Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Gospel
10 best books like Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Gospel (Anonymous): The Bhagavad Gita, A People's History of the World, Island, The Gnostic Bible, The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-Neng, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen, Gnostic Gospels: Including the Gospel of Thomas - The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
| Author | Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa |
| ISBN | 0140449183 |
The Bhagavad Gita is an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beginning of a mighty battle between the Pandava and Kaurava armies, the god Krishna gives spiritual enlightenment to the warrior...
A People's History of the World
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these...
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060085495 |
In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators,...
| Author | Willis Barnstone |
| ISBN | 1590301994 |
Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and...
| Author | Hui-Neng |
| ISBN | 0877730059 |
The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the 4th century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature & is the oldest existing printed book in the world. It's known as the Diamond Sutra because its teachings are said to be like diamonds that cut away all dualistic thought, releasing...
| Author | Nāgārjuna |
| ISBN | 0195093364 |
The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating...
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder of the important Soto School, was not only a profoundly influential and provocative Zen philosopher but also one of the most stimulating figures in Japanese letters.
Kazuaki Tanahashi, collaborating...
| Author | Alan Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1842931210 |
In 1945 several secret gospels, hidden since the first century, were discovered in the Egyptian Desert at Nag Hammadi. They caused a sensation in the religious world as they revealed the mysteries of Gnostic Christianity. The gospels selected for this volume reveal intimate conversations between...
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0670023345 |
A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of Beyond Belief. Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As one of the...
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
| Author | Donald J. Robertson |
The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual...
Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
| Author | Three Initiates |
| ISBN | 0911662251 |
This stands as one of the most important books I've read about the nature of reality and the supersensible universe. As with any work intending to teach through words something that is larger and exponentially more complex than language will always require careful study. And though this book is not...
