The Chthonios New Books Catalogue
The Essential Resource for anyone doing research into Esoteric Traditions
Section One : non-Christian Esotericism

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This Catalogue is divided into the following sections :

Latest Additions to the New Books Catalogue in all areas
New Titles & CD-ROMS

Full Listings Section One : Mainly non-Christian Traditions
(this page)
I Ancient Religion & the Mysteries I
I Neoplatonism & Ancient Philosophy I
I Judaism, Jewish Mysticism & Kabbalah I
I Magic, Witchcraft & Demonology I
I General Esotericism & Miscellaneous Works I

Full Listings Section Two : Mainly Christian & Christian-influenced Traditions
I Hermetica, Alchemy & Emblemata (includes Pagan Hermetic traditions) I
I Gnosticism & Early Christianity I
I Medieval & Renaissance Esoteric Traditions (includes Christian Kabbalah) I
I 18^th, 19^th & Early 20^th Century Esoteric Traditions I

A few preliminary notes:
At the moment, I’ve concentrated on more out-of-the-way titles. These listings will be added to considerably in the next few months : I calculate that what’s here now is still only about one-third of what’s available, in terms of top-quality works, so check back soon! If you want to add your own comments, suggestions, or reviews, then you’re very welcome to email me.
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A couple of other points : By all means go straight to your favourite areas, but remember to browse the rest of the catalogue, because books are only listed once, and there’s a lot of overlap between different areas! For instance, a theme like ‘sacred marriage’ occurs in ancient religion, gnosticism, kabbalah, Christian mysticism, alchemy… and so on.
By the way, the codes after the publication date refer to the publisher, e.g. [A1] They aren’t a quality listing. Some books are not available through our Booklinks, so for these, come to me directly!
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Ancient Religion & the Mysteries
The books here are not intended to give a full selection of titles on every aspect of ancient religion, but are selected from the best works which delve into those aspects of ancient religion which lie behind later developments in western esotericism — especially the Mystery religions — and western religion in general.

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Apuleius of Madauros The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI). Edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by J. Gwyn Griffiths. (1975)[A1] 457pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 98.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
Book XI of the Golden Ass describes Lucius’ initiation into the cult of Isis, and gives us practically our only firsthand view of initiation into an ancient mystery religion. Griffiths’ very full commentary makes this an invaluable volume.

Armstrong, A.H. (ed.) Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek and Roman. (1989)[A22] 544pp HB (approx.) UK price GBP 40.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
Really a very valuable survey; in fact, it is hard to think of another source for some of the topics tackled here. These include much on philosophical spirituality, including Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, and surveys of Egyptian and Roman spirituality. Also has explorations of the religion of ordinary people, cosmic piety, and body and soul in ancient religious experience, and much else besides. The volume ends with one of the very few surveys of ‘Barbarous Names’ (nomina barbara) in ancient religion and magic.

Avagianou, A. Sacred Marriage in the Rituals of Greek Religion (1991)[A19] 260pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 43.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
Hieros gamos (sacred marriage) is a theme with deep connections in the ancient Mysteries and in later Esotericism. Whether or not one goes along with the author’s desire to restrict hieros gamos exclusively to marriages between Gods, this is a valuable study which will provide materials for a wide variety of viewpoints.

Beard & North (edd.) Pagan Priests (1990)[A5] 266pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 18.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Essays by various scholars that give an informative picture of ancient Pagan priesthoods.

Bernstein, A. The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds. (1994)[A11] 376pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 42.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Apparently the first comprehensive early history of hell. Bernstein picks his way through the mass of evidence with style and competence.

Bianchi, U. (ed.) Mysteria Mithrae. Proceedings of the International Seminar on the ‘Religio-Historical Character of Roman Mithraism, with particular reference to Roman and Ostian Sources’. Rome and Ostia 28-31 March 1978. (1979)[A1] 1,032 pp, richly illus. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 168.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Bianchi, U. The Greek mysteries (1976)[A1] 44pp, 48 plates. PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 28.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Part of the acclaimed Iconography of Religions series which feature short introductions and a fine choice of plates. A superb collection of images relating to the ancient mysteries.

Birrell, A.M. Chinese Mythology: An Introduction. (1993)[A23] 336pp, illus. PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 18.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Unlike classical mythology, Chinese mythology has only been preserved in a very fragmentary way. Birrell provides translations of 300 representative myth narratives, and addresses the relevant scholarly issues.

Bonnefoy, Y. (ed.) Greek and Egyptian Mythologies (1992)[A7] 293pp PB (approx.) UK price GBP 24.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Besides a great deal on individual deities, this volume contains articles on the philosophical (and particularly Neoplatonic) interpretation of myth, topography of hell in Greek literature, tribal initiation of women, the Greco-Roman cult of Isis, etc.

Bonnefoy, Y. (ed.) Mythologies (1991)[A7] 2 vols 1,312pp HB (approx.) UK price GBP 245.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
French scholarship on mythology is arguably the best in the world, and now this fine resource is available in English. These volumes give in their 395 articles and abundance of illustrations an unparalleled resource on the world’s mythology. Now about half of Mythologies is also available in 2 paperbacks (see below). Many of these articles cover aspects of ancient religion on which it is difficult to find material elsewhere. These include detailed treatment of cosmologies, symbol systems, eschatology, rituals, magic and demonology.

Bonnefoy, Y. (ed.) Roman and European Mythologies (1992)[A7] 340pp PB, (approx.) UK price GBP 24.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Full coverage of Roman religion, then Pagan myth in the Christian era, covering interpretations by Gnostics, Alchemists, Christian Kabbalists, Hermeticism, Romantics, etc.

Borgeaud, P. The Cult of Pan in Ancient Greece. (1988)[A7] 284pp, HB Out of print: contact us, to see if we can find you a copy!
A much-admired study of the God whose imagery influenced the Christian iconography of Satan. Much on ‘panic’ and possession: a superb study.

Bruit-Zaidman, L. et al. Religion in the Ancient Greek City (1993)[A6] 298pp PB (approx.) UK price GBP 17.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An acclaimed investigation of Greek religion in its chief city-focussed forms. Makes an especial effort to get behind the modern religious assumptions that distort so much scholarly writing about ancient religion.

Burkert W. Greek Religion. (1987)[A16] 504pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 19.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Now established as the classic overall survey.

Culianu, I.P. Psychanodia 1: A Survey of the Evidence Concerning the Ascension of the Soul and its Relevance (1983)[A1] 96pp, PB. (approx.)
(Out of print — ask us to search, and see if we can find a Secondhand copy for you)
Important collection of materials on the ascent of the soul through the heavens. Only vol. 1 ever appeared.

Dorcey, P.F. The cult of Silvanus. A study in Roman folk religion. (1992)[A1] 236pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 68.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The first, I think, full study of Silvanus, the Roman Pan. Sheds new light on our scanty knowledge of lower-class Roman personal religion.

Durusau, P. HIGH PLACES IN CYBERSPACE: A Guide To Biblical And Religious Studies, Classics, And Archaeological Resources On The Internet. 1998, Paperback, 2nd ed., 314pp. (approx.) UK price GBP 26.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A great guide to Internet resources for anybody interested in the relevant areas. However, the promised online updates haven’t appeared yet....
EDITED FROM THE PPN: In this second edition of High Places in Cyberspace, Patrick Durusau provides an updated and expanded how-to guide and map of the Internet focusing on meeting the needs of scholars in biblical studies, religion, classics and archaeology. Durusau offers a practical introduction and reference to accessing Internet resources, covering methods such as electronic mailing lists, ftp, on-line libraries, search engines, and the World Wide Web. This book includes an annotated topical listing of over 1,000 scholarly resources available on the Internet, such as Web sites displaying original scanned papyri, web sites with original texts, mailing lists between scholars and on-line library addresses. In a new final section, Durusau provides an introduction to the creation of web resources along with pointers to a number of helpful tools available on the Internet.

Ellis, N. Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. 0-933999-73-9 (1988)[D2] 228pp, hardback. OUT-OF-PRINT, Last Few Copies.
This work is not so much a dry, literal translation of the famous Book of the Dead, but rather a poetic rendering of surprising force and hieratic fire, which reflects the author’s devotion to the Egyptian principle of ‘effective utterance.’ The work successfully conveys the spiritual intensity to be found in much Egyptian religious material. UK price GBP 24.00

Ganz, T. Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. (1993)[A23] 912pp illus. PB (approx.) UK price GBP 20.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The only one of its kind in English, this is a handbook for the study of the artistic and literary sources of archaic Greek myth. Ganz traces the development of each myth in narrative form and summarises the written and visual evidence in which the specific details of the story appear. Essential.

Graf, F. Greek Mythology. (1993)[A23] 232pp, illus. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 20.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A revised translation of this acclaimed study, originally published in German. It offers a chronological account of the principal Greek myths and documents the history of their interpretation.

Green, T.M. The city of the moon god. Religious traditions of Harran. (1992)[A1] 240pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 67.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Harran, in northwestern Syria, was the home of the last Neoplatonists, and was known as the ‘City of the Pagans.’ Here, Hermetic and other Pagan spiritual traditions were kept alive until the 10th c., avoiding Christian persecution and surviving, as ‘Sabeans’ in the relative tolerance of a Muslim environment. There is evidence that some of this lore was passed on to the Renaissance. This volume has obvious importance as the only substantial thing on these traditions in English.

Griffiths, R.T. (ed.) The Divine Verdict. A Study of the Divine Judgement in the Ancient Religions. (1990)[A1] 419pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 110.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An exploration of the development of the notion of a ‘divine judgement’ by this eminent scholar.

Grimal, P.(ed. by Kershaw, S. & translation by Maxwell-Hyslop, A.R.) A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology. (1990)[A16] 350pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 19.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A standard reliable textbook.

Gruen, E. Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (1993)[A5] 347pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 49.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An absorbing account of the Romans’ assimilation of Greek culture in the 3rd & 2nd c. bc.

Guettel Cole, S. Theoi Megaloi. The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace (1983)[A1] 212pp, PB
(Out of print — ask us to search, and see if we can find a Secondhand copy for you)
The Samothracian mysteries were, after the Eleusinian, the oldest of the mystery religions. This is, I think, the most substantial work on them in English.

Guthrie, W.K.C. Orpheus and Greek Religion: A Study of the Orphic Movement. (1993)[A14] 308pp, 35 illus., PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 14.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A very welcome reprint of this classic work (1952), now with an introduction by LJ Alderink and still arguably the best book on Orphism.

Hastings, J. (ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (1908-26)[A3] 13 vols. HB 11,926pp (approx.) UK price GBP 850.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The monumental ERE was designed as a complete encyclopedia of Comparative Religion and Philosophy. Its superbly high standard of scholarship has meant that it remains a valuable resource even now, and indeed it has not been rendered obsolete by Eliade’s recent 16 volume Encyclopedia of Religion (it also contains about 2-3 times the material). "It is difficult to speak of Hastings’ work other than in superlatives…there is quite remarkable breadth and depth of treatment, and no less remarkable coherence of approach, bearing in mind that there were almost 900 scholars involved in its production." (E.J. Sharp Comparative Religion: A History [London 1986] pp 135-6.)

Henry, E. Orpheus with His Lute (1992)[A5] 227pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 42.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A work which analyses the changing images of Orpheus in the poetry, sculpture and vase-painting of the ancient world, and explores how these reflect conflicting ideas about poetic creativity and its nature, source and power.

Hurtado, L. (ed.) Goddesses in Religions and Modern Debate (1990)[D4] ISBN 1-55540-550-9. 236pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 22.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A valuable collection of essays which combine ‘case studies’ of particular Goddesses with critical evaluations of modern discussions about Goddesses. Includes essays on Greco-Roman Isis, the Shakti traditions of India, and a critique of the oft-repeated theory of a ubiquitous, primal religion of "The Goddess," etc.

Hutton, R. The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles. (1993)[A16] 288pp, 150 illus. PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 18.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A full and up-to-date survey summarising our knowledge.

Johnston, S.I. Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate’s Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature. (1990)[D4] 200pp, PB ISBN 1-55540-427-8 (approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A fine study which complements "Chaldean Hekate" in the Chthonios publication The Goddess Hekate. Johnston’s book is the only other place to turn for substantial information on Hekate in English. This work sees Hekate as not primarily a demonic deity, but as an essentially liminal Goddess who rules over areas of transition and uncertainty, like death and the crossroads.

Kraemer, R.S. Her Share of the Blessings: Women’s Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World (1992)[A9] 288pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 8.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network..
A seminal study exploring the full spectrum of women’s ancient religious experience.

Lonsdale, S.H. Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion. (1993)[A23] 368pp, illus. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 36.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The profound resonances of dance in ancient religious ritual cannot be doubted, yet it is usually overlooked in modern studies. This book provides a full investigation.

Marcovich, M. Studies in Graeco-Roman religions and Gnosticism. (1988)[A1] 104pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 44.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A coll. of papers by this fine scholar, includes papers on the Sator Arepo square, the Isis with seven robes, Baubo in the Eleusinian mysteries, and many more.

Meyer, M.W. (ed) The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook (1987)[A3U] 256pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The first anthology in English of ancient texts on the Greco-Roman mystery religions.

Miller, P.C. Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture. (1994)[A14] 320pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 36.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An exciting and original work on the importance and nature of dream interpretation in Late Antiquity and how it was practised by martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike.

Moeller, W.O. The Mithraic Origin and Meanings of the Rotas-Sator Square (1973)[A1] 62pp, HB.(Out of print -ask us to search, and see if we can find a Secondhand copy for you).
Argues for the Mithraic origin of the most famous magic square.

Oosten, J.G. The War of the Gods: The Social Code in Indo-European Mythology. (London 1985) 190pp, HB. Elucidates the basic structure of the theme of the War of the Gods, and how it was broken down into the heroic sagas and epics of the various Indo-European peoples. SPECIAL OFFER (was UK price GBP 37.00) now UK price GBP 26.00 (Only available from us)

Orpheus,’ Translated by R.C.Hogart. The Hymns of Orpheus. ISBN 0-933999-40-2. (1993)[D2] 184pp, hardback . OUT-OF-PRINT, Last Few Copies.
These beautiful hymns to the Greek divinities are our sole surviving collection of Pagan liturgical poetry. They were probably composed for an Orphic sect active in the early centuries ad.
Edited from the PPN : " In antiquity it was customary to attribute much of the ritual material in the Mysteries to the authorship of the mythical Orpheus. It was said that his lyre music had such power that he could charm the wild beasts, and even make the trees and rocks move by his music. When his wife Eurydice was bitten by a snake and died Orpheus descended to the Underworld to rescue her. His music induced the Goddess Persephone to release Eurydice, but Orpheus lost her on the return to this world because her turned around to look at her. R.C. Hogart’s ‘mutations’ brings these ancient Greek hymns to life for us today and suggests their intrinsic beauty. The book includes an extensive introduction to Orphic lore." "For the modern self, entwined in an austere shirt of duty and culture, these hymns are pregnant with revelation."-Arpad Kardarkay, University of Puget Sound UK price GBP 24.00 (Only available from us)

Parker, R. Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion. (1983)[A8] 432pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 27.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A simply superb study that illuminates many of the ‘darker’ aspects of Greek religion.

Ronan, S. (ed.) The Goddess Hekate. ISBN 0-948366-21-4 (1992) 162 pages. Hardback with dustjacket.
This is the most comprehensive book on Hekate available. The best of earlier studies on her in English are included here, along with a detailed exploration of her important role as the chief Goddess of the last ancient Pagans, where she appeared in the Chaldean Oracles as Cosmic Soul, bestowing life and vital energy throughout the universe.
The earlier studies investigate Hekate’s cult in ancient Greece; magical Hekate; the offerings made to Hekate at the crossroads; and Hekate as leader of her demonic horde. The book also includes translations, some into English for the first time, of a choice selection of ancient hymns to Hekate which vividly bring to life what she meant to her worshippers. UK price GBP 28.50 (Only available from us)

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Sfameni Gasparro, G. Soteriology and mystic aspects in the cult of Cybele and Attis. (1985)[A1] 165pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 39.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Sharpe, E. Comparative Religion: A History (1986)[A5] 339pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 15.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
"…now firmly established as the standard treatment…"

Tobin, V.A. Theological Principles of Egyptian Religion (1989)[A19] 244pp, HB, (approx.) UK price GBP 45.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
"This study…treats the mythic corpus of Egypt not as a mere collection of legends and traditions about the Gods, but rather as a carefully constructed of mythic symbolism… the result is a work which shows Egyptian religion as a unified statement about the universe."

Trombley, F.R. Hellenic religion and Christianization c.370-529. (1993)[A1]
Vol.1 496pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 122.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Vol.2 (1994) 424pp. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 122.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
These volumes give a much more comprehensive examination to the process of the elimination of Paganism than any attempted previously. Treated in detail are such topics as the effect of the laws against sacrifice and sorcery, temple conversions, the degradation of Pagan Gods into demons, etc.

Turcan, R. Religion Romain. 1. Les Dieux. 2. Le culte. (1988)[A1] I: 55pp 52 plates; II: 47pp. 52 plates. PB. 2 vol. (approx.) UK price GBP 59.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Part of the acclaimed Iconography of Religions series which feature short introductions and a fine choice of plates. These 2 vols. have a really superb and evocative series of plates which will serve even those who cannot read the French text.

Ulansey, D. The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World. (1981)[A9] 168pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 8.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A very exciting investigation of Mithraic symbolism which argues for its origin in an astrological/astronomical code.

Walters, V.J The Cult of Mithras in the Roman Provinces of Gaul (1974)[A1] 189pp, illus, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 66.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

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Neoplatonism & Ancient Philosophy
This section concentrates particularly on the Platonic and Pythagorean traditions, which are the most important for esoteric traditions.

Albinus (Alcinous) The Platonic Doctrines. ISBN 0-933999-14-3 Translated by J.Reedy, with an introduction by J.P.Hershbell.(1991)[D2] 75pp, hardback, OUT-OF-PRINT, Last Few Copies.
This work whose author, according to recent research, should be identified as ‘Alcinous’ rather than Albinus, is a comprehensive summary of Middle-Platonism and was most likely written in the 2nd c. ad.
As a handbook of the Platonism of the period it has tremendous importance, because it was this form of Plato’s teachings which, in its various manifestations, underlies the religious philosophy and mysticism of Philo, the Hermetica, the Chaldean Oracles, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and much Christian philosophy. UK price GBP 22.00

Armstrong, A.H.(ed.) The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (1970)[A6] 726pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 98.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A very comprehensive volume which covers Greek philosophy after Plato, including Pythagoreans, Middle-Platonists, Stoics, etc. Substantial sections on Plotinus and later Neoplatonism, then Philo & Christian thought: Origen, Augustine, Ps-Dionysius, Eriugena, Boethius, Anselm, etc, etc.

At-Tayyib, Ibn; Linley, Neil Proclus’ Commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses (1984), State Univ. Of New York At Buffalo Paperback, 0-930881-07-9 (approx.) UK price GBP 11.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Bargatzky, T.; Kuschel, R. (edd.) The Invention of Nature. (1994)[A19] 282pp, 27 figs. PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 54.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A study contrasting and exploring the differences between Western and Non-western conceptions of ‘Nature.’

Bevan E. Ancient Theories Of Revelation & Inspiration (1928) 189 pages, UK price GBP 39.00 HB (Final stock of 3 copies only)
This book was originally published as Sibyls and Seers: A Survey of Some Ancient Theories of Revelation and Inspiration. Its rarely-covered subject matter is the ancient views and experiences about divine and demonic possession and inspiration in Pagan religion and philosophy, early Christianity, and ancient Judaism.

Blumenthal & Clark (edd) The Divine Iamblichus: Philosopher and Man of Gods (1993)[A5] 256pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 48.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
To the later Neoplatonists, Iamblichus was revered more than Plotinus and only a little less than Plato himself. Until recently, however, modern scholars have held him in contempt, as supposedly introducing ‘irrational’ and ‘occult’ elements into pure Plotinian mysticism. These papers from the Liverpool conference on him in 1990 show the change in attitudes which is taking place, and reveal much of interest in the profound philosophy and religion of the most influential late Pagan thinker.

Bos & Meijer (edd.) On Proclus and his influence in Medieval philosophy. (1992)[A1] 216pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 62.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Major specialists in Proclus’ thought discuss important aspects of his philosophy, including the Liber de Causis, which was the main channel of his influence in the medieval west.

Bussanich, J. The One and its relation to Intellect in Plotinus. A commentary on selected texts. (1988)[A1] 265pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 55.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Coulter, J. The literary microcosm. Theories of interpretation of the later Neoplatonists. (1976)[A1] 429pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 31.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An exciting exploration of the interpretative concepts used by the Neoplatonists in their Platonic commentaries, such as theurgic sympathy, One and many, macro/microcosm, etc.

Dillon, J.M. (ed.) Iamblichus Chalcidensis. In Platonis dialogos commentariorum fragmenta. (1973)[A1] 458pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 110.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
[Important note: the binding of every copy of this work I have seen is faulty, but the publishers do not offer a discount. Please be warned] The fragments of Iamblichus’ Platonic commentaries with an English translation and commentary.

Finamore, J. Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul (1985)[D4] ISBN 0-89130-883-0. 173pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An excellent piece of Neoplatonic scholarship that manages to clarify the important theurgical/philosophical doctrines of the astral body in late Neoplatonism.

Gersh, S.E. From Iamblichus to Eriugena. An investigation of the prehistory and evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian tradition. (1978)[A1] 377pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 98.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Compares the structure of reality and philosophical principles of Pagan and Christian Neoplatonists and the transformation involved in moving from one to the other.

Gersh, S.E. Kinêsis akinêtos A study of spiritual motion in the philosophy of Proclus. (1973)[A1] 151pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 42.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A good technical investigation of a major theme in Proclus’ metaphysics.

Goodman, L.E. (ed.) Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought (1992)[D1] 467pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 59.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The nineteen essays of this volume deal with the reception of Neoplatonic concepts by Jewish philosophers, mystics and Kabbalists. As the subject matter might lead us to expect, the emphasis is on the latter two groups.
Essays include: D. Novak, Self-Contraction of the Godhead in Kabbalistic Theology, M. Idel, Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, S.T. Katz, Utterance and Ineffability in Jewish Neoplatonism, D. Winston, Philo’s Conception of the Divine Nature, C.K. Mathis II, Parallel Structures in the Metaphysics of Iamblichus and Ibn Gabirol, J.M. Dillon, Solomon Ibn Gabriol’s Doctrine of Intelligible Matter.

Harris, R.B. (ed.) Neoplatonism and Indian Thought Norfolk, Virginia, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, 1981, 364 pp, PB. As new. Out of print, but we still have a few copies left!
A collection of papers on this important but little-explored field. The contributors explore, in particular, the relations between Plotinus and Indian thought; other topics include papers on both Proclus and Porphyry and their connections with Indian philosophy, and one on ‘The Influence of Indian Philosophy on Neoplatonism.’ Plus papers on many other related fields. UK price GBP 24.00

Huffman, C. A. Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic. A Commentary on the Fragments and Testimonia with Interpretive Essays. (1993)[A6] 448pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 79.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The first comprehensive study for 200 years of the earliest datable (5th c. bc) Pythagorean philosopher whose fragments are crucial to understanding Pythagoreanism. All the material is translated and discussed in detail: an essential work.
Edited from the PPN : This text is a comprehensive study of what remains of the writings of the Pre-socratic philosopher, Philolaus of Croton (470-390 BC). These fragments are crucial to our understanding of one of the most influential schools of ancient philosophy: the Pythagoreans. They also show close ties with the main lines of development of Pre-socratic thought and represent a significant response to thinkers such as Parmenides and Anaxagoras.; Professor Huffman presents the fragments and testimonia (including the spurious fragments in a separate section for reference) with accompanying translations and introductory chapters and interpretative commentary. He not only produces further argument for the authenticity of much that used to be neglected, but also undertakes a critique of Aristotle’s testimony, aiming to open the way for a new reading of fifth-century Pythagoreanism in general and of Philolaus in particular. Philolaus is revealed as a serious natural philosopher.
CONTENTS: Part 1 Introduction: life and writings; authenticity. Part 2 Philolaus’ philosophy: limiteds and unlimiteds; number and harmonia; Philolaus’ use of archai and the method of hypothesis. Part 3 Genuine fragments and testimonia: basic principles; epistemology; cosmogony; astronomy; embryology and medicine; soul and psychic faculties; miscellaneous genuine fragments and testimonia. Part 4 Spurious or doubtful fragments and testimonia: the world soul; fragments and testimonia on number; fragments and testimonia on music; gods and angles; fragments and testimonia on cosmology; fragments on soul; miscellaneous fragments and testimonia."

Iamblichus of Chalcis. (Robin Waterfield) (Keith Critchlow) The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers. Translated by R.Waterfield. (1988)[D2] 130pp, hardback . OUT-OF-PRINT, Last Few Copies.
Actually, this is more securely attributed to Iamblichus (4th c. ad) than the introduction indicates. The author was the most important figure in later Pagan philosophy and religion, and he exerted an important, albeit indirect, influence on Christianity, particularly through Ps. Dionysius and many Renaissance figures.
The Theology of Arithmetic is less an original work-it was probably put together as a handbook for Iamblichus’ students-than the most extensive compilation we possess of the rich Pythagorean tradition of number symbolism. In it the fundamental structure of each number is explored along with the way its properties unfold into the various mythological and cosmological symbols associated with it. This is the first translation of this fundamental Pythagorean sourcework. Comprehension of the work is ably assisted by Robin Waterfield’s careful notes and glossary. The introduction is by Keith Critchlow, whose expertise in geometrical and cosmological symbolism is widely acknowledged. UK price GBP 27.00

Iamblichus) Dillon, J. & Hershbell, J. Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Way of Life. (1991)[D4] 296 pp. PB ISBN 1-55540-523-1 (approx.) UK price GBP 29.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
At last, a thorough modern edition of this work to meet a longstanding need. Besides the Greek text and translation, this edition includes a substantial introduction on the legend of Pythagoras and the life and works of Iamblichus; notes; bibliography; and detailed indexes. The editors argue convincingly that this work was far more than a mere biography of Pythagoras: it was a Pagan gospel, intended to challenge Christianity.

Julian. (translation Wright, W.C.) Three Volumes. Volume I. Orations I-V. (1913) [A15] 526pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Greek text and English translation. Julian (4th c. ad) is of enormous importance not only as the last Pagan emperor, but also as almost the only representative of a more popular Iamblichean Neoplatonism expressed in both the religion and philosophy of his Orations.

Julian. Vol. II Orations VI-VIII-Letters to Themistius, to the Senate and People of Athens, to a Priest-the Caesars-Misopogon. (1913) [A15] 526pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Greek text and English translation.

Julian Vol. III Letters-Epigrams-Against the Galilaeans,-Fragments. (1923) [A15] 518pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Greek text and English translation. The ‘Galilaeans’ are the Christians.

Kingsley, P. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic: Empedocles & Pythagorean Tradition (1995)[A8] Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995, ix + 422 pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 15.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A truly epochal work by this fine scholar, who uncovers what we would have to call the ‘shamanistic core’ in the origins of western philosophy.
Edited from the PPN : "Empedocles played a crucial role in the development of western culture; yet little is known or understood about this man, who lived in Sicily in the fifth century BC. That is mainly because his teaching has been reconstructed by modern scholars first and foremost on the basis of Aristotle’s hostile reports — producing a picture which is disconnected and lacking in depth. Using material never exploited before, this is the first full-scale study of Empedocles to situate his fragmentary writings in their original context of philosophy as a way of life, of mystery religion and magic, and of the struggle to realise one’s own divinity. Apart from providing a firm basis for understanding Empedocles’ own teaching, the book presents fresh evidence which proves he was not an isolated figure and reveals new links between his work and ancient Pythagoreanism. The process of establishing these links now makes it possible to demonstrate, in detail the Pythagorean origin of Plato’s myths: a point of major importance for our appreciation not just of Plato himself, but also of the subsequent history of Neoplatonism. The second half of the book re-examines problems regarding the connections between ancient magic, science, and religion. More specifically, it traces for the first time a line of transmission from Empedocles and the early Pythagoreans down to southern Egypt, and from there into the world of Islam. This neglected process of transmission is of profound significance for our understanding not only of Presocratic philosophy but also of key themes in Greco-Egyptian magic and alchemy, and of the background to Sufism and medieval mysticism."

Libanius. (translation Norman, A.F.) Selected Orations. Vol.I. Julianic Orations. (1969) [A15] 590pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Vol.II. Orations 2, 19-23, 30, 33, 45, 47-50. (1971) [A15] 556pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Greek text and English translation. Libanius was a close friend of the emperor Julian, and in the subsequently aggressively Christian empire was a potent spokesman for both Paganism and for individuals and groups against the government.

Lloyd, A.C. The Anatomy of Neoplatonism (1990)[A8] 208pp, PB 13.99
Analysis of the key philosophical structures underlying the Neoplatonic worldview. Definitely not a beginner’s manual!

Long & Sedley. The Hellenistic Philosophers Vol 1. Translations of the Principal Sources, with Philosophical Commentary. (1987)[A6] 528pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 28.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Long & Sedley. The Hellenistic Philosophers Vol. 2. Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and Bibliography.(1987)[A6] 528pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 28.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
These two vols. give a very useful handbook of Stoic, Epicurean and Sceptical philosophy. The quotations are arranged thematically.

MacKendrick, P. Philosophical Books of Cicero (1989)[A5] 429pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 19.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Cicero’s philosophical writings are not only important for philosophy, but certain works, like On the Nature of the Gods, On Divination & On Fate, are also important sourceworks of Pagan religion. This volume gives a very useful overview of each work, analysing their contents and arguments along with their background and sources. Also has a very detailed subject index.

Morewedge, P. (ed.) Neoplatonism and Islamic Thought Norfolk, Virginia, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, 1992, 286 pp, PB. As new. Out of print, but we still have a few copies left!
The appeal of Neoplatonism for Islamic philosophers and mystics is perhaps mostly due to its development of the mystical side of Platonism. The group of essays here presented explore such eternally recurring Neoplatonic motifs as the idea of the entire universe descending from a single Supreme Principle, and the return to this Source in the mystical ascent. Also explored are such themes as self-knowledge, the relations between the personal and universal soul, and the transformation of spiritual into physical substance. The essays deal with the reception and amplification of these themes by the philosophers and mystics of a wide range of Islamic cultures. UK price GBP 27.00

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Nicomachus of Gerasa The Manual of Harmonics With a translation & commentary by F.R.Levin. ISBN 0-933999-42-9 (1994)[D2] 208pp, hardback OUT-OF-PRINT, Last Few Copies.
The first complete translation of this fundamental work of Pythagorean musical theory by Nicomachus of Gerasa (2nd c. ad)
The musical scale discovered by Pythagoras was seen as a utopian model of the harmonic order behind the structure of the cosmos and human existence. Through proportion and harmony, the musical scale bridges the gap between two extremes. It encapsulates the most fundamental pattern of harmonic symmetry and demonstrates how the phenomena of nature are inseparably related to one another through the principle of reciprocity. Because of these relationships embodied in its structure, the musical scale was seen as an ideal metaphor of human society by Plato and the whole Pythagorean tradition, for it is based on the cosmic principles of harmony, reciprocity, and proportion, whereby each part of the whole receives its just and proper share.
Also included is a detailed chapter by chapter commentary by the translator which makes this work easily accessible to the reader today. Flora Levin explains the principles of Pythagorean harmony, provides extensive background information, and helps to situate Nicomachus’ thought in the history of ideas. UK price GBP 36.00 (Only available from us)

O’Meara, D.J. (ed.) Neoplatonism and Christian Thought (1981)[D1] 315pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 49.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
PB is O/P, but we have some copies at UK price GBP 22.00
Nineteen of the foremost scholars in the field discuss Neoplatonic doctrines about God, creation, man and salvation, in relation to the ways in which they were adopted, adapted or rejected by major Christian thinkers of five periods: Patristic, Later Greek & Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern.

O’Meara, D.J. Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads. (1993)[A8] 152pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 11.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Looks likely to establish itself as the classic introduction, dealing with all the major aspects of the man who for many is synonymous with mystical philosophy.
Edited from the PPN : This is the ideal introduction to the thought of the third-century AD writer Plotinus, one of the greatest of ancient philosophers, now enjoying a major revival of interest. Dominic O’Meara has tailored the book carefully to the requirements of students: he writes clearly and authoritatively, assumes no knowledge of Greek or expertise in ancient philosophy, stays close to the texts, and relates Plotinus’s ideas to modern philosophical concerns.
CONTENTS: Plotinus’ life and Works/ Soul and Body/ The Relation Between Sensible and Intelligible Reality/ Soul, Intellect and the Forms/ Intellect and the One/ Speaking on the One/ The Derivation of all Things From the One/ Evil/ Beauty/ The Return of the Soul: Philosophy and Mysticism/ Epilogue: Plotinus in Western Thought.

O’Meara, D.J. Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (1989)[A8] 264pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A simply superb study of the use of Pythagorean traditions by the Neoplatonists. Includes a English translation of recently discovered fragments of Iamblichus’ On Pythagoreanism.
CONTENTS: The revival of Pythagoreanism in the Neoplatonic school/ varieties of Pythagoreanism in the second and third centuries AD/ Iamblichus’ work on Pythagoreanism — title, plan, the first four books/ on Pythagoreanism books V-VII: the excerpts in Michael Psellus/ Iamblichus’ work on Pythagoreanism: general conclusions/ Iamblichean Pythagoreanism in the Athenian School/ Hierocles, Syrianus, Proclus — some preliminary issues/ Proclus on mathematics/ mathematics and physics in Proclus/ mathematics and metaphysics in Proclus.

Onians, R.B. The Origins of European Thought: About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate (1988)[A6] 608pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 24.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This impressive and wide-ranging piece of research, orig. pub. in 1951, explores the early development of these concepts. It is concerned mainly with Greco-Roman culture, but includes parallels from many others.

Philostratus & Eunapius. (translation Wright, W.C.) Lives of the Sophists. (1921) [A15] 638pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Greek text and English translation. This volume is particularly of interest for Eunapius’ biographies of the later Neoplatonists, including Julian and Iamblichus.

Philostratus. (translation Conybeare, F.C.) Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Vol.I. Books I-V. (1912) [A15] 610pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Vol.II. Books VI-VIII. Epistles of Apollonius & Eusebius’ Treatise. (1912) [A15] 630pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Greek text and English translation. Apollonius, a contemporary of Jesus, was a famous wonderworking Pythagorean philosopher and religious reformer who had contact with sages in distant lands, like India. This famous ancient biography is a major resource for the ideas that Greco-Roman culture had about Holy Men.

Plotinus. (translation Armstrong, A.H.) Enneads seven Vols. (1966-1988)[A15] 2,714pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 89.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Greek text and English translation. Easily the translation of choice of the works (including Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus) of the great Neoplatonic philosopher.

Porphyry). Schlunk, R.R. (translation) Porphyry. The Homeric Questions: A Bilingual Edition. (1993)[A19] 109pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 35.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Text, translation (for the first time) and notes to the great Neoplatonic philosopher’s exploration of Homeric themes.

Proclus) Proclus: A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements. (1970)[A14] 425pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 19.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
GR Morrow’s translation of this essential work for Neoplatonic and Pythagorean number philosophy.

Proclus) Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides. (1987)[A14] 709pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 32.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The English translation (by Morrow and Dillon) of this major commentary of Proclus.’

Ptolemy. (translation Robbins, F.E.) Tetrabiblos. (1940) [A15] 502pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Greek text and English translation. The most important and influential ancient work on Astrology.

Schibli, H.S. Pherekydes of Syros. (1990)[A8] 224pp, HB.
(Out of print — ask us to search, and see if we can find a Secondhand copy for you)
The first full-length commentary with his fragments and English translation, on Pherekydes, who was reputedly the teacher of Pythagoras. It also covers his connections with Eastern thought, Pythagoreans, the Orphics, etc. An important and exciting work.

Siorvanes, Lucas Proclus (1996), Edinburgh University Press, pp 300, Notes, bibliography, index, Hardback,0-7486-0768-4, (approx.) UK price GBP 38.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This is the only the second book-length study of the great Proclus in English, and the only one available at present.
Edited from the PPN : Proclus (410-485) was the last great Greek philosopher. In this study, Proclus expert Lucas Siorvantes sets out to strip away the complexities surrounding this traditionally difficult philosopher, with the intention of providing an accessible introduction to his work. Based on extensive study of the primary sources, he takes the reader through Proclus’ metaphysics and epistemology, introducing the results of original research as well as explaining the more difficult passages. Siorvantes surveys the philosophical climate of Late Antiquity dominated by Aristotle and Plato, and points out the direct influence Proclus had on the subsequent work of Kepler and Copernicus.
CONTENTS : Proclus’ life and times/ Aristotle, Plato, Proclus/ God, philosophy, theurgy and poetry/ the levels of existence/ the elements of the world/ stars and planets/ Proclus’ influence."

Sweeney, L. Divine Infinity in Greek and Medieval Thought. (1992)[A19] 576pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 46.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A comprehensive examination of the notion of divine infinity in ancient and medieval philosophy.

The Thomas Taylor Series
Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) the ‘English Platonist,’ was the indefatigable translator of Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists into English. His work remains of great value, not only for its marked influence on the Romantics and various mystical writers (e.g. Shelley, Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson), but also for Taylor’s profound empathy and understanding of the Pagan religious background of Neoplatonism. The fact that Taylor’s translations are, in many cases, still the only ones ensures the continuing relevance of his work.
The Publishers have undertaken the admirable task of republishing all of Taylor’s works in an attractive uniform hardback edition. As a charitable institution, they have been able to price their wares at very reasonable prices: but be warned that the production runs are very low indeed—in some cases 200 or less—and there is no certainty of reprints. It is planned, if possible, to reprint Taylor’s oeuvre in 30 or so volumes over the next 5 years. ‘Standing Orders’ can be accepted for new volumes as they appear.
Each of the Prometheus volumes have been reset, with very minor corrections, from the originals: but the present series is much more comprehensive than the originals, and generally includes all of Taylor’s writings on a particular subject. The publishers have been receiving help from the Kings College team working on the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project. The volumes also often include useful additional material such as indexes, etc.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)- Plotinus of Lycopolis (c. 204-270 ad) The Collected Writings of Plotinus (1994)[A20] 490pp, HB .
Collected together for the first time here are all the known translations (there were more than 20 of these) that Thomas Taylor made of Plotinus’ Enneads. Plotinus is, of course, generally viewed as the founder of Neoplatonism-although if we had more of Numenius, the picture might look a little different. Undoubtedly, an understanding of the great Plotinus is necessary to appreciate any of the subsequent religious and mystical philosophy of the West. This edition includes Taylor’s lengthy introductions and additional notes. (approx.) UK price GBP 27.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835) Collected Writings on the Gods and the World (1994)[A20] 272pp, HB .
This collection contains Sallust On the Gods & the World, The Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus, Ocellus Lucanus On the Nature of the Universe, Taurus On the Eternity of the World, Julius Firmicus Maternus on The Thema Mundi, The Emperor Julian’s Orations To The Mother of Gods and To The Sovereign Sun, Synesius On Providence, as well as two essays by Taylor on the Mythology of the Greeks and the Theology of the Greeks. This is still a very useful volume of Pagan (exc. for Synesius) writings on the Divine guidance of the world. Sallust’s On the Gods is a particularly valuable work, as it was almost certainly written by an intimate friend of the Emperor Julian as a basic manual of Pagan belief to counter Christian attacks. (approx.) UK price GBP 23.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835) Hymns and Initiations (1994)[A20] 320pp, HB.
This volume reprints the 1824 edition of Taylor’s Mystical Hymns of Orpheus, which gives the 87 hymns together with a dissertation on the life and theology of Orpheus and extensive additional notes "replete with the translator’s insights into the Orders of the Gods." The essay which accompanied the first (1787) edition, which is substantially different from the second, is given as an appendix. Also included are all the published hymns Taylor translated or composed himself. (approx.) UK price GBP 24.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835) Oracles and Mysteries ISBN 1 898910 06 5 (1995)[A20] HB, 260pp
This volume includes:- The Chaldean Oracles, compiled by Taylor from various texts & textual references; The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries; The History of the Restoration of the Platonic Theology; and Hermeas’ Platonic Demonstration of the Immortality of the Soul, from his scholia on the Phaedrus. (approx.) UK price GBP 21.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835), Proclus, Diadochus Proclus’ Elements of Theology (1994)[A20] 144pp, HB .
Taylor’s translation of Proclus’ great distillation of Neoplatonism into a series of propositions. (approx.) UK price GBP 18.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835); Apuleius of Madaurus Apuleius’ Golden Ass and other Philosophical Writings ISBN 1 898910 13 8 (1998)[A20] HB, 350pp
CONTENTS : The Metamorphoses, or Golden Ass of Apuleius; On The God of Socrates; and, On the Philosophy of Plato. This last consists of three books, on Cosmology, Ethics, and Logic (the `Peri Hermenaius’). Also included is Taylor’s poetical paraphrase of the speech of Diotima in Plato’s Symposium. (approx.) UK price GBP 24.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835); Iamblichus of Chalcis (c.242-325 ad) Iamblichus’ Collected Works (1999) HB, 462 pp. Now available!
This volume contains:- On the Mysteries; Iamblichus’ Life of Pythagoras; and an extensive collection of 42 Pythagorean Ethical and Political Fragments, many of which are not available in any other English translation. There are extensive footnotes, the pagination of Parthey/des Places to the De mysteriis, and an index. (approx.) UK price GBP 29.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835); Plato Works of Plato Vol. I ISBN 1 898910 08 1 (1996)[A20] HB, 600pp
Comprises:- Taylor’s General Introduction and Glossary of Greek Terms; Olympiodorus’ Life of Plato; First Alcibiades complete with almost all of Proclus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades as endnotes; the Republic, and a substantial amount of Proclus’ Commentary on The Republic as endnotes. Also two of Taylor’s articles written after the original publication of this volume, relevant to the above dialogues. (approx.) UK price GBP 34.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835); Plato Works of Plato Vol. II ISBN 1 898910 09 X (1997)[A20] HB, 600pp
This volume contains: The Laws, to which Taylor has added an account of the Festivals of the Ancients, excerpted from The Descriptions of Libanius; The Epinomis; The Timaeus, to which Taylor added excerpts from Proclus’ Commentaries on the Timaeus, as additional notes; and The Critias. (approx.) UK price GBP 34.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835); Plato Works of Plato Vol. III ISBN 1 898910 10 3 (1997)[A20] HB, 607pp
The Parmenides, complete with most of Proclus’ Commentaries on the Parmenides as additional notes; The Sophista; The Phaedrus, with a considerable portion of The Scholia of Hermias on the Phaedrus as additional notes. The Greater Hippias; The Banquet (Symposium). Included are two articles by Taylor relevant to these dialogues . (approx.) UK price GBP 34.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835); Plato Works of Plato Vol. IV ISBN 1 898910 11 1 (1997)[A20] HB, 582pp
The Theaetetus; The Politicus, additional notes by Taylor from Proclus’ Theology of Plato Lib. V; The Minos; The Apology of Socrates; The Crito; The Phaedo, with extensive additional notes from Olympiodorus’ Commentary on the Phaedo, and Damascius Commentary on the Phaedo; The Gorgias, with the Introduction and the additional notes taken from The Scholia of Olympiodorus on the Gorgias; The Philebus, with notes and additional notes from Olympiodorus; The Second Alcibiades. (approx.) UK price GBP 34.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835); Plato Works of Plato Vol. V ISBN 1 898910 12 X (1997)[A20] HB, 696pp
The Euthyphro; The Meno, with Sydenham’s original diagrams and additional notes; The Protagoras (Sophist); The Theages; The Laches; The Lysis; The Charmides; The Lesser Hippias, with extensive additional notes; The Euthydemus; The Hipparchus; The Rivals, with extensive additional notes by Sydenham; The Menexenus, with additional notes; The Clitopho; The Io, with extensive additional notes by Sydenham and Taylor; The Cratylus, with extensive notes from Taylor, Proclus, and Julian; Proclus’ Scholia on the Cratylus, (practically the whole); The Epistles of Plato. Included is an article by Taylor and an Index to the notes contained in the Works of Plato. (approx.) UK price GBP 34.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835); Proclus, Diadochus PROCLUS’ COMMENTARY ON THE TIMAEUS OF PLATO. Vol. 1 ISBN 1 898910 14 6 (1998)[A20] HB, 542pp
With pagination added from Diehl’s 1904-6 edition, and Taylor’s extensive footnotes and references, together with over 1500 extra references added by the Prometheus Trust. A subject index is also included. The most important Neoplatonic commentary on Plato, and Proclus’ personal favourite amongst his voluminous writings.(approx.) UK price GBP 32.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835); Proclus, Diadochus PROCLUS’ COMMENTARY ON THE TIMAEUS OF PLATO. Vol. 2 ISBN 1 898910 15 4 (1998)[A20] HB, 548pp
With pagination added from Diehl’s 1904-6 edition, and Taylor’s extensive footnotes and references, together with over 1500 extra references added by the Prometheus Trust. A subject index is also included. The most important Neoplatonic commentary on Plato, and Proclus’ personal favourite amongst his voluminous writings.(approx.) UK price GBP 32.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)-Maximus of Tyre (c. 125-85 ad) The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius (1994)[A20] 310pp, HB .
Maximus of Tyre (c. 125-85 ad) was a Middle Platonist. His philosophy, delivered in the form of popular lectures, is very readable, but philosophically unoriginal; yet it is precisely this which makes it an excellent introduction to the ideas and assumptions that much of the religion and philosophy of the period took for granted.- (approx.) UK price GBP 24.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.

Tobin, T.H. Timaios of Locri: On the Nature of the World and the Soul (1986)[D4] ISBN 0-89130-742-7. 93pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Text and the only modern Eng. translation of this major Pythagorean/Platonic text (c. 1st c. bc-1st c. ad) which pretended to be the source of Plato’s Timaeus.

Torchia, J.N. Plotinus, Tolma, and the Descent of Being: An Exposition and Analysis. (1993)[A19] 170pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 43.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An exploration of the theme of the soul’s turning away from the divine and incarnation in matter: a central issue in both Neoplatonism and Gnosticism.

Urmson, J. Greek Philosophical Vocabulary (1990)[A5] 173pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Useful explanations of the main Greek philosophical terms.

Wallis, R.T. & Bregman, J. (edd) Neoplatonism and Gnosticism (1992)[D1] 542pp. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 59.75 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A collection of essays which explores the relations between these two powerful and enduring ancient currents. Essays include: A.H. Armstrong, Dualism: Platonic, Gnostic, and Christian, C.L. Hancock, Negative Theology in Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, J.P. Anton, Theourgia-Demiourgia: A Controversial Issue in Hellenistic Thought and Religion, B.A. Pearson, Theurgic Tendencies in Gnosticism and Iamblichus’s Conception of Theurgy, P.Perkins, Beauty, Number, and Loss of Order in the Gnostic Cosmos, R.T. Wallis, Soul and Nous in Plotinus, Numenius and Gnosticism.

Wicker, K.O. Porphyry the Philosopher: To Marcella (1987)[D4] 205pp, PB ISBN 1-55540-139-2. (approx.) UK price GBP 17.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This is the only modern scholarly English translation (along with text and commentary) of Porphyry’s Letter to Marcella. This document is important not least because it presents a sort of beginner’s introduction to Neoplatonic Pagan philosophy and religion.

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Judaism, Jewish Mysticism & Kabbalah
Many people are not aware of the differences between Jewish Kabbalah and its derivatives in Christian Kabbalah (popular during the Renaissance and later, where it was often called ‘cabala’); and the kind of Kabbalah popular in Britain and the USA for the last century, which was developed by people associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. For Christian Kabbalah, see the section on Renaissance philosophy; for the Golden Dawn, see the section on 18^th to 20^th Century esotericism.

Bilski, E.D. (ed.) Golem! Danger, Deliverance and Art (1988)[D1] 128pp, PB. ISBN 0-87334-049-3. (approx.) UK price GBP 28.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
This large (quarto) and richly illustrated volume is a catalogue of an exhibition devoted to the Golem at the Jewish Museum. It includes essays on the wealth of literature and visual art devoted to the Golem, as well as one by Moshe Idel on the magical and mystical traditions. Now O/P, but we have a few copies left!

Black, M. (ed.) The Book of Enoch or I Enoch: A New English Translation with Commentary and Textual Notes in Consultation with J.C.Vanderkam. With an Appendix on the ‘Astronomical’ Chapters (72-82) by O.Neugebauer (1985)[A1] 482pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 110.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Charlesworth, J. H. (ed.) The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Vol. 1: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments. (1992-93)[A21] 1,056pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 59.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
These two volumes are a treasure-trove of early Jewish literature, and include many works without previous translations. Essential volumes for anyone studying early Jewish mysticism, Early Christianity and Gnosticism. Each text has introductions and notes. Vol. 1 includes all 3 Books of Enoch, including the only in print translation of the Merkavah text 3 Enoch. Also The Sibylline Oracles (interpolated by Jewish and Christian authors)—and the Testament of Solomon which describes Solomon’s dealings with demons.

Charlesworth, J. H. (ed.) The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Vol.2: Expansions of the ‘Old Testament’ and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works. (1992-93)[A21] 1,055pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 59.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
Besides its other gems, this volume contains The Odes of Solomon: This probably early Christian hymnbook has a strong Jewish-Gnostic flavour in its beautiful hymns—the Jewish Orphica: an esoteric revelation by ‘Orpheus’ important for early Jewish mysticism and Pagan esotericism—Jannes and Jambres: which tells of the legend of the two Egyptian magicians who were opponents of Moses.

Collins & Charlesworth (edd) Mysteries and Revelations: Apocalyptic Studies Since the Uppsala Colloquium. (1991)[A4] 172pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 28.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A fine collection of papers which cover such topics as Origins of Apocalyptic (JJ Collins), Structure of Reality in I Enoch (GWE Nickelsberg), The Transformation of the Visionary (M Himmelfarb), Folk Traditions in Apocalyptic (JH Charlesworth), etc. Now O/P, but we have a few copies left!

Coudert, A. P. The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698). (1998)[A1] 438 pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 119.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
With his friend Knorr von Rosenroth, van Helmont edited the famous Kabbalah denudata, that foundation-text for the Christian Kabbalah movement, and western esotericism in general. This study reveals that the progressive nature of van Helmont’s thought was based on his deep commitment to the esoteric doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah. This work is the rich fruit of intensive labours : Coudert says she started her investigation when a student of 20, and finished it as a grandmother of five! However, anyone who delves into the riches of this book will feel it was time well-spent….

Cryer, F.H. Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment (1994)[A4] 330pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 59.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A comprehensive survey which focuses particularly on the magical aspects.

Davidson, M.J. Angels at Qumran: A Comparative Study of 1 Enoch 1-36, 72-108 and Sectarian Writings from Qumran (1992)[A4] 386pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 48.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A detailed exploration of early Jewish angelology as evidenced by I Enoch and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Elior, R. The Paradoxical Ascent to God: The Kabbalistic Theosophy of Habad Hasidim (1992)[D1] 320pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 49.75 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Translated from the Hebrew, this is a major study of Habad, the last great movement in Jewish Kabbalah. Founded by the 18th C. Kabbalist R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Its essential innovation consisted in the formulation of a religious outlook which concentrated on perceiving the divinity: its essence, nature, stages of its manifestation, etc. This conception generated a profound transformation of religious worship and was the cause of great controversy throughout the Jewish world.

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Elior, R. The Paradoxical Ascent to God: The Kabbalistic Theosophy of Habad Hasidism (1992)[D1] 320pp, pb. ISBN 0-7914-1046-3. Translated from the Hebrew, this is a major study of Habad, the last great movement in Jewish Kabbalah. Founded by the 18th C. Kabbalist R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Its essential innovation consisted in the formulation of a religious outlook which concentrated on perceiving the divinity: its essence, nature, stages of its manifestation, etc. This conception generated a profound transformation of religious worship and was the cause of great controversy throughout the Jewish world. . Was (approx.) UK price GBP 27.00 (special offer)UK price GBP 19.00

Englander, Lawrence A., with Basser, Herbert W., The Mystical Study of Ruth — Midrash HaNe’elam of the Zohar to the Book of Ruth Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1993, xxv + 251 pp, HB. Fine. The only translation, with notes, to the Zohar on Ruth. UK price GBP 33.00

Giller, P. The Enlightened Will Shine: Symbolization and Theurgy in the Later Strata of the Zohar. (1993)[D1] 128pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 39.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This book analyses the use of symbolism and theurgy in two sections of the Zohar, the central text of the Kabbalah. These compositions, Tiqqunei ha-Zohar and Ra’aya Meheimna have been particularly loved by Kabbalists. "This is a fine piece of scholarship. It constitutes a pioneering study…in the medieval Jewish mystical tradition. The discussion of theurgy and the experiential element within the Jewish mystical tradition are particularly important contributions to this fledgling area of study."—Mark Verman, St. John’s University

Ginsburg, E.K. The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah (1989)[D1] 384pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 49.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
In Classical (Sefirotic) Kabbalah, the most important ritual and emotional focus was on the Sabbath, which was identified with the Sefirah Malkhuth. This work after a detailed treatment of the Kabbalistic concepts—including the Sacred Marriage—connected with the Sabbath, goes on to a full examination of the associated rituals. This particularly fine piece of research also includes the best concise exposition of Sefirotic symbolism I have seen.

Ginzberg, L. Legends of the Jews. 7 Vols. (1921-38)[A17] 3,378pp. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 249.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
for the set. Ginsberg’s monumental collection of Jewish mythology and folklore. An amazing achievement—consider that the index alone runs to 612 double-columned pages. This work is a marvellous resource for background materials on Kabbalah, the Jewish Scriptures, ancient Semitic thought, etc.

Glotzer, L.R. The Fundamentals of Jewish Mysticism: The Book of Creation and its Commentaries. (1992)[A17] 258pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 34.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This, like Kaplan’s Sefer Yetzira, is a text translation and commentary, based on the Kabbalistic commentaries. However, the volumes are complimentary, as Glotzer’s approach is more historical and analytical compared with Kaplan’s, which is written from within the Kabbalistic tradition itself.

Gruenwald, I. Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism (1980)[A1] 154pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 56.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A classic study, advancing Scholem’s work, of all the Merkavah texts.

Gunkel, H. The Folktale in the Old Testament. (1987)[A4] 206pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 19.50
An English translation of this classic and pioneering work on folklore in the Jewish scriptures. Now O/P, but we have a few copies left!

Himmelfarb, M. Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. (1993)[A9] 183pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 29.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The theme of ascent to the heavens, so important for early Jewish mysticism, is here given its first full investigation in its earliest setting in Apocalyptic, and also considered from its Greco-Roman background.

Idel, M. Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid (1990)[D1] 416pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 68.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This study, which is based on many unpublished manuscripts, is the only comprehensive treatment ever written dealing with the lore and techniques of Golem creation, and covers the whole period from late antiquity to modern times. The work focuses on the precise techniques employed in making an artificial human, thus illuminating an area almost entirely ignored previously.

Idel, M. Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic. (1995)[D1] 480pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-1734-4 (approx.) UK price GBP 23.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
"Idel’s book has broken new ground in the study of the mystical Judaism of Eastern Europe in the 18th & 19th centuries. By applying what he calls the panoramic approach…Idel has been able to illuminate the phenomenon of Hasidism in all its complexity and diversity. Rather than focusing on any one immediate aspect of Jewish mysticism, Idel proposes to understand Hasidism as the aggregation of multiple streams, including magic, theosophic Kabbalah, and ecstatic Kabbalah. By applying Idel’s orientation one can appreciate the complex fabric woven by the Hasidic masters from previous mystical sources. His book is provocative and stimulating."—Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University

Idel, M. Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia (1988)[D1] 224pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 58.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Linguistic mysticism, the powers and qualities of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, plays an important part in all Kabbalah, but in the Ecstatic Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia, language is the central pillar around which all else revolves. This study contains the fullest investigation of Abulafia’s teachings on language available.

Idel, M. Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah (1988)[D1] 160pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 58.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Ecstatic Kabbalah, whose most famous practitioner was Abraham Abulafia, was aimed directly at achieving exalted mystical states, and stands in contrast to the better-known and more philosophical Sefirotic Kabbalah. This book looks at the development of Ecstatic Kabbalah and its relations with Sufism and the Cathars. It also deals with topics like the mystical union, the world of imagination, and concentration as a spiritual technique.

Idel, Moshe Kabbalah: new perspectives (1990), Yale University Press, pp 440 Paperback,0-300-04699-5, (approx.) UK price GBP 14.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
In this prizewinning recent interpretation of Jewish mysticism, Moshe Idel emphasises the need for a comparative and phenomenological approach to Kabbalah and its position in the history of religion. Idel provides fresh insights into the origins of Jewish mysticism, the relation between mystical and historical experience, and the impact of Jewish mysticism on western civilisation.

Idel, Moshe Messianic mystics (1998), Yale University Press, pp 608 Hardback, 0-300-06840-9, (approx.) UK price GBP 28.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Edited from the PPN: In this book, one of the world’s leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience. Moshe Idel calls upon his profound knowledge of ancient and medieval texts and of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Eastern sources to uncover new perspectives on the nature and development of Jewish messianism. He shows that, contrary to Gershom Scholem’s view that mysticism and messianism are incompatible religious tendencies, they are in fact closely related spiritual phenomena. Messianism regularly emerges from mystical experiences, Idel contends.

Jacobs, L. (ed.) Jewish Mystical Testimonies. (1976)[A17] 280pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 12.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A valuable collection of mystical texts with notes, includes selections from Eleazar of Worms, Joseph Karo, Hayyim Vital, etc, etc.

Janowitz, N. The Poetics of Ascent: Theories of Language in a Rabbinic Ascent Text (1988)[D1] 176pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 45.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This fascinating study offers a translation of an important text of early Jewish mysticism, Ma’aseh Merkavah (‘Work of the Chariot’). This text reveals to the aspirant the techniques of ascent through the heavens by means of incantatory hymns. The commentary focuses on the doctrines about language implicit in the material, and fascinatingly elucidates the correspondences between the structure and rhythms of the text and the experience of the practitioner.

Kaplan A. Meditation and the Bible (1981)[A10] 192pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 12.75 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A reconstruction of ancient prophetic techniques using Kabbalistic traditions.

Kaplan, A. Meditation and Kabbalah (1982)[A10] 364pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 14.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Kaplan is an unusual combination of Jewish Kabbalist and scholar. This volume is the only comprehensive presentation of ancient Kabbalistic meditation techniques which includes many of the sources in translation.

Kaplan, A. Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Creation) (1990)[A10] 416pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 21.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Translates the various versions, with a very detailed Kabbalistic commentary which includes a digest of the main Hebrew commentaries on the text.

Kaplan, A. The Bahir (1980)[A10] 240pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 25.75 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The most influential sourcework of the early Kabbalah, with text, English translation. and commentary.

Lemche, N.P. Ancient Israel: A New History of Israelite Society. (1988)[A4] 276pp, HB. UK price GBP 36.50 Out of print, but we still have a few copies!
A new history of Israel which makes full use of material from outside the Jewish scriptures.

Liebes, Y. Studies in the Zohar (1993)[D1] 320pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-1190-7. (approx.) UK price GBP 19.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The author teaches Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This important study of the Zohar, besides exploring its ideas and historical context, delves into the issues of the messianic elements of the Zohar, the way it was written, and its relationship to Christianity, Gnosticism, and Talmudic literature.

Martinez & Barrera The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Literature, Social Organisation and Religious Beliefs (1994)[A1] 250pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 34.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Written by two eminent Qumran scholars, this volume offers up-to-date information on the Qumran community, and deals with current questions such as: have certain scrolls been suppressed? Do the manuscripts call aspects of Jewish and Christian traditions into question? Do the roots of Early Christianity derive from the Essene movement? etc. It should be noted that the authors are very much involved in the debate, and argue for their own interpretations.

Mendes-Flohr, P (ed.). Gershom Scholem: The Man and His Work. (1994)[D1] 127pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-2126-0. (approx.) UK price GBP 12.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) founded the academic study of Jewish Mysticism. In so doing, he not only broke new scholarly ground, but he also revolutionised the field of Judaic and Esoteric Studies as a whole and left an indelible mark on the study of religion. The editor has provided an intellectual and spiritual biography of Scholem, which complements the papers by Ephraim Urbach, Joseph Ben-Shlomo, Isaiah Tishby, Rivka Schatz, Malakhi Beit Arié, Nathan Rotenstreich, and Joseph Dan. Together, they highlight the enduring significance of Scholem’s work, which has remained the touchstone for all further scholarship on Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah.

Ostow, Mortimer; Idel, Moshe, et al., Jewish mystical leaders and leadership in the 13th century (1998), Jason Aronson Inc, pp 241 Paperback,0-7657-5994-2 (approx.) UK price GBP 32.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Sawyer, Deborah F., Midrash Aleph Beth Atlanta, Scholars Press. 1993, ix + 344 pp, HB. Fine. The only translation and commentary of this ancient Midrash on the Alphabet, which comments on the Creation and battles between Satan and God. UK price GBP 35.00

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Schäfer, P. The Hidden and Manifest God: Some Major Themes in Early Jewish Mysticism (1992)[D1] 210pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-1044-7. (approx.) UK price GBP 15.75 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Peter Schäfer is the foremost authority on early Jewish Hekhaloth or Merkavah (‘Chariot’) mysticism which deals with the lore and techniques of the ascent through the heavens. This is the first comprehensive presentation of these ancient teachings, and consists of a lucid exposition of the main concepts and esoteric practices used by their practitioners. An essential work for anyone interested in Jewish mysticism. Since Merkavah mysticism has a clear connection with the magico-theurgic ascent practices of late antiquity, this is clearly an important book for anyone trying to understand the techniques and experiences of Theurgists, Gnostics and others in the ancient world.

Scholem, G. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. (1941)[A17] 508pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 13.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This and the following volumes, by the founder of modern Kabbalistic studies, constitute some of the best scholarly materials on Jewish mysticism ever written.

Scholem, G. On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism. (1965)[A17] 172pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 9.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Scholem, G. On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead. (1991)[A17] 328pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 15.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Six essays by Scholem, based on his Eranos lectures, covering such topics as the Shi’ur Qomah, the Shekinah, the Astral Body in Kabbalah, etc.

Scholem, G. Origins of the Kabbalah (1987)[A14] 503pp PB (approx.) UK price GBP 19.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Brought up-to-date from the original 1962 German edition, using Scholem’s own annotations, by RJZ Werblowsky. Essential as Scholem’s most mature thought on the development of pre-Zoharic Kabbalah, focussing primarily on the Bahir, the first Kabbalists in Provence and The Kabbalistic centre in Gerona.

Scholem, G. Sabbati Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 (1973)[A2]. 1,028pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 28.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A masterwork by the great Kabbalistic scholar on the most important Jewish messiah, which is also a searching inquiry into the nature of messianic movements.

Scholem, G. The Messianic Idea in Judaism. (1970)[A17] 231pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 12.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Sherwin, B.L. Mystical Theology and Social Dissent: The Life and Works of Judah Loew of Prague (1983)[A2] 254pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 22.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Judah Loew of Prague was famed as the master of the Golem. Here, his Kabbalah and obscure mysticism are elucidated.

Talmon, S. (ed.) Jewish Civilization in the Hellenistic-Roman Period. (1991)[A4] 269pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 34.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Studies by various scholars in this crucial field for understanding later mystical and non-mystical developments in both Judaism and Christianity.
CONTENTS: Part 1: History, Society and Literature; Part 2: Qumran between Judaism and Christianity. Was UK price GBP 37.00 special offer while stocks last UK price GBP 27.50

Taylor, G. Yahweh and the Sun: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sun Worship in Ancient Israel (1993)[A4] 308pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 55.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Argues for a considerable overlap between solar worship and some aspects of Yahwism.

Thompson, T.L. Early History of the Israelite People From the Written and Archeological Sources. (1992)[A1] 506pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 136.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This volume contains a detailed review of all the scholarly materials relating to Early Israel. The author argues that Biblical Israel is the Biblical tradition’s own creation in the Persian period.

Tishby, I. The Wisdom of the Zohar (1989)[A2] 3 vols. 1,700pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP (apparently O/P ,but we still have a couple of sets -- see the secondhand pages.
Ever since its publication in Hebrew as Mishnat ha-Zohar, this work has been the indispensable guide to the Zohar. It arranges 100’s of the most important passages of the rambling original under all its major topics, with an explanatory commentary. Since only half of the Zohar has ever been (unsatisfactorily) translated into English previously this is, in fact, the only place to go for authoritative translations of most of the Zohar’s major themes. Both the original and this English translation have won prizes.

Verman, M. The Books of Contemplation: Medieval Jewish Mystical Sources (1992)[D1] 222pp HB (approx.) UK price GBP 24.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The first translation and commentary on this important but little-known group of mid-13th C. Jewish mystical texts which present a non-sefirotic ‘theosophical’ form of Jewish mysticism.

Vermes, G. The Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Third Edition. (1987)[A4] 320pp, HB., Fine in fine dj. Much enlarged and brought up-to-date from previous editions of this classic text. UK price GBP 14.95 (O/P, only available from us)

Wald, S.G. The Doctrine of the Divine Name: An Introduction to Classical Kabbalistic Theology (1988)[D4] ISBN 1-55540-242-9. 204pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 39.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A fine piece of scholarship which gives an English version of a previously untranslated section of the Zohar: The Secrets of the Letters of the Divine Name, together with full notes and apparatus and commentary.

Weiss, J. Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism (1986)[A2] 288pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 18.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
16 studies (8 previously unpublished) by one of the greatest scholars of Hasidism.

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Abusch, T. Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies (1988)[D4] ISBN 1-55540-191-0. 175pp, HB. GBP 34.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An exploration of some of the earliest records of witchcraft. Much light is thrown on the structure and background of ancient Babylonian witchcraft.

Agrippa, Cornelius. De occulta philosophia, libri tres. (Perrone Compagni ed.) (1992)[A1] 666pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 179.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Hundreds of years overdue(!), but at last a modern critical edition of the most influential magical encyclopedia ever written. Has Latin text and full indexes, together with a valuable English introduction which clarifies the background and the two versions of the work which existed. There is no translation of the Latin text, though.

Agrippa, Cornelius Three Books of Occult Philosophy (Translation by ‘J.F.’ 1651: Ed. & ann. by Donald Tyson)(1994) 938pp, PB, (approx.) UK price GBP 34.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Now that the Chthonios edition is o/p, this is the only place to get Agrippa’s coryphaeus of books on magic. Tyson’s production is claimed to have not very seriously fiddled with the text of the 1651 ‘J.F.’ edition, that is,he’s modernised punctuation, spelling and paragraphs. His notes which occupy about a third of the book of which "…specialists will indeed find occasional howlers…but by and large they are sound and useful." (Gnosis).

Betz, H.D. (ed.) The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells. (Second Edition.) (1992)[A7] 387pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 22.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Of much more than a purely magical interest, this is the first and only English translation of hundreds of spells from Greco-Roman Egypt. The many potent and hypnotic invocations give a vivid insight into the ancient Gods as they were experienced on the borderlands of consciousness, rather than in the comparatively sanitised literary traditions. The value of these texts as comparative material for Pagan religion and its Mystery traditions, for early Jewish mysticism, for Gnosticism and early Christianity, as well as Hermeticism, alchemy, astrology, and so on, is becoming increasingly recognised.

Borghouts, J.F. Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts (1978)[A1] 137pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 22.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Most of the texts in this volume are translated here for the first time.

Butler, E.M. The Myth of the Magus (1993)[A6] 294pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 9.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
First pub. in 1948, this is a classic and very readable study. Covers pre-Christian period to 19th c. occult revival.

Ginzburg, C. Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath. (London 1990) 339pp, HB.
An important witchcraft study which argues that the Witches’ Sabbath had a real basis in folklore rather than just inquisitorial fantasies. UK price GBP 15.99 (O/P, only available from us)

Covino, W.A. Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy: An Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination. (1994)[D1] 224pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-2084-1. (approx.) UK price GBP 15.75 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This is a radical and exciting work which selects key texts in the history of magic from antiquity onwards, in order to construct a suggestive conceptual framework for disrupting our limited conventional notions about rhetoric and literacy. Offering an overarching, pointed synthesis of the interpenetration of magic, rhetoric, and literacy, Covino draws from theorists ranging from Plato to Cornelius Agrippa to Paulo Freire and Mary Daly, and analyses the different magical processes that operate in Renaissance occult philosophy and Romantic literature, as well as in popular indicators of mass literacy such as ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ and The National Enquirer.

Faraone & Obbink (edd) Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (1991)[A9] 312pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 15.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A series of essays on ancient Greek magic, all written to a very high standard, which cast valuable light on many aspects of ancient magical theory and practice.

Faraone, Christopher A. Ancient Greek love magic Forthcoming Oct 1999, Harvard Univ Press Hardback,0-674-03320-5 (approx.) UK price GBP 28.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
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Flint, V.I.J. The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe (1991)[A8] 466pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 14.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An exciting piece of recent research which challenges many of the rather self-serving assumptions commonly held about medieval magic.

Gager, J.G. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World (1992)[A9] 320pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 44.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A first-time translation of a substantial number of ancient curse materials, together with commentaries.

Godbeer, R. The Devil’s Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England (1992)[A6] 272pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Explores the popular use of magical techniques and why they flourished despite clerical condemnation.

Henningsen, G. The Witches’ Advocate: Basque Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition (1609-1614). (1991)[A11U] 640pp HB (approx.) UK price GBP 45.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A fascinating investigation into the long-lost Salazar report, which has been recovered by the author. This report of Alonso de Salazar, which resulted in the termination of witch burnings in the region, provides one of the most detailed accounts there are of both witchcraft and inquisitorial practices. Henningsen uses it to conduct a searching investigation into all aspects of the phenomenon.

Kieckhefer, R. Magic in the Middle Ages (1989)[A6] 232pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 13.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A standard textbook which pays particular attention to the sources of medieval magic and its cultural context.

Martinez, D.G. (ed.) P. Michigan XVI: A Greek Love Charm from Egypt (1991)[D4] ISBN 1-55540-547-9. 176pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 45.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Translation and text of a previously unpublished manuscript of this love spell. The editor provides a full commentary which compares the spell and its background in popular magic with themes from Classical and Biblical literature. A composite edition of the spell is also provided from the six extant versions.

Neusner (et al. edd) Religion, Science and Magic: In Concert and Conflict. (1992)[A9] 288pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 15.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Basically on magic and religion in Judaism and Christianity. Includes essays on Jewish magic, Jesus and magic and on Theurgy etc. Standard of essays vary, and one or two are frankly poor, but many are excellent.

Pietersma. A. The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres the Magicians: P. Chester Beatty XVI (With New Editions of Papyrus Vindobonensis Greek inv. 29456 & 29828 verso and British Library Cotton Tiberius B. vf. 87). (1994)[A1] 372pp, 22 illus., HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 112.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The editio princeps of this important work. This critical edition contains a full introduction, commentary and translation. Jannes and Jambres appeared in Jewish, Christian and Pagan literature as Moses’ magical opponents at the time of Israel’s exodus from Egypt. The Apocryphon is placed in its Greco-Roman context, but is also discussed as a backdrop for the Faust saga of European literature.

Russell, J.B. The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. PB. ISBN 0-8014-9409-5. [D1] (approx.) UK price GBP 13.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
JB Russell’s famous multivolume history of ideas about a force of evil in the West. The most extensive survey of its kind in English.

Russell, J.B. Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages. PB.ISBN 0-8014-9249-X. [D1] (approx.) UK price GBP 14.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Russell, J.B. Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World. PB. ISBN 0-8014-9718-3. [D1] (approx.) UK price GBP 14.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Russell, J.B. Satan: The Early Christian Tradition. PB. ISBN 0-8014-9413-3. [D1] (approx.) UK price GBP 13.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Russell, J.B. The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History. PB. ISBN 0-8014-8056-6. [D1] (approx.) UK price GBP 13.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Russell, J.B. Witchcraft in the Middle Ages. PB. ISBN 0-8014-9289-0. [D1] (approx.) UK price GBP 14.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A standard work on medieval witchcraft.

Schiffman & Swartz Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah (1992)[A4] 183pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 29.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An important new study of ancient Jewish magic. Offers texts translations and discussion of a number of previously unpublished texts which throw light on the magical koine (or ‘common language’) of the late Roman Empire.

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General Esotericism & Miscellaneous Works
These are works which don’t fit well into any of the other sections, but give useful investigations, or useful background for esoteric research. There are also a few particularly outstanding general scholarly tools.

Becker, C.B. Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death. (1993)[D1] 288pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-1476-0 (approx.) UK price GBP 18.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Edited from the PPN : "This books amasses data and surveys from a century of research on the paranormal on four continents: Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Studying the tensions between religious and scientific perspectives, Becker reviews numerous substantiated accounts of demonic possession, of memories of past lives, of ghostly apparitions, and out-of-body experiences. He analyses the medical evidence and what such experiences imply about survival after death." "The author deftly distinguishes between different facets of paranormal phenomena, and thus clarifies discussion that is usually muddied."—Carol Zaleski, Smith College

Broek, Roelof van den and Wouter J. Hanegraaff, (edd) GNOSIS AND HERMETICISM: FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES, 416 pages SUNY 1997, paperback ISBN 0-7914-3612-8 (approx.) UK price GBP 21.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
"This collection presents in a clear and concise way a series of critical distinctions that collectively map the field: Hermetism, Gnosticism, gnosis, Manichaeism, Hermeticism, Catharism, Esotericism, Romanticism, and the New Age. These often confused and misperceived phenomena have been delineated crisply, in a way that permits this collection to serve nicely as a general introduction to the field. This book articulates a new standard of precision and clarity." — - Dan Merkur, author of Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions
This volume introduces what has sometimes been called "the third component of western culture." It traces the historical development of those religious traditions which have rejected a world view based on the primacy of pure rationality or doctrinal faith, emphasising instead the importance of inner enlightenment or gnosis: a revelatory experience which was typically believed to entail an encounter with one’s true self as well as with the ground of being, God.
The contributors to this book demonstrate this perspective as fundamental to a variety of interconnected traditions. In Antiquity, one finds the gnostics and hermetics; in the Middle Ages several Christian sects. The medieval Cathars can, to a certain extent, be considered part of the same tradition. Starting with the Italian humanist Renaissance, hermetic philosophy became of central importance to a new religious synthesis that can be referred to as Western Esotericism." The development of this tradition is described from Renaissance hermeticists and practitioners of spiritual alchemy to the emergence of Rosicrucianism and Christian theosophy in the seventeenth century, and from post-enlightenment aspects of Romanticism and occultism to the present-day New Age movement.
"This work meets the current demand for scholarly, empirico-historical research in what the editors rightly denominate the ’third current’ (the others are biblical faith and Greek rationality) of Occidental thought, i.e., Western Esotericism."-- Ralph Slotten, Dickinson College

Broughton, R. Parapsychology. (London 1991) 408pp HB SPECIAL OFFER. (was UK price GBP 19.99 )
"Impressively documented" scholarly overview of the entire field. Author is Director of Research at the Institute of Parapsychology, North Carolina. (Now) UK price GBP 15.99

Bulkeley, K. The Wilderness of Dreams: Exploring the Religious Meanings of Dreams in Modern Western Culture. (1993)[D1] 352pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-1746-8 (approx.) UK price GBP 18.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
"This interdisciplinary study of the religious dimensions of dreams shows how modern dream research supports and enriches our understanding of religiously meaningful dreams. The Wilderness of Dreams is original in four ways. Firstly, it surveys the whole range of modern dream research not just the work of depth psychologists and neuroscientists, but also the findings of anthropologists, content analysts, cognitive psychologists, creative artists, and lucid dreaming researchers. Secondly, it draws upon new advances in hermeneutic philosophy in order to clarify basic questions about how to interpret dreams. Thirdly, it develops a careful, well-grounded notion of religious meaning—the ‘root metaphor’ concept—to show that seeking religious meanings in dreams is not mere superstition. And finally, the book reflects on the question of why modern Westerners are so interested in affirming, or debunking, the idea that dreams have religious meanings."

Delaney, G. (ed.) New Directions in Dream Interpretation. (1993)[D1] 352pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-1606-2 (approx.) UK price GBP 18.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
"This book presents in detail seven contemporary approaches to dream interpretation as they are actually practised by experienced psychiatrists and psychologists. The reader can sample radically different approaches from various schools of interpretation and gain the tools for making meaningful comparisons. The contributors describe their theoretical roots and how they have departed from them when confronted with the real world of real dreamer. This book provides a variety of modern, non-dogmatic, practical ways to work with dreams. Each contributor emphasises not theory, but interpretative method and practical applications of dream interpretation."

Godwin, Joscelyn The Mystery of the Seven Vowels In Theory and Practice. ISBN 0-933999-85-2 (1991)[D2] 110pp, hardback . OUT-OF-PRINT, Last Few Copies.
This is the first book on this subject in English, and it is unusual in bringing together a number of fields not usually connected: linguistics, harmony, musicology, mythology, the history of religions, esoteric and occult philosophy, vocal exercises and meditational practices. The author discusses systems relating the vowels to planets, tones and colours; he writes of ancient and modern vowel-songs, the names of the gods, and the use of vowels in Gnosticism and ancient ritual. Both scholarly and practical the book gives a number of different methods for discovering one’s own ‘tones’ through the vowels, and for exploring their power to centre, to uplift, and to heal.
Joscelyn Godwin is Professor of Music at Colgate University. He is perhaps the foremost authority on the mystical dimensions of ancient music and their modern esoteric ramifications. UK price GBP 25.00 (O/P, only available from us)

Hanegraaff, Wouter J. NEW AGE RELIGION AND WESTERN CULTURE Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought, 593 pages SUNY 1997, paperback ISBN 0-7914-3854-6, (approx.) UK price GBP 22.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinating work presents the first comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement. Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the historical backgrounds of the movement, he convincingly argues that its foundations were laid by so-called western esoteric traditions during the Renaissance. Hanegraaff finally shows how the modern New Age movement emerged from the increasing secularisation of those esoteric traditions during the nineteenth century.
"There will be no book like this for some time to come. It should be on the reading list of any student of religion and brings into the foreground a needed agenda for those in the humanities and social sciences, and will be valued by all those who appreciate fine, clear writing. I wish I had written it myself." — - Antoine Faivre, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne
"Finally, someone has mastered the vast literature of, and reality which is the New Age movement, and produced a comprehensive and authoritative survey of its major themes and most important leaders. Hanegraaff’s effort should immediately become the foundation upon which future research of the movement will be constructed." — - J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion, Santa Barbara
"This is the best critical study of New Age thinking hitherto available. An outstanding achievement." — - Garry W. Trompf, School of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney

Kinney, J. et al. (edd) GNOSIS Magazine : Collected Issues on Western Esotericism & Contemporary Traditions. A collection of 8 new copies at a vastly reduced price (over 65% reduction!). Each copy is approx. 90 pp, of which very little is advertising. Gnosis is a leading journal of Esoteric Traditions and Studies. Since its first issue in 1985, Gnosis has gained a reputation for exposing its readers to thoughtful discussion and scholarship on spiritual topics. It is a three-time finalist for the Alternative Press Awards. One of the first magazines to utilise desktop publishing techniques, it is regularly praised for its striking use of art and attractive design. The book reviews alone make it worth buying!
This collection contains the following themed issues : Gnosis #25 (Fall 92) Groups & Communities This issue includes critique of Robert Bly, history of the Black Muslims, the Brethren of the Common Life, Kabir Helminski on Sufi groups, symposium on the Spirituality of the Future. Gnosis #26 (Winter 93) Psychedelics & the Path This issue includes interview with Ram Dass, psychedelic trips by Jean-Paul Sartre and Adele Davis, Roger Walsh on Mysticism: Contemplative and Chemical, Bruce Eisner on Ecstasy. Gnosis #32 (Summer 94) Pop Culture & the Esoteric This issue includes looks at creators of comics, SF, and rock music who have esoteric intentions, interview with Helen Palmer, examination of the occult in romance novels, etc, etc.... Gnosis #33 (Fall 94) The Earth This issue includes power spots, interview with Sterling Bunnell, shamanism in Ecuador, Peter Lamborn Wilson on "Chaos Eros Earth and Old Night," Steiner’s cosmology, geomancy. Gnosis #34 (winter 95) Healing This issue includes interview with Barbara Brennan, the art of psychic healing, animal totems, reflexology, Richard Grossinger’s critique of holistic healing, and Thomas Keating’s Centering Prayer . Gnosis #35 (Spring 95) The Spirituality of America This issue includes interview with Karen Armstrong, the New England Translationcendentalists, the surprising occult roots of Joseph Smith, Alison Hawthorne Deming on the Puritans, Quetzalcoatl, etc, etc.... Gnosis #38 (Winter 96) The Stars This issue includes interview with Graham Hancock, is Astrology True? critique of ET channelling, Sophia and stargazing. Gnosis #39 (Spring 96) East Meets West This issue includes Guru low-down, Big Kahuna, Tarthang Tulku, etc, etc.... These issues used to be priced at 5.95 GBP each, making a total of 47.60 GBP, now you can have them all for only 16.00 GBP!

Kinney, J. et al. (edd) GNOSIS Magazine : Collected Issues on Western Esotericism & Ancient Traditions. A collection of 8 new copies at a vastly reduced price (over 65% reduction!). Each copy is approx. 90 pp, of which very little is advertising. Gnosis is a leading journal of Esoteric Traditions and Studies. Since its first issue in 1985, Gnosis has gained a reputation for exposing its readers to thoughtful discussion and scholarship on spiritual topics. It is a three-time finalist for the Alternative Press Awards. One of the first magazines to utilise desktop publishing techniques, it is regularly praised for its striking use of art and attractive design. The book reviews alone make it worth buying!
This collection contains the following themed issues : Gnosis #21 (Fall 91) Holy War This issue includes articles on the Crusades, the Islamic concept of jihad, an interview with Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Hildegard of Bingen, Orthodox Christianity on internal warfare, etc, etc...… Gnosis #27(spring 93) Sacred Art & Music This issue includes cathedral symbolism, "Orpheus and the Mysteries of Harmony" healing sound and colour, Rudolf Steiner’s Eurythmy, Orthodox icons, the art of tattoos. Gnosis #28 (Summer 93) One God or Many? This issue includes Charles Tan interview, Mme. Blavatsky’s Mahatmas, the gods of the African diaspora, the meaning of tree myths, and Gnosticism vs. conservative Christianity. Gnosis #29 (Fall 93) The Body This issue includes the subtle bodies, interview with Michael Murphy, self-observation, Moshe Feldenkrais, ancient Egyptian view of embodiment, a Pagan defence of hunting. Gnosis #31 (Spring 94) Russia and Eastern Europe This issue includes underground spiritual schools now surfacing in Russia, a look at the Bogomil Gnostics of Bulgaria, a history of Russian esotericism, Slavic shamans, etc, etc.... Gnosis #36 (Summer 95) The Inner Planes This issue includes interview with Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Siobhan Houston on Chaos Magic, Murat Yagan’s Kebzeh teachings, John Dee, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Kabbalah, etc, etc.... Gnosis #37 (Fall 95) Tenth Anniversary Issue This issue includes interviews with Huston Smith and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, contemplative prayer, the Stoics, the Lovecraft Mythos, and a symposium on the present state of Esotericism. Gnosis #40 (Summer 96) Hermeticism This issue includes From Lead to Gold, The Emerald Tablet, On the Trail of the Winged God, The Renaissance of Hermetic Man, Geometries of the Sword, The Enochian Apocalypse, etc, etc.... These issues used to be priced at 5.95 GBP each, making a total of 47.60 GBP, now you can have them all for only 16.00 GBP!

Kohn. L. (ed.) The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. (1993)[D1] 384pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-1580-5 (approx.) UK price GBP 19.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Containing sixty translations from a large variety of texts, this is an accessible yet thorough introduction to the major concepts, doctrines, and practices of Taoism. It presents the philosophy, rituals, and health techniques of the ancients as well as the practices and ideas of Taoists today.
Divided into four sections, it follows the Taoist Path: The Tao, Long Life, Eternal Vision, and Immortality. It shows how the world of the Tao is perceived from within the tradition, what fervent Taoists did, and how practitioners saw their path and goals. The Taoist Experience is unique in that it presents the whole of Taoist tradition in the very words of its active practitioners. It conveys not only a sense of the depth of the Taoist religious experience but also of the underlying unity of the various schools and strands.

Nugent, C. Mysticism, Death and Dying. (1994)[D1] 160pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 37.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Edited from the PPN : "This book charts the borderline between the nocturnal side of mysticism and the luminous side of death and illuminates their paradoxical affinities. If what generations have called the mystery of death is ‘the last enemy,’ a still more mysterious mysticism would anticipate, illuminate and disarm it, issuing in what ‘eyes have not seen, ears have not heard.’ This work is contemporary in that it represents a creative and original appropriation of tradition, and is spiritually more mystical than devotional—but is ecumenically conversant with and sensitive to the great religious traditions."

Silburn, L. Kundalini: The Energy of the Depths (1988)[D1] 266pp, PB. ISBN 0-88706-801-4. (approx.) UK price GBP 19.75 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This is the first comprehensive scholarly study of Tantric Kundalini lore and techniques. It gives translation and commentary of many passages from the Trika, Krama and Kaula systems to give a coherent view of the whole subject. Part One explores the awakening and unfoldment of Kundalini; Part Two describes the piercing of the energy centres and ascent through the body; Part Three examines the relation of Kundalini to sexual expression.

Simpson & Weiner (edd) The Compact Oxford English Dictionary—New Edition. (20 vols in one.) (1992)[A8] 2,416pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 225.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The complete & latest edition of the OED, 9 pages of the original on 1, with illuminated magnifying glass and slipcase.

Suler, J.R. Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Eastern Thought. (1993)[D1] 299pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-1578-3 (approx.) UK price GBP 17.25 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Edited from the PPN : "The convergence of psychoanalysis and Asian thought is the focus of this book. It explores key theoretical issues such as the role of paradox in psychological and spiritual transformation. It asks how the oriental emphasis on attaining ‘no-self’ can be reconciled with the western emphasis on achieving an integrated self. The book also inquires into pragmatic questions concerning the nature of psychological change and the practice of psychotherapy, including studies of meditation and other psycho-dynamics of the student-teacher relationship." "Suler provides the most extensive treatment of correspondences between Western psychology and Eastern disciplines that I have yet seen, at the same time noting important differences and ways in which the two bodies of thought and practice can usefully complement each other."—Richard Coan, University of Arizona

Zhao, Q. A Study of Dragons, East and West. (1992)[A19] 247pp, illus. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 57.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can't find a copy, and I'll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Acclaimed as a milestone in ‘dragonology,’ this is a comprehensive survey of the symbolism of dragons, East and West.

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