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Collection: The Peter Philp Library of Western
Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions

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The Stranger From Paradise: A Biography of William Blake

"William Blake's wife once said of him: "I have very little of Mr. Blake's company; he is always in Paradise". This illustrated biography of the great English artist, poet and mystic brings us very much into Blake's company, presenting, often in the…

Tags: Biography, William Blake

Pistis Sophia: a Gnostic Miscellany: being for the most part extracts from the books of the Saviour, to which are added excerpts from a cognate literature;

Tags: Christianity, G.R.S. Mead, Gnosticism, Theosophy

Did Jesus Live 100 B.C.? : An enquiry into the Talmud Jesus stories, the Toldoth Jeschu, and some curious statements of Epiphanius--being a contribution to the study of Christian origins.

Tags: Christianity, G.R.S. Mead, Gnosticism

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Short Sketches Among the Gnostics Mainly of the First Century: a Contribution to the Study of Christian Origins Based on the Most Recently Recovered Materials

Tags: Christianity, Gnosticism, Theosophy

Thrice Great Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis ; being a translation of the extant sermons and fragments of the Trismegistic literature, with prolegomena, commentaries, and notes

Tags: Hermetica, Theosophy

The Ascending Cycle

Tags: A.E., George W. Russell, Irish literature, Poetry, Theosophy

Julian The Apostate

Tags: History, Neoplatonism, Pagan, Rome

Islam and the Destiny of Man

Tags: Islam

Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth

With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada,…

Tags: Cultural anthropology, Ethics, Perennial wisdom, Reincarnation