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Readers who finished Rumi’s Beasts in the Mathnawi by I. A. Graef and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Sufism, Islam, Metaphysics, and Politics & Social Sciences.

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Observations — Idries Shah

Themes: Sufism • Islam • Politics & Social Sciences

Rumi — Jalal al-Din Rumi

Jalal Al-Din Rumi

Themes: Sufism • Islam • Religion & Spirituality

The Awakening: The Resurrection (1900) — Leo Tolstoy

The Awakening: The Resurrection (1900)

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Grimm’s Law — F. Max Muller

Grimm’s Law — F. Max Muller

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

The System Of Nature V2 — Baron D’Holbach

The System Of Nature V2 — Baron D’Holbach

Baron D'Holbach

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

World Theosophy, V2, No. 1-5, January to May, 1932 — H. P. Blavatsky

World Theosophy, V2, No. 1-5, January to May, 1932

H. P. Blavatsky

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Mysticism and Democracy in the English Commonwealth Being the William Belden Noble Lectures Delivered in Harvard University, 1930-1931 — Rufus M. Jones

Mysticism and Democracy in the English Commonwealth Being the William Belden Noble Lectures Delivered in Harvard University, 1930-1931

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

The Vision Of S. Christopher: And Other Verse (1912) — Alfred Cooper Fryer

The Vision Of S. Christopher: And Other Verse (1912)

Alfred Cooper Fryer

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Be Your Own Doctor: A Drugless System of Special and Private Treatments Including the Great Triple Method of Health and Cure — Health Club Ralston Health Club

Be Your Own Doctor: A Drugless System of Special and Private Treatments Including the Great Triple Method of Health and Cure

Health Club Ralston Health Club

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Aurora That Is, the Day Spring Or Dawning of the Day in the Orient Or Morning Redness in the Rising of the Sun — Jacob Boehme

Aurora That Is, the Day Spring Or Dawning of the Day in the Orient Or Morning Redness in the Rising of the Sun

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Rosicrucian Digest, 1960 — Rosicrucian Editors

Rosicrucian Digest, 1960

Rosicrucian Editors

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Christianity In History: A Study Of Religious Development (1917) — James Vernon Bartlet

Christianity In History: A Study Of Religious Development (1917)

James Vernon Bartlet

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind — William Walker Atkinson

Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind

William Walker Atkinson

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

How We Remember our Past Lives — C. Jinarajadasa

How We Remember our Past Lives

C. Jinarajadasa

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Thomas Jefferson, Champion Of Religious Freedom, Advocate Of Christian Morals — Henry Wilder Foote

Thomas Jefferson, Champion Of Religious Freedom, Advocate Of Christian Morals

Henry Wilder Foote

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

The Mystic Triangle 1929: A Modern Magazine of Rosicrucian Philosophy — H Spencer Lewis

The Mystic Triangle 1929: A Modern Magazine of Rosicrucian Philosophy — H Spencer Lewis

H. Spencer Lewis

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

The Prophet Daniel: A Key To The Visions And Prophecies Of The Book Of Daniel (1911) — Arno Clemens Gaebelein

The Prophet Daniel: A Key To The Visions And Prophecies Of The Book Of Daniel (1911)

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

The Second Register Book Of The Parish Church Of Saint Mary, Horncastle: For Marriages, Christenings, And Burials (1896) — Hudson

The Second Register Book Of The Parish Church Of Saint Mary, Horncastle: For Marriages, Christenings, And Burials (1896)

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

The Psychic World — Hereward Carrington

The Psychic World

Hereward Carrington

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Rosa Mystica A Short Treatise on Charity Or the Spiritual Life — Lawrence C. Diether

Rosa Mystica A Short Treatise on Charity Or the Spiritual Life

Lawrence C. Diether

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

The Fixed Stars in Astrology — L. H. Weston

The Fixed Stars in Astrology

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Rodin Immortal Peasant — Anne Leslie

Rodin Immortal Peasant

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

The Hermetic Philosophy, V2 — K. Barkel

The Hermetic Philosophy, V2

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross — Arthur Edward Waite

Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross

Arthur Edward Waite

Themes: Metaphysics • Politics & Social Sciences • Religion & Spirituality

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Sufism, Islam, Metaphysics — the same threads that run through Rumi’s Beasts in the Mathnawi by I. A. Graef. Among the authors featured: Idries Shah, Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Leo Tolstoy, F Max Muller, and others.

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