Recommended Reading List

The following book list is from one I provide students for a class series I have taught in the past on The Science of Metaphysical and Oriental Philosophy.

The list is arranged not alphabetically, but in a suggested reading order.

1.        The Kybalion   by Three Initiates

2.        Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy   by Yogi Ramacharaka

3.        Advanced Lessons in Yogi Philosophy   by Yogi Ramacharaka

4.        Science Of Breath, by Yogi Ramacharaka

5.        A Brief History of Time   by Stephen W. Hawking

6.        Hands Of Light, A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field by Barbara             Ann Brennan

7.        Light Emerging: The Experience of Healing Through The Human Energy Field by               Barbara Ann Brennan

8.        The Astral Body, And Other Astral Phenomena by Arthur E. Powell

9.        The Chakras   by C. W. Leadbeater

10.      The Aura   by Geoffrey Hodson

11.      The Devachanic Plane   by C. W. Leadbeater

12.      Clairvoyance   by C. W. Leadbeater

13.      The Etheric Double   by A. E. Powell

14.      Thought Power   by Annie Besant

15.      Karma   by Annie Besant

16.      Dharma   by Annie Besant

17.      Reincarnation   by Annie Besant

18.      The Mental Body   by Arthur E. Powell

19.      The Seven Principles of Man   by Annie Besant

20.      A Study in Consciousness   by Annie Besant

21.      A Study in Karma   by Annie Besant

22.      Thought Forms   by Annie Besant

23.      Fairy Kingdom   by Geoffrey Hodson

24.      Way of the Shaman   by Michael Horner

25.      The Stanzas of Dyzan   by H. P. Blavatsky

26.      The Voice of the Silence   by H. P. Blavatsky

27.      Death and After   by Annie Besant

28.      Clairvoyant Investigations   by Geoffrey Hodson

29.      The Kingdom of the Gods   by Geoffrey Hodson

30.      The Personal Aura   by Dora van Gelder Kunz

31.      The Real World of Fairies: A First-Person Account   by Dora van Gelder Kunz

32.      Spiritual Healing   by Dora van Gelder Kunz

33.      The Chakras and the Human Energy Fields   by Dora van Gelder Kunz

34.      Invisible Helpers   by C. W. Leadbeater

35.      The Life after Death   by C. W. Leadbeater

36.      Man, Visible and Invisible   by C. W. Leadbeater

37.      The Secret Doctrine   by H. P. Blavatsky

38.      Theosophical Glossary” by H. P. Blavatsky

39.      The Monad   by C. W. Leadbeater

40.      Thought Forms   by C. W. Leadbeater

41.      The Key to Theosophy   by H. P. Blavatsky

42.      The Etheric Body of Man   by Phoebe and Laurence Bendit

43.      The Causal Body and the Ego   by Arthur E. Powell

44.      Isis Unveiled   by H. P. Blavatsky

45.       Mystic Christianity   by Yogi Ramacharaka

46.       Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery By Rupert Sheldrake

47.       The Art of War by Sun Tzu
I prefer the translation by Thomas Cleary