The purpose of this book is to present an account of Jesus as he appears in the Islamic tradition, where he is generally described as a prophet. In the early days of Islam there were Christian tribes .....

The Hermetic Museum was a collection of tracts published at Frankfort in the seventeenth century. This selection includes:THE GOLDEN CALF, A SUBTLE ALLEGORY CONCERNING THE SECRETS OF ALCHEMY, AN OP.....

John or Jan Ruysbroeck, hermetic and mystical writer, was born in 1293 at Ruysbroeck, near Brussels; he died at Groenendael in 1381. He ran away from his mother at the age of eleven, and placed himsel.....

The Jataka Tales or Birth-Stories, of which there are 547 filling six volumes in English translation, are stories told by the Buddha of his previous births as bird, animal, man.. They were remembered .....

As a story, the life of Milarepa is unique and inspiring. He was born in 1052. Wronged in childhood, he left home to become apprenticed to a sorcerer, quickly became proficient in the black arts, then.....

Rabi'a of Basra was a unique personality among the early Sufis, one who was a true mystic. She died in A.D. 801. She is probably the greatest of the women saints of Islam. Margaret Smith's description.....

A facsimile reprint of Evelyn Underhill's book first published in 1915. The following comments are condensed from an editorial note to this edition: "We are equally poorly off for studies of the life .....

For centuries the Crest Jewel has been accepted by the followers of Sankara (Sankaracharya) as containing the authentic message of the great Indian Master who embodied in himself a unique combination .....

John of Ruysbroeck, hermetic and mystical writer, was born in 1293 at Ruysbroeck, near Brussels; he died at Groenendael, where he had founded a community, in 1381. He wrote as the spirit moved him, an.....

This selection from the seventeenth century collection of alchemical texts, called the Hermetic Museum, includes the beautifully illustrated work of Abraham Lambspring, the ‘Practica’ of Basil Val.....

Four texts from the important seventeenth century collection called the Hermetic Museum: 'The Glory of the World' or 'Table of Paradise' 'The Sophie Hydrolyth' or ‘Waterstone of the Wise’ 'The Go.....

trans. Sir Humphrey Clarke.....

'Attar, Sufi poet and mystic, is best known for his book which is translated in English as The Conference of the Birds. Margaret Smith's sympathetic and competent work includes an account of 'Attar's .....

Mrs Philpot's illustrated book includes chapters on tree worship, the God and the tree, wood-demons and tree-spirits, the tree in relation to human life, the tree as oracle, the universe-tree, paradis.....

The theme of the Sutras is the great regeneration, the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man; the same theme which Paul so wisely set forth in writing to his disciples in Corinth, the theme of.....