From: The Dial, Vol. III, No. IV (April 1843)
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Published: E. P. Peabody 1843 Boston
MR. ALCOTT and MR. LANE have recently brought from England a small but valuable library, amounting to about a thousand volumes, containing undoubtedly a richer collection of mystical writers than any other library in this country. To the select Library of the late J.P. Greaves, “held by Mr. Lane in trust for universal ends,” they have added many works of a like character by purchase, or received as gifts. In their Catalogue, from which the following list is extracted, they say, “the titles of these books are now submitted, in the expectation that the Library is the commencement of an institution for the nurture of men in universal freedom of action, thought, and being.” We print this list, not only because our respect is engaged to views so liberal, but because the arrival of this cabinet of mystic and theosophic lore is a remarkable fact in our literary history.
Hexapla; the Greek Test of the New Testament with the Six English Versions in parallel columns. 4to. London. 1840.
Confucii Sinarum Philosophus. fol. 1787.
The Laws of Menu. Translated by Sir William Jones,
The Desatir; Sacred Writings of the Ancient Persian Prophets. Persian and English. Bombay. 1818.
The Divine Pymander of Hermes Trismegistus, London. 1650.
Juliann’s Revelations of Divine Love. 1670.
St. Bridget’s Revelations. Nuremberg. 1500.
Behmen’s Works. Theosophia Revelata, das ist alle Gottliche Schriften des Jacob Behmens. With Life, &c., edited by J. G. Gechtels. 1 vol. folio. 4,500 pages. 1715.
———. The Rev. William Law’s edition containing the Aurora or Morning Red; the Three Principles; Man’s Threefold Life; Answer to the Forty Questions concerning the Soul; Signatura Rerum; the Four Complexions; the Mysterium Magnum, &c. &c. 4 vols. 4to. London. 1764.
————. Signatura Rerum; Supersensual Life, &c. 4to. London. 1781.
————. Way to Christ. London. 1776.
————. Teutonic Philosophy. London. 1770.
————. Life, by Francis Okely. Northampton. 1780
————. Theosophick Philosophy Unfolded, by Edward Taylor. London. 1691.
————. Epistles and Apologies, by John Sparrow. London, 1662.
Graher und Gichtel, Kurze Eroffnnug und Unweisung der dreyen Pincipien and Welten in Menschen. Berlin, 1779.
H. Janson. A Spiritual Journey. 4to. London. 1659.
Lamy, La Vie de St. Bernard. 4to. Paris. 1648.
Henrico Khurrath, Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ. fol. Magdeburg. 1602.
Molinas’ Spiritual Guide, Dublin. 1798.
S. Pordage. Mundorum Explicatio. London. 1663.
J. Pordage. Theologia Mystica. London. 1683.
De Sales’ Introduction to a Devout Life, London. 1686.
Matthew Weyer’s Narrow Path of Divine Truth. London, 1683.
Important Truths relating to Spiritual and Practical Christianity. London. 1769.
Unpremeditated Thoughts of God.
H. Hugonis Pia Desideria. London. 1677.
Theologiæ Pacificæ itemque Mysticæ. Amstelodami. 1622.
Immanuel, by S. S. London. 1669.
A. Bourignon. Light in Darkness, London. 1703.
————. So1id Virtue, London. 1699.
————. Life and Sentiments. London. 1699.
————. Light of the World. London. 1696.
Madame Guion. Poesies et Cantiques Spirituels. Cologne. 1722.
Madame Guion. Life, by Brooke. Bristol. 1806.
————. Lettres Chretiennes, &c. 5 vols. London. 1767.
————. Les Opuscules Spirituels. 2 vols. Paris. 1790.
————. Life. 3 vols. Paris. 1791.
————. Polemics. London. 1841.
————. Selections in German. Manheim. 1787.
Fenelon’s Dissertation on Pure Love. London. 1750.
————. Account of Madame Guion. London. 1759.
————. Justifications de Madame Guion. Paris. 1790.
————. Maxims of the Saints. London. 1698.
————. Dialogues of the Dead. 2 vols. Berwick. 1770.
————. Lives and Maxims of Ancient Philosophers. London. 1726.
Thomas a Kempis. Imitation of Christ; by Dr. Stanhope, London. 1759.
William Law’s Way to Divine Knowledge.
————. Spirit of Prayer.
————. Spirit of Love.
————. Christian Perfection.
————. Serious Call.
————. Letters.
————. Appeal.
————. Answer to Dr. Trapp.
————. Case of Reason. }
————. Remarks on the Fable of the Bees. } 1 vol.
————. Tracts. }
————. Christian’s Manual (extracts).
————. Reply to the Hishup of Bangor on the Sacrament. 1719.
————. Spiritual Fragments (extracts).
————. Jordani Brunonis Opera. Paris. 1654.
Swedenborg: Arcana Cœlestia.
————. Heavenly Doctrine. Cambridge. 1820.
————. Heaven and Hell. London. 1823.
Coleridge: Biographia Literaria. 2 vols. N. York. 1817.
————. Aids to lleftertion. Burlington. 1829.
————. Friend. Burlington. 1831.
Greaves’s Manuscripts. 12 vols. 4to. 1828 to 1842.
————. Maxims. London. 1826.
Novalis Schriften. Berlin. 1836.
Lane’s Third Dispensation. London. 1841.
Alcott’s Conversations with Children on the Gospels. 2 vols. Boston. 1836.
————. Record of a School. Boston. 1835.
Krummacher’s Parebeln. 2 vols. Essen. 1840.
Spinoza’s Works end Epistles. 4to. 1777.
Malebranche’s Search after Truth. 2 vols. London. 1695.
————. Christian Conferences. London. 1695.
Wilmott’s Lives of the Sacred Poets. London. 1834.
G. Herbert’s Poems. London. 1835.
R. Crashaw’s Steps to the Temple. London. 1670.
Thomas Fletcher’s Purple Island. London. 1783.
Giles Fletcher’s Christ’s Victory. London. 1783.
Quarles’ Emblems and Hieroglyphics. London. 1680.
————. Divine Fancies. London. 1680.
Huarte’s Wits Commonwealth, or Politeuphuia. London. 1598.
Southcott’s Tracts.
Dr. A. Bury’s Naked Gospel. 4to. London. 1691.
Bromley’s Sabbath of Rest, &c. London. 1761.
Robert Barclay’s Apology. London. 1765.
N. Robinson’s Christian Philosopher. London. 1758.
Poiret on the Restoration of Man. Lond. 1713.
————. Divine Economy. London. 1713.
Virgin in Eden. London. 1741.
Rev. R. Clarke’s Gospel of the Daily Service. London. 1767.
————. Jesus the Nazarene. London. 1770.
————. Spiritual Voice. London. 1700.
Tracts, by Jane Lead.
Bœhms’ History of Pietism. London. 1707.
Franck: Pietas Hallensis. London. 1705.
Pascal’s Thoughts on Religion. London. 1806.
P. Buchius on the Divine Being. London. 1693.
Bellarmine’s Soul’s Ascension to God. London. 1703.
R. Wilkinson’s Saint’s Travel to Canaan. London. 1650.
Man before Adam. London. 1636.
T. Hartley’s Paradise Restored. London. 1764.
J. Serjeant’s Transnatural Philosophy. London. 1700.
Henry More: ψυχώδια. Platonica. Camb. 1642.
————. Works. folio. London. 1642.
Universal Restitution. Loudon. 1761.
Peter Sterry on the Freedome of the Will. fol. London. 1675.
Pathomachia, or the Battell of Affections shadowed by a faigned siedge of the Citie Pathopolis. 4to. London. 1631.
L. Howell’s Desiderius, or the Original Pilgrim. London. 1716.
Bernard’s Isle of Man. London. 1803.
Olbia or the New Island. 4to. London. 1600.
Ramsay’s Philosophical Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion. Glasgow. 2 vols. 4to. 1748.
Justus Lipsius on Constancy. London. 1654.
General Delusion of Christians. London. 1714.
Norris on Love. London. 1723.
————. Amoris Effigies, of Waring. London. 1744.
————. on Matrimony. 2 vols. London. 1739.
————. Ideal World. 2 vols. London. 1701.
Wither’s Britain’s Remembrancer. London. 1628.
Dr. Byrom’s Miscellaneous Poems. 2 vols. Manchester. 1773.
Du Barias’ “Divine Weekes and Workes,” by Josiah Sylvester. 670 pages. fol. London. 1641.
Verstegan’s Restitution of Decayed Intelligence. 4to. London.
Rei Rusticæ Auctores Latini Veteres, M. Cato, L. Columella, M. Varro. Palladius. 1595.
Tosser’s Husbandry. London. 1744.
Evelyn: Kalendarium Hortense. London. 1699.
Porphyry on Abstinence from Animal Food, by T. Taylor. London. 1823.
Tryon: Averrœana, or Letters from Averroes. London. 1687.
————. Way to Health. London. 1697.
————. Knowledge of a Man’s Self, London. 1703.
————. Letters, Philosophical, Theological, and Moral. London. 1700.
————. Self-Knowledge. London. 1703.
————. on Dreams. London. 1691.
Newton’s Return to Nature. London. 1811.
Sir J. Floyer’s Ψυχϱολουσια. London. 1732.
R. T. Claridge’s Hvdropathy. London. 1842.
J. H. Cohausen: Hermippus Redivivus. London. 1771.
Thomas Stanley’s History of Philosophy. 750 pages. Fol. London. 1700.
Jamblichus on the Mysteries. Translated by T. Taylor.
————. Life of Pythagoras, by T. Taylor.
Dacier’s Livrs of Pythagoras and Hierocles. London. 1707.
Plato’s Works, containing with the fifty-five Dialogues and twelve Epistles the substance of nearly all the existing Greek MSS. Commentaries and scholia on Plato. By Thomas Taylor. 6 vols. 4to. London. 1804.
Plotinus’ Select Works, by T. Taylor. London. 1811.
————. on Suicide, by T. Taylor. London. 1834.
Proclus’ Commentaries on Euclid, by T. Taylor. 2 vols. 4to. London. 1788.
————. Six Books on Plato’s Theology, by T. Taylor. 2 vols. 4to. London. 1816.
————. Commentaries on the Timæus of Plato, by T. Taylor. 2 vols. 4to. London. 1820.
————. Fragments by T. Taylor. London. 1825.
————. Ten Doubts, &c. London. 1833.
Stanhope’s Epictetus. London. 1721.
Xenophon’s Banquet, by Dr. Welwood. London. 1710.
Dr. J. Welwood’s Essay on Socrates. London. 1710.
Xenophon’s Memoirs of Socrates, by Sarah Fielding. London. 1738.
Plutarch’s Morals. 5 vols. London. 1694.
————. Lives, by Langhorn. 8 vols. London. 1621.
Seneca’s Morals. London. 1688.
Marcus Antoninus. London. 1534.
Julii Pacii a Berega in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Organum. 4to. Geneva. 1605.
Aristotle’s Metaphysics, by T. Taylor. 4to. London. 1801.
Αϱιογοτολουϛ Ογανον. 4to. Greek and Latin. (Jul. Pacius.) Geneva. 1605.
“ Τοπιχών. Greek and Latin. (Jul. Pacius.)
Thomas Taylor’s Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle. 4to. London. 1812.
“ “ Theoretic Arithmt’lic. 1816.
“ “ Select Works of Porphyry. London. 1823.
“ “ Ocellus Lucanus, &c. London 1831.
“ “ See Proclus, Plato, &c.
William Bridgman on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle; with Greaves’s MS. Notes. 4to. London. 1807.
“ “ Translations of Greek Moralists. 1804.
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy. 8vo. 743 pp. London. 1838.
Bacon: Novom Organum. Amstelœdami. 1660.
“ Wisdom of the Ancients. London. 1836.
Sir T. Browne: Religio Medici and Urn Burial. London.
J. Moerman: Apolouia Crentunim nnd other Emblems. 4to. 1584.
Redelium. Apophthegmata Symbolica.
“ Annus Symbolicus. 4to.
Menestrerii Philosophia Imaginum. Amstelodami. 1695.
Alciati Emblemata cum Claudii Minois Commentariis Raphelengii. 1608.
Muncherus Mythographi Latini. Amstelodami. 1681.
Astrey’s Emblems. 2 vols. London. 1700.
Choice Emblems, Divine and Moral. London. 1732.
Dr. F. Lee’s Απολειποιιενα, or Theological, Mathematical, and Physical Dissertations. 2 vols. London. 1752.
Dr. Godwin: Synopsis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum. 4to. London. 1690.
Walter Whiter: Etymologicum Magnum. 4to. Cambridge. 1800.
B. Holloway’s Physical and Theological Originals. Oxford. 1751.
Jablonskii: Pantheon Ægyptorum. 2 vols. Francofurti. 1750.
Homberg: Mythologie der Griechen und Romer. Leipzig. 1839.
Pinnock’s Iconology.
Æsop’s Fables and other eminent Mythologists, by L’ Estrange. 480 pp. fol. London. 1692.
Οϙγεος, Greek and Latin. Trajecti ad Rhenam. 1689.
Hesiod’s Works, bv T. Cooke. London. 1740.
Pindari. Alcœi, Sapphus. Stesichori, Anacreontis, Simonidis, Alcmonis, &c. Greece et Latine. Heidelberge. 1597.
Wintertoni Poetæ Minores Græci. Græce et Latine. Cantabrigiæ. 1677.
Hippocrates, by Sprengell. London. 1708.
Van Helmont’s Oriatrike, or Physic Refined. 1200 pages. fol. London. 1662.
“ “ Treatise on Natural Philosophy. London. 1681.
“ “ Paradoxical Discourses. London. 1685.
Paracelsus: Archidoxis. London. 1663.
Roger Bacon: Opus Magus.
“ “ Mirror of Alchyrny. 1597.
“ “ Admirable Force of Nature and Art.
Pyrotechny Asserted and Illustrated. London. 1658.
Reginald Scot’s Discovery of Witchcraft. Folio. London. 1665.
E. Sibley’s Key to Physic and the Occult Sciences. 4to. London.
Magiæ Adamiæ, or the Antiquitie of Magic. London. 1650.
Centrum Naturæ Concentratum, or the Salt of Nature Regenerated. London. 1696.
Stilling’s Theory of Pneumatology. London. 1834.
J. C. Colquhoun: Isis Revelata. 2 vols. Edinburg. 1836.
K. Dighey on the Nature of Bodies; and Man’s Soule. 4to. London. 1645.
The Vital Principle or Physiology of Man. London. 1838.
Green’s Vital Dynamics. London. 1838.
William Cooper’s Jehior, or Day of Dawning, Golden Ass, and Catalogue of Mystic Books. London. 1673.
H. C. Agrippa: Occult Philosophy. 4to. Lond. 1655.
“ “ Vanity of the Arts and Sciences.
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