Outlines the principles and mechanics of the soul body, the spiritual vehicle that enables individual consciousness to survive the body’s death• Shows that the ancient Vedic, Egyptian, Hebraic, and Pythagorean traditions shared and understood this spiritual practice• Reveals modern science as only now awakening to this ancient sacred scienceAncient peoples the world over understood that individual consciousness is rooted in a universal field of consciousness and is ...

A modern-day quest that echoes the ancient alchemists’ work to discover the elixir of life• Provides an overview of alchemical practices in the ancient world--from Europe to China• Reveals the alchemical secrets for creating this elixir in clear scientific languageIn 1989, while attempting to extract precious minerals from his property, a wealthy Arizonan obtained a mysterious white material that initially defied scientific attempts to identify it. After several yea...

The Emerald Tablet—an ancient document that contains the essence of the alchemical teachings—has had an important influence on many Western spiritual and religious traditions. Ostensibly concerned with turning base metals into gold, alchemy was in fact dedicated to transforming the lead of self into the gold of spirit. This brilliant history of alchemy traces its sources back to ancient Egypt, and presents alchemy as a useful, practical system of self-transformation. Each of the seven step...

One of the most influential works ever written on mythology and religion.James George Frazer's monumental study transformed the modern understanding of myth, ritual, and belief, and helped establish anthropology as a serious scientific discipline. Drawing on traditions from Europe, the Near East, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, Frazer explores magic, sacred kingship, fertility rites, taboos, and the origins of religious thought across human cultures.This

"The Occult of Today Is the Science of Tomorrow." I have chosen this motto for my book relating to the occult, for it is an attempt to describe the (at first) very small experiences and knowledge which led me to see the reality of the true occult world lying like an almost uncharted country behind the thick jungle of fraud and charlatanry, and which have led me also to state in comparative detail what I found on my journey and the conclusions it compelled. I use the illustration of "going ...

The ordinary ego is by no means yet in a position to choose a body for himself... Charles Webster Leadbeater was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church. Originally a priest of the Church of England, his interest inspiritualism caused him to end his affiliation with Anglicanism in favour of the Theosophical Society, where...

The Metaphysical Bible Dictionary was Charles Fillmore's crowning achievement. No where else will you find such thorough and complete compilation of the metaphysical aspects of the bible. More than 700 pages of insights, definitions, and expert analysis of the most important book ever written.

An in-depth look at the role of number as a bridge between Heaven and Earth• Reveals the numerical code by which the ancients maintained high standards of art and culture• Sets out the alchemical formulas for the fusion of elements and the numerical origins of various sacred names and numbers• Describes the rediscovery of knowledge associated with the Holy Grail, through which the influence of the Heavenly Order is made active on EarthThe priests of ancient ...

The renowned prophet Nostradamus (Michel de Nostradame) was born on December 14, 1503 in St. Remy, Provence, France. Nostradamus came from a long line of Jewish doctors and scholars. His family had converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1502, as a result of persecution on the ascension of Louis the XII. After a classical education he studied medicine, herbalism and astrology. During Nostradamus' lifetime the Black Death (today known as the bubonic plague) wiped out over a quarter of Eur...

First published in the year 1903, the present book 'The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath' by famous psychologist William Walker Atkinson is a complete manual of the oriental breathing philosophy of physical, mental, psychic and spiritual development.

The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, a book originally published as two volumes in 1888, is Helena P. Blavatsky's magnum opus.

"All the error that has existed down the ages is founded on the theory or belief of two worlds, one the heavenly kingdom, or spiritual life, and the other a material world or mortal existence, each separate from the other. In spite of this sense of two worlds, men have always attempted to bring harmony into the discords of human existence through an attempt, by prayer, to contact this other world, or spiritual realm, and to bring Spirit, or God, to act upon the so-called material existence...