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• After Sanctification: Growth in the life of Holiness, by T. M. Anderson (PDF at nnu.edu)
• Die Philosophie des Unvollendbar (in German; Leipzig: Veit und Comp., 1919), by Emanuel Lasker
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Treatise Written to a Devout Man, by Walter Hilton (HTML at CCEL)

• The Venetian Glass Nephew (New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1925), by Elinor Wylie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Initiation: The Perfecting of Man, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)

• The Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra (second edition, 2000), ed. by Shih K'un Li and Frank G. French, trans. by Xuanzang and Lok To, contrib. by Tanxudashi (PDF at buddhanet.net)

• Greater Perfection: Conferences of Sister Miriam Teresa, Litt.B., of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey (fourth printing, 1953), by Sister Miriam Teresa, ed. by Charles C. Demjanovich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Way of Perfection, by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Way of Perfection, and Conceptions of Divine Love (London: C. Dolman, 1852), by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by John Dalton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Ladder of Perfection, by Walter Hilton (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Scale of Perfection, by Walter Hilton, ed. by Thomas H. Bestul (HTML at Rochester)

• The Christian's Manual: A Treatise on Christian Perfection, With Directions for Obtaining That State (New York: Carlton and Porter, ca. 1824), by Timothy Merritt, contrib. by John Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, by John Wesley (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Alfabeto Christiano (London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1861), by Juan de Valdés, ed. by Benjamin B. Wiffen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lectures to Professing Christians, by Charles G. Finney (text files at CCEL)
• Uniformity with God's Will, by Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, trans. by Thomas W. Tobin (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)

• Challenging Children to Chastity: A Parental Guide (c1991), by Henry V. Sattler (HTML at EWTN)
• An Address Delivered to Married Women, by a Squire's Wife (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1872), by Victoria Welby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• On Exhortation to Chastity, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Coiled Serpent: A Philosophy of Conservation and Transmutation of Reproductive Energy (Los Angeles: DeVorss and Co., c1939), by C. J. Van Vliet (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Address Delivered by the Hon. Mrs. Welby to the Married Women of Newton, on the First Thursday in Lent, 1872 (printed for private circulation only; London: Metchim and Son, 1872), by Victoria Welby (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Appeal to Mothers, by Ellen G. White (HTML with commentary at ellenwhiteexposed.com)

• Comus, A Mask, by John Milton (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• Measure for Measure (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Milton's Comus (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by John Milton, ed. by William Bell (Gutenberg text)

• On Modesty, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• Stories from the Faerie Queene, by Mary Macleod, contrib. by Edmund Spenser and John W. Hales, illust. by Arthur G. Walker (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Book of Formation (2017), contrib. by Aristide van Aartsengel
  • multiple languages and formats at bookof-formation.info
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Ageless Wisdom Teaching: An Introduction to Humanity's Spiritual Legacy (c2006), by Benjamin Creme (PDF with commentary at share-international.org)
• Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist (1957), by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Wanderer (1932), by Kahlil Gibran (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Lamps of Western Mysticism: Essays on the Life of the Soul in God (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1923), by Arthur Edward Waite (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mystik und Rationalismus (in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot, 1922), by Christian Janentzky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aspects of Christian Mysticism (London: J. Murray, 1907), by W. Major Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• At the Master's Feet, by Sundar Singh, trans. by Arthur Parker and Rebecca J. Parker (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Aurora, by Jakob Böhme, ed. by Charles John Barker and D. S. Hehner, trans. by John Sparrow (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Book of the Twelve Béguines (London: J. M Watkins, 1913), by Jan van Ruusbroec, trans. by John Francis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Christian Mysticism, Considered in Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford, by William Ralph Inge (Gutenberg text)
• Concerning The Three Principles of The Divine Essence (London: John M. Watkins, 1910), by Jakob Böhme, trans. by John Sparrow, contrib. by Paul Deussen and Charles John Barker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Confessions of Jacob Boehme (London: Methuen and Co., c1920), by Jakob Böhme, ed. by M. E. Dowson, contrib. by Evelyn Underhill
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Enochian Walks With God (1694), by Jane Lead (HTML at passtheword.org)
• The Essential Mysticism (Boston: Four Seas Co., 1918), by Stanwood Cobb
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Google; US access only
• The Essentials of Mysticism, and Other Essays (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.; London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons., 1920), by Evelyn Underhill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The High and Deep Searching Out of the Threefold Life of Man Through (or According to) the Three Principles (London: J. M Watkins, 1909), by Jakob Böhme, trans. by John Sparrow, contrib. by G. W. Allen
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co., 1891), by Jakob Böhme, ed. by Franz Hartmann (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Making of a Mystic (Cambridge, UK: W. Heffer and Sons, 1917), by Aelfrida Tillyard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Mystic Light Essays (first edition; New York: Macoy, 1913), by W. J. Colville (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Mystic Way: A Psychological Study in Christian Origins (London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by Evelyn Underhill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mysticism, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)
• Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness, by Evelyn Underhill
  • HTML at CCEL
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• Mysticism: Its True Nature and Value; With a Translation of the "Mystical Theology" of Dionysius, and of the Letters to Caius and Dorotheus (1, 2 and 3), by A. B. Sharpe, contrib. by Pseudo-Dionysius (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Mystics of the Renaissance, and Their Relation to Modern Thought, Including Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Giordano Bruno, and Others (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Rudolf Steiner, trans. by Bertram Keightley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New Light of Mysticism: Azoth, or, The Star in the East (1893), by Arthur Edward Waite
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Personal Christianity, a Science: The Doctrines of Jakob Boehme, the God-Ttaught Philosopher (New York: Macoy Publishing Co., 1919), by Jakob Böhme, ed. by Franz Hartmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Practical Mysticism (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1915), by Evelyn Underhill (Gutenberg text)
• A Revelation of the Everlasting Gospel-Message (1697), by Jane Lead (HTML at passtheword.org)
• The Signature of All Things, and Other Writings (London: J.M. Dent and Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1912), by Jakob Böhme, contrib. by Clifford Bax (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Some Mystical Adventures (London: J. M. Watkins, 1910), by G. R. S. Mead
  • HTML in Russia
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Spiritual Guide Which Disentangles the Soul and Brings It by the Inward Way to the Getting of Perfect Contemplation and the Rich Treasure of Internal Peace, by Miguel de Molinos (PDF with commentary at adamford.com)
• Studies in Mysticism and Certain Aspects of the Secret Tradition (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906), by Arthur Edward Waite
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Wars of David and the Peaceable Reign of Solomon (with additional materials; London: Printed by T. Wood, 1816), by Jane Lead (multiple formats at Google)
• The Way to Christ, by Jakob Böhme (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Way to Divine Knowledge, by William Law (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Works of Jacob Behmen, the Teutonic Theosopher (4 volumes; London: Printed for M. Richardson, 1764-1781), by Jakob Böhme, contrib. by William Law
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• Sand and Foam (1926), by Kahlil Gibran
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• A Collection of Letters on the Most Interesting and Important Subjects, and on Several Occasions, by William Law (HTML at CCEL)
• Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mysticism and the Way Out (Conway Memorial Lecture; London: Watts and Co., 1920), by Ivor Lloyd Tuckett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Spiritual Torrents (translated from the 1790 Paris edition), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, trans. by A. W. Marston (HTML at passtheword.org)
• The Supersensual Life, by Jakob Böhme, trans. by William Law (HTML at CCEL)
• Sympneumata: or, Evolutionary Forces Now Active in Man (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood, 1885), ed. by Laurence Oliphant, contrib. by Alice Le Strange Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Treasure of the Humble (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., n.d.), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alfred Sutro, contrib. by Arthur Bingham Walkley (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Expérience Mystique de l'Illumination Intérieure chez Roger Bacon (Etudes de Philosophie Medievale #3, in French; Paris: J. Vrin, 1924), by Raoul Carton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient and Modern Initiation, by Max Heindel (HTML at phoenixmasonry.org)
• The Buried Temple (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alfred Sutro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dionysius the Areopagite on the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology, ed. by C. E. Rolt, contrib. by Pseudo-Dionysius (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Mystic Christianity: or, The Inner Teachings of the Master, by Ramacharaka (Gutenberg text)
• On Union with God, contrib. by Saint Albertus Magnus and P. J. Berthier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Remainder of Books Written by Jacob Behme (London: Printed by M. S. for Giles Calvert, 1662), by Jakob Böhme, trans. by John Sparrow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Spirit of Prayer, by William Law (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Ways of Mental Prayer (Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1917), by Vital Lehodey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Candle of Vision, by George William Russell
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Mystical Chorus: Jung and the Religious Dimension, by Donald Broadribb, contrib. by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Un Artisan d'Énergie Française: Pierre de Coubertin (in French; Paris: H. Didier, 1917), by Ernest Seillière (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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