Becoming Aware that THOUGHTS are THINGS - books for the beginner in the spiritualization of thinking process

                                                          Prentice Mulford (1843 - 1891)

 I would like to recommend some books that you can start with if you are just beginning to wake up to the fact that your thinking and feeling activity is as real as currents of air and water. If you would like to study the path of using your thinking as a doorway of freedom into the real soul and spiritual world, it may help if you work with these important books to develop some fundamental strength at the beginning. The bottom steps do not lead in a straight path to the top steps, but with these healthy books, you should be able to reach the top books, which are those by Rudolf Steiner and Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon. Steiner's books can help you take the final step, which requires the highest cultivation of self-knowledge and morality. 

A normal training in Geometry, Mathematics, and Logic is helpful as a background. But, don't worry if you didn't do that well in Math in School. Try out these books: 

1. Thoughts are Things - Prentice Mulford. 

2. Thought Vibration - William Atkinson. 

3. Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Raja Yoga - Yogi Ramacharaka (i.e. W. Atkinson)

(Some of these early NEW THOUGHT books concentrate on using thinking to generate material wealth, but as long as you do not see that as the Final Goal, these books are built on a solid moral basis). 

4. Henri Bortoft - The Wholeness of Nature 

5. Goethe - The Metamorphosis of Plants 

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After these books, to train your thinking, you might investigate: 

6. Aristotle's complete works. There is no better training in logical and consistent thinking. 

7. Rudolf Steiner - Truth and Knowledge and The Philosophy of Freedom 

(The most important books ever written on the subject matter of pure thinking) 

8. Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon - The New Experience of the Supersensible (especially chapters 4 and 5) 

Good luck!