Esoteric Traditions

Origins of the Tarot

Cosmic Evolution and the Principles of Immortality

Written by Dai Leon
Price: $22.95
Frog Books

Conventional wisdom traces tarot cards to medieval Italy, but their roots go much further back in time and draw on a startling variety of cultures and spiritual traditions. Combining pioneering scholarship with practical spiritual instruction, this ambitious book is the first to unveil the full range of the ancient streams of...

Available February 24, 2009

Meister Eckhart on Divine Knowledge

Written by C.F. Kelley
Price: $19.95
DharmaCafe Books/Frog Books

Meister Eckhart on Divine Knowledge is not only the most profound study of the core theological and philosophical themes of Christianity’s greatest mystic ever written. It is also the greatest exegesis of Christian non-dualism ever published.

Of all Christian mystical teachings, those of the Dominican theologian Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–c. 1328)...

Marsilio Ficino

Edited by Angela Voss
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books

Marsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. Though an ordained priest, he was also a practicing astrologer and magician whose daunting life’s work was to reconcile religious faith with philosophical reason — which included integrating pagan magical practice with Christianity. In a lengthy...

G. R. S. Mead and the Gnostic Quest

Edited by Clare Goodrick-Clarke, Introduction by Clare Goodrick-Clarke
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

George Robert Stowe Mead (1863-1933) was a major translator, editor, and commentator on Gnostic and hermetic literature and thus a pivotal figure linking the late 19th-century esoteric revival to 20th-century art, literature, and psychology. As a young convert to the new movement of theosophy, he served as private secretary to its...

Rudolf Steiner

Edited by Richard Seddon
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

A pivotal figure of modern isotericism, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was a clairvoyant and supersensitive with a scientific and philosophical education. He believed that man can gain objective knowledge of higher worlds and apply these insights to all fields of human activity. Anthroposophy, the path of wisdom and knowledge he intiated, plots...

Helena Blavatsky

Edited by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books

At the age of 17, rejecting nineteenth-century materialism, Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) left her native Russia and traveled through India, Tibet, Egypt, Europe, and the Americas seeking out the sources of ancient wisdom as a key to spiritual truth. In 1875 in New York, she co-founded the Theosophical Society for the study...

John Dee

Edited by Gerald Suster
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

Although revered in his own time, John Dee (1527-1608) was until recently regarded as an isolated crank on the margins of Tudor history. This anthology of Dee's writings illustrates his diverse interests and his central position in the history of Renaissance thought and the development of Western Magic. Dee's celebrated Preface...

Emanuel Swedenborg

Edited by Michael Stanley
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books

Best known for his focus on the intuitive force within, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) also anticipated major modern discoveries in mineralogy, psychology, and anatomy. In this succinct and readable collection, Stanley expertly brings the most significant writings from Swedenborg's oeuvre together, showing readers a man who created a hieroglyphic language, reimagined the...

Robert Fludd

Western Esoteric Masters Series

Edited by William Huffman
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books

Renaissance man, Elizabethan philsopher, and scholar Robert Fludd sought to integrate the whole of human knowledge within a divine and hierarchically ordered cosmology. After completing his education at Oxford University, he journeyed throughout Europe seeking the knowledge of mystics, scientists, musicians, physicians, and alchemists, leading to the publication of many historically...

Jacob Boehme

Edited by Robin Waterfield
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

As a cobbler in Gorlitz, Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) came into contact with many great thinkers who sought refuge from the Roman Church and Reformation groups in post-Luther Germany. Gradually he became one of the most influential mystics of the Reformation era. This anthology provides an introduction to Boehme's wide-ranging thought and...

Paracelsus

Edited by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

Regarded today as the father of modern medicine, Paracelsus (1493-1541) was in fact much more besides. Natural scientist, philosopher, alchemist, with a deep distrust of orthodoxy and rational thought, he intermixed Christian theology with the Qabalah, believing that magic reveals the invisible influences behind things, bringing heavenly forces down to earth...

The Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century

Edited by Richard Grossinger
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books