Theosophical Perspectives on World Spiritual Traditions

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. . . . By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which he professes. . . . but the thing a man does practically believe; the thing a man does practically lay to heart, and know for certain, concerning his vital relations to this mysterious Universe, and his duty and destiny there, . . . that is his religion. -- Thomas Carlyle

General Religion and Mythology

  • "Points of Agreement in All Religions" by William Q. Judge
  • "The Perennial Philosophy" by W. T. S. Thackara
  • "The Quest and Legacy of Mankind" by Eloise Hart
  • "Religion in the Age of Aquarius" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "The Scientist and the Fairy Tale" by E. H. Krauss
  • "The Boundless in Ancient Cosmogonies" by G. de Purucker
  • "The Secret Wisdom of Symbols" by Phyllis Immink
  • "The Universal Mystery Language and Its Interpretation" by H. T. Edge (a booklet on the www.theosociety.org/pasadena site)
  • "Cross and Fire" by H. P. Blavatsky
  • "Sacred Rivers" by W. T. S. Thackara
  • "Myths: Wells of Wisdom" by Elsa-Brita Titchenell
  • "Not My Will, but Thine" by Grace F. Knoche
  • "Caldron of the Gods: Cosmic and Human Evolution" by Elsa-Brita Titchenell
  • "Potency of the Inner Light" by Grace F. Knoche (including millennial prophecies from the Hermetica and Vishnu Purana)
  • "Essentials of Religion" by Alan E. Donant

  • Ancient Mediterranean and the Mysteries

  • "The Mysteries of Antiquity" by G. de Purucker
  • "To Die, and to Become" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "The Descent into Hades" by Ted G. Davy
  • "The Ancient Mysteries" by Kirby Van Mater
  • "The Ancient Mysteries: A Great Light, A Force for Good" by W. T. S. Thackara
  • "Inducing Altered States" by Sarah Belle Dougherty
  • "The Mystery Schools" by Grace F. Knoche (book on www.theosociety.org/pasadena site)
  • Egypt

  • "Radiant Thread of Egyptian Myth" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "The Twin Halls: Egyptian Myths" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "The Papyrus of Ani -- Initiation and the After-Life" by Gerald J. Schueler
  • "Gateway to the Horizon of Heaven: The Great Pyramid" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "On 'Temple of the Cosmos' " (reivew) by I. M. Oderberg
  • Greece and Rome

  • "The Sacred Pilgrim in Greek Thought" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "Creative Power in Orphic Myths" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "The Wanderings of Odysseus: An Allegory of the Soul" by Charles J. Ryan
  • "Pythagoras' Contribution" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "One Is One For Evermore: Theon of Smyrna" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "Plato and Platonism" by H. P. Blavatsky
  • "Plato's Myths and the Mystery Tradition" by W. T. S. Thackara
  • "To Be Like-Minded with God: The Philosophy of Epictetus" by Sarah Belle Dougherty
  • "Ascend with the Greatest Sagacity: The Divine Pymander of Hermes" by Nel van Weijdom Claterbos
  • "The Alexandrian Tradition of Neoplatonism" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "Emperor Julian and Neoplatonism" by Madeline Clark
  • "Treasures of the Alexandrian Library" by John P. Van Mater

  • Ancient Europe

  • "The Sun Temple at Glastonbury" by Lennart Lydeen
  • "Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis" by Nel van Weijdom Claterbos
  • "The Divine Races of Ancient Ireland" by Eloise Hart
  • "Origin of Ages: Norse Creation Myth" by Elsa-Brita Titchenell
  • "The Flame and the Fire: Norse Lighting of Mind" by Elsa-Brita Titchenell
  • "Mystic Wisdom of Old" by Gosta Eklund
  • "The Princess Libuse: A Czech Legend" by Grace Green Knoche
  • Wales

  • "Giants and Floods" by E. A. Holmes
  • "As Old as Time: Welsh Creation Myths" by E. A. Holmes
  • "Celts and Druids, Who Were They?" By E. A. Holmes
  • "Druids: Adepts or Savages?" by E. A. Holmes

  • Christianity

  • "Theosophy and Christianity" by Clifton Meek (22K)
  • "From Crypt to Pronaos: An Essay on the Rise and Fall of Dogma" (Theosophical Manual) (43K)
  • "Things Common to Christianity and Theosophy" by William Q. Judge
  • "The Lord's Prayer" by James A. Long
  • "The Lord's Prayer: An Esoteric Interpretation" by Scott Osterhage
  • "The Call for Brotherhood: The Real Message of Jesus" by Ina Belderis
  • "Theosophy and Christian Science" by A. Trevor Barker (30K)
  • "Christos Triumphant" by Kenneth Morris
  • "God, God's Will, Predestination, and Evil" by James A. Long (35K)
  • "Some Light on Lucifer" by Ina Belderis
  • "The Virgin Birth" by G. de Purucker
  • "Of the Royal Line of Spirit" by Kenneth Morris
  • "The Eucharist" by G. de Purucker
  • "Images of Eden: Sacred Apples or Forbidden Fruit?" by Nancy Coker
  • "Seek and Ye Shall Find" by Ingrid Van Mater
  • Gnostics and Early Christians

  • "Gnosticism and Christianity" by Hugo Oosterwijk
  • "Reincarnation as Taught by Early Christians" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "Quest, Belief: in Gnostic Christianity" by I. M. Oderberg"
  • "Toward the Perfected Man" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "Augustine: Ecclesiastic Architect" by Jean B. Crabbendam
  • Christmas and Easter

  • "Behind Our Christmas Celebrations" by Kirby Van Mater
  • "Gifts of the Magi" by Elsa-Brita Titchenell
  • "The Inner Nativity" by Jim Belderis
  • "A Christmas Cross-Examination" by Nancy Coker
  • "Winter Solstice: Gift of Illumination" by Dorothea Hamann
  • "Eastertide -- Season of Renewal" by W. Albertson
  • "Easter, Equinox, and Initiation" by Alan E. Donant

  • European Mystics, Philosophers, and Theosophers

  • "Meister Eckhart: Friend of God" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "Thomas Traherne: His Search for Felicity" by Elsa-Brita Titchenell
  • "The Birth of a New Order in 18th-century Europe" by Ida Postma
  • "Two Delightful Theosophers of the 18th Century" by Mary G. Langford
  • "Spinoza and the Borderland of Science" by Bernhard Mollenhauer

  • Mideast

  • "Two-Thirds God, One-Third Human: Gilgamesh" by Grace F. Knoche
  • "The Book of God" by Eloise Hart (Zoroastrianism series, part 1)
  • "The Story of Beginnings" by Eloise Hart (Zoroastrianism, part 2)
  • "The Prophet of Light" by Eloise Hart (Zoroastrianism, part 3)
  • "The Vast Individual" by Eloise Hart (Zoroastrianism series, part 4)
  • "The Vision of Ardai Viraf" by Eloise Hart (Zoroastrianism series, part 5)
  • "Simorgh -- An Old Persian Fairy Tale" by Homa A. Ghahremani
  • "Bright Space, Son of Dark Space: Creation in the Qabbalah" by Grace F. Knoche
  • "Job -- Story of Initiation" by Raymond Rugland
  • "Martin Buber: Toward a Greater Humaneness" by Ida Postma
  • "Pages of Medieval Mideastern History" by Eloise Hart

  • Asia

    Hinduism

  • "The Vedas: Soil of Buddhism" by Harischandra Kaviratna
  • "The Vedic Schism" by Harischandra Kaviratna
  • "Cosmic Harmony and Human Conduct: A Vedic Perspective" by Catherine Roberts
  • "A Wonder of Ancient India: The Mahabharata" by Nhilde Davidson
  • Bhagavad-Gita with Judge's Essays on the Gita (W. Q. Judge recension; a book on www.theosociety.org/pasadena site)
  • "The Golden Mean: On Chapter 6 of the Bhagavad-Gita" by W. Q. Judge
  • "Yoga and Enlightenment" by David Pratt
  • The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (interpreted by W. Q. Judge; a book on www.theosociety.org/pasadena site)
  • Buddhism

  • "Gautama the Buddha" by G. de Purucker
  • "Buddhism: The Path of Compassion" by Kirby Van Mater
  • "The Paramitas and the Exalted Eightfold Path" by G. de Purucker
  • "The Six Glorious Virtues of Buddhism" by James A. Long
  • "Pounding Rice, Sweeping Leaves" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "The Heart Sutra: Prajnaparamita-Hridaya-Sutra" trans and comment. by Harischandra Kaviratna
  • "The Harm of Preaching: On a Question of King Milinda" by James A. Long
  • "Right Views or No Views?" by Bas Rijken van Olst
  • "To Find the Self: Japanese Buddhism" by I. M. Oderberg
  • Jainism

  • "Jainism" by Harischandra Kaviratna
  • "The Twenty-Four 'Buddhas' of Jainism" by Eloise Hart (Jainism series, part 1)
  • "A Lamp of the True Light" by Eloise Hart (Jainism series, part 2)
  • "The Logic of Jain Mystical Doctrines" by Eloise Hart (Jainism series, part 3)
  • China

  • "Renovation Follows Renovation without Cease" by Robert Rensselaer (Creation in the Chinese Tradition)
  • "Confucius and the Family of Man" by Raymond Rugland
  • "Lao-tzu and the Taoist Way of Virtue" by Stefan Carey
  • "Discovering the Tao Te Ching" by Mark Davidson
  • "Kuan Yin: Goddess of Mercy, Friend of Mankind" by Eloise Hart

  • Native American

  • "Fragments of the Secret Doctrine of the Blackfoot Indians" by Sunrise Heart
  • "An Important Message from the Kogi Elders" by Raymond Rugland
  • "Children of the Rainbow" by Blair A. Moffett
  • "I, the Great Mystery" by Blair A. Moffett
  • "Death and the Tree of Life" by Blair Moffett
  • "Mind: Trickster, Transformer" by Blair A. Moffett
  • "Ciphers and Civilizations" by Blair A. Moffett
  • "Monster Slayer's Quest -- The Navaho Way" by Eloise Hart
  • "South Corner Time: Excavations and Sunrise Observations at Indian Racetrack" by Tom Orbesen
  • "Through the Wind: Navajo at an Anasazi Shrine" by Tom Orbesen

  • Sub-Sahara Africa:

  • "The Right Question in the Right Spirit" by Ida Postma
  • "Grandmother Sirius, Brother Vulture" by Ida Postma
  • "The Chain of Life: From Stone to Divinity" by Ida Postma
  • "God's Brother" by Ida Postma
  • "A Dream Dreaming Us . . ." by Ida Postma
  • "Kuomboka: Ancient Wisdom of the Malozi" by Andrew Rooke

  • Australasia:

  • "Out of the Dreamtime" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "On Aboriginal Tales Retold from Daisy Bates" by I. M. Oderberg
  • "Mystical Journey through Time: Australia's Aboriginal Heritage" by Anne Carson
  • "That Man Might Arise: Maori Creation Myth" by Andrew Rooke

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