Participation Massimo Scaligero
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The Light (La Luce): An Introduction to Creative Imagination— Scaligero, Massimo
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Massimo Scaligero
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The Secrets of Space and Time— Scaligero, Massimo
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Massimo Scaligero
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The Temple of Man (two volume set)— Schwaller de Lubicz, R. A.
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Sacred Geography
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An Outline of Esoteric Science: (CW 13) (Classics in Anthroposophy)— Steiner, Rudolf
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Consciousness Evolution Original Participation Rudolf Steiner
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Cosmic Memory: The Story of Atlantis, Lemuria, and the Division of the Sexes— Steiner, Rudolf
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Rudolf Steiner
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Goethe's Theory of Knowledge: An Outline of the Epistemology of His Worldview (CW 2) (The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner)— Steiner, Rudolf
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The Hardening Rudolf Steiner
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How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Classics in Anthroposophy)— Steiner, Rudolf
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Initiation Consciousness Evolution Final Participation Rudolf Steiner
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Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path— Steiner, Rudolf
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Final Participation Participation Rudolf Steiner
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Theosophy : An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos— Steiner, Rudolf
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Rudolf Steiner
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Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism— Tomberg, Valentin(1985)
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Coincidentia Oppositorum Apophatic Docta Ignorantia Gnosis Solve et Coagula Sophia Valentin Tomberg Rudolf Steiner Meister Eckhart Carl Gustav Jung
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Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity— Uzdavinys, Algis
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Theurgy Methexis Sympatheia Henosis
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The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross - A History of the Rosicrucians— Waite, Arthur Edward
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Egregore Prisca Theologia
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The School of Martinism— Waite, Arthur Edward
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Prisca Theologia

History

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Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical— Burkert, Walter
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What Was Lost at Eleusis Initiation Epopteia Hierophant Anamnesis Pharmakon Hierophany Walter Burkert
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The Book of Memory— Carruthers, Mary
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Ars Memoria
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The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries— Clinton, Kevin(1974)
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What Was Lost at Eleusis Eleusinian Mysteries Greater and Lesser Mysteries Telesterion Nine-Day Festival (Greater Mysteries Calendar)
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Eros and Magic in the Renaissance— Couliano, Ioan
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Eros (initiatory)
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Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries— Mylonas, George E.(1961)
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What Was Lost at Eleusis Eleusinian Mysteries Greater and Lesser Mysteries Telesterion Sacred Way (Iera Hodos)Nine-Day Festival (Greater Mysteries Calendar)Kykeon Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Sanchoniatho's Phoenician History: Translated From The First Book Of Eusebius De Praeparatione Evangelica: With A Continuation Of Sanchoniatho's History By Eratosthenes Cyrenaeus's Canon— Sanchuniathon
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Theurgy Sympatheia
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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition— Yates, Frances
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Ars Memoria Prisca Theologia Frances Yates
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Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age— Yates, Frances
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Ars Memoria Frances Yates
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The Art of Memory— Yates, Frances
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Frances Yates
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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Routledge Classics)— Yates, Frances
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Frances Yates

Literature

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The Oresteia (Norton Critical Editions)— Aeschylus
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Initiation
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Aeschylus II: The Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies)— Aeschylus
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Initiation
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The Divine Comedy— Alighieri, Dante
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Katabasis Epopteia Coincidentia Oppositorum Catharsis Dante Alighieri
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The Golden Ass— Apeleius, Lucius
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Pharmakon Lucius Apuleius
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Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes (Oxford World's Classics)— Aristophanes
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Katabasis
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Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning— Barfield, Owen
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Participation Consciousness Evolution The Hardening Owen Barfield
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Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus (The Complete Greek Tragedies)— Euripides
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Initiation Entheogen
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Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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Original Participation Solve et Coagula Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Theogony and Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics)— Hesiod
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Original Participation
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The Iliad of Homer— Homer
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Participation Original Participation
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The Odyssey of Homer— Homer
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Katabasis Psychopomp
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Ovid's Metamorphoses : The Arthur Golding Translation of 1567— Ovid
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Initiation
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The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics)— Virgil
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Katabasis Psychopomp

Philosophy

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Greek Philosophy
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Anamnesis Methexis
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Medieval Philosophy
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Coincidentia Oppositorum
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Complete Works of Aristotle— Aristotle
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Epopteia
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Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry— Barfield, Owen
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Participation Consciousness Evolution Perennial Philosophy The Hardening Mundus Imaginalis Methexis Coincidentia Oppositorum Sympatheia Henosis Metanoia Owen Barfield
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Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi— Corbin, Henry(1969)
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Mundus Imaginalis Imaginal Henry Corbin
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Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal— Corbin, Henry(1972)
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Mundus Imaginalis Imaginal Henry Corbin
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The Ever Present Origin— Gebser, Jean
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Participation Consciousness Evolution Perennial Philosophy The Hardening Coincidentia Oppositorum Henosis Metanoia Jean Gebser
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The Crisis of the Modern World— Guénon, René(1927)
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Counter-Initiation René Guénon
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Being and Time— Heidegger, Martin
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Martin Heidegger
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The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays— Heidegger, Martin(1977)
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Gestell Martin Heidegger
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid— Hofstadter, Douglas R
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Cosmotechnics
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The Perennial Philosophy— Huxley, Aldous(1945)
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Aldous Huxley
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In the Dark Places of Wisdom— Kingsley, Peter(1999)
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Gnosis Peter Kingsley
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Reality— Kingsley, Peter(2004)
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What Was Lost at Eleusis Katabasis Peter Kingsley
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Plato: Complete Works— Plato
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What Was Lost at Eleusis Mundus Imaginalis Anamnesis Pharmakon Methexis Coincidentia Oppositorum Metanoia Eros (initiatory)
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The Enneads— Plotinus
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Consciousness Evolution Apophatic Theurgy Gnosis Mundus Imaginalis Anamnesis Methexis Coincidentia Oppositorum Sympatheia Henosis Metanoia Plotinus
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Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus— Shaw, Gregory(1995)
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Theurgy Henosis
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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View— Tarnas, Richard(1991)
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Participation Consciousness Evolution The Hardening Coincidentia Oppositorum Metanoia Richard Tarnas
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Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View— Tarnas, Richard(2006)
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Consciousness Evolution Richard Tarnas

Psychology

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Propaganda— Bernays, Edward
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Counter-Initiation
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World— McGilchrist, Iain(2009)
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Consciousness Evolution The Hardening Iain McGilchrist
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Alchemical Active Imagination: Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series)— von Franz, Marie-Louise
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Mundus Imaginalis
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On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance (Studies in Jungian Psychology)— von Franz, Marie-Louise
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John Dee

Reference

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History in English Words— Barfield, Owen
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Participation Consciousness Evolution The Hardening Owen Barfield

Religion

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The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume
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Gnosis
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The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects— David-Neel, Alexandra
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Bardo
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The Upanishads— Easwaran, Eknath
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Participation Metanoia Dissolution of Subject-Object
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A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries— Eliade, Mircea
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What Was Lost at Eleusis Initiation Katabasis Epopteia Gnosis Hierophant Mundus Imaginalis Anamnesis Pharmakon Hierophany Mircea Eliade
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A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity— Eliade, Mircea
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Gnosis Hierophany Mircea Eliade
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A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms— Eliade, Mircea
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Gnosis Mundus Imaginalis Hierophany Mircea Eliade
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Rites and Symbols of Initiation— Eliade, Mircea
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What Was Lost at Eleusis Initiation Katabasis Epopteia Gnosis Hierophant Anamnesis Pharmakon Hierophany Metanoia Mircea Eliade
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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion— Eliade, Mircea(1959)
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Hierophany Sacred-Profane Mircea Eliade
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The Golden Bough 12 Volume Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)— Frazer, James George
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Hierophany
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Orpheus and the Greek Religion— Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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Katabasis
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Homeric Hymns (Penguin Classics)— Homer
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What Was Lost at Eleusis Katabasis Epopteia Hierophant Eleusinian Mysteries Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians: The Complete Text— Iamblichus
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Theurgy Gnosis Sympatheia Henosis Iamblichus of Apamea
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The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism— Matt, Daniel Chanan
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Apophatic
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Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition— Neihardt, John G.
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Shankara
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Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works— Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite(1987)
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Apophatic Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
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The Upanishads: Breath from the Eternal— Swami Prabhavanada
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Participation Dissolution of Subject-Object
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Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth: From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism by Algis Uzdavinys— Uzdavinys, Algis
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Initiation Katabasis Theurgy Anamnesis Methexis Sympatheia Henosis
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Sakti and Sakta— Woodroffe, Sir John
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Rosicrucian

Science

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Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments— Dr. Lilly, John C.
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Cosmotechnics
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Theory of Colours (The MIT Press)— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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Original Participation William Blake
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Man or Matter— Lehrs, Ernst
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The Hardening
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Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology— Lundy, Miranda
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Sympatheia
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Order out of Chaos— Prigogine, Ilya
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Solve et Coagula Fermentation as Initiatory Pattern Ilya Prigogine

The project draws on a physical library of 348 volumes spanning Western esotericism, philosophy, comparative religion, and literature. This page shows 116 texts currently in active use across the site. As episodes and companion materials grow, more sources will surface here.