Inner Traditions

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) has been long noted for her political and cultural achievements that profoundly shaped twelfth-century Europe. Culturally, beyond her role as wife of kings Louis VII of France and Henry II of England and mother of kings Richard and John, she inspired the huge diffusion of the Arthurian cycle and the Celtic myths underpinning it.

The priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft and all the institutions of their civilisation. Plato, an initiate in the Egyptian mysteries, said it was the instrument by which the ancients maintained high, principled standards of civilisation and culture over thousands of years.

Shakti explains the mystery of the Divine Mother in all her manifestions, exploring more than 30 different goddess aspects of the Shakti force, both beneficial and malefic, along with Sanskrit hymns ...

This English translation of Otto Rahn's travel diaries in search of a Nordic equivalent to Mt. Sinai reveals his work as an occult investigator for the Third Reich.

This book reveals distinct numerical patterns that connect ancient philosophies, religion, the harmonic ratios of music, and modern science.

In his best-selling book, Wallace D. Wattles explains that “universal mind” underlies and permeates all creation. Through the process of visualisation we can engage the law of attraction impressing our thoughts upon “formless substance” and bringing the desired object or circumstances into material form.

Hopman reveals the secrets of the Ogham Tree Alphabet which the Druids used to work magic and honor the dead.

If a person does not learn the grammar of a language, the best dictionary in the world cannot help him truly understand that language, much less speak it. This book explores the grammar as well as the principles and structures of symbology, the science of symbols.

For nearly 400 years, incredible myths and stories have been woven around the “invisible” Brothers of the Rose Cross, the Rosicrucians. It is said that they possessed the secret of man and God, that they could turn lead into gold, that they governed Europe in secret, that theirs was the true philosophy of Freemasonry, and that they could save--or destroy--the world.

Children ages 9-12 will delight in this charmingly illustrated book that explores the ancient Celtic roots of many of our modern holidays.

Using the original Marseille Tarot, the authors present a new psychological approach, Tarology, that draws on the symbolism and optical language of the Tarot to create a powerful tool for ...

Atlantis has held a perennial place in the collective imagination of humanity from ancient Greece onward. Many of the great minds of the occult and esoteric world wrote at length on their theories of Atlantis - about its high culture, its possible location, its ultimate demise and their predictions of a return to Atlantean enlightenment or the downfall of modern society.

Shri Mahant Swami Ganeshanand Saraswati Giri (ca. 1895–1988) was known to all who loved and studied with him simply as Ganesh Baba. At the age of four, he was brought back from death through an initiation by Lahiri Mahasaya and through this initiation descends from the same Kriya Yoga lineage as Paramahansa Yogananda.

In The Sphinx Mystery, Robert Temple delves into the Sphinx of Giza, the existence of secret underground chambers and its origins as Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead.

The underground realm of Agarttha was first introduced to the Western world in 1886 by the French esoteric philosopher Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre with his book Mission de l'Inde, translated here for the first time into English. Saint-Yves's book maintained that deep below the Himalayas were enormous underground cities, which were under the rule of a sovereign pontiff known as the Brahâtma.

In The Future of the Ancient World Jeremy Naydler examines the evolution of human consciousness over the past five thousand years, revealing how we lost our ability to connect with the invisible ...

This title provides testimony about the Akashic field. Twenty cultural and scientific leaders explain their interactions with the cosmic memory field that contains past, present, and future ...

This book presents the spiritual teachings of Edward Salim Michaël and the struggles that led to his enlightenment. Due to the circumstances of his birth, Michaël had no education, no mother tongue and no formal education when he was drafted, at the age of 19, into the Royal Air Force during World War II.

How the World Is Made explains how ancient societies grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry and created flourishing societies.

In Simple Chi Kung, Taoist master Mantak Chia distills thousands of Chi Kung practices into one simple daily routine perfect for beginners and ideal as a warm-up to more advanced practices.