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The Pansophist Bibliothek
Working Library of the Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate
The following compilation in progress is a catalogue of the sections of our library relevant to the study of Walter Benjamin.
INDEX: IX. Judaica & Kabbalah
X. Gnosticism, Christianity & Islam
1. Gnosticism & Gnostic Literature
3. Islam
XI. Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy
XII. Alchemy, Astrology & Occultism
1. Alchemy
2. Astrology
IX. Judaica & Kabbalah
1. General Reference
Encyclopaedia Judaica, [16 Vols. + 1974 Yearbook] Jerusalem, Keter Publishing House, Ltd., 1972 [First Printing].
Philo-Lexikon: Handbuch des jüdischen Wissens, Berlin & Amsterdam, Philo Verlag, Gmbh, 1937, 832 pp.
2. The Hebrew Language: Classical & Modern [& Yiddish]
Berlitz Publications, The Berlitz Self-teacher Hebrew, New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1977, 316 pp.
Harry Blumberg & Mordecai H. Lewittes, Modern Hebrew, Revised Edition, Part One: A First Year Course in Conversation, Reading & Grammar, New York, Hebrew Publishing Company, 1963, 450 pp.
Shmuel Bolozky, 501 Hebrew Verbs: Fully Conjugated in all the Tenses, New York, Barron's Educational Series, Inc.,1996, 910 pp.
Francis Brown, S.R. Driver & Charles A. Briggs,A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament [Based on the Gesenius lexicon], Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1127 pp.
William Chomsky, Hebrew: The Eternal Language, Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1982, 321 pp.
William H. Crook, The Manual Formation and Early Origin of the Hebrew Letters and Points Demonstrated and Explained. Also an Elucidation of the So-called Arrow-headed or Cuneiform Characters, London, Francis & John Rivington, 1846 [Reprint: Salem, Caledonian Free Press, 1987; #18 of 428 copies], 26 + 6 pp.
A.B. Davidson, An Introductory Hebrew Grammar [24th ed.], New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943, 236 pp.
Raymond B. Dillard, Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary Cards, Springfield, Ohio, Visual Education Association, 1981 [1000 Vocabulary Cards].
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, The Hebraic Tongue Restored, trans. Nayán Louise Redfield, New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc. [Reprint], 1978, (I): 471 pp.; (II): 346 pp.
Moshe Greenberg, Introduction to Hebrew, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965, 214 pp.
Abraham S. Halkin, 201 Hebrew Verbs: Fully Conjugated in all the Tenses, New York, Barron's Educational Series, Inc.,1970, 425 pp.
Alexander Harkavy, Students' Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary to the Old Testament, New York, Hebrew Publishing House, 1914, 786 [+ Neo-Hebrew Vocabulary, 102 pp.]
Fred Kogos, A Dictionary of Yiddish Slang & Idioms, New York, Carol Publishing Group/Citadel Press, 1991, 167 pp.
Mordecai H. Lewittes, ed., The Student Bible, New York, The Hebrew Publishing Company, 1950, 171 pp.
John Edgar McFadyen, Key to the Exercises in Davidson's Introductory Hebrew Grammar, Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 1945, 145 pp.
Menahem Mansoor, Contemporary Hebrew I, New York, Behrman House, Inc., Publishers, 1977, 304 pp.
I.A. Richards, David Weinstein, Christine Gibson, First Steps in Reading Hebrew, New York, Washington Square Press, Inc.,1962, 128 pp.
Anna C. Rockowitz, 201 Yiddish Verbs Fully Conjugated in all the Tenses, New York, Barron's Educational Series, Inc.,1979, 219 pp.
Aharon Rosen, Thousand Hebrew Words, Tel-Aviv, Achiasaf Publishing House, 1975, 248 pp.
Zevi Scharfstein, Shiloh Dictionary: Hebrew-English/English-Hebrew, New York, Shiloh Publishing House, 1957, 272 pp./268 pp.
J. Weingreen, A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1975, 316 pp.
3. TANAKH & Commentary [& Hebrew Poetry]
Sepher Torah, Nevi'im,ve-Ketuvim, New York, Hebrew Publishing Company, 1390 pp.
The Holy Scriptures: A Jewish Bible According to the Masoretic Text [Hebrew & English], Tel Aviv, Sinai Publishing,1977, 1882 pp.
- Job [The Anchor Bible], trans. Marvin H. Pope, New York, Doubleday (Anchor), 1965, 293 pp.
- Harold Bloom & David Rosenberg, The Book of J, New York, Random House (Vintage), 1990, 340 pp.
T.Carmi, trans. & ed.,The Peguin Book of Hebrew Verse, Middlesex, England & New York, Penguin Books, 1982, 608 pp.
John J. Davis, Biblical Numerology: A Basic Study of the Use of Numbers in the Bible, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1968, 174 pp.
Robert Graves & Raphael Patai, Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis, London, Arena, 1989, 336 pp.
Barry W. Holtz, ed., Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts, New York, Summit Books,1984, 448 pp.
Elisaeus Landau, Synonyma für Gott in der neu-hebräischen Litteratur, [Inaugural Dissertation], Zürich, Universität Zürich, 1888, 68 S.
Leon Nemoy, trans. w/notes, Karaite Anthology: Excerpts from the Early Literature, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1980, 412 pp.
Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan, New York, Random House, 1995, 214 pp.
Saadiah Ben Joseph al-Fayyumi, The Book of Theodicy: Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job, trans. L.E.Goodman, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1988, 481 pp.
Saadia Gaon (Sa'id 'Ibn Yusuf), The Book of Beliefs and Opinions, trans. Samuel Rosenblatt, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1948, 1976, 498 pp.
W. Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites: The Fundamental Institutions (1889), New York: Schocken Books, 1972, 507 pp.
Three Jewish Philosophers: Philo: Selections, ed. Hans Lewy (pp. 7-112); Saadya Gaon: Book of Doctrines and Beliefs, ed. Alexander Altmann (pp. 7- 191); Jehuda Halevi: Kuzari, ed. Isaak Heinemann (pp. 5-142), New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965.
4. Jewish History
Norman Bentwich, Hellenism [Moments in Judaism], Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1919, 386 pp.
Emanuel bin Gorion, hrsg. & übersetz., Geschichten aus dem Talmud, Frankfurt a.M.: Insel Verlag, 1985, 516 S.
Adolf Blumenthal, Rabbi Meïr: Leben und Wirken eines jüdischen Weisen [Inaugural Dissertation, Universität Leipzig], Berlin, Druck von H. Itzkowski, 1888, 48 S.
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933-1945, New York: Bantam Books, 1975, 610 pp.
D.M. Dunlop, The History of the Jewish Khazars, New York, Schocken Books,1967, 293 pp.
Richard Elliot Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible, New York, Summit Books, 1987, 299 pp.
Ruth Gay, The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait, intro. Peter Gay, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1992, 297 pp.
N. Goldman, G.Scholem, G.Mann, S.W. Baron, E.Gerstenmaier, K. Jaspers, Deutsche und Juden, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1967, 121 S.
Heinrich Graetz, History of the Jews [6 Vols.], Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1891.
Vol. I: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Simon the Maccabee (135 B.C.E.), 553 pp.
Vol. II: From the Reign of Hyrcanus (135 B.C.E.) to the Completion of the Babylonia Talmud (500 C.E.)., 656 pp.
Vol. III: From the Revolt Against the Zendik (511 C.E.) to the Capture of St. Jean D'Acre by the Mahometans (1291 C.E.), 675 pp.
Vol. IV: From the Rise of the Kabbala (1270 C.E.) to the Permanent Settlement of the Marranos in Holland (1618 C.E.), 743 pp.
Vol. V: From the Chmielnicki Persecution of the Jews in Poland (1648 C.E.) to the Present Time (1870 C.E.), 766 pp.
Vol. VI: Containg a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch; A Chronological Table of Jewish History; An Index to the Whole Work; Four Maps, 644 pp.
Adolf Leschnitzer, The Magic Background of Modern Anti-semitism: An Analysis of the German-Jewish Relationship, New York, International Universities Press, Inc., 1956, 236 pp.
Marvin Lowenthal, trans., The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln, intro. Robert Rosen, New York, Schocken Books,1977, 295 pp.
Jacob R. Marcus, The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book: 315 - 1791, New York: Atheneum, 1938 (1974), 504 pp.
George L. Mosse, Germans & Jews, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1970, 260 pp.
Theophile James Meek, Hebrew Origins, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960, 240 pp.
Peter G.J. Pulzer, The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria, New York & London, John Wiley & Sons, 1964, 364 pp.
Paul Lawrence Rose, German Question/Jewish Question: Revolutionary Anti-Semitism from Kant to Wagner, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1990, 397 pp.
David Rudavsky, Modern Jewish Religious Movements: A History of Emancipation and Adjustment, New York, Behrman House, Inc.,1967, 460 pp.
Abram Leon Sachar, A History of the Jews, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1964, 478 pp.
Gershom Scholem, On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays, ed. Werner J. Dannhauser, New York, Schocken Books, Inc.,1976, 306 pp.
Kurt Schwerin, "Die Juden im wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Leben Schlesiens," Jahrbuch der Schlesischen Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität zu Breslau, XXV/ 1984, S. 93 - 177.
5. Kabbalah / Jewish Mysticism & Philosophy
Primary Texts: Sefer Yetzirah (In Hebrew and English & German translation)
Irving Friedman, trans. w/ CommentaryBook of Creation: Sepher Yetzirah, New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1977, 46 pp.
Lazarus Goldschmidt, Sepher Jesirah: Das Buch der Schöpfung, Frankfurt a.M., J.Kauffmann, 1894, 92 S.
Ithamar Gruenwald, A Preliminary Critical Edition of Sefer Yezira, pp. 132 - 182.
Bill Heidrick & Ordo Templi Orientis, Sepher Yetzirah, Berkeley, California, O.T.O., 1980, 31 pp.
Hartwig Hirschfeld, Sepher Yetzirah in Judah Hallevi's Kitab al Khazari, London, George Routlege & Sons (New York, Bloch Publishing Co.), 1906, 228 - 240.
Aryeh Kaplan, trans. & commentary, Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation: In Theory and Practice, York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, Inc.,1990, 388 pp.
Isidore Kalisch, trans., preface, explanatory notes & glossary, Sepher Yetzirah: A Book on Creation or The Jewish Metaphysics of Remote Antiquity, New York, L.H.Frank & Co., Publishers and Printers, 1877[Photolithographed Edition, Especially Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, 14th ed., May 1978].
Isidore Kalisch, Sepher Yetzirah: The Book of Formation [see above entry], Gillette, New Jersey, Heptangle Books [Reprint in 12 point 'Monotype' Goudy Text & Lombardic Initials], 1986, 53 pp.
Joh. Friedrich v. Meyer, hrsg.Das Buch Jezira: die älteste kabalistische Urkunde der Hebräer, [Hebräisch und Teutsch],Leipzig, C.H. Reclam, 1830, 36 S.
Phineas Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals According to the Sefer Yetzirah (1914), New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc. [Reprint], 1975, 71 pp.
Knut Stenring, trans. & notes(1923), The Book of Formation: Sepher Yetzirah, by Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph, intro. A.E. Waite, New York, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., [Reprint]1970, 63 pp.
Carlo Suares, The Sepher Yetsira in The Qabala Trilogy [The Cipher of Genesis; The Song of Songs; The Sepher Yetsira], Boston & London, Shambhala, 1985, pp.381 - 549.
Scott J. Thompson, trans., ed. & commentary, Sepher Yetzirah: The Book of Formation, a Hebrew-English interlinear translation, w/ transliteration and gematria value of each word, San Francisco, Privately Published, 1985.
W.Wynn Westcott, Sepher Yetzirah: The Book of Formation, (1887) New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc. [Reprint], 1980, 50 pp.
Primary Texts: Sefer ha-Zohar (In English & German)
Nurho de Manhar, trans. Zohar: Bereshith - Genesis, Complete w/ 300 paragraphs of footnotes extracted from the Secret Doctrine, Exordium, and Copius Notes Assembled and Compiled by John Drais, San Diego, Wizards Bookshelf, 1980, 424 pp.
S.L. MacGregor Mathers, trans. The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage,
S.L. MacGregor Mathers, trans.The Kabbalah Unveiled (1926)[Containing the Following Books of the Zohar: The Book of Concealed Mystery/The Greater Holy Assembly/The Lesser Holy Assembly], translated into English from the Latin Version of Knorr von Rosenroth, and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew Text, London & New York, Penguin (Arkana), 1991,360 pp.
Daniel Chanan Matt, trans. & intro., Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment, New York, Paulist Press, 1983, 320 pp.
Other Primary Texts: (In Hebrew, English, French & German)
Joseph Dan, ed. & intro., The Early Kabbalah , trans. Ronald C. Kiener, preface Moshe Idel, New York, Paulist Press, 1986, 205 pp.
Salomo Ben Gabirol, Kether Malchuth (Königskrone), Wörtlich aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt, mit einer Einleitung und Anmerkungen, Xaver Richter, München, 1856, 29 S.
Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla, Sha'are Orah: Gates of Light, trans. Avi Weinstein, foreword Arthur Hertzberg, intro. Moshe Idel, San Francisco, HarperCollins, 1994, 401 pp.
Aryeh Kaplan, trans., intro. & commentary, The Bahir: An Ancient Kabbalistic Text attributed to Rabbi Nehuniah Ben haKana, New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc.,1979, 244 pp.
Christian Freiherr Knorr von Rosenroth, Kabbala Denudata I (Latin), Hildesheim/New York, Georg Olms, 1974.
David Meltzer, ed., The Secret Garden: An Anthology in the Kabbalah, New York, Seabury Press/Continuum, 1976, 233 pp.
Saadya de Fayyoum, Commentaire sur le Séfer Yesira: ou Livre de la Création, publié et traduit, Mayer Lambert, Paris, Émile Bouillon, Éditeur, 1891, 128 pp. + 105 pp. of Arabic text.
Mortin Smith, trans. The Greater Treatise Concerning the Palaces of Heaven, Unpublished Typescript.
Scott J. Thompson & Dominique Marson, trans., Saadia's Commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah (931 C.E.), San Francisco, 1985, Unpublished Typescript.
W.Wynn Westcott, ed., Aesch Mezareph or Purifying Fire: A Chymico-kabbalistic Treatise Collected from the Kabala Denudata of Knorr von Rosenroth, trans. by a Lover of Philalethes [1714], London, Neptune Press [Reprint], 60 pp.
Secondary Literature on Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism & Philosophy
Allen Afterman, Kabbalah and Consciousness, Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1992, 127 pp.
Leo Baeck, "Ssefer Jezira," Aus drei Jahrtausenden, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1958, S. 256 - 271. [English trans. Scott J. Thompson, San Francisco, 1998, Unpublished typescript].
David Bakan, Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition, Boston: Beacon Press, 1958, 1975, 326 pp.
Ernst Benz, Die Christliche Kabbala: Ein Stiefkind der Theologie, Zürich, Rhein-Verlag, 1958, 62 S.
Joseph Leon Blau, The Christian Interpretation of the Cabala in the Renaissance, Port Washington, New York, Kennikat Press, Inc., 1944, 167 pp.
Chayim Bloch, The Golem: Mystical Tales from the Ghetto of Prague, trans. Harry Schneiderman, Blauvelt, New York, Rudolf Steiner Publications,1972, 244 pp.
Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser, From the World of the Kabbalah: The Philosophy of Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague, New York, Philosophical Library, 1954, 210 pp.
Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser, The Jewish Mystical Tradition, New York, The Pilgrim Press, 1981, 277 pp.
Martin Buber, Die Geschichten des Rabbi Nachman, Frankfurt a.M., Fischer Bücherei, 1957, 179 pp.
Joseph Dan, Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History, New York & London: New York University, 1988, 334 pp.
Gustav Davidson, A Dictionary of Angels, New York, The Free Press, 1971, 386 pp.
Marcus Ehrenpreis, Die Entwickelung der Emanationslehre in der Kabbala des XIII. Jahrhunderts [Inaugural Dissertation], Frankfurt a.M., J.Kauffmann'sche Buchhandlung, 1896, 49 S.
Salomon Fried, [Inaugural Dissertation]Das Buch über die Elemente: Ein Beitrag zur jüdischen Religionsphilosophie des Mittelalters von Isaak b. Salomon Israeli nach dem aus dem Arabischen ins Hebräische übersetzten Texte von Abraham b. Samuel Halevi Ibn Chasdai aus einer Handschrift der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leyden mit Vergleichung einer andern der Kgl. Hof - und Staats-Bibliothek zu München, Leipzig, Buchdruckerei von W. Drugulin, 1884, 78 S.
Perle Epstein, Kabbalah: The Way of the Jewish Mystic, New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc.,1978, 171 pp.
Perle Epstein, The Private Labyrinth of Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano and the Cabbala, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, 241 pp.
Adolphe Franck, The Kabbalah: The Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews, Secaucus, N.J., The Citadel Press, 1979, 224 pp.
Ithamar Gruenwald, Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism, Leiden/Köln, E.J.Brill, 1980, 251 pp.
Ithamar Gruenwald, From Apocalypticism to Gnosticism, Frankfurt a.M., Verlag Peter Lang, 1988, 294 pp.
Moshe Idel, Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid, Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1990, 323 pp.
Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: New Perspectives, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1988, 419 pp.
Moshe Idel, The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia, trans. Martel Gavarin, Naftali Greenwood, Jonathan Chipman, Menahem Kalush, Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1988, 178 pp.
Moshe Idel, "'Schwarzes Feuer auf weißem Feuer': Text und Lektüre in der jüdischen Tradition," Texte und Lektüre, hrsg. Aleida Assmann, Frankfurt a.M., Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1996, S. 29 - 46.
Moshe Idel, Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah, trans. Jonathan Chipman, Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1988, 246 pp.
Aryeh Kaplan, Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide, New York, Schocken Books, 1985, 165 pp.
Aryeh Kaplan, Meditation and Kabbalah, York Beach, Samuel Weiser, Inc.,1982, 355 pp.
Andreas B. Kilcher, "Kabbala in der Maske der Philosophie: Zu einer Interpretationsfigur in der Spinoza-Literatur, Spinoza in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte, hrsg. Hanna Delf, Julius H. Schoeps, Manfred Walther, Berlin, Edition Hentrich, 1994, S. 193 - 242.
Martina Kirfel, "Gott im Exil--Gershom Scholem zeichnet das Leben des "falschen Messias" Sabbatai Zwi nach: eine Erforschung der Gegengeschichte" [TAZ Nr. 3767 Seite 13 vom 28.07.1992]
Lawrence Kushner, The Book of Letters: A Mystical Alef-bait, New York & San Francisco, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975, 64 pp.
Harris Lenowitz, trans., Sayings of Yakov Frank, Berkeley & Oakland, Tree Books & Tzaddikim Books, 1978, 36 pp.
Henry Malter, Saadia Gaon: His Life and Works [Excerpts], Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1921.
Arthur Mandel, The Militant Messiah or The Flight from the Ghetto: The Story of Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, Humanities Press, 1979, 185 pp.
George Margoliouth, "The Doctrine of the Ether in the Kabbalah," The Jewish Quarterly Review, pp.825 - 861.
David Meltzer, ed. Tree 2: Yetzirah, Summer 1971, Santa Barbara, California, Christopher Books, 169 pp.
David Meltzer, ed. Tree 3: Shekhinah, Winter 1972, Santa Barbara, California, Christopher Books, 1977 pp.
David Meltzer, ed. Tree 4:Ra, Winter 1974, Santa Barbara, California, Christopher Books, 204 pp.
David Meltzer, ed. Tree 5: Nahash, Summer 1975, Berkeley, California, Tree Books,219 pp.
Franz Molitor, Philosophie der Geschichte oder über die Tradition (Vol. I), Frankfurt a.M., Verlag der Hermannschen Buchhandlung, 1827, 455 S.
Isaac Myer, Qabbalah: The Philosophical Writings of Solomon Ben Yehudah Ibn Gebirol or Avicebron And their connection with the Hebrew Qabbalah and Sepher ha-Zohar, with remarks upon the antiquity and content of the latter, and translations of selected passages from the same. Also An Ancient Lodge of Initiates, trans. from the Zohar, San Diego, Wizards Bookshelf [Secret Doctrine Reference Series], 1988, 500 pp.
Cynthia Ozick, "The Heretic: The Mythic Passions of Gershom Scholem" in The New Yorker, September 2, 2002, pp. 143-148.
Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, New York, Avon Books, 1978, 342 pp.
Charles Poncé, Kabbalah: An Introduction and Illumination for the World Today, San Francisco, Straight Arrow Books, 1973, 297 pp.
Johann Reuchlin, On the Art of the Kabbalah (De Arte Cabalistica), trans. Martin & Sarah Goodman, intro. G. Lloyd Jones, New York, Abaris Books, 1983, 378 pp.
Franz Rosenzweig, The Star of Redemption, trans. William W. Hallo, New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart, Winston: 1970, 1971, 445 pp.
David B. Ruderman, ed., Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy, New York & London, New York University Press, 1992, 598 pp.
Peter Schäfer, The Hidden and Manifest God: Some Major Themes in Early Jewish Mysticism, trans. Aubrey Pomerance, Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1992, 198 pp.
Leo Schaya, The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah, trans. Nancy Pearson, Secaucus, N.J., University Books, Inc., 1971, 180 pp.
Solomon Schechter, Studies in Judaism: Essays on Persons, Concepts, and Movements of Thought in Jewish Tradition, New York, Meridian Books, Inc. & Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1958, 372 pp.
Gershom Scholem, "Ein Frankist: Moses Dobruschka und seine Metamorphosen," Max Brod: Ein Gedenkbuch 1884 - 1968, hrsg. Hugo Gold, Tel Aviv, Israel, Olamenu, 1969.
Gerschom Scholem,From Berlin to Jerusalem, Memories of MyYouth, trans. Harry Zohn, New York, Schocken Books,1980, 178 pp.
Gershom Scholem, Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism and Talmudic Tradition, New York, 1960.
Gerschom Scholem, Judaica 3: Studien zur jüdischen Mystik, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1981, 272 S.
Gerschom Scholem, Kabbalah, Jerusalem & New York, Keter Publishing House & Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1974, 492 S.
Gerschom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, New York, Schocken Books, 1941, 1971, 460 pp.
Gerschom Scholem, The Messianic Idea in Judaism: And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality, trans. Michael A. Meyer & Hillel Halkin, New York, Schocken Books, 1971, 376 pp.
Gershom Scholem, "The Name of God and the Linguistic Theory of the Kabbala,"
Gerschom Scholem, On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism, trans. Ralph Manheim, New York, Schocken Books, 1970, 216 pp.
Gerschom Scholem,Origins of the Kabbalah, ed. R.J. Werblowsky, trans. Allan Arkush, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press & The Jewish Publication Society, 1987, 487 pp.
Gerschom Scholem,Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah 1626 - 1676, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press [Bollingen Series XCIII], 1973, 1000 pp.
Gershom Scholem, "Shekhinah: The Passive-Feminine Moment of the Godhead," & "Zelem: The Representation of the Astral Body," trans. Scott J. Thompson, San Francisco, 1985 [Unpublished].
Gerschom Scholem,Über einige Grundbegriffe des Judentums, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970, 170 pp.
Gerschom Scholem,Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1962, 434 S.
Gerschom Scholem,Von der mystischen Gestalt der Gottheit, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1977, 324 S.
T. Schrire, Hebrew Magical Amulets: Their Decipherment and Interpretation, New York, Behrman House Inc., Publishers, 1982, 180 pp.
Christoph Schulte, "Kabbala in der deutschen Romantik. Zur Einleitung," Kabbala + Romantik, hrsg. Goodman-Thau, Mattenklott, Schulte, Tübingen, 1994, S.1 - 19.
Moïse Schwab, Vocabulaire de l'Angélologie, Paris, Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1897, 430 pp.
Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa, "Aher: A Gnostic," The Rediscovery of Gnosticism, ed. Layton Bentley, Vol. II, Sethian Gnosticism, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1981, pp. 808 - 818.
Manfred Voigts, "Jüdischer und Universalistischer Messianismus,"Politische Religion/ religiöse Politik, hrsg.Richard Faber, K & N.
A.E. Waite, The Holy Kabbalah, intro. Kenneth Rexroth, New York, Carol Publishing Group (Citadel Press), 1990, 636 pp.
Herbert Weiner, 91/2 Mystics: The Kabbalah Today, New York, Collier Books, 1969, 342 pp.
R.J.Zwi Werblowsky, Magie, Mystik, Messianismus, hrsg. Gary Smith in Zusammenarbeit mit Hermann Simon & Andreas Nachama, Hildesheim, Zürich, New York, Georg Olms Verlag, 1997, S. 13 - 19 & 127 - 162.
Zvi Chaim Zalb, Gimatria and Notricon [in Hebrew], Jerusalem, 1955, 129 pp.
X.Gnosticism,Christianity & Islam
1. Gnosticism & Gnostic Literature
Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions, issues: #3, 4, 6, 8, 9,10,12, 13, 14, 15, 16,30.
Willis Barnstone,ed. The Other Bible: Ancient Esoteric Texts from the Pseudepigrapha, The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Early Kabbalah, the Nag Hammadi Library and other sources, San Francisco, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984, 742 pp.
Henry Corbin, "Divine Epiphany and Spiritual Birth in Ismailian Gnosis" (1954) in Joseph Campbell, ed., Man and Transformation: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks (Bollingen Series XXX, Vol. 5), trans. Ralph Manheim, Princeton University Press, 1964/ 1980, pp. 69 - 160.
Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic manuscripts discovered at Chenoboskion, Rochester, Vermont, Inner Traditions International, Ltd.,1986, 445 pp.
Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1986, 244 pp.
Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity, Boston, Beacon Press, 1963, 358 pp.
Hans Joachim Klimkeit, Gnosis on the Silk Road: Gnostic Parables, Hymns & Prayers from Central Asia, San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1993, 405 pp.
Hans Küng, Does God Exist?, trans. Edward Quinn, New York: Vintage Books, 1981, 839 pp.
Jacques Lacarriere, The Gnostics, foreword, Lawrence Durrell, trans. Nina Rootes, San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1989, 136 pp.
G.R.S.Mead, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnostics - A Contribution to the Study of the Origins of Christianity, intro. Kenneth Rexroth, New Hyde Park, New York, University Books,1960, 633 pp.
G.R.S.Mead, Simon Magus: An Essay on the Founder of Simonianism Based on the Ancient Sources with a Reevaluation of His Philosophy and Teachings (London, 1892), Chicago, Ares Publishers, Inc. [Reprint], 1985, 91 pp.
G.R.S.Mead, Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis, Vol. III: Excerpts and Fragments, London, John M. Watkins, 1964, 231 pp.
Hans Christian Meiser, hrsg., Gnosis: Texte des geheimen Christentums, München, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1994, 285 S.
Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan, New York, Random House, 1995, 214 pp.
James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library, San Francisco, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981, 493 pp.
Kurt Rudolph, Gnosis: The Nature & History of Gnosticism, trans. Robert McLachlan Wilson, San Francisco, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987, 411 pp.
Walter Scott, trans., Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, Vol. I: Introduction, Texts, & Translation, Boston, Shambhala, 1985, 549 pp.
2. Bible & Christianity
The Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha [Revised Standard Version], ed. Herbert G. May & Bruce M. Metzger, New York, Oxford University Press, 1965.
The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, trans. New World Bible Translation Committe, New York,Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., 1969.
Evangelische Deutsche Original=Bibel: Das ist die ganze heilige Schrift, Altes und Neues Testaments, dergestalt eingerichtet, daß der hebräische oder griechische Grundtext und die deutsche Uebersetzung D.Martin Luthers, neben einander erscheinen, die Blätter aber mit den Seiten der so gemein gewordenen Cansteinichen Bibel übereintreffen...,nebst einer Vorrede Johann Ruthmanns, Züllichau, in Verlegung des Waysenhauses, bey Gottlob Benjamin Frommann, 1740/1741, [2 Vols. in fragile condition, purchased from a lovely and mysterious Jewish doctor on his way to live in Morroco. His brother had known Scholem. He spoke a perfect German Hochdeutsch and corrected my pronunciation of 'Hölderlin.' He had been looking for just the right person to keep this two-volume German/Hebrew/Greek bible, and sold it for little more than a prayer].
Revelation A New Translation w/intro. & commentary, J. Massyngberde Ford, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975, 456 pp.
The Lost Books of the Bible [Being all the Gospels, Epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His Apostles and Their Companions, intro. Dr. Frank Crane,1926, 293 pp.],, & The Forgotten Books of Eden, ed. Rutherford H. Platt, Jr.,intro. William N. Guthrie, 1927, 269 pp., [Reprint: New York, New American Library, 1974].
John M. Allegro, The End of a Road, New York, The Dial Press, 1971, 184 pp.
John Allegro, Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed, New York, Gramercy Publishing Company, 1956, 1981, 211 pp.
John M. Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: Fertility Cults and the Origins of Judaism and Christianity, Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970, 349 pp.
C.K. Barrett, The New Testament Background, New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1961, 276 pp.
James H. Charlesworth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Apocalyptic Literature & Testaments, Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983, 995 pp.
W.D.Davies, Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology, New York, Harper & Row, Publishers,1948, 392 pp.
C.H. Dodd, The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1970, 478 pp.
E.R. Dodds, Pagan & Christian in an Age of Anxiety, New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1970, 144 pp.
David Fideler, Jesus Christ: Sun of God: Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism, Wheaton, Illinois, Theosophical Publishing House (Quest Books), 430 pp.
Karl Kautsky, Foundations of Christianity, trans. Henry F. Mins, New York: S.A. Russell, 1953, 401 pp.
William Kingsland, The Gnosis or Ancient Wisdom in the Christian Scriptures, Wheaton, Illinois, The Theosophical Publishing House, 1970, 230 pp.
Rudolf Otto, Das Heilige: Über das Irrationale in der Idee des Göttlichen und sein Verhältnis zum Rationalen, München, Verlag C.H. Beck, 1963 227 S.
Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan, New York, Random House, 1995, 214 pp.
Morton Smith, Jesus the Magician, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1978/1993, 222 pp.
F.R. Tennant, The Sources of the Doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin, intro. Mary Frances Thelen, New York, Schocken Books,1968, 363 pp.
3. Islam, Arab History & Culture
The Qur'an, trans. M.H.Shakir, Elmhurst, New York, Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., 1993.
The Koran, trans. N.J. Dawood, London: Penguin Press, 1997, 456 pp.
Peter F. Abboud, Najim A. Bezirgan, Wallace M. Erwin, Mounah A. Khouri, Ernest N. McCarus, Raji M. Rammuny, Elementary Modern Standard Arabic (Part I), Ann Arbor, Michigan: Inter-University Committee for Near Eastern Languages, 1968, 281pp.
Farid Ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds, trans. & intro. Afkham Darbandi & Dick Davis, London: Penguin Books, 1984, 234 pp.
Frederick W. Axelgard, A New Iraq? The Gulf War and Implications for U.S. Policy, New York: Praeger, 1988, 122 pp.
Shaul Bakhash, The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution, New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, (Revised ed.) 1990, 324 pp.
Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel & The Palestinians, Boston: South End Press, 1983, 481 pp.
Henry Corbin, Avicenna and the Visionary Recital, trans. Willard R. Trask, Irving Texas, Spring Publications,1980, 420 pp.
Henry Corbin, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, Boulder & London, Shambhala, 1978, 174 pp.
Charles M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, intro. T.E. Lawrence (Vol. I) [1888, 1936], New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1979, 674 pp.
John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, 247 pp.
Majid Fakhry, A History of Islamic Philosophy (2nd ed.), New York: Columbia University Press, 1970, 1983, 394 pp.
Robert O. Freedman, ed. The Middle East after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993, 374 pp.
John Bagot Glubb, The Course of Empire: The Arabs and their Successors, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965, 424 pp.
Michael Griffin, Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan, London & Sterling, Virginian: Pluto Press, 2001, 283 pp.
Gustave E. von Grunebaum, Medieval Islam, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1969, 378 pp.
Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1977, 604 pp.
Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples, Cambridge, Mass.: Bellknap Press (Harvard), 1991, 551 pp.
G.H. Jansen, Militant Islam, New York: Harper & Row, 1979, 224 pp.
Friedrich Kayser u. E.M. Roloff, Ägypten einst und jetzt. (3. Aufl.), Freiburg im Breisgau: Herdersche Verlagshandlung, 1908, 335 S.
Fred J. Khouri, The Arab - Israeli Dilemma, (Third Edition), Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1985, 605 pp.
T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935, 672 pp.
Peter Mansfield, The Arabs, London: Penguin Books, 1990, 527 pp.
Judith Miller, God Has Ninety-nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East, New York: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 1996, 574 pp.
A.T. Olmstead, History of the Persian Empire, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1948, 568 pp.
Adam Parfrey, ed. Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism, Los Angeles: Feral House Press, 2001, 317 pp.
Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2000, 274 pp.
Y. Volkov, K. Gevorkyan, I. Mikhailenko, A. Polonsky & V. Svetozarov, The Truth About Afghanistan: Documents, Facts, Eyewitness Reports, Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1980, 158 pp.
William T. Vollmann, An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992, 268 pp.
Richard Walzer, "Platonismus in der Islamischen Philosophie (Arabische Übersetzungen aus dem Griechischen)," Platonismus in der Philosophie des Mittelalters, hrsg. Werner Beierwaltes, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1969, S. 440 - 461.
Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam, San Francisco, City Lights Books,1993, 167 pp.
R.C. Zaehner, The City Within the Heart, London, Unwin Paperbacks,1980, 153 pp.
XI. Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy
1. Medieval Philosophy
Augustine, City of God, trans. Henry Bettenson, Middlesex, England & New York, Penguin Books, 1977, 1097 pp.
St. Augustine, The City of God (2 Vols.), trans. Marcus Dods, D.D., New York, Hafner Publishing Company, 1948, (Vol. I: 557 pp./Vol. II: 573 pp.).
Augustine, Confessions, R.S.Pine-Coffin, Middlesex, England & New York, Penguin Books, 1961, 347 pp.
Thomas Aquinas, Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Vol. II, ed. , annotated w/intro., Anton C. Pegis, New York, Random House, 1945, 1179 pp.
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. V.E. Watts, London & New York, Penguin Books, 1969, 188 pp.
Eugene R. Fairweather, trans. & ed., A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham, Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1956, 457 pp.
Charles Homer Haskins, The Renaissance of the 12th Century, Cleveland & New York, World Publishing Company (Meridian Books), 1965, 437 pp.
David Knowles, The Evolution of Medieval Thought, New York, Random House (Vintage), 1962, 356 pp.
Richard McKeon, ed. & trans., Selections from Medieval Philosophers, [Vol. I: Augustine to Albert the Great, 375 pp./Vol. II: From Roger Bacon to William of Ockham, 515 pp.], New York, Chicago & Boston, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.
2. Renaissance Philosophy
Renaissance Society of America, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1, Spring 1975.
Renaissance Society of America, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. XXX, No. 2, Summer 1977.
Renaissance Society of America, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. XXX, No. 3, Autumn 1977
Renaissance Society of America, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. XXX, No. 4, Winter 1977.
Renaissance Society of America, Studies in the Renaissance, Vols. VI & VIII.
Werner Bierwaltes, "Neuplatonisches Denken als Substanz der Renaissance," in Magia Naturalis und die Entstehung der modernen Naturwissenschaften, Symposion der Leibniz-Gesellschaft, Hannover, 14. & 15. November 1975, Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, Gmbh, 1978, S.1 - 16.
Ernst Cassirer, Paul Oskar Kristeller, John Herman Randall, Jr., ed., The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1948, 405 pp.
Arturo B. Fallico & Herman Shapiro, ed., trans. & intro., Renaissance Philosophy. The Italian Philosophers: Selected Readings from Petrarch to Bruno, New York, Modern Library, 1967, 425 pp.
Herman Shapiro & Arturo B. Fallico, eds., Renaissance Philosophy, Vol. 2: The Transalpine Thinkers, New York: The Modern Library, 1969, 387 pp.
Marcilio Ficino, Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love, trans. Sears Jayne, Dallas, TX, Spring Publications, Inc., 1985, 213 pp.
S.K.Heninger, Jr., Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics, San Marino, California, The Huntington Library, 1974, 446 pp.
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Renaissance Thought II: Papers on Humanism and the Arts, New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965, 234 pp.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. Robert M. Adams, [Norton Critical Edition], New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1977, 283 pp.
Ramon G. Mendoza, The Acentric Labyrinth: Giordano Bruno's Prelude to Contemporary Cosmology, Rockport, Massachusetts: Element, 1995, 292 pp.
Paul-Henri Michel, The Cosmology of Giordano Bruno, trans. R.E.W. Maddison, [Paris, Hermann & London: Methuen]Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1973, 306 pp.
Pico Della Mirandola, On the Dignity of Man/ On Being and the One/ Heptaplus, trans. Charles Glenn Wallis, Paul J.W. Miller, Douglas Carmichael, Indianapolis, Indiana, Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing (Library of Liberal Arts), 1965, 174 pp.
Jean Seznec, The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art, trans. Barbara F. Sessions, New York, Harper & Row/Bollingen, 1953, 376 pp.
Jonathan D. Spence, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, New York, Penguin Books, 1985, 350 pp.
Frances A. Yates, The Art of Memory, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1966, 400 pp.
Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Chicago, University of Chicago Press (Midway Reprint), 1979, 466 pp.
XII. Alchemy,Astrology& Occultism
1. Alchemy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Die Magischen Werke, Wiesbaden: Fourier Verlag, 1982, 616 S.
Mary Anne Atwood, A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery with a Dissertation on the More Celebrated of the Alchemical Philosophers, (Belfast, 1918) [Reprint: Yogi Pubication Society], 597 pp.
Noel L. Brann, "Alchemy and Melancholy in Medieval and Renaissance Thought: A Query into the Mystical Basis of Their Relationship," Ambix, Vol. 32, Part 3, November 1985, pp.127 -147.
Titus Burckhardt, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos/Science of the Soul, trans. William Stoddart, Longmead, Shaftesbury, Dorset, Element Books, 1987, 206 pp.
Paulette Duval, La Pensée Alchimique et le Conte du Graal: Recherches sur les structures de la pensée alchimique, leurs correspondances dan le Conte du Graal de Chrétien de Troyes et l'influence de l'Espangne mozarabe de L'Ebre sur la pensée symbolique de l'oeuvre, Paris, Libraire Honoré Champion, 1979, 386 pp.
Mircea Eliade, The Forge and the Crucible: the Origins and Structure of Alchemy, trans. Stephen Corrin, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1978, 238 pp.
Regula Fankhauser, ",Chymische Hochzeit' - ein alter alchemistischer Traum," Die Philosophin: Forum für feministische Theorie und Philosophie, No. 9, April 1994, S.73 - 89.
Ronald D. Gray, Goethe the Alchemist: A Study of Alchemical Symbolism in Goethe's Literary and Scientific Works, Cambridge, Cambridge Unversity Press, 1952, 312 pp.
E.J. Holmyard,"Alchemical Equipment," A History of Technology: Vol. II: The Mediterannean Civilizations and the Middle Ages, ed. Charles Singer, E.J.Holmyard, A.R.Hall, Trevor I. Williams, New York & London, Oxford University Press, 1956, pp. 731 - 752.
E.J. Holmyard, Alchemy, New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1990, 288 pp.
Christian Freiherr Knorr von Rosenroth, [Johannis Baptiste von Helmont]Aufgang der Artzney-Kunst, München, Kösel-Verlag, 1971. [Excerpts]
Jack Lindsay, The Origins of Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt, London, Frederick Muller, 1970, 452 pp.
S. Mahdihassan, "Early Terms for Elixir Hitherto Unrecognized in Greek Alchemy," Ambix, Vol. 23, Part 3, November 1976, pp. 129 - 133.
William Newman, "Thomas Vaughan as an Interpreter of Agrippa von Nettesheim," Ambix, Vol. 29, Part 3, November 1982, pp. 125 - 140.
Paracelsus, The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus [2 vols.], ed. Arthur Edward Waite, Berkeley, Shambhala, 1976 [Vol. I: Hermetic Chemistry, 394 pp./Vol. II: Hermetic Medicine and Hermetic Philosophy, 396 pp.
Raphael Patai, "Raymund de Tarrega - Marrano, Heretic, Alchemist," Ambix, Vol. 35, Part 1, March 1988, 14 - 30.
Arthur E. Waite, Alchemists through the Ages, Blauvelt, New York, Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1970, 318 pp.
W.Wynn Westcott, ed., Aesch Mezareph or Purifying Fire: A Chymico-kabbalistic Treatise Collected from the Kabala Denudata of Knorr von Rosenroth, trans. by a Lover of Philalethes [1714], London, Neptune Press [Reprint], 60 pp.
C. Anne Wilson, "Jabirian Numbers, Pythagorean Numbers and Plato's Timaeus, " Ambix, Vol. 35, Part I, March 1988, pp. 1 - 13.
2. Astrology
Theodor W. Adorno, The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture, London, Routledge, 1994, pp. 176.
Walter Benjamin, "Zur Astrologie," GS: VI: 192 - 193.
Franz Cumont, Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans (1912), New York, Dover Publications, Inc.,1960, 115 pp.
Wilhelm Deinert, Ritter und Kosmos im Parzival: Eine Untersuchung der Sternkunde Wolframs von Eschenbach, München, C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1960, 175 pp.
Rabbi Joel C. Dobin, The Astrological Secrets of the Hebrew Sages, New York, Inner Traditions International, Ltd., 1977, 255 pp.
Fred Gettings, The Secret Zodiac: The Hidden Art of Mediaeval Astrology, London & New York, Penguin Books (Arkana), 194 pp.
Henry and Renée Kahane, The Krater and the Grail: Hermetic Sources of the Parzival, Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 1965, 216 pp. + plates.
Lynn Thorndike, "Some Twelfth Century Translators, Chiefly of Astrology from the Arabic in Spain," [Chapter XXXVIII], A History of Magic and Experimental Science During the First Thirteen Centuries of our Era, Vol. II, New York, Columbia University Press, 1923, pp. 66 - 93.
3. Occult Arts & Magick
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Die Magischen Werke, Wiesbaden: Fourier Verlag, 1982, 616 S.
Harold Bayley, The Lost Language of Symbolism , Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1988, 375 pp.
Harold Bayley, The Lost Language of Symbolism, Vol.II, New York, Barnes & Noble, Inc.,1952, 388 pp.
Lawrence Blair, Rhythms of Vision: The Changing Patterns of Belief, foreword, Lyall Watson, New York, Schocken Books, 1976, 234 pp.
E.A.Wallis Budge, Amulets and Supersitions (1930), New York, Dover Publications, Inc.,1978, 543 pp.
E.M. Butler, Ritual Magic (1949), Hollywood, California, Newcastle Publishing Company, Inc. [Reprint], 1971, 329 pp.
Paul Foster Case, The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, Richmond, Virginia, Macoy Publishing Company, 1975, 214 pp.
N.H. Clulee, "John Dee's Mathematics and the Grading of Compound Qualities," Ambix, Vol. 18, No. 3, November 1971, pp. 178 -
Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth : Egptian Tarot, York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1988, 287 pp.
John Dee, Monas Hieroglyphica (1564) [Latin-English text], Preface, Diane di Prima, New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1975, 221 pp.
John Dee, The Private Diary of John Dee & Catalogue of His Library of Manuscripts, ed. James Orchard Halliwell, London, Printed for the Camden Society by John Bowyer Nichols & Son, 1842, 102 pp.
Alfred Douglas, The Tarot: The Origins, Meaning and Uses of the Cards, Middlesex, England & Baltimore Maryland, Penguin Books,1974, 249 pp.
Marie-Louise von Franz, Number and Time: Reflections Leading Towards a Unification of Depth Psychology and Physics, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1974, 332 pp.
Peter French, John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus, London & New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul (Ark Paperbacks), 1987, 243 pp.
Eliphas Levi, The History of Magic, London, Rider & Company, 1969, 384 pp.
Eliphas Levi, The Key of the Mysteries, trans. w/ intro. Aleister Crowley, New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc.,1971, 215 pp.
T.M. Luhrmann, "An Interpretation of the Fama Fraternitatis With Respect to Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica, " Ambix, Vol. 33, Part 1, March 1986, pp. 1 - 10.
S.L.MacGregor Mathers, trans.,The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage [1900], New York, Dover Publications, Inc.,1975, 268 pp.
Ralph Metzner, Maps of Consciousness, New York, Collier Books, 1971, 161 pp.
Hellmut Ritter & Martin Plessner, trans., "Picatrix" Das Ziel des Weisen von Pseudo-Magriti, London, The Warburg Institute/University of London, 1962, 435 pp.
R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, A Study of Numbers: A Guide to the Constant Creation of the Universe, Rochester, Vermont, Inner Tradtions International, Ltd.,1986, 74 pp.
Joshua Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition, New York, Atheneum (A Temple Book), 1984, 356 pp.
Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.Games Systems, Inc.,1994, 340 pp.
Michael T. Walton, "John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica: Geometrical Cabala," Ambix, Vol. 23, Part 2, July 1976, 116 - 123 pp.
W.Wynn Westcott, The Chaldaean Oracles Attributed to Zoroaster, ed.& revised by Sapere Aude, Bothell, Washington, Sure Fire Press [Reprint], 1984, 54 pp.
W.Wynn Westcott, The Occult Power of Numbers, North Hollywood, California, Newcastle Publishing, Co., Inc.,1984, 127 pp.
Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, 1983, 217 pp.
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