The Great Library of Light

Scripture, and the older regional texts it grew up beside.

The largest holding in the library.

• The Bible, 98 books: the whole Old Testament, the whole New Testament, and older writings such as Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit and the Maccabees, listed in full below
• The Ugaritic Baal Cycle (KTU 1.1 to 1.4)

Early Christian texts left out of the canon, recovered in 1945.

• The Gnostic Religion (Hans Jonas)
• The Gnostic Bible (Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer)
• The Nag Hammadi Library (3rd Edition)
• The Secret Book of John

The scripture the Sikh tradition honors as its living Guru, composed as song.

The complete Guru Granth Sahib in English, all 1,430 pages of the Sant Singh Khalsa translation.

• Shri Guru Granth Sahib (trans. Sant Singh Khalsa)

China's art of moving with reality instead of against it.

• The Ultimate I Ching (Antony Cummins)
• Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu)
• Cultivating the Energy of Life (Liu Hua-yang, trans. Eva Wong)

India's oldest teaching on the self behind the self.

• Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)
• The Bhagavad Gita, in the Light of Kriya Yoga

The Buddha's instructions on how suffering is built and unbuilt.

Fifteen sutra volumes and 15,927 indexed passages of the Buddhist canon, the second largest holding in the library, including the Heart, Diamond, Lankavatara and Shurangama sutras. Each volume gathers the sutras whose names begin with its letters.

• Volume A1: A Little Spell of Emptiness to the Aneñja Sappaya Sutta, including the Anapanasati Sutta, the Fire Sermon (Adittapariyaya Sutta) and the Anattalakkhana Sutta
• Volume A2: The Angulimala Sutta to the Ayacana Sutta, including the Avatamsaka Sutra
• Volume B: The Baalapandita Sutta to Buddha's Words on Kamma, including the Brahmajala Sutta, the Brahma Net Sutra and the Bhaddekaratta Sutta
• Volume C: The Caatuma Sutta to the Cuulavedalla Sutta, including the Cakkavattisihananda Sutta and the Cula Malunkya Sutta
• Volume D: The Dahara Sutta to the Dvedhavitakka Sutta, including the Diamond Sutra
• Volume EFG: The Sutra on the Eight Realizations to the Gulissaani Sutta, including the Sutra in Forty-Two Sections and the Filial Piety Sutra
• Volume HIJK: The Hatthaka Sutta to the Kutadanta Sutta, including the Heart Sutra, the Kalama Sutta, the Karaniya Metta Sutta and the Mangala Sutta
• Volume L: The Ladukikopama Sutta to the Lonaphala Sutta, including the Lankavatara Sutra and the Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala Sutra
• Volume M1: The Maagandiya Sutta to the Maha-Samaya Sutta, including the Madhupindika Sutta and the Maha Mangala Sutta
• Volume M2: The Maha Satipatthana Sutta to the Muni Sutta, including the Maha Sunnata Sutta and the Metta Sutta
• Volume NOP: The Na Tumhaka Sutta to the Puttamansa Sutta, including the Nagara Sutta and the One Way In Sutra
• Volume RS: The Rahogata Sutta to the Sevitabba-Asevitabba Sutta, including the Satipatthana Sutta, the Samaññaphala Sutta, the Sallekha Sutta and the Ratana Sutta
• Volume S: The Shurangama Sutra to the Sutava Sutta, including the Sigalovada Sutta and the Snake Simile (Alagaddupama Sutta)
• Volume TU: The Talaputa Sutta to the Utthana Sutta, including the Ullambana Sutra
• Volume VY: The Vajira Sutta to the Yuganaddha Sutta, including the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra and the Vajrasamadhi Sutra

The European tradition holding that mind and cosmos share one law.

• Initiation Into Hermetics (Franz Bardon)
• The Complete Golden Dawn (ed. Israel Regardie)
• Corpus Hermeticum (trans. G.R.S. Mead)
• The Kybalion (Three Initiates)
• Codex Esoterica (Tyler Engle)
• Three Books of Occult Philosophy (Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa)
• The Hermetic Arcanum
• Transcendental Magic (Eliphas Levi)
• A Chymicall Treatise (Arnold de Villanova, transcr. Hereward Tilton)

The Jewish mystical map of how creation descends into form.

• The Mystical Qabalah (Dion Fortune)
• The Tree of Life (Israel Regardie)
• The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus)
• Sefer Yetzirah, The Book of Creation (Aryeh Kaplan)

Arguments about where the tradition came from, and what to do with it.

• Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (Ignatius Donnelly)
• The Albigen Papers (Richard Rose)

Founding works on number, magnetism, and the fields that move through everything.

• A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 2 (James Clerk Maxwell)
• On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies (William Gilbert)
• The Complete Pythagoras (comp. Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie)

The shapes that recur from the atom to the galaxy, read as a language.

• The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Volume 1 (Drunvalo Melchizedek)
• The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Volume 2 (Drunvalo Melchizedek)
• The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Volume 3 (Drunvalo Melchizedek)
• Living in the Heart (Drunvalo Melchizedek)
• Activate Your Merkaba (Susanne Jonsson)

Contemporary researchers and teachers testing the old claims against lived experience.

• You Are the Placebo (Dr. Joe Dispenza)
• Evolve Your Brain (Dr. Joe Dispenza)
• Becoming Supernatural (Dr. Joe Dispenza)
• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself (Dr. Joe Dispenza)
• Mastering the Manifestation Paradox
• How to Manifest Your Desires (Neville Goddard)
• The Silva Mind Control Method (Jose Silva and Philip Miele)
• The Key to Mental and Physical Power (L. H. Anderson)
• How to Win; or, Sure Secrets of Success (L. H. Anderson)
• 78 Days Practical Transurfing (Vadim Zeland)

How breath, charge, food, and attention move through a living body.

• The Subtle Energy Body (Maureen Lockhart)
• Charge and the Energy Body (Anodea Judith)
• The Healing Power of the Breath (Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg)
• The Full Breath (James Francis)
• The Alchemy of Release (Patricia Quesada Lastiri and Veronica Esmeraldo)
• Secrets of Aboriginal Healing (Gary Holz)
• A Practitioner-ready Guide to Understanding and Healing the Body Naturally
• Eat Real to Heal (Nicolette Richer)
• Weight Loss Through Fasting (Jason B. Tiller)
• Somatic Yoga for Weight Loss (Claudia Lynne)