A concise, approachable collection of essays by Lon Milo DuQuette introducing tarot, magick, Qabalah, divination, and key figures in the occult. The writings combine clear explanations, informed scholarship, and the author’s wry humor to guide readers new to these subjects without revealing any secrets or spoilers.

A lucid exploration of religious myths and metaphors that argues sacred texts should be read symbolically rather than literally, showing that myths encode universal psychological patterns and stages of human experience. Drawing on comparative mythology and Jungian concepts, it analyzes stories from Christian, Eastern, and indigenous traditions to demonstrate how archetypal images guide individual spiritual development and reveal deeper truths about the self. The work invites readers to transform their understanding of religion by seeing myth as a living symbolic language that heals, integrates, and orients the psyche.

A collection of vivid travel reportage from the Indian subcontinent in the late 20th century, portraying a region riven by communal violence, political upheaval and social decay while capturing the lives of ordinary people caught in crises—from militant insurgencies and military rule to refugee crises and criminal underworlds. Through eyewitness scenes and interviews, the book sketches how ideological extremism, corrupt institutions and historical grievances reshape communities and daily life, yet also highlights moments of resilience, humor and human complexity amid chaos.

A lyrical, reflective meditation on voluntary silence and solitude that interweaves personal experiments with longer periods of quiet, cultural and religious histories of silence, and encounters with wild places; the narrator examines how withholding speech reshapes perception, creativity, inner life and bodily awareness, and considers silence as both sanctuary and provocation in a noisy modern world.

Eyes of Horus is the third of Joan Grant's Far Memory novels, set in Egypt near the end of the XIth Dynasty. Told in the first person, Ra-ab, heir of the Oryx, discovers his province remains in touch with the light while the rest of Egypt is ruled by fear and corruption. From the Oryx arises a silent brotherhood, the eyes of Horus or Watchers of the Horizon, whose password is Send Fear into Exile.

A collection of medieval mystical guides offering practical instruction in contemplative prayer and union with the divine, urging the seeker to relinquish intellectual striving and enter a receptive, loving awareness beyond concepts. The works teach that God is approached not by reasoning or images but by humble self-emptying, a concentrated act of love or a single receptive word that pierces the veil separating the soul from divine presence; they stress simplicity, vigilance against pride and speculative theology, and give pastoral counsel for novices and spiritual directors. Written in a direct, ascetic tone, the texts outline a path of purgation and contemplative “unknowing” that leads to intimate, experiential communion with God rather than doctrinal knowledge.

A celebratory pair of portraits that contrast two complementary medieval temperaments: one an austere, systematic thinker who embodies ordered reason, theological rigor, and fidelity to truth; the other a joyous, poetic rebel who embraces poverty, wonder, and intimate kinship with creation. Through lively biography, wit, and cultural critique, the writer shows how the Thomistic insistence on intellect and law and the Franciscan insistence on love and imagination balance and correct each other, together offering an antidote to modern materialism, skepticism, and spiritual complacency.

A compact collection of medieval mystical sermons and treatises that probe the soul’s direct union with the divine, insisting on radical inner detachment and the ‘birth’ of God in the soul through contemplative surrender. Written in paradoxical, aphoristic language, it emphasizes the via negativa and the ground of the soul, challenges reliance on external forms of religiosity, and offers practical guidance for a transformative inner life centered on letting go so the divine can act through the person.

Set against the Roman siege of Masada, this lyrical novel traces the intertwined lives of four women who find each other on the mountaintop fortress and build a fragile, fiercely loyal community; tending doves, caring for children, practicing healing arts and preserving stories, they confront love, betrayal, faith and loss as they face the extraordinary choices forced by war and the cost of resistance.