Rel195Biblio

Starter Bibliography for Research Projects -- Being Compiled Continuously

There are still many, many big gaps, but some topics (alchemy, acupuncture) are filling out.

MANTIC SYSTEMS

Astrology

Lilly, William. 1715. The Life of William Lilly, Student in Astrology. Reprinted in Briggs, Katherine M., ed., The Last of the Astrologers: Mr. William Lilly's History of his Life and Times from the year 1602 to 1681. London: The Folklore Society, 1974. [On reserve.]

- Ancient Mediterranean

- Indian

- Contemporary

Tarot Card Reading

Decker, Ronald, Thierry Depaulis, and Michael Dummett. 1996. A Wicked Pack of Cards: Origins of the Occult Tarot. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Franklin, Stephen E. 1988. Origins of the Tarot Deck: A Study of the Astronomical Substructure of Game and Divining Boards. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.

I Ching

Legge, James, trans. 1969. I ching ; book of changes, edited with introduction and study guide by Ch'u Chai with Winberg Chai. New York, Bantam Books.

Baynes, Cary F. 1967. The I ching; or, Book of changes. The Richard Wilhelm translation rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes, foreword by C. G. Jung, 3d ed.Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Shelley, Violet M. 1971. Change: a working study of concepts found in the Edgar Cayce readings and the ancient Chinese oracle, I ching, compiled by the San Mateo Study Group. Virginia Beach, Va.: A.R.E. Press.

Oracles:

Classical Greek Oracles

Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy. 1978. The Delphic oracle, its responses and operations, with a catalogue of responses. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy. 1959. Python; A Study of the Delphic Myth and Its Origins. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy. 1988. Didyma: Apollo's Oracle, Cult, and Companions. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Parke, H. W. (Herbert William). 1956. The Delphic oracle. Oxford: Blackwell.

Ancient Chinese Oracles

Keightley, David N. 1978. Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze-Age China. Berkeley: University of California Press.

African Tribal Oracles

Biblical Prophecy

SPIRITUAL AND MYSTICAL SYSTEMS

Buddhist Meditation

King, Winston,

Patanjala Yoga

Miller, Barbara Stoler, trans. 1996. The Yoga Sutra: Discipline of Freedom. New York: Bantam Books.

Woods, James Haughton, trans., The Yoga-System of Patanjali (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 19**). [This includes a translation of a commentary and sub-commentary of the Yoga Sutra, but the style of translation is difficult to digest.]

Hatha Yoga

Kabbalah

Masters, G. Mallary. 1992. "Renaissance Kabbalah." In Modern Esoteric Spirituality, edited by Antoine Faive and Jacob Needleman, pp. 132-153. New York: Crossroad.

SECRET SOCIETIES AND MYSTERY CULTS

The Rosicrucians

Edighoffer, Roland. 1992. "Rosicrucianism: From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century." In Modern Esoteric Spirituality, edited by Antoine Faive and Jacob Needleman, pp. 186-210. New York: Crossroad.

The Fraternal Order of Masons (Freemasonry)

Mazet, Edmond. 1992. "Freemasonry and Esotericism." In Modern Esoteric Spirituality, edited by Antoine Faive and Jacob Needleman, pp. 248-276. New York: Crossroad.

Piatigorsky, Alexander. 1997. The Phenomenon of Freemasonry. London : Harvill Press.

Piatigorsky, Alexander. 1997. Who's Afraid of Freemasons? London: Panther.

MODERN SPIRITUAL MOVEMENTS

The Theosophical Society

Besant, Annie Wood. 1895. The self and its sheaths. Four lectures delivered at the nineteenth anniversary of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th, 1894. Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society.

Besant, Annie Wood. 1939. The ancient wisdom, an outline of theosophical teachings. Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House.

Besant, Annie, and C. W. Leadbeater. 1951. Occult chemistry; investigations by clairvoyant magnification into the structure of the atoms of the periodic table and of some compounds, 3d ed., edited by C. Jinarajadasa, assisted by Elizabeth W. Preston. Madras, Theosophical Pub. House.

Olcott, Henry Steel. ca. 1900-1935. Old Diary Leaves: The History of the Theosophical Society, 6 vols. Madras: The Theosophical Printing House; reprints

Sellon, Emily B., and Renée Weber. 1992. "Theosophy and the Theosophical Society." In Modern Esoteric Spirituality, edited by Antoine Faive and Jacob Needleman, pp. 311-329. New York: Crossroad.

Falun Gong

Despeux, Catherine. 1997. "Le Qigong, une expression de la modernité chinoise." In En suivant la Voie Royale: Mélanges en hommage à Léon Vandermeersch, ed. Jacques Gernet and Marc Kalinowski, pp. 267-281. Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient.

THERAPEUTIC SYSTEMS

Mesmerism and Hypnotism

Besant, Annie Wood. 1959. Hypnotism and mesmerism, 3rd ed. Madras: Theosophical Publishing House.

Esdaile, James. 1846. Mesmerism in India and its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.

Mesmer, Franz Anton (1734-1815). 1980. Mesmerism, a translation of the original scientific and medical writings of F. A. Mesmer, translated by George J. Bloch; with an introd. by E. R. Hilgard. Los Altos, Ca.: W. Kaufman.

Fuller, Robert C. 1982. Mesmerism and the American cure of souls. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gauld, Alan. 1992. A history of hypnotism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Homeopathy

Hahnemann, Samuel. 1922. Organon of Medicine, 6th ed., translated by William Boericke. Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel; repr. Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 1998. [Hahnemann was the founder of homeopathy; this is his last revision of the foundational work on the subject.]

Kent, James Tylor. 1905. Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica. Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel; repr. as Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy. Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 1999.

Vithoulkas, George. 1980. The Science of Homeopathy. New York: Grove Weidenfeld.

Fontanarosa, Phil. B. 2000. Alternative medicine: an objective assessment. Chicago, Ill.: American Medical Association. [-- Part 1: Alternative medicine--prevalence and use -- Part 2: Cultural/social aspects -- Part 3: Mind-body medicine -- Part 6: Homeopathy -- Part 9: Perspectives on alternative medicine.]

Barrett, Stephen, and William T. Jarvis, eds. 1993. The Health robbers: a close look at quackery in America, foreword by Ann Landers. Buffalo: Prometheus Books. [A popular press book aimed at debunking alternative systems. See: Homeopathy: is it medicine? / Stephen Barrett -- Vitalistic gurus and their legacies / Jack Raso.]

Yunani (Galenic) Medicine

Bürgel, J. Christoph, "Secular and Religious Features of Medieval Arabic Medicine," in Charles Leslie, ed., Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study (???; repr. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1998), pp. 44-62.

Ayurveda (Traditional Indian "Life-Science") and Other Indic Medical Systems

Wujastyk, Dominik. 1998. The Roots of Ayurveda. New Delhi: Penguin Books India.

Obeyesekere, Gananath.1975. "Psycho-cultural exegesis of a case of spirit possession from Sri Lanka." Contributions to Asian Studies (Leiden) 8, pp. 41-89.

Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1976. "The Impact of Ayurvedic Ideas on the Culture and the Individual in Sri Lanka," in Charles Leslie, ed., Asian medical systems: a comparative study, pp. 201-226. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1977. "The theory and practice of psychological medicine in the Ayurvedic tradition." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1(2), pp. 155-181.

Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1978. "Illness, culture, and meaning: some comments on the nature of traditional medicine." In Kleinman, Arthur, et al., eds., Culture and healing in Asian societies-anthropological, psychiatric and public health studies, pp. 253-263. Camoridge, Mass.: Schenkman.

Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1989. "Despair and recovery in Sinhala medicine and religion: an anthropologist's meditations." In Sullivan, Lawrence E., ed., Healing and restoring: health and medicine in the world's religious traditions, pp. 127-148. New York: Macmillan.

Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1992. "Science, experimentation, and clinical practice in Ayurveda." In Leslie, Charles and Allan Young, eds., Paths to Asian medical knowledge, pp. 160-176. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Taylor, Carl E. 1976. "The Place of Indigenous Medical Practitioners in the Modernization of Health Services," in Charles Leslie, ed., Asian medical systems: a comparative study, pp. 285-299. Berkeley: University of California Press. [Study of the relation of Ayurvedic medicine to popular beliefs, and the role of Ayurveda in modernizing India; includes the author's reflections on a many years of work as a medical missionary in rural India.]

Siddhar Medicine

Indian Alchemy

White, David Gordon. 1996. The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [On tantric yoga and alchemy.]

Chinese Alchemy

Chang Po-tuan [10th/11th c.]. 1987. Understanding Reality : A Taoist Alchemical Classic [= Wu chen pien]; with a concise commentary by Liu I-ming; translated from the Chinese by Thomas Cleary. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Chao Pi Chen (b. 1860). Taoist yoga: Alchemy and Immortality. Lu Kuan Yu, a translation, with introduction and notes, of the secrets of cultivating essential nature and eternal life (Hsin ming fa chueh ming chih) by the Taoist master Chao Pi Chen, born 1860. York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser.

Ko Hung (284-364). 1967. Alchemy, medicine, religion in the China of A.D. 320: The Nei pien of Ko Hung (Pao-pu tzu), trans. by James R. Ware. Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press.

Needham, Joseph. 1954-1985. Science and civilisation in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. --v. 1. Introductory orientations. --v. 2. History of scientific thought.--v. 3. Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth. -v. 5: pt. 2. Spagyrical discovery and invention: magisteries of gold and immortality, with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 3. Spagyrical discovery and invention: historical survey, from cinnabar elixirs to synthetic insulin. pt. 4. Spagyrical discovery and invention: apparatus, theories, and gifts. pt. 5. Spagyrical discovery and invention: physiological alchemy / with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen.

Sivin, Nathan. 1968. Chinese alchemy: preliminary studies. Harvard monographs in the history of science. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.

Chinese Herbal Medicine / Tibetan Medicine

Fontanarosa, Phil. B. 2000. Alternative medicine: an objective assessment. Chicago, Ill.: American Medical Association. [-- Part 1: Alternative medicine--prevalence and use -- Part 2: Cultural/social aspects -- Part 3: Mind-body medicine -- Part 4: Diet, nutrition, lifestyle -- Part 5: Herbal therapies -- Part 6: Homeopathy -- Part 7: Acupuncture -- Part 8: Manual therapy -- Part 9: Perspectives on alternative medicine.]

Maciocia, Giovanni. 1989. The Foundations of Chinese Medicine. Churchill Livingstone.

Unschuld, Paul U. 1985. Medicine in China: A History of Ideas. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.

Unschuld, Paul U. 1990. Forgotten Traditions of Ancient Chinese Medicine. Brookline, Mass.: Paradigm Publications.

Acupuncture

Ling shu, or, The spiritual pivot, trans. by Wu Jing-Nuan. 1993. Washington, D.C. : Taoist Center.

Manaka, Yoshio, Kazuko Itaya, and Stephen Birch. 1995. Chasing the dragon's tail: the theory and practice of acupuncture in the work of Yoshio Manaka. Brookline, Mass. : Paradigm Publications.

Shudo, Denmei. 1990. Introduction to meridian therapy: Japanese classical acupuncture, trans. by Stephen Brown. Engl. language ed. Seattle : Eastland Press.

Tan, Leong T., Margaret Y.-C. Tan, and Ilza Veith. 1976. Acupuncture therapy: current Chinese practice, 2d ed., rev. and enl. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Wei-P'ing, Wu. [1962?] Chinese acupuncture, translated and adapted from the Chinese, with added comments, by J. Lavier; English ed. translated and adapted by Philip M. Chancellor. Rustington, Eng., Health Science Press.

Western Hemisphere Conference on Kirlian Photography, Acupuncture, and the Human Aura (1st : 1972 : New York). 1974. The Kirlian aura: photographing the galaxies of life, edited by Stanley Krippner and Daniel Rubin. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books.

Eckman, Peter. 1996. In The Footsteps of the Yellow Emperor: Tracing the History of Traditional Acupuncture. San Francisco: Cypress Book Company.

Fontanarosa, Phil. B. 2000. Alternative Medicine: An Objective Assessment. Chicago, Ill.: American Medical Association. [-- Part 1: Alternative medicine--prevalence and use -- Part 2: Cultural/social aspects -- Part 3: Mind-body medicine -- Part 4: Diet, nutrition, lifestyle -- Part 5: Herbal therapies -- Part 7: Acupuncture -- Part 8: Manual therapy -- Part 9: Perspectives on alternative medicine.]

United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. 1984. Medicare and acupuncture: hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, November 30, 1983, San Francisco, Calif. (Comm. pub. no. 98-425.) Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.

Reiki

Prophetic Medicine

Bürgel, J. Christoph. "Secular and Religious Features of Medieval Arabic Medicine." In Charles Leslie, ed., Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study (???; repr. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1998), pp. 44-62.

The Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science)

Eddy, Mary Baker. 1875. Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures.

Eddy, Mary Baker. Christian healing, The people's idea of God, Pulpit and press, Christian science versus pantheism, Message to the Mother church, 1900, Message to the Mother church, 1901, Message to the Mother church, 1902.

Eddy, Mary Baker. Unity of good, Rudimental divine science, No and yes, Retrospection and introspection.

The Cult of Asclepius

Lang, Mabel. 1977. Cure and Cult in Ancient Corinth: A Guide to the Asklepieion. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Exorcism and Faith Healing

Lewis, I. M 1989. Ecstatic religion: a study of shamanism and spirit possession, 2nd ed. London; New York: Routledge.

- Biblical and Mediterranean Classical Sources

- Roman Catholic Exorcism

- Nondenominational Faith Healing

Barrett, Stephen, and William T. Jarvis, eds. 1993. The Health robbers: a close look at quackery in America, foreword by Ann Landers. Buffalo: Prometheus Books. [A popular press book aimed at debunking alternative systems. See: The miracle merchants: faith healing doesn't work.]

- Hindu Spiritual Healers: Ojhas, Baigas, Tantrics

Babb, Lawrence A. 1975. The Divine Hierarchy (esp. ch. 6). New York: Columbia Univ. Press.

- Miraculous Healings at Shrines (Lourdes, Ramtek, etc.)

MYSTICAL OR DIVINE SCIENCES

Sorcery / Witchcraft

Easlea, Brian. 1980. Witch Hunting, Magic and the New Philosophy: Introduction to the Debates of the Scientific Revolution 1450-1750. Sussex: Harvester Press.

Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1975. "Sorcery, premeditated murder, and the canalization of aggression in Sri Lanka." Ethnology 14(1), pp. 1-23.

Alchemy

Basilius Valentinus. 1990. Basil Valentine his Triumphant chariot of antimony [= Triumph-Wagen Antimonii]: with annotations of Theodore Kirkringius (1678), trans. by L.G. Kelly. New York : Garland Pub.

Jabir ibn Hayyan. 1678 [1928]. The works of Geber. Englished by Richard Russell, a new edition with introduction by E. J. Holmyard. London, Dent; New York, Dutton. ["The English translation was published in 1678, and is here reprinted with addition of figures taken from the Latin edition published at Berne in 1545." Contents: --Of the investigation or search of perfection. --Of the sum of perfection, or of the perfect magistery. --Of the invention of verity, or perfection. --Of furnaces, &c. with a recapitulation of the author's experiments.]

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav). 1953-1979. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, edited by Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, and Gerhard Adler. New York: Pantheon Books. See v. 12. Psychology and Alchemy -- v. 13. Alchemical Studies -- v. 14. Mysterium Coniunctionis, An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy. [Also see Jaffé below.]

Marius (fl. 1160-1169). 1976. On the elements [= De elementis]. A critical edition and translation by Richard C. Dales. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Morienus. 1974. A testament of alchemy; being the revelations of Morienus, ancient adept and hermit of Jerusalem, to Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Mu'awiyya, King of the Arabs, of the divine secrets of the magisterium and accomplishment of the alchemical art [= De transfiguratione metallorum]. Edited and translated from the oldest manuscripts, with commentary by Lee Stavenhagen. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England.

Norton, Thomas (fl. 1477). 1975. Ordinal of alchemy, ed. by John Reidy. Early English Text Society, no. 272. London, Oxford University Press.

Noyes, William A. (William Albert). 1932. Modern alchemy. Springfield, Ill., Baltimore: C. C. Thomas.

Patai, Raphael. 1994. The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press.

Berthelot, M. (Marcellin) (1827-1907). 1885. Les origines de l'alchimie. Paris, G. Steinheil.

Brown, William Moseley. 1941. Alchemy and medicine: the siamese twins of mediaeval science. Privately printed for the author, 1941. [By a former W&L faculty member.]

Coudert, Allison. 1980. Alchemy, the philosopher's stone. Boulder, Colo.: Shambhala.

Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter. 1975. The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy: or, "The hunting of the greene lyon". Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press.

Fabricius, Johannes. 1976. Alchemy : the medieval alchemists and their royal art. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.

Fernando, Diana. 1998. Alchemy: an illustrated A to Z. London : Blanford.

Harkness, Deborah E. 1999. John Dee's conversations with angels: cabala, alchemy, and the end of nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jaffé, Aniela. 1971. From the life and work of C. G. Jung, trans. by R. F. C. Hull. New York, Harper & Row. [One section discusses Jung's views on alchemy.]

Lindsay, Jack. 1970. The origins of alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt. New York, Barnes & Noble.

Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley).1973. Alchemy, ancient and modern: being a brief account of the alchemistic doctrines, and their relations, to mysticism on the one hand, and to recent discoveries in physical science on the other hand: together with some particulars regarding the lives and teachings of the most noted alchemists, 2nd ed., with a new introduction by H. J. Sheppard. Wakefield : EP Publishing.

Roberts, Gareth. 1994. The mirror of alchemy: alchemical ideas and images in manuscripts and books: from antiquity to the seventeenth century. Toronto : University of Toronto Press.

Roob, Alexander. 1997. The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy & Mysticism [= Alchemie & Mystik]. Koln; New York: Taschen.

Sadoul, Jacques. 1972. Alchemists and gold, transl. by Olga Sieveking. London, Spearman.

Schipperges, Heinrich. 1992. "Paracelsus and his followers." In Faive, Antoine, and Jacob Needleman, eds., Modern Esoteric Spirituality, pp. 154-185. New York: Crossroad.

Smith, Pamela H. 1994. The business of alchemy: science and culture in the Holy Roman Empire. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press.

Taylor, F. Sherwood (Frank Sherwood). 1949. The alchemists, founders of modern chemistry. New York, H. Schuman.

White, Michael. 1997. Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

"Creation Science"

NOTE: Here, it will be valuable to distinguish between (a) "creationism" (faith-based advocacy of a literal reading of scriptural descriptions of the natural world and its origins and the denial of evolution model), (b) various efforts to reconcile scientical knowledge with scriptural statements, and (c) "creation science" (the view that the scriptural picture of creation can be confirmed scientifically, along with a set of principles for going about doing this).