If you would like to look into these concepts further, here are some references.

"Buddism: It's essance and development." Edward Conze. Harper, 1959.

"Near Eastern Mythology." John Gray, Bedrick Books, 1985.

"The Tibetan Book of The Dead; or The After Death Experiences on the Bardo Plain, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering." W.Y.Evans-Wentz. Oxford University Press, 1972.

"Initiation into Hermetics: a course of instruction in ten stages." Franz Bardon. English Translation by A Radspieler. Osiris-Verlag, 1962.


I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.