Religious, Esoteric & Occult Classics
Parchment Books enshrines the concept of the oneness of all true religious traditions - that "the light shines from many different lanterns". Our list below offers titles from both eastern and western spiritual traditions, including Christian, Judaic, Islamic, Daoist, Hindu and Buddhist mystical texts, as well as books on alchemy, hermeticism, paganism, etc..
By bringing together such spiritual texts, we hope to make esoteric and occult knowledge more readily available to those ready to receive it. We do not publish grimoires or any titles pertaining to the left hand path.
Parchment Books titles list
| Abandonment to Divine Providence | Jean Pierre de Caussade | Details... |
| An Outline of Occult Science | Rudolf Steiner | Details… |
| Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored: revised 2nd. ed. with foreword by Sir Dudley Borron Myers | Archibald Cockren | Details... |
| A (aka "My") Confession: Leo Tolstoy and the meaning of Life | Leo Tolstoy | Details... |
| A Dweller on Two Planets (Revised 2nd, ed.) | Frederick S. Oliver & Phylos the Thibetan | Details… |
| A Short History of England | G. K. Chesterton | Details... |
| A Textbook of Theosophy | C. W. Leadbetter | Details... |
| Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross | A. E. Waite | Details... |
| Brother of the Third Degree (Hardback): An Occult Tale of Esoteric Initiation in the Western Mystery Tradition | Will L. Garver | Details… |
| Bushido, The Soul of Japan: with 13 full-page colour illustrations from the time of the Samurai | Nitobe Inazo | Details... |
| Christianity As Mystical Fact and The Mysteries of Antiquity | Rudolf Steiner | Details... |
| Chuang Tzu: Daoist Teachings: Zhuangzi's Wisdom of the Dao | Tzu Chuang | Details... |
| Code of the Illuminati | Abbé Augustin Barruel | Details… |
| Daemonologie - with original illustrations | King James I of England | Details… |
| Demian | Friedrich Nietzsche | Details... |
| De Anima | Aristotle | Details... |
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De Rerum Natura - On the Nature of Things
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Lucretius Carus Titus Translated by William Ellery Leonard | Details… |
| Esoteric Buddhism - 1885 Annotated Edition | Alfred Percy Sinnet | Details… |
| Esoteric Christianity - or, the lesser mysteries | Annie Besant | Details… |
| Eugenics and Other Evils | G. K. Chesterton | Details… |
| Freedom of the Will | Jonathan Edwards | Details... |
| Freemasonry: A Progressive Science | Hudson, Raymond W. | Details... |
| Freemasonry – Whence Did It Arise? | Hudson, Raymond W. | Details... |
| From Ritual to Romance: The True Source of the Holy Grail | Jesse Laidlay Weston | Details… |
| God-Man: The Word Made Flesh | George W. Carey & Inez Eudora Perry | Details… |
| Heaven and Hell | Emanuel Swedenborg | Details... |
| Here Be Dragons | John Nigel Cross | Details... |
| Heretics | G. K. Chesterton | Details… |
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Hesiod: Theogeny and Works and Days |
Hesiod | Details... |
| Jesus the Son of Man: His words and His deeds as told and recorded by those who knew him | Khalil Gibran | Details... |
| Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment | Rudolf Steiner | Details… |
| Kundalini: an occult experience | G.S. Arundale | Details... |
| Man, His True Nature and Ministry | Louis Claude de Saint-Martin | Details… |
| Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry | Pike, Albert | Details... |
| Moses and Monotheism | Sigmund Freud | Details… |
| Magic and Mystery in Tibet | David-Neel, Alexandra | Details... |
| Mysticism: unabridged, with original annotated bibliography | Evelyn Underhill | Details... |
| Nightmare Tales | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | Details… |
| On A Happy Life | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus | Details... |
| On Loving God | St. Bernard of Clairvaux | Details… |
| Orthodoxy | G. K. Chesterton | Details… |
| Pagan and Christian Creeds: their origin and meaning | Edward Carpenter | Details… |
| Pistis Sophia: a gnostic scripture | Anonymous Translated by G. R. S. Mead | Details… |
| Practical Mysticism - A Little Book for Normal People | Evelyn Underhill | Details… |
| Proofs of a Conspiracy - against all the religions and governments of Europe: carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies | John Arthur Robison | Details… |
| Q.B.L. Or, the Bride's Reception | Frater Achad | Details... |
| Raja Yoga - A Series of Lessons: Philosophy, Meditation and Spiritual Enlightenment | Yogi Ramacharaka | Details… |
| Religio Medici: The Religion of a Physician; with introduction and notes by J. W. Willis Bund | Thomas Browne | Details... |
| Revelations of Divine Love | Julian of Norwich | Details… |
| Rosicrucian Dawn | A. E. Waite | Details... |
| Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, a Biography of the Christian Divine | G.K. Chesterton | Details... |
| Shambhala the Resplendent | Nicholas Roerich | Details... |
| Siddhartha: An Indian Tale | Herman Hesse | Details... |
| Signatura Rerum | Jacob Boehme | Details… |
| Songs of Innocence & Experience; plus The Marriage of Heaven & Hell. With 50 original colour illustrations | William Blake | Details... |
| Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy | Robert Hewitt Brown | Details... |
| So You Think You Know About Chapter? | Ray Hudson | Details... |
| So You Think You Know About Freemasonry? | Ray Hudson | Details... |
| Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing): Lao Tzu's book of the Way | Lao Tzu | Details… |
| Tertium organum: a key to the enigmas of the world | P.D. Ouspensky | Details... |
| The Alchemy of Happiness | Abu Hamed Al Ghazali | Details… |
| The Analects of Confucius | Anonymous | Details... |
| The Ancient Wisdom | Annie Besant | Details… |
| The Astral Plane- its scenery, inhabitants & phenomena | Charles Webster Leadbeater | Details… |
| The Ball and the Cross | G. K. Chesterton | Details… |
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The Book of Enoch
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Translated by Robert Henry Charles | Details… |
| The Book of Jasher | Anonymous | Details… |
| The Book of the Cave of Treasures: A History of the Patriarchs and Kings, from the Creation to the Crucifixion of Christ | E. A. Wallace Budge | Details... |
| The Builders… The Origin and History of Freemasonry | Joseph Fort Newton | Details... |
| The Candle of Vision | George William Russel | Details… |
| The Catholic Church and Conversion | G. K. Chesterton | Details… |
| The Celtic Twilight | W. B. Yeats | Details… |
| The Chaldean Oracles | G. R. S. Mead | Details… |
| The Cloud of Unknowing | Anonymous | Details… |
| The Comte de St Germain: The Definitive Account of the Famed Alchemist and Rosicrucian Adept | Isabel Cooper-Oakley | Details… |
| The Conference of Birds: the Sufi's journey to God | Farid ud-Din Attar | Details… |
| The Confession of Saint Patrick (Confessions of St. Patrick): with the Tripartite Life, and Epistle to the Soldiers of Coroticus | St. Patrick | Details… |
| The Confessions of Saint Augustine: An Intimate Record of a great and pious soul laid bare before God; with introduction and translation by Edward. B Pusey | Edward B. Pusey (translator) | Details... |
| The Corpus Hermeticum | George Robert Mead | Details... |
| The Dark Night of the Soul; trans. by David Lewis, with corrections and introductory essay by Benedict Zimmerman, O.C.D.;2nd. ed. | St. John of the Cross | Details... |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo N. Tolstoy | Details... |
| The Devachanic Plane: the Heaven World & Its Inhabitants | Charles Webster Leadbeater | Details… |
| The Dhammapada: The Buddha's "Way of Virtue"; W. D. C. Wagiswara & K. J. Saunders (translators), with Introduction, Notes and Appendix, (2nd. ed.) | W. D. C. Wagiswara & K. J. Saunders (translators) | Details... |
| The Dialogue of St Catherine of Siena - with an account of her death by Ser Barduccio di Piero Canigiani | St. Catherine of Siena | Details… |
| The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles: with Introduction, Notes, and Greek version | Roswell D. Hitchcock & Francis Brown | Details... |
| The Enchiridion | Epictetus | Details... |
| The Ethics | de Spinoza, Benedict | Details... |
| The Everlasting Man | G. K. Chesterton | Details… |
| The Germania and the Agricola | Cornelius Tacitus | Details… |
| The God of the Witches | Margaret Alice Murray | Details... |
| The Golden Bough: a study of magic and religion | James George Frazer | Details… |
| The Gospel in Brief | Leo Tolstoy | Details... |
| The Hidden Side of Things - Vols. I & II | Charles Webster Leadbeater | Details… |
| The History of Magic | Lévi, Éliphas | Details... |
| The Imitation of Christ | Thomas a Kempis | Details... |
| The Inner Life - volume I | Charles Webster Leadbeater | Details… |
| The Inner Life - volume II | Charles Webster Leadbeater | Details… |
| The Interior Castle, or The Mansions | St. Teresa de Avila | Details… |
| The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth | Thomas Jefferson | Details... |
| The Kebra Negast (the Book of the Glory of Kings), with 15 original illustrations | E. A. Wallis Budge | Details… |
| The Key, or Clavis, of Jacob Boehme and The Confessions of Jacob Boehme | Jacob Boehme | Details... |
| The Key to Theosophy - with original 30-page annotated glossary | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | Details… |
| The Kingdom of God is Within You | Leo Tolstoy | Details... |
| The Kybalion: hermetic philosophy and esotericism | Three initiates | Details... |
| The Kybalion & The Emerald Tablet of Hermes: two essential texts of hermetic philosophy | Three Initiates & Anonymous | Details... |
| The Law | Frederic Bastiat | Details... |
| The Light of Egypt, Vol. 1. Re-edited, with two 'missing' diagrams and five 'lost chapters' | Burgoyne, Thomas H. | Details... |
| The Light of Egypt: The Science of the Soul and the Stars Vol. 2 | Thomas H. Burgoyne | Details… |
| The Lost Keys of Freemasonry | Manly P. Hall | Details... |
| The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise | Israel Gollancz & Honnor Morten (eds.) | Details… |
| The Machinery of the Mind | Dion Fortune (Violet M. Firth) | Details... |
| The Madman | Khalil Gibran | Details... |
| The Masters and the Path | Charles Webster Leadbeater | Details… |
| The Meaning of Masonry | Wilmshurst, W. L. | Details... |
| The Most Holy Trinosophia - with 24 additional illustrations, omitted from the original 1933 edition | Le Comte de St.-Germain | Details... |
| The New Jerusalem | G. K. Chesterton | Details… |
| The Outline of Sanity | G. K. Chesterton | Details… |
| The Politics | Aristotle | Details... |
| The Practice of the Presence of God - The Best Rule of Holy Life: A Christian Devotional Classic | Brother Lawrence | Details… |
| The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | Details… |
| The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution: Revised 2nd. ed. with "Notes on Decision to Work", "Notes on Work on...", etc. | P.D. Ouspensky | Details... |
| The Rosicrucian Mysteries | Max Heindel | Details… |
| The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Edward Fitzgerald's classic translation of the Persian Sufi | Omar Khayyam | Details... |
| The Rule of St. Benedict | St. Benedict of Nursia | Details… |
| The Saga of Burnt Njal (or Njal's Saga) | Anonymous | Details... |
| The Sayings of Mencius | Mencius, Master | Details... |
| The Science of Being Great | Wallace D. Wattles | Details… |
| The Science of Being Well | Wallace D. Wattles | Details… |
| The Science of Breath: A Complete Manual of the Oriental Breathing Philosophy of Physical, Mental, Psychic and Spiritual Development | Yogi Ramacharaka | Details… |
| The Science of Getting Rich: A Guide to Personal Prosperity Through the Law of Attraction | Wallace D. Wattles | Details… |
| The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians – Illustrated with the Secret Rosicrucian Symbols | Magus Incognito | Details… |
| The Secret of the Rosary: a classic of Marian devotion | St. Louis Marie de Montfort | Details… |
| The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola | St. Ignatius of Loyola | Details… |
| The Spiritual Life & The Spiral Way | Evelyn Underhill | Details... |
| The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux | Saint Thérèse | Details... |
| The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs | William Morris | Details... |
| The Syrian Goddess: de Dea Syria | Lucian of Samosata | Details… |
| The Teachings of Zoroaster | Shapurji Kapadia | Details… |
| The Trial and Death Of Socrates | Plato | Details... |
| The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony: The Alchemy of Basilius Valentinus | Basil Valentine | Details… |
| The Unknown Life of Jesus: original text with photographs and map | Nicolas Notovitch | Details… |
| The Virgin of the World | Hermes Trismegistos Translated by Anna Kingsford & Edward Maitland | Details… |
| The Voice of the Silence | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | Details… |
| The Way of Perfection | St. Teresa of Avila | Details… |
| The Well and the Shallows | G. K. Chesterton | Details… |
| The Wisdom of Life; and Counsels and Maxims | Arthur Schopenhauer | Details... |
| The Wisdom of the Egyptians | Brian Brown | Details… |
| The Wonders of the Human Body: Physical Regeneration According to the Laws of Chemistry & Physiology | George W. Carey | Details… |
| Theosophic Correspondence between Saint-Martin & Kirchberger | Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin | Details… |
| Theosophy | Rudolf Steiner | Details… |
| Thought-Forms: with entire complement of original illustrations | Annie Besant | Details...
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| Totem and Taboo | Sigmund Freud | Details… |
| Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence: The Secret of Peace and Happiness; unabridged with authors' biographical sketches | Jean Baptiste Saint Jure & St. Claude de la Colombiere | Details... |
| Twilight of the Idols; and The Antichrist | Friedrich Nietzsche | Details... |
| Unveiled Mysteries |
Godfré Ray King |
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| War Is A Racket; with The War Prayer and The Complaint of Peace | Smedley D. Butler | Details… |
| What's Wrong with the World | G. K. Chesterton | Details… |
| Zanoni | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Details… |
