Western Esotericism

• Antoine Faivre — Access to Western Esotericism
• Frances A. Yates — The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
• Wouter J. Hanegraaff — Esotericism and the Academy

Hermetic and Gnostic Traditions

• Corpus Hermeticum
• The Nag Hammadi Library
• Gilles Quispel — Gnosis and the New Testament

Rosicrucian Tradition

• Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis
• Confessio Fraternitatis
• The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
• Arthur Edward Waite — The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross

Chivalric and Knightly Orders

• Julius Evola — The Mystery of the Grail
• Ramon Llull — The Book of the Order of Chivalry
• Georges Duby — The Chivalrous Society

Freemasonry

• Albert Pike — Morals and Dogma
• W.L. Wilmshurst — The Meaning of Masonry
• Oswald Wirth — The Symbolic Language of Freemasonry

Alchemy and Operative Traditions

• Fulcanelli — The Mystery of the Cathedrals
• Eugène Canseliet — Alchemy Explained
• Paracelsus — Selected Writings

Eastern and Comparative Initiatic Traditions

• The Upanishads
• The Bhagavad Gita
• Frithjof Schuon — The Transcendent Unity of Religions