Quellen und Abkürzungen

 

Apuleius, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses Book XI), Herausg. und Übers. J. Gwyn Griffiths, E. J. Brill, Leiden 1975.
 

–, Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass, zitiert in Lewis Spence, The Mysteries of Egypt. Siehe auch Transformation of Lucius Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass, Übers. Robert Graves, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1951.
ML

Barker, A. Trevor, Herausg., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 2. Ausgabe, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1926; Faksimile-Ausgabe, Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, 1992.
BCW

Blavatsky, H. P., Collected Writings, zusammengestellt von Boris de Zirkoff, 15 Bände, Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, Madras [Chennai], London, 1958-1991.
Isis

–, Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology, 2 Bände, J. W. Bouton, New York; Bernard Quaritch, London, 1877; Neudruck Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, 1999.
SD

–, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, 2 Bände, The Theosophical Publishing Co., Ltd., London, New York, Madras, 1888; Faksimile-Ausgabe, The Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, 1999.
 

–, The Theosophical Glossary, The Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1892; Faksimile-Ausgabe, Theosophy Company, Los Angeles, 1990.
 

–, The Voice of the Silence, The Theosophical Publishing Co., Ltd, London, New York, Madras 1889; wörtlicher Nachdruck, Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, 1994.
 

Durant, Will, The Story of Civilization, 1. Band, Our Oriental Heritage, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1935.
 

Eliade, Mircea, A History of Religious Ideas, 1. Band, From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries, Übers. Willard R. Trask, Universiy of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1978.
 

Ginsburg, Christian D., D.D., The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development and Literature, George Routledge & Sons, London, 1925; Nachdruck mit The Essenes: Their History and Doctrines, Macmillan Company, New York, 1956.
 

Judge, William Q., The Bhagavad-Gita combined with Essays on the Gita (Recension); Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, 1969.
 

Kanta, Katherine G., Eleusis: Myth, Mysteries, History, Museum, Übers. W. W. Phelps, The National Museum, Athens, 1979.
 

Kerényi, Carl, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, Übers. Ralph Manheim, Bollingen Series LXV · 4, Pantheon Books, New York, 1967.
 

Meyer, Marvin W., Herausg., The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook, Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World, Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1987.
 

Mylonas, George E., Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1961.
 

The Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Bollingen Series XXX · 2, Pantheon Books, New York, 1955.
 

Oliver, George, D.D., The History of Initiation, Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co., New York, 1923.
 

Pert Em Hru (Egyptian Book of the Dead), versch. Ausg.
ET

Purucker, G. de, The Esoteric Tradition, 2. Auflage, Theosophical University Press, Point Loma, 1940, Neudruck, Pasadena, 1973.
FEP

–, Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy, 2. und überarbeitete Auflage, Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, 1979.
SOP

–, Studies in Occult Philosophy, Theosophical University Press, Covina, 1945; Neudruck, Pasadena, 1973.
 

Spence, Lewis, The Mysteries of Egypt, or The Secret Rites and Traditions of the Nile, Rider & Co., London, [1933].
 

Sūrya-Siddhānta: A Text-Book of Hindu Astronomy, Übers. Rev. Ebenezer Burgess (und W. D. Whitney), American Oriental Society, New Haven, 1860; Neudruck, Wizards Bookshelf, San Diego, 1978.
 

Theon of Smyrna, Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato, Übers. Robert und Deborah Lawlor, Wizards Bookshelf, San Diego, 1979.
 

The Vishnu Purāna, Übers. H. H. Wilson, Herausg. Fitz-Edward Hall, 5 Bände plus Index, Trübner & Co., London, 1864-77.