List of Writings by Cyril Scott
Compiled by Leslie De'Ath
1. Autobiography
1924* My Years of Indiscretion
London: Mills and Boon, 282p (repr.2001, Best Books)
1969* Bone of Contention: Life Story and Confessions
London: Aquarian Press / New York: Arco, 242p
2. Music
1917* The Philosophy of Modernism (In its Connection with Music)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 135p (also 1925, London: Waverly, together
with Eaglefield Hull’s biography)
1919 Percy Grainger - A Course in Contemporary Musical Biography
New York: G.Schirmer
1928* The Influence of Music on History and Morals: A Vindication of
Plato
London: Theosophical Publishing House, 245p
1933* Music: Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages
London: Rider, 221p (2nd ed, 1950)
- reprinted many times and translated into other languages
3. Occultism and theology
1920* The Initiate: Some Impressions of a Great Soul
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 396p
1920 The Adept of Galilee: A Story and an Argument, by the Author of “The
Initiate”
London: G.Routledge & Sons / New York, E.P. Dutton, 434p
(A rare book, because most of the run of the only edition was lost when the
storage facility was bombed.)
1927* The Initiate in the New World: The Sequel to The Initiate
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul / New York, E.P. Dutton, 302p
1932* The Initiate in the Dark Cycle: A Sequel to “The Initiate” and
to “The Initiate in the New World”
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 215p
(the Initiate trilogy was reprinted in 1971 by Samuel Weiser, York Beach,
Maine)
1933* The Vision of the Nazarene
London, G.Routledge & Sons, 126p (repr. 1975, New York: Samuel Weiser)
1935* An Outline of Modern Occultism
London: G.Routledge / New York: E.P.Dutton 239p (2nd ed, 1950)
1936* The Greater Awareness: A Sequel to An Outline of Modern Occultism
London: G.Routledge & Sons / New York: E.P.Dutton, 243p
1942* The Christian Paradox: What is, as Against What Should Have Been
London/New York/Melbourne: Rider, 144p
1953* The Boy who Saw True
London/New York: Peter Nevill, 248p
1956* Occultism: An Alternative to Scientific Humanism. A Lecture....
London: L.N. Fowler, 16p (repr.1996)
4. Homeopathy
1938* Doctors, Disease, and Health: A Critical Survey of Therapeutics,
Modern and Ancient
London: Methuen / Cleveland: Sherwood, 283p (2nd ed, 1946)
1939 Victory Over Cancer Without Radium or Surgery: A Book Dealing with
Cancer Causation, Cancer Prevention, and Cancer Cures for Laymen and Doctors
London: Methuen, 271p (2nd ed, 1957)
1940 Health, Diet and Commonsense
London: Andrew Dakers, 191p (2nd ed, 1944)
1946* Medicine Rational and Irrational
London: True Health, 224p
1947* Crude Black Molasses: Nature’s Wonder Food
London: True Health, 36p (many further editions)
1948* Cider Vinegar: Nature’s Great Health Promoter and Safest
Treatment [Cure] of Obesity
London, Athene, 40p (6th ed, 1968)
1953* Simpler and Safer Remedies for Grievous Ills
London: Athene, 110p
1955* Sleeplessness: Its Prevention and Cure by Harmless Methods
London: Athene, 32p
1956 Constipation and Common Sense
London: Athene, 40p (2nd ed, 1969)
1968 Cancer Prevention: Fallacies and Some Reassuring Facts
London: Athene, 48p
5. Ethics / The human condition
1921 The Autobiography of a Child: Written from the Psycho-sexual-analytical
Standpoint for Doctors, Teachers, and Psychologists
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Trubner, 389p
1928 The Art of Making a Perfect Husband. By a Husband
London: Noel Douglas, 130p
1930 Childishness: A Study in Adult Conduct
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 102p
1939* Man is my Theme: A Study of National and Individual Conduct
London: Andrew Dakers, 303p
1953 Man, the Unruly Child
London: Aquarian Press
6. Humour
1939 The Ghost of a Smile
London: Andrew Dakers, 199p
7. Poetry
n.d. The Shadows of Silence and the Songs of Yesterday
Liverpool: Donald Fraser
1907 The Grave of Eros and The Book of Mournful Melodies with Dreams
from the East
Liverpool: Donald Fraser / London, J.M. Watkins
1910* The Voice of the Ancient
London: J.M. Watkins, 63p
1912 The Vales of Unity
London: David Nutt, 56p
1915 The Celestial Aftermath, A Springtide of the Heart, and Far-away
Songs
London: Chatto & Windus, 68p
8. Poetry translation
1909 Beaudelaire, Charles. The Flowers of Evil (= Les fleurs du mal)
London: Elkin Mathews, 63p
1910 Stefan George: Selection from his Works (Vigo cabinet series
71)
London: Elkin Mathews, 63p
1952 Die Tragödie Stefan Georges: Ein Erinnerungsbild und ein Gang
durch sein Werk
Eltville am Rhein: Lothar Hempe (transl. Ilse Schneider), 91p
9. Other
As a deemed authority on spiritualism and homeopathy, Scott provided introductions
to several books by other authors. In the case of David Anrias’s Through
the Eyes of the Masters: Meditations and Portraits.... (1932, London: G.
Routledge & Sons), Scott’s introduction comprises over half the volume.
January, 2005