📚 Mysticism

Books with mysticism on their catalogue record, first published between 1729 and 1998, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mysticism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 16,111 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Practical mysticism	Evelyn Underhill	1914	185
	Mysticism	Evelyn Underhill	1911	67
	The secret doctrine	Елена Петровна Блаватская	1888	52
	Christianity as mystical fact and the mysteries at antiquity. --	Rudolf Steiner	1902	51
	A serious call to a devout and holy life	William Law	1729	44
	Mysticism in English literature	Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon	1913	41
	The garden of the prophet	Kahlil Gibran	1923	41
	Psychic self-defence	Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune)	1930	41
	Yoga: immortality and freedom	Mircea Eliade	1936	39
	Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism	Gershom Scholem	1941	36
	Llama de amor viva	John of the Cross	1912	35
	Philosophical essays	Bertrand Russell	1910	34
	Cosmic Consciousness	Richard Maurice Bucke	1894	26
	Cosmic consciousness	Richard Maurice Bucke	1923	25
	Book of Margery Kempe	Margery Kempe	1940	24
	Zur Kabbala und ihrer Symbolik	Gershom Scholem	1960	23
	The forerunner, his parables and poems	Kahlil Gibran	1900	19
	Men who have walked with God	Cheney, Sheldon	1945	19
	Noche oscura del alma	John of the Cross	1905	16
	Christian mysticism	Inge, William Ralph	1899	15
	Conversations With God, Book 3	Neale Donald Walsch	1998	15
	Jewish Mysticism	Joshua Abelson	1913	14
	This is it, and other essays on Zen and spiritual experience	Alan Watts	1960	14
	Mystics & Zen masters	Thomas Merton	1967	13
	The Holographic Universe	Michael Talbot	1991	10
	Mysticism in religion	Inge, William Ralph	1947	9
	Behold the spirit	Alan Watts	1947	8
	Living the infinite way	Joel S. Goldsmith	1954	8
	Sigmund Freud and the Jewish mystical tradition	David Bakan	1958	7
	Magick without tears	Aleister Crowley	1973	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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