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Originally Posted by Jnana

Please recommend the books you have found most important to your spiritual development.

The Bible
The Masks Of God (four volumes) by Joseph Campbell
The Shepherd Of Hermas, author unknown
The writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi
The Celestine Prophecy
The Journal of George Fox and other Quaker writings such as the journal of John Woolman

I know there are others; these were important to me, and I can recommend them wholeheartedly. I'd recommend Blavatsky and Crowley and The Urantia Book if I could do it without disclaimers.

If your background is Christian like mine, then it may be hard to throw off the mantle of dogma when the sun of truth becomes too intense. This is why people will not read the Bible with an open mind and heart. I highly recomment the Apostolic Fathers as represented by the Didache, The Shepherd Of Hermas and the early letters of the church, over the so-called "Lost Gospels" most of which were excluded from the canon with good reason.