Samael Aun Weor

The Yellow Book

The Yellow Book is a book by Samael Aun Weor, first published in 1959, that discusses Kundalini, as well as general Gnosticism, Hinduism, Yoga and other mystical ideas and concepts.

Hinduism

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Gnosticism

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Yoga

Louis Jacolliot

Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients

This book was written in the 1860s, when reliable information about Hinduism was just starting to filter back to the west. Jacolliot was searching for the roots of western esoteric traditions in the far East. The high point of this book is the travelogue of his encounters in India with a fakir, who demonstrates his siddis (yogic powers) exuberantly. There is also an extensive discourse on Kabbalah, and its relationship to Eastern mystical beliefs. Jacolliot was a diffusionist, and he believed that many western esoteric traditions, specifically Egyptian, Jewish and Christian, had their origin in India.

Hinduism

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Qabalism

Building of the Cosmos and Other Lectures

THE four lectures printed in this volume were delivered to the delegates and members of the Theosophical Society, assembled for the Annual Convention at Adyar, Madras, on December 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 1893. They were intended to show the value of the teachings of H. P. Blavatsky as a guide to the obscurer meanings of the Hindu Sacred books, and so to vindicate at once the usefulness of the Theosophical and the Hindu doctrines.

Theosophy

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Hinduism