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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