Gerald Heard published 38 books between 1924 and 1964, including mysteries written under the name "H. F. Heard." Immediately below is the link to a Gerald Heard Bibliography compiled in 1978 and (slightly) edited in 2024 by our longtime friend David Kent, who has given his kind permission to post it on our website.
Bibliography of Gerald Heard’s works by David Kent
1920s-30s
An Essay on the Evolution of Civilization from Group Consciousness Through Individuality to Super-Consciousness
1929
1940s
An Episode of the Fourth, The Psychological, Revolution, 1997
(Fiction published under H. F. Heard)
1947
1950s-60s
An Inquiry into Human and Prehuman History in Terms of the Doctrine of Creation, Fall, and Redemption
1950
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.
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.
