Hello, and Welcome to this small corner of the internet.
My name is malcolm rogers, and this is a small collection of Texts i've put together, Texts which i feel are important to the growth and development of the Soul.
They are almost all in the Public Domain, the two or three which aren't are marked as such. You are welcome to do what you wish with these Texts, if you put them on a web-site i would appreciate a mention, a lot of work has gone into formatting some of them.... but i won't mind if you forget. 
The subjects covered are:
| Concerning the Soul |
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| Here you'll find The Enneads by Plotinus and On the Soul by Aristotle, as well as Cupid and Psyche, the Hymn to Demeter, Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, The Hymn of the Pearl, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus from "Metamorphoses" by Ovid, Ishtars' Descent to the Underworld, and the Book of Lambspring - among other Texts related to either the individual - or a greater - Soul. |
| Hermetic Works |
| The Virgin of the World - the major Hermetic work, which was translated by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, The Corpus Hermeticum, and two works by G.R.S. Mead: The Hymns of Hermes and The Gnosis of the Mind. |
| Early Christian and Gnostic Thought |
| The Shepherd of Hermas, The Sophia of Jesus Christ, Pistis Sophia, and The Watchers (from the Book of Enoch) are some of my favourite works, i have them here, along with the Acts and the Gospel of Thomas, The Apocryphon of John, Excerpts from the Gospel of Mary, The Book of Thomas the Contender, Eugnos the Blessed, The Testimony of Truth, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch, as well as the Book of Wisdom. |
| Mystical Works |
| Which contains the Clothed with the Sun, The Perfect Way, and Dreams, Verses and Stories by Anna Kingsford, Rudolf Eucken, A Philosophy of Life, by Abel J. Jones, a collection of Works by Rudolf Steiner, the Ascent of Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross, as well as five Works by Evelyn Underhill, An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by W. Tudor Jones, The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage and The Sparkling Stone by John of Ruysbroeck, The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, Creative Unity, The Realisation of Life, and Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore, The Way to Christ by Jakob Boehme, The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena, translated by Algar Thorold, also The Cloud of Unknowing and The Sermons of Meister Eckhart. |
| Concerning the Survival of Death |
| The Vision of Aridæus, by G.R.S. Mead, Reincarnation, A Study in Human Evolution, by Th. Pascal. Five Lectures on Reincarnation by Swami Abhedananda, The Vision of Er from Book 10 of "The Republic" by Plato, The Dream of Scipio from Book 6 of "On the Republic" by Marcus Tullius Ciceronis, The Idea of Re-birth by Francesca Arundale, The Necessity for Reincarnation, and a Translation of an essay on The Idea of Re-birth by Karl Heckel are the works in this section. |
| Eclectic Texts |
| This section includes such works as The Enchiridion, by Epictetus, Metamorphoses by Ovid, The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, Earth Gods by Gibran Khalil Gibran, Uriel by Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Tao Teh King, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, and Bulfinch's "Mythology", which comprises The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. |
| Epics, Tales, and Stories |
| Here you will find "The Roadmender", a moving, truly beautiful tale By Margaret Fairless Barber, The Golden Key by George MacDonald, The column of dust by Evelyn Underhill, The Worm Ourobos, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The death of Baldr from "The Prose Edda", Arasmanes, The Golden Asse by Lucius Apuleius, Kalevala - The National Epic of the Suomi (Finns), The Last True Dragon, The Goose-Girl, Vasalisa the beautiful, Mariatta, the final Rune of "Kalevala", and The Bright Messenger, by Algernon Blackwood, and Lilith, Phantastes, and The Golden Key by George MacDonald. |
| Zarathushtrian Thought |
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Works concerning the concepts and the beliefs of Zarathushtra, and their influence on other religions. Zarathushtra and Reincarnation, Zarathushtra and the Devil - Duality in Zarathushtra's teachings, Zarathushtra - ethical philosopher or spiritual leader, Freedom, Conflict, and the Evolution of Justice, The influence of Zoroastrianism on other religions, and - of course - The Gathas - with translations by both K.D. Irani and Mobed Firouz Azargoshasb, as well as writings by Shahriar Shahriari. |
Vivian Amis, who is a Very Dear Friend Indeed has written a booklet named "The Truth will set you free" and a book named "The Essentials of Life", both of which you can read on-line here by following this link to The Truth will set you free, or you can download them in ebook format from here: The Truth Will Set You Free (382kb) and The Essentials of Life (443kb)
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