Metaphysics, ethics, and cosmology
Philosophy and Esoteric Cosmology Texts
Philosophical and cosmological texts on mystical philosophy, Neoplatonism, moral philosophy, cosmic order, metaphysics, and symbolic cosmology.
- Texts
- 60
- Authors
- 49
- Range
- 1000 BCE to 1963
Overview
The main subjects, texts, and practices represented in this collection.
Philosophy and Esoteric Cosmology gives a path for texts that are not magical manuals but still frame the archive's metaphysics: Neoplatonism, mystical philosophy, ethics, cosmology, and symbolic accounts of world order.
- Mystical philosophy, Neoplatonism, metaphysics, and symbolic cosmology.
- Ethical and philosophical texts that shape esoteric ideas of order and practice.
- Cosmological works that connect philosophy, religion, and occult interpretation.
Texts
Key source texts and related works for studying Esoteric Philosophy.
The Enneads
On the Mysteries
Tertium Organum
Guide for the Perplexed
Select Works of Plotinus
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3
Principia Discordia
Tao Te Ching
On the Cave of the Nymphs
The Elements of Theology
Morals and Dogma
Isis Unveiled, Vol. 2: Theology
More Philosophy and Esoteric Cosmology Texts
The Mathnawi
The Mathnawi, Vol. 2
I Ching
Chuang Tzu
The Cloud of Unknowing
The Interior Castle
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2: Anthropogenesis
The King in Yellow
The Chaldean Oracles
Master Key System
Le grand secret
Meister Eckhart: Sermons
The Game of Life
Meister Eckhart, Vol. 2
Picatrix
Five Books of Mystery
Daemonologie
The Divine Pymander
Chips from a German Workshop (Vol 4)
Isis Unveiled Vol. 1
Chips from a German Workshop (Vol 5)
Studies in Occultism
The Book of the Law
Thought Vibration
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Kybalion
Bygone Beliefs
Della gloria
The Mystics of Islam
Timaeus
The Enchiridion
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
The Kabbalah
Civilization and Its Discontents
Anatomy of Melancholy
Proofs of a Conspiracy
Demonology and Devil-lore
Curiosities of Superstition
Myths of Greece and Rome
Psychology of Suggestion
Varieties of Religious Experience
Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Opinions and Beliefs
The Unknown Guest
Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
Encyclopaedia of Occultism
The Holy Kabbalah
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