Recommended Reading List

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Foundation Books:

  • The Gift of Kabbalah, by Tamar Frankiel
  • Tarot, A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, by Paul Foster Case
  • Coming of the Cosmic Christ, by Matthew Fox
  • Prayers of the Cosmos, by Neil Douglas-Klotz
  • The Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas, by Tau Malachi
  • The Gnostic Bible, by Willis Barnstone
  • The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, by Jean-Yves Leloup

Source Works:

  • The Zohar, five volumes, translated by Harry Sperling and Maurice Simon
  • Sepher Yetzirah, by Aryeh Kaplan
  • Bahir, by Aryeh Kaplan
  • The Generations of Adam, by Isaiah Horowitz
  • Gates of Light, by Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla
  • The Essential Kabbalah, by Daniel C. Matt (good for those who can't afford the Zohar and other Source Works)
  • The Nag Hammadi Library
  • The Likutei Amarim Tanya, by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi

Beginning Books:

  • Book of Tokens, by Paul Foster Case
  • God & the Big Bang, by Daniel C. Matt
  • God Is A Verb, by David A. Cooper
  • The River of Light, by Lawrence Kushner
  • God was in this Place, by Lawrence Kushner
  • The Book of Letters, by Lawrence Kushner
  • Jewish Meditation, by Aryeh Kaplan
  • The Hidden Gospel, by Neil Douglas-Klotz
  • The Gnostic Gospels, by Elaine Pagels
  • Kinship With All Life, by J. Allen Boone
  • The Man Nobody Knows, by Bruce Barton
  • The Woman With the Alabaster Jar, by Margaret Starbird
  • Invoking Mary Magdalene:Accessing the Wisdom of the Divine Feminine, by Siobhan Houston

Intermediate Books:

  • Meditation and the Bible, by Aryeh Kaplan
  • Inner Space, by Aryeh Kaplan
  • True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order, by Paul Foster Case
  • The Hebrew Goddess, by Raphael Patai
  • Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom, by Caitlin Matthews
  • Sophia-Maria: A Holistic Vision of Creation, by Thomas Schipflinger
  • The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet, by Rabbi Michael L. Munk
  • No Boundary, by Ken Wilber

Advanced Books:

  • Meditation and Kabbalah, by Aryeh Kaplan
  • Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine, the Ten Mahavidyas, by David Kinsley

Reference Books:

  • Dictionary of Angels, by Gustav Davidson
  • Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia, by David Godwin

Extended Studies:

  • Christ the Yogi, by Ravi Ravindra
  • Yeshua Buddha, by Jay G. Williams
  • The Way of Passion, by Andrew Harvey
  • Light Upon Light, by Andrew Harvey
  • That Which Transpires Behind That Which Appears, by Pir Vilayat Khan
  • Living Presence, by Kabir Edmund Helminski
  • Jesus Christ, Sun of God, by David Fideler
  • The Beginnings of Christianity, by Andrew Welburn
  • Wisdom of the Kabbalah, by Alexandre Safran
  • The Practice of Kabbalah, by Steven A. Fisdel
  • Gnosis, by Kurt Rudolph
  • The Origin of Satan, by Elaine Pagels
  • The Gnostic Religion, by Hans Jonas
  • Gnosticism, by Benjamin Walker
  • Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, by Chogyam Trungpa
  • Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche
  • The Healing Power of Mind, by Tulku Thondup
  • Introduction to Tantra, by Lama Yeshe
  • Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bahkti Yoga, by Vivekananda
  • The Awakening of Intelligence, by J. Krishnamurti
  • Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses, by David Frawley
  • Sri Aurobindo on The Adventure of Consciousness, by Satprem
 
 

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