Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
By: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Egypt during the first centuries CE, men and women would meet discreetly in their homes, in temp…
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1. The Red Book: Liber Novus
By: C.G. Jung , Sonu Shamdasani , Mark Kyburz , John Peck
4.50
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called it his “confrontation with the un… read more
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"You are a slave to what you need in your soul."-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus
"La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido."-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus
"Los antiguos vivían sus signos porque el mundo aún no se les había vuelto real."-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus
"«Nada os salva de lo desordenado y lo carente de sentido, pues ésta es la otra mitad del mundo.»"-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus
2. The Necronomicon
By: Peter Levenda , Simon , Abdul Alhazred
3.20
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Simon Necronomicon is a purported grimoire written by an unknown author, with an introduction b… read more
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- esoterica
3. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
4. The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more
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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
5. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
By: Anonymous , Géza Vermes
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the gre… read more
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- history
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7. Protagoras
By: Plato , Stanley Lombardo , Karen Bell
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature o… read more
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- history
8. The Holy Bible: King James Version
By: Anonymous
4.44
Format: 1590 pages, Hardcover
Biblija ili Sveto pismo jest zbirka knjiga koje Hebreji i kršćani na svoj način smatraju svetima. D… read more
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- philosophy
- history
- spirituality
"Not my will, but thine, be done."-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
"We live by faith and not by sight."-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
"If God is for us, who can be against us?"-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
"I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine."-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
9. Phaedrus
By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more
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- history
10. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
11. The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy
By: Mircea Eliade , Stephen Corrin
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a… read more
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12. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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13. Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction
By: Hermes Trismegistus , Brian P. Copenhaver , None
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
Regarded as an ancient theology, parallel to the revealed wisdom of the Bible, Hermetic philosophy … read more
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14. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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15. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
16. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
17. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
By: Donald D. Hoffman
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more
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- philosophy
- history
"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
18. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
19. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
20. On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans and Assyrians
By: Iamblichus
4.10
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
This volume, On the Mysteries, by Iamblichus (Abamun) is a unique form or scripture out of the Anci… read more
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21. Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
By: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Egypt during the first centuries CE, men and women would meet discreetly in their homes, in temp… read more
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- history
- spirituality
- esoterica
22. The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
By: Irving Finkel
4.03
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
Ghosts - the spirits of the dead - have walked by our side since time immemorial.In The First Ghost… read more
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- history
- spirituality
"It is only the early human mid that grew to strive against the prospect of the final annihilation of the self, a hallmark rebellion that became hard-wired into, and always an essential element of, na…"-Irving Finkel, The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
23. The Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)
By: Paolo Rossi
4.10
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
A brilliant translation of this classic account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and c… read more
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- history
24. Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity
By: Peter Kingsley
4.50
Format: 844 pages, Paperback
Catafalque offers a revolutionary new reading of the great psychologist Carl Jung as mystic, gnosti… read more
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25. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire"
By: William Newman
4.67
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
A book that finally demystifies Newton's experiments in alchemy When Isaac Newton's alchemical p… read more
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26. The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities
By: Jeffrey J. Kripal
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A bold challenge to rethink the humanities as intimately connected to the superhuman and to “decolo… read more
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