From Atlantis to the Sphinx
Colin Wilson

Prolific author and researcher Colin Wilson investigates the possibility of an advanced civilization in existence prior to recorded history, which served as the factual basis for legends of Atlantis. With these legends as a starting point, Wilson presents a convincing argument for the existence of a superior prehistoric civilization that was decimated by a great catastrophe, passing on the remnants of its knowledge to the earliest historical cultures. Taking inspiration from such varied figures as Schwaller de Lubicz, Giorgio de Santillana, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and many others, Wilson explores what may have been a completely different knowledge system from that of modern man. The book sets out to reconstruct this ancient knowledge in a fascinating exploration of the remote depths of history; a groundbreaking attempt to understand how these long-forgotten peoples thought, felt, and communicated with the universe.

https://tradition.st/from-atlantis-to-the-sphinx/

The Fourth Dimension
Charles Hinton

In The Fourth Dimension, mathematician and spiritualist Charles Hinton explores the capacity of human beings to perceive higher dimensions through a process of esoteric training. He argues that acquiring an intuitive perception of higher space requires that we rid ourselves of the ideas of "directionality" inherent in our position as observers of a three-dimensional world. Hinton calls the process "casting out the self", equates it with the process of sympathy, and implies the two processes are mutually reinforcing. In this sense, recognizing and eventually perceiving a higher dimension is not simply a mathematical exercise, but an important to point the way toward a higher realm of existence in both intellectual and genuinely spiritual terms.

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Hieroglyphica
Horapollo

Written reputedly by an Egyptian magus in the fourth century A.D., the Hieroglyphica is an anthology of nearly two hundred “hieroglyphs,” or allegorical emblems, said to have been used by the Pharaonic scribes in representing natural and moral aspects of the world. The work describes how various kinds of natural phenomena, emotions, virtues, philosophical concepts, and human character types were symbolized by the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, providing detailed explanations for each individual emblem. Translated into Greek in 1505, it informed much of Western esoteric iconography from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

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Witchcraft and Sorcery
Charles Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland was an American folklorist whose research into the esoteric traditions of Europe and America contributed greatly to the resurgence of interest in paganism and magic during the 20th century. This book contains his most famous work, Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches (purported to descend from an ancient, hermetic tradition of witchcraft in Italy) as well as Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, a wide-ranging survey of Romani magical practices gathered from 19th-century sources and oral accounts.

https://tradition.st/witchcraft-and-sorcery/

Paradise Found
William F. Warren

The suggestion that primitive Eden was located at the Arctic Pole seems at first sight the most incredible of all wild and willful paradoxes. Yet the author was the first president of Boston University, and states in the preface that the book is not the work of a dreamer - it is a serious and meticulously researched attempt to present what is to the author's understanding the true and final solution to one of the greatest and most fascinating of all problems connected to the history of mankind.

First published in 1885, this book presents copious evidence that Atlantis was situated in the northern Arctic, noting that Hesiod, Virgil, and Homer all placed it at the "ends of the earth." The author's interpretation is further supported by evidence connecting Atlantis with related mythical locations such as Avalon, Eden, and the world mountain, as well as scientific research in various fields and the conclusions of his fellow scholars.

https://tradition.st/paradise-found/

The Kindred Writings
Jost Turner

This collection of writings by Jost Turner, founder of the National Socialist Kindred and the Volksberg commune, is mostly taken from the newsletter he published for members of these groups. The subject matter follows the eclectic interests of the author, whose syncretic philosophy blends science and eastern mysticism with right-wing politics and the "back to the land" movement. Best known for his Arya Kriya system of esoteric yoga, Jost was also a tireless advocate for racial solidarity, as the writings in this book attest.

https://tradition.st/the-kindred-writings/

National Socialism
Rudolf Jung

Rudolf Jung (1882 - 1945) was a Sudeten-German railway engineer, trade-unionist, parliamentarian, and political activist. He was one of the early pioneers of National Socialism, and the National Socialist movement's first major theoretician. Jung's book Der Nationale Sozialismus was the first major attempt to outline and explain völkisch National Socialism as an ideology and a body of theory constituting a general, all-encompassing worldview. It thus not only represents one of the most detailed and thorough explorations of National Socialism as an ideological worldview, but also provides considerable insight into the nature of pre-Hitlerian National Socialism.

https://tradition.st/national-socialism/

The Firmament
Arthur Drews

Ancient cultural knowledge has often been dismissed as unscientific, pagan, or primitive. Yet much of what is all too often assigned to the realm of poetic invention or altered states of consciousness may be understood more clearly by studying the relationship between ancient mythology and celestial phenomena. In this way, ancient myths and folktales regain their rightful place in the cosmic structure, while religious narratives must face up to some uncomfortable questions.

Arthur Drews was a German philosopher and a leading proponent of völkisch ideology in the German Faith movement. In his writings on "astral mythology," Drews proposed an interpretation of ancient mythology as the allegorical description of celestial phenomena, preceding de Santillana's effective proof of the theory in Hamlet's Mill by 46 years. Written as a general introduction to astral mythology, The Firmament is an essential resource in the study of comparative religions.

https://tradition.st/the-firmament/