High Watch Reading List
“Word Power Made Easy,” by Norman Lewis, is earnestly suggested before undertaking the other books
No. | Author | Title / Index | Date of Publication | |||
1 | Numerous Authors | The Bible | 450 B.C. - 200 A.D. | |||
2 | Shakespeare, W. | Hamlet | About 1600 | |||
3 | Aristotle | Works | About 350-325 B.C. | |||
4 | Homer | Iliad | About 800 B.C. | |||
5 | Darwin, C. | Origin of Species | 1859 | |||
6 | Alighieri, Dante | Divine Comedy | About 1300 | |||
7 | Plato | The Republic | about 400-350 B.C. | |||
8 | Goethe, J. | Faust | 1808 | |||
9 | Confucius | Confucian Classics | about 500-480 B.C. | |||
10 | Milton, J. | Paradise Lost | 1667 | |||
11 | Cervantes, M. | Don Quixote | 1605 | |||
12 | Mohammed | Koran | about 610-632 | |||
13 | Chaucer, G. | Canterbury Tales | 1386 | |||
14 | Newton, I. | Principia Mathematica | 1687 | |||
15 | Kant, I. | Critique of Pure Reason | 1781 | |||
16 | Tolstoy, L. | War and Peace | 1866 | |||
17 | Virgil | Aeneid | about 70-19 B.C. | |||
18 | Marx, K. | Das Kapital | 1867 | |||
19 | Homer | Odyssey | about 600-500 B.C. | |||
20 | Bunyan, J. | Pilgrim's Progress | 1678 | |||
21 | Gibbon, E. | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | 1772 | |||
22 | Bacon, F. | Novum Organum | 1612 | |||
23 | Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | about 468-406 B.C. | |||
24 | Buddha | Buddhist Sutras | about 480 B.C. | |||
25 | Smith, A. | The Wealth of Nations | 1776 | |||
26 | Aesop | Aesop's Fables | about 500 B.C. | |||
27 | Montaigne, M. | Essays | 1580 | |||
28 | Hugo, V. | Les Miserables | 1862 | |||
29 | Plato | Phaedo | about 400-350 B.C. | |||
30 | Mendel, J. | Principles of Heredity | about 1850-1864 | |||
31 | Burton, R. | Arabian Nights | 1885 | |||
32 | Shakespeare, W. | King Lear | 1600 | |||
33 | St. Thomas Aquinas | Summa Theologica | 1265 | |||
34 | Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound | 500-456 B.C. | |||
35 | Hindu sources | Bhagavad-Gita | about 200 A.D. | |||
36 | Calvin, J. | The Institutes of the Christian Religion | 1536 | |||
37 | Rousseau, J. | Social Contract | 1762 | |||
38 | Plutarch | Lives | about 100-120 A.D. | |||
39 | Blackstone, W. | Commentaries on the Laws of England | 1765 | |||
40 | Ancient Service Books | Book of Common Prayer | about 1500 | |||
41 | Boswell, J. | The Life of Samuel Johnson | 1791 | |||
42 | Defoe, D. | Robinson Crusoe | 1719 | |||
43 | Shakespeare, W. | Macbeth | about 1600 | |||
44 | Marcus Aurelius | Meditations | 121-180 A.D. | |||
45 | Emerson, R. | Essays | 1841 | |||
46 | Sophocles | Antigone | about 468-406 B.C. | |||
47 | Shakespeare, W. | Romeo and Juliet | about 1600 | |||
48 | Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War | about 420 B.C. | |||
49 | Dickens, C. | David Copperfield | 1850 | |||
50 | Franklin, B. | Autobiography | 1784 | |||
51 | Locke, J. | Essay Concerning Human Understanding | 1690 | |||
52 | Renault, M. | The Last of the Wine | 1956 | |||
53 | Bryce, J. | The American Commonwealth | 1888 | |||
54 | Herodatus | History | about 490-480 B.C. | |||
55 | St. Augustine | Confessions | 399 A.D. | |||
56 | Whitman, W. | Leaves of Grass | 1855 | |||
57 | Ceasar, J. | Commentaries on the Gallic Wars | about 50 B.C. | |||
58 | Stowe, H.B. | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1852 | |||
59 | Lincoln, A. | Address | 1858-1865 | |||
60 | Malthus, T. | On the Principles of Population | 1798 | |||
61 | Galileo Galilei | Dialogue of the Two Chief Systems | 1632 | |||
62 | Khayyam, O. | The Rubaiyat (Fitzgerald edition) | 1859 | |||
63 | Rabelais, F. | Gargantua / Pantagruel | 1533 | |||
64 | Shelley, P. | Poems | 1820 | |||
65 | Machiavelli, N. | The Prince | 1512 | |||
66 | Descartes, R. | Discourse on Method | 1636 | |||
67 | Fielding, H. | Tom Jones | 1749 | |||
68 | Hume, D. | An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding | 1748 | |||
69 | Spinoza, B. | Ethics | 1675 | |||
70 | Thackeray, W.M. | Vanity Fair | 1846 | |||
71 | Voltaire | Candide | 1759 | |||
72 | Wordsworth | Poems | 1807 | |||
73 | Rousseau, J.J. | Confessions | 1807 | |||
74 | Twain, M. | Tom Sawyer | 1875 | |||
75 | Dostoyevski, F. | Crime and Punishment | 1866 | |||
76 | Epictetus | Discourses | about 90 A.D. | |||
77 | Harvey, W. | On the Motion of the Heart and Blood | 1621 | |||
78 | Euripides | Hippolytus | about 480-406 B.C. | |||
79 | Boccacio, G. | The Decameron | 1348 | |||
80 | Thomas à Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | 1471 | |||
81 | Erasmus, D. | The Praise of Folly | about 1510 | |||
82 | Swift, J. | Gulliver's Travels | 1720 | |||
83 | Shakespeare, W. | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1595 | |||
84 | Faraday, M. | Scientific Papers | 1909-1914 | |||
85 | James, W. | Principles of Psychology | 1890 | |||
86 | Ibsen, H.J. | A Doll's House | about 1880 | |||
87 | German sources | Nibelungenlied | about 1200 | |||
88 | Shakespeare, W. | The Merchant of Venice | 1596 | |||
89 | Penys, S. | The Diary of Samuel Penys | 1660-1669 | |||
90 | Aeschylus | Agamemnon Trilogy | about 500-456 B.C. | |||
91 | Bacon, F. | Advancement of Learning | 1655 | |||
92 | Burns, R. | Poems | 1787 | |||
93 | MacCauley, T.R. | The History of England | 1848-1855 | |||
94 | Keats, J. | Shorter Poems | 1817 | |||
95 | Shakespeare, W. | Sonnets | 1609 | |||
96 | Dostoyevski, F. | Brothers Karamazov | 1880 | |||
97 | Tennyson, A. | In Memoriam | about 1833-1850 | |||
98 | Carroll, L. | Alice in Wonderland | 1865 | |||
99 | Cicero | Orations | about 80-43 B.C. | |||
100 | Spenser, H. | First Principles | 1862 | |||
101 | Tolstoy, L. | Anna Karenina | 1877 | |||
102 | Payne, T. | The Rights of Man | 1791-92 | |||
103 | St. Augustine | The City of God | 354-430 A.D. | |||
104 | Veblen, T. | The Theory of the Leisure Class | 1899 | |||
105 | Lucretius | On the Nature of Things | about 1050 | |||
106 | Schopenhauer A. | The World as Will and Representation | 1937 | |||
107 | Vedic Sources | Upanishads | about 500 B.C. | |||
108 | Toynbee, A. | The History of the World | 1934-1961 | |||
109 | Germain, W.M. | The Magic of your Mind | 1956 | |||
110 | Lindner, R. | Prescription for Rebellion | 1952 | |||
111 | Lindner, B. | Must You Conform ? | 1956 | |||
112 | Wylie, P. | Generation of Vipers | 1942 | |||
113 | Wylie, P. | Essay on Morals | 1947 | |||
114 | Bucke, R.M. | Cosmic Consciousness | 1901 | |||
115 | Cady, H.E. | Lessons in Truth | 1896 | |||
116 | DeWaters, L. | The Finished Kingdom | 1919 | |||
117 | DeWaters, L. | Science of Ascension | 1929 | |||
118 | DeWaters, L. | The Voice of Revelation | 1950 | |||
119 | Shakespeare, W. | The Tempest | around 1609 | |||
120 | Lanyon, W. | All works | around 1917-1946 |
Mentorship training in The Prosperos®; begins with Closed Class instruction in Translation® and Releasing the Hidden Splendour™, followed by pursuit of the High Watch degree. This reading list represents a complete undergraduate curriculum in the history of metaphysical and philosophical thought. We urge anyone seeking a H.W. degree to pursue it with vigor. Supervised reading programs can be arranged. For more information about the path of Mentorship, see the About Mentorship page.