Perennial Phil A LIST OF RECOMMENDED BOOKS

A LIST OF RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Quaker in yellow (7 items out of 97)

1. AL-GHAZZALI. Confessions. Translated by Claud Field (London, 1909).
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3. ANSARI OF HERAT. The Invocations of Sheikh i4bdullah Ansari of Herat. Translated by Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh (London, 1939)‑
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5. ATTAR. Selections. Translated by Margaret Smith (London, 1932).
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7. AUGUSTINE, ST. Confessions (numerous editions). AUROBINDO, SRI. The Lift Divine, 3 vols. (Calcutta, 1939). BAKER, AUGUSTINE. Holy Wisdom (London, 1876).
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9. BEAUSOBRE, JULIA DE. The Woman Who Could Not Die (London and New York, 1938).
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11. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, ST. The Steps of Humility (Cambridge, Mass., 1940).
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13. On the Love of God (New York, 1937).
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15. Selected Letters (London, 1904). An admirably lucid account of St. Bernard's thought may be found in The Mystical Doctrine of Saint Bernard, by Professor Etienne Gilson (London and New York, 1940).
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17. BERTOCCI, PETER A. The Empirical Argument for God in Late British Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass., 1938).
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19. Bhagavad-Gita. Among many translations of this Hindu scripture the best, from a literary point of view, is that of Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood (Los Angeles, 1944). Valuable notes, based upon the commentaries of Shankara, are to be found in Swami Nikhilananda's edition (New York, 1944), and Professor Franklin Edgerton's literal translation (Cambridge, Mass., 1944) is preceded by a long and. scholarly introduction.
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21. BINYON, L. The Flight of the Dragon (London, 1911).
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23. BOENME, JAICOB. Some good introduction is needed to the work of this important but difficult mystic. On the theological and devotional side the Danish Bishop H. L. Martensen's Jacob Boehme (trans., London, 1885) is recommended; or from a more philosophical viewpoint A. Koyré's splendid volume La Philosophie de Jacob Boehme (not yet translated, Paris, 1929) or H. H. Brinton's The Mystic Will (New York, 1930).
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25. BRAHMANANDA, Swi. Records of his teaching and a biography by Swami Prabhavananda are contained in The Eternal Com­panion (Los Angeles, 1944).
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27. CAMUS, JEAN PIERRE. The Spirit of St. Fran cois de Sales (London, n.d.).
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29. CAUSSADE, J. P. DE. Abandonment (New York, 1887). Spiritual Letters, 3 vols. (London, 1937).
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31. CHANTL, ST. JEANNE FRANcOISE. Selected Letters (London and New York, 1918).
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33. CHAPMAN, ABBOT JOHN. Spiritual Letters (London, 1935).
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35. CHUANG Tzu. Chuang Tu, Mystic, Moralist and Social Reformer. Translated by Herbert Giles (Shanghai, 1936).
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37. Musings of a Chinese Mystic (London, 1920).
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39. Chinese Philosophy in Classical Times. ,Translated by E. R. Hughes (London, 1943).
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41. The Cloud of Unknowing (with commentary by Augustine Baker). Edited with an introduction by Justice McCann (London, 1924).
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43. COOMARASWAMY, ANANDA K. Buddha and the Gospel ofBuddhism (New York, 1916).
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45. The Transformation of Nature in Art (Cambridge, Mass., 193 5)-Hinduism and Buddhism (New York, n.d.).
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47. CURTIS, A. M. The Way of Silence (Burton Bradstock, Dorset, '937).
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49. DEUSSEN, PAUL. The Philosophy of tile Upanishads (London, 1906).
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51. DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE. On the Divine Names and the Mys­tical Theology. Translated with an introduction by C. E. Rolt (London, 1920).
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53. ECKHART, MEISTER. Works, translated by C. B. Evans (London, 1924).
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55. Meister Eckhart, A Modern Translation. By R. B. Blakney (New York, 1940.
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57. EVANS-WENT; W. Y. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (New York, 1927).
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59. Tibet's Great Yogi, Milarepa (New York, 1928).
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61. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (New York, 193 5)‑
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63. The Following of Christ. Unknown author, but mistakenly attri­buted to Tauler in the first English edition (London, 1886).
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65. Fox, GEORGE. Journal (London, 1911).
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67. FROST, BnE. The Art of Mental Prayer (London, 1940). Saint John of the Cross (London, 1937).
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69. GARB JGOU-LAGRANGE, R. Christian Perfection and Contemplation (London and St. Louis, 1937).
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71. Gonnuw, DWIGHT. A Buddhist Bible (published by the editor, Thetford, Maine, 1938). This volume contains translations of several Mahayana texts not to be found, or to be found only with much difficulty, elsewhere. Among these are 'The Dia­mond Sutra,' 'The Surangama Sutra,' 'The Lankavatara Sutra,' 'The Awakening of Faith' and 'The Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch.'
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73. GUNON, RENL Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta (London, n.d.).
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75. East and West (London, 1941).
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77. The Crisis of the Modern World (London, 1942).
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79. HEARD, GERALD. The Creed of Christ (New York, 1940).
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81. The Code of Christ (New York, 1941). Preface to Prayer (New York, 1944).
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83. HILTON, WALTER. The Scale of Perfection (London, 1927).
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85. HIJEGEL, FRIEDRICH VON. The Mystical Element in Religion as Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and Her Friends (London, 1923).
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88. IBN T1JFAIL. The Awakening of the Soul. Translated by Paul Bronnie (London, 1910).
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90. The Imitation of Christ. Whitford's translation, edited by E. J. Klein (New York, 1940.
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92. INGE, W. R. Christian Mysticism (London, 1899).
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94. Studies of English Mystics—including William Law (London, 1906).
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96. JOHN OF THE CROSS, ST. Works, 3 vols. (London, 1934-1935)‑
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98. JONES, RUFUS. Studies in Mystical Religion.
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100. The Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries (New York, 1914).
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102. The Flowering of Mysticism (New York, 1939).
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104. JORGENSEN, JOHANNES. Saint Catherine of Siena (London, 1938). JULIANA OF NORWICH. Revelations of Divine Love (London, 1917).
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106. LAO Tzu. There are many translations of the Tao Teh King. Consult and compare those of Arthur Waley in The Way and Its Power (London, 1933), of F. R. Hughes in Chinese Philo­sophy in Classical Times (Everyman's Library) and of Ch'u Ta-Kao (London, 1927) reprinted in The Bible of the World (New York, 1939).
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108. LAW, WILLIAM. Several modern editions of his Serious Call are available. But none of Law's still finer and much more distinctly mystical works, such as The Spirit of Prayer and The Spirit of Love, have been reprinted in full in recent years. Long extacts from them may however be found in Stephen Hobhouse's Selected Mystical Writings of William Law (London, 1939) (a work which also contains some useful 'Notes and Studies in the mystical theology of William Law and Jacob Boehme') and in the same writer's William Law and Eighteenth Century Quakerism (London, 1927). Alexander Whyte also compiled a fine anthology, Characters and Characteristics of William Law (4th ed. London, 1907); while for the student there is Christopher Walton's extra­ordinary encyclopaedic collection of Notes and Materials for an adequate biography of William Law (London, 1856).
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110. LEEN, EDWARD. Progress through Mental Prayer (London, 1940).
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112. MCKEON, RICHARD. Selections from Medieval Philosophers, 2 vols. (New York, 1929).
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114. The Mirror of Simple Souls. Author unknown (London, 1927).
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116. NICHOLAS OF CUSA. The Idiot (San Francisco, 1940). The Vision of God (London and New York, 1928).
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118. NICHOLSON, R. The Mystics of Islam (London, 1914).
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120. OMAN, JOHN. The Natural and the Supernatural (London, 1938).
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122. Orro, RUDOLF. India's Religion of Grace (London, 1930). Mysticism East and West (London, 1932).
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124. PATANJALI. Yoga Aphorisms. Translated with a commentary by Swami Vivekananda (New York, 1899).
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126. PLOTINUS. The Essence of Plotinus (G. H. Turnbull, New York, 1934). A good anthology of this very important and voluminous mystic.
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128. PONNELLE, L. and L. BORDET. St. Philip Neri and the Roman Society of His Time (London, 1932).
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130. POULAIN, A. The Graces of Interior Prayer (London, 1910). POURRAT, P. Christian Spirituality, 3 vols. (London, 7922). PRATT, J. B. The Pilgrimage of Buddhism (New York, 1928).
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132. QUAKERS. The Beginnings of Quakerism, by W. P. Braithwaite (London, 1912). See also George Fox, p. 348.
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134. RADHAKRISHNAN, S. The Hindu View of Life (London and New York, 1927).
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136. Indian Philosophy (London and New York, 1923-1927)-Eastern Religions and Western Thought (New York, 1939).
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138. RAMAKRISHNA, SRI. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishn. Translated from the Bengali narrative of 'M' by Swami Nikhilananda (New York, 1942).
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140. RUMI, JALAL-IJDDIN. Masnavi. Translated by E. H. Whinfield (London, 1898).
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142. RUYSBROECK, JAN VAN. The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage (London, 1916). Consult also the studies by Evelyn Underhill (London, 1915) and Wautier d'Aygalliers (London, 1925).
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144. SALES, ST. FRANc0Is DE. Introduction to the Devout Life (numer­ous editions).
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146. Treatise on the Love of God (new edition, Westminster, Md., 1942).
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148. Spiritual Conferences (London, 1868).
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150. See also J. P. Camus.
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152. The Secret of the Golden Flower. Translated from the Chinese by
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154. ·Richard Wilhelm. Commentary by Dr.. C. G. Jung (London and New York, 1931).
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156. SPURGEON, CAROLINE. Mysticism in English Literature (Cam­bridge, 1913).
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158. STOCKS, J. L. Time, Cause and Eternity (London, 1938). STOUT, G. F. Mind and Matter (London, 1931).
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160. Sutra Spoken by the Sixth Patriarch, Hui Neng. Translated by Wung Mou-lam (Shanghai, 1930). Reprinted in A Buddhist Bible (Thetford, 1938).
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162. SUZUKI, B. L. Mahayana Buddhism (London, 1938).
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164. SUZUKI, D. T. Studies in Zen Buddhism (London, 1927). Studies in the Lan/cavatara Sutra (Kyoto and London, 1935). Manual of Zen Buddhism (Kyoto, 1935).
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166. TAGORE, RABINDRANATH. One Hundred Poems ofKabir (London, 1915).
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168. TAULER, JOHANN. Life and Sermons (London, 1907).
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170. The Inner Way (London, 1909).
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172. Consult Inge's Christian Mysticism, Rufus Jones's Studies in Mystical Religion and Pourrat's Christian Spirituality.
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174. TENNANT, F. R. Philosophical Theology (Cambridge, 1923).
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176. Theologia Germanica. Winkworth's translation (new edition, London, 1937).
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178. TILLYARD, AELFRIDA. Spiritual Exercises (London, 1927).
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180. TRAHERNE, THOMAS. Centuries of Meditation (London, 1908). Consult Thomas Traherne, A Critical Biography, by Gladys I. Wade (Princeton, 1944).
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182. UNDERHILL, EVELYN. Mysticism (London, 1924). The Mystics of the Church (London, 1925).
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184. Upanishads. The Thirteen Principal Upanishads. Translated by R. E. Hume (New York, 1931).
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186. The Ten Principal Upanishads. Translated by Shree Purohit and W. B. Yeats (London, 1937).
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188. The Himalayas of the Soul. Translated by J. Mascaro (London, 1938).
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190. WATTS, ALAN W. The Spirit of Zen (London, 1936).
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192. WHITNEY, JANET. John Woolman, American Quaker (Boston, 1942).
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194. Elizabeth Fry, Quaker Heroine (Boston, 1936).