Gerald Heard published 38 books between 1924 and 1964, including mysteries written under the name "H. F. Heard." 

1920s-30s

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Narcissus

An Anatomy of Clothes

1924

The Ascent of Humanity

An Essay on the Evolution of Civilization from Group Consciousness Through Individuality to Super-Consciousness

1929

Social Substance of Religion

An Essay on the Evolution of Religion

1931

The Emergence of Man

1931

This Surprising World

A Journalist Looks at Science

1932

These Hurrying Years

An Historical Outline 1900-1933

1934

Science in the Making

1935

The Source of Civilization

1935

Exploring the Stratosphere

1936

The Third Morality

1937

Science Front, 1936

1937

Pain, Sex and Time

A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man

1939

1940s

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The Creed of Christ

An Interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer

1940

Training for the Life of the Spirit

1941-2

The Code of Christ

An Interpretation of the Beatitudes

1941

A Taste for Honey

A Mycroft Mystery

(Fiction published under H. F. Heard)

1941

Man the Master

1941

Reply Paid: A Mystery

A Mycroft Mystery

(Fiction published under H. F. Heard)

1942

A Dialogue in the Desert

1942

Murder by Reflection

(Fiction published under H. F. Heard)

1942

A Preface to Prayer

1944

The Great Fog

And Other Weird Tales

(Fiction published under H. F. Heard)

1944

The Recollection

1944

The Gospel According to Gamaliel

1945

The Eternal Gospel

1946

Doppelgangers

An Episode of the Fourth, The Psychological, Revolution, 1997

(Fiction published under H. F. Heard)

1947

The Lost Cavern

And Other Tales of the Fantastic

(Fiction published under H. F. Heard)

1948

Is God Evident?

An Essay Toward a Natural Theology

1948

The Notched Hairpin

A Mycroft Mystery

(Fiction published under H. F. Heard)

1949

Prayers and Meditations

A Monthly Cycle Arranged for Daily Use (edited by Gerald Heard)
1949

1950s-60s

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The Black Fox

A Novel of the Seventies

(Fiction published under H.F. Heard)

1950

Is God in History?

An Inquiry into Human and Prehuman History in Terms of the Doctrine of Creation, Fall, and Redemption

1950

Morals Since 1900

1950

Is Another World Watching?

The Riddle of the Flying Saucers

1950

Gabriel and the Creatures

1952

The Human Venture

1955

Training for a Life of Growth

1959

The Five Ages of Humanity (formerly titled The Five Ages of Man)

The Psychology of Human History

1964

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There are currently eight Gerald Heard books in print. Eight additional H. F. Heard fiction titles are available in e-book format. Most of Gerald Heard's other books are available in used condition. There are several used-book sites on the Internet. When searching, be sure to use the names Gerald Heard and H. F. Heard.

"Only when crude sensation, whether of pleasure or of pain, is transcended, can consciousness experience sustained intensity of being."
Pain, Sex and Time, 1939

Synopsis of Major Works

We are posting an excellent article titled
"The Philosophy of Gerald Heard: Highlights of His Writings 1924-1958" written by the late Rev. Edmund A. Opitz in 1958, containing perhaps the best synopsis to date of Mr. Heard's major works from Narcissus through The Human Venture.

Two books are currently available by Gerald Heard's paternal grandfather, the Rev. John Bickford Heard. The first is The Tripartite Nature of Man, available online through various sources. The second is Alexandrian and Carthaginian Theology Contrasted, available through Wipf and Stock Publishers.

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The Philosophy of Gerald Heard

Highlights of His Writings 1924-1958

by Rev. Edmund A. Opitz

Mr. Heard’s religious philosophy thus grows naturally out of his scientific and historical researches... Man’s unique history, and indeed his very structure, orient him Godward.

During the past 34 years, Gerald Heard has averaged a book a year. There are 34 books to his credit in the fields of history, anthropology, philosophy, religion, and literature; including six novels, an allegory, and two collections of short stories. His mind has ranged through all branches of ancient and modern knowledge, including the sciences. He is at home in the religions and philosophies of both West and East. In his books he has integrated this vast accumulation of knowledge and brought it to bear upon the persistent personal and social problems of man in the modern world.

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