The "Upanishads"

The Way is older than any formal, organized religion. It predates Catholicism, even Christianity, by millennia. Perhaps its oldest literary expression is found in the very ancient teachings of the Indian Upanishads, which talk a lot about God as the deeply interior Dreamer/Creator of the "material" and "external" world. In those texts, the Dreamer/Creator is called "Brahman," or simply the "Self." Several good translations into English are available, and these mystical texts are the subject of Part V of Volume 2 of Luminous Jewels of Love and Light.

Highly recommended reading for the student of mysticism, these documents originated in the eighth century BCE.