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Tao Te Ching
Laozi — James Legge
The Tao Te Ching (Daodejing), the foundational classic of philosophical Taoism attributed to Laozi, the semi-legendary 'Old Master' said to have been a contemporary of Confucius, though the text probably took shape between the fifth and third centuries BCE. In eighty-one brief chapters of terse, paradoxical verse, it describes the Tao, the nameless Way that precedes heaven and earth, and its power or virtue (Te) as expressed in the sage. Recurring teachings include wu wei (effortless, non-coercive action), the strength of softness and water, emptiness as the source of usefulness, return to the uncarved block of simplicity, the relativity of opposites, the dangers of desire, cleverness and war, and government that rules by not interfering. One of the most translated books in the world, it underlies Taoist religion, Chinese medicine, internal alchemy and martial arts, influenced Chan and Zen Buddhism, and is read worldwide as a manual of contemplative and ethical wisdom.
James Legge's historical English translation (Project Gutenberg #216), supplied from the curator's organised collection, replacing the earlier reading edition. Authorship and dating of the ancient work remain subjects of scholarship. Canonical Markdown supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan (2026).
Private reflections on attention, duty and what lies within our control. A practical encounter with Stoic thought.
Historical English translation by Meric Casaubon, with introductory material in the source edition. PDF is a reflowed reading edition; its page numbers are specific to Acuity's PDF.
An influential exploration of seven principles associated with Hermetic philosophy. Read as a modern esoteric interpretation.
First published in 1908. This is a modern esoteric work, not an ancient Hermetic source. Its historical claims should be considered critically. PDF is a reflowed reading edition.
A core anthology of the writings of Baha'u'llah (1817-1892), founder of the Baha'i Faith, selected and translated into English by Shoghi Effendi and first published in 1935. Drawn from tablets and books revealed over four decades of exile in Baghdad, Adrianople and Akka, its 166 passages range across the nature of God as unknowable essence, the Manifestations of God as mirrors of the divine attributes, progressive revelation and the oneness of religion, the soul and its journey after death, the station of Baha'u'llah as the promised one of all ages, and the coming unity of humankind under just and peaceful world order. Ethical counsels on detachment, justice, trustworthiness and service sit alongside mystical meditations and prophetic summons to the kings and peoples of the world. Long regarded by Baha'is as the most representative single volume of their scripture, it is the standard entry point for readers wanting the theology, cosmology and social vision of the faith in its founder's own words.
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A compilation of the writings of the Bab (Siyyid Ali-Muhammad Shirazi, 1819-1850), the Persian prophet whose 1844 declaration began the Babi movement and who is regarded by Baha'is as the herald and forerunner of Baha'u'llah. Prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice and translated by Habib Taherzadeh (1976), it presents extracts from his major works, including the Qayyumu'l-Asma (commentary on the Surah of Joseph), the Persian Bayan, the Seven Proofs, the Book of Names and his addresses and prayers. Themes include the cyclical renewal of divine revelation, the expected advent of 'Him Whom God shall make manifest', the spiritual meaning of resurrection, judgement and paradise, the unity of the Prophets, and intense devotional praise of God. The Bab's ornate, symbol-laden style draws on Shi'i esoteric and Shaykhi thought, making this volume valuable both as Baha'i scripture and as a primary source for nineteenth-century Persian messianism and Islamic mysticism.
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A short classic of Baha'i devotional literature, revealed by Baha'u'llah around 1857-58 while walking along the banks of the Tigris during his exile in Baghdad, and translated by Shoghi Effendi. It consists of seventy-one brief Arabic and eighty-two Persian aphorisms addressed by God to the human soul ('O Son of Spirit', 'O Son of Being'). Baha'u'llah presented it as the inner essence of what was revealed to the earlier Prophets, clothed in brevity. The verses teach love of God as the purpose of creation, detachment from the world, purity of heart, justice, humility, the transience of material life and the soul's return to its Source. Its poetic concision, comparable to Sufi wisdom sayings and the Psalms, has made it one of the most widely read and memorised Baha'i texts and an accessible doorway into the mystical ethics of the faith.
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The Kitab-i-Iqan (Book of Certitude), revealed by Baha'u'llah in Persian in 1861-62 in Baghdad in reply to questions from an uncle of the Bab, and translated by Shoghi Effendi. It is the principal doctrinal work of the Baha'i Faith. In two parts, it explains why each new Messenger of God has been rejected by the religious leaders of his day and interprets the apocalyptic symbols of earlier scripture (the darkening of the sun and moon, the falling of stars, the cloud, the resurrection and the Day of Judgement) as spiritual rather than literal events. It sets out the doctrine of progressive revelation, the station of the Manifestations of God, the meaning of the 'Seal of the Prophets', and the qualities of the true seeker, whose path of purification is described in a celebrated passage. Drawing heavily on the Qur'an, Bible and hadith, it is essential reading for Baha'i theology, comparative eschatology and the hermeneutics of sacred symbolism.
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A custom companion volume from Ethan's own Quantum Prayers project (June 2026 edition). It is a structured collection of coherence-aligned prayers arranged in 21 subject categories, drawing on and extending the framework set out in Quantum Prayers: Coherence, Consciousness and the Art of Aligned Prayer. The corpus opens with guidance on how to use it and a five-stage prayer protocol, then provides prayers built around the book's central metaphors: the observer effect, quantum coherence, non-locality and intention as an organising field. Categories cover everyday spiritual and practical needs such as healing, protection, relationships, guidance, gratitude and intercession. Written as a practical prayer book rather than a scientific treatise, it is intended for devotional use and as a source library of prayer texts for retrieval and composition by people and AI agents working within the Quantum Prayers framework.
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A custom study from Ethan's own collection, subtitled The Primordial Human as Cosmology in Jewish Mysticism and Gnostic Scripture and framed as an exploration in comparative cosmology. It takes up one figure seen through two traditions: the Kabbalists' Adam Kadmon, the primordial man of light who must be repaired, and the Gnostics' Anthropos, the heavenly human who must be remembered. After a prelude on the human being as a diagram of everything, Part One sets out the problem of the primordial human: why the universe was imagined in human shape, four ways of reading 'in our image', and cosmogony through emanation, descent and counterpart. Later parts examine Adam Kadmon in Sefer Yetzirah, the Zohar and Lurianic Kabbalah, and the Anthropos in Nag Hammadi texts, before letting the two traditions argue over creation, the fall and restoration. It is useful as a thematic bridge between the library's Kabbalah and Gnostic holdings.
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Quantum Prayers - Coherence, Consciousness and the Art of Aligned Prayer
Ethan James Farrell
The foundational custom text of Ethan's Quantum Prayers framework (June 2026 edition), compiled from original teachings together with syntheses of scientific research. Chapter I organises prayers by subject. Chapter II offers expanded syntheses on consciousness, coherence and choice, with sections on the theoretical case for prayer as a 'quantum technology', the observer effect and conscious collapse, the neuroscience of prayer, coherence as the master key, quantum intercession (praying for others), regulation of the nervous system as the foundation of practice, and conscious manifestation beyond the popular law of attraction. The book uses physics concepts as interpretive metaphors for intention, attention and spiritual alignment rather than as laboratory claims. It is the parent volume of A Quantum Coherence Corpus and serves as the conceptual reference for that prayer collection.
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A custom cosmological study from Ethan's collection (2026): The First Form: Anthropos, Adam Kadmon, and the Cosmology of the Primordial Human. It asks why the universe was imagined in the shape of a human being, reading Gnostic and Jewish mystical cosmologies against scripture and later interpretation. Opening with Ezekiel's vision of the likeness of a man upon the sapphire throne, its chapters move through scriptural seeds in Genesis and the prophets, Philo's heavenly human of Alexandria, the form on the Merkavah chariot, the Anthropos in Gnostic cosmologies, Adam Elyon and the emergence of Adam Kadmon, and Isaac Luria's doctrine of contraction (tzimtzum), the line of light and the primordial man. Closing chapters set out the shared grammar and divergent worlds of the two traditions, reasonable expansions, common and individual beliefs, and 'the face that precedes the world'. It is a companion to the library's other Anthropos volumes.
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A custom study prepared with OpenAI Codex (September 2026): The Human Before the World: Anthropos and Adam Kadmon in the Mystical Imagination of Creation, subtitled a study in light, likeness and the destiny of the soul. It contemplates the humanity imagined at the threshold of creation in ancient Gnostic writings and Jewish mysticism. Chapters move from the human likeness in the fullness of light and the image reflected in the waters, through other heavens and other humans and the tension between likeness and the unimaginable, to Adam Kadmon and the measure of light, the shattering of the vessels and the work of return, and a conversation between the two cosmologies. Further sections treat the heavenly human in the Secret Book of John (Apocryphon of John) and Adam Kadmon's first configurations. Reflective rather than technical, it belongs with the library's cluster of primordial-human studies.
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A custom work of cosmological fiction from Ethan's collection (2026), opening with the line 'Before the first name, there was a Person shaped like everything.' Written in a lyrical, mythopoeic voice and framed with invented scripture such as 'the lost hymn of the Gatherers', it dramatises a creation myth in which the Infinite withdraws to make room and the first thing to enter that space is a cosmic Face containing the map of every face that will ever wake. The story draws imaginatively on the Lurianic themes of contraction, the primordial human of light, fragmentation and restoration, and on the Gnostic Anthropos, turning the ideas explored in the library's non-fiction studies of Adam Kadmon into narrative. It should be read as fiction inspired by esoteric cosmology, not as a historical or scriptural source.
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The Stone Watchers - A History of Rapa Nui and the Moai
Ethan James Farrell
A custom popular history from Ethan's collection: The Stone Watchers: A History of Rapa Nui and the Moai, subtitled At the Edge of the World: How a Tiny Island Built Giants, Lost Everything, and Kept Its Secrets. Beginning with the island as 'the navel of the world', it covers Polynesian voyaging and first settlement, the moai as deified ancestors, the Rano Raraku quarry, theories and experiments on how the statues 'walked' to their platforms, the later Birdman (Tangata Manu) cult at Orongo, and the undeciphered rongorongo script. A central chapter re-examines the popular 'ecocide' collapse story in the light of newer archaeology. It then follows European contact, the catastrophe of Peruvian slave raids and disease that brought near-extinction, Chilean annexation and the sheep-ranch era, and the modern Rapa Nui revival. It sits in the library as context on sacred landscape and ancestor cults rather than as an esoteric text.
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Swami Vivekananda's Raja Yoga (1896), the landmark book that introduced classical yoga to Western readers. Based on lectures given in New York in 1895-96, the first part explains the practice and philosophy of the 'royal path' of meditation in plain modern language: the need for concentration, the first steps of posture and breathing, the doctrine of prana and the psychic prana, control of the mind, pratyahara and dharana, dhyana and samadhi, and the awakening of kundalini along the sushumna. The second part is Vivekananda's own translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, organised in the four traditional chapters on concentration, practice, powers and independence (kaivalya). Presenting yoga as an experimental science of mind grounded in Vedanta and Samkhya, the book shaped the reception of yoga, meditation and Hindu spirituality throughout the twentieth century and remains a standard introduction.
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The Diamond Sutra (Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra), here in the Project Gutenberg edition titled The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita, an early twentieth-century English translation from the Chinese with preface and introduction. One of the most revered texts of Mahayana Buddhism, it records a dialogue at Shravasti between the Buddha and his disciple Subhuti on the perfection of wisdom. The Buddha teaches that a bodhisattva must vow to liberate all beings while holding no notion of self, being, living entity or person; that all phenomena and even the Buddha's teaching are empty of fixed nature, like 'a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow'; and that merit from understanding even four lines of the sutra surpasses immeasurable gifts. Central to Chan and Zen (it famously enlightened Huineng), it is also the text of the oldest dated printed book, the Dunhuang copy of 868 CE.
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The Sexual Teachings of the Jade Dragon: Taoist Methods for Male Sexual Revitalization by Hsi Lai, published by Destiny Books (Rochester, Vermont). Presented as the teachings of a lineage of Taoist masters of sexual cultivation, the book explains for a male readership how sexual energy (jing) can be conserved and transmuted into vitality (qi) and spirit (shen) for health, longevity and spiritual growth. It covers the Taoist understanding of yin and yang in sexual relations, ejaculation control and retention, breathing and visualisation methods, exercises for strengthening the reproductive system, and the ideal of reciprocal exchange of energy between partners, set within the wider framework of Taoist internal alchemy and Chinese medicine. A companion to the author's The White Tigress Manual on female practice, it is a modern practical guide to the 'arts of the bedchamber' tradition rather than a scholarly edition of classical texts.
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The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy of Personal Transformation by Dennis William Hauck (Penguin/Arkana, 1999), a modern guide by a leading writer on practical alchemy. It takes the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, the short cryptic text ('as above, so below') that served as the charter of Western alchemy, and explains its history, from legends of its discovery in the tomb of Hermes and its Arabic sources to its influence on medieval and Renaissance adepts. Part 1 unpacks the tablet line by line and its symbolism. Part 2 applies the 'Emerald Formula' as a sequence of operations (calcination, dissolution, separation, conjunction, fermentation, distillation and coagulation) to psychological and spiritual growth, with exercises and meditations. Part 3 considers what the tablet suggests about humanity's future. The book links laboratory alchemy, Jungian psychology and Hermetic philosophy into a programme of inner transformation.
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Ancient Magic, Magnetism and Psychic Forces: The Key to Power by Professor L. H. Anderson, published in Chicago by the National Institute, Masonic Temple, in 1895. Written for students of the self-improvement and mental-healing courses that flourished in late nineteenth-century America, it presents a practical system of personal magnetism, hypnotism and psychic influence. It ranges over the ancient magic of Egypt, India and the East as the alleged source of these powers, the nature of animal magnetism and the magnetic fluid, development of the will and the gaze, mesmeric and hypnotic methods, suggestion, magnetic healing and the exercise of influence over others. A characteristic document of the New Thought, mesmerism and mail-order occultism of its period, it is of interest for the history of popular psychology and American esotericism rather than as a reliable guide.
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How to Win, or Sure Secrets of Success by Professor L. H. Anderson, a self-help manual issued in several editions (the copy here is marked fifth edition, 13,000) and arranged particularly for the students of the Chicago College of Psycho-Therapeutics and the National Institute of Science. Typical of the late nineteenth-century American success literature that grew out of mesmerism and New Thought, it teaches that success depends on cultivating personal magnetism, will power, concentration, self-confidence and positive mental attitude. Chapters give practical rules for health, habits, conversation, business dealings and influencing others, mixing commonsense advice with claims about mental and magnetic forces. It is a companion to the author's Ancient Magic, Magnetism and Psychic Forces and a period source for the roots of modern motivational and mind-power writing.
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Melchizedek, or the Secret Doctrine of the Bible by J. C. F. (Jesse Charles Fremont) Grumbine, the American Spiritualist and occult teacher who headed the College of Psychical Sciences and Unfoldment and the Order of the White Rose (Boston: The Order of the White Rose, 1919). Taking as its motto Matthew 13:35, 'I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world', it argues that the Bible has been treated as a sealed book whose key was lost, and that its true value lies in an inner revelation hidden in symbol, allegory, parable and myth. In five lectures Grumbine asks who Melchizedek was, the mysterious priest-king 'without father, without mother' of Genesis and Hebrews, and describes his office and order; the secret doctrines of that order with their myths, mysteries, symbols, canons and philosophy; the secret doctrine on four planes of expression and manifestation; the Christ psychology and Christian mysticism; and the key and how it is applied to divine realisation and illumination. It is a characteristic text of American esoteric Christianity and of the Melchizedek priesthood motif.
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Philosophy of Occultism, a short occult treatise published by the National Institute, Masonic Temple, Chicago (the same mail-order house that issued L. H. Anderson's manuals), with the name Lillie M. Zimmermann appearing on the title pages and a chapter on 'The Beauty Sleep'. Its publisher's note describes it as treating, from the standpoint of the mystic, 'the problems which are now making such a stir in the world of thought', and the way to make life happy. In about nine chapters it discusses the hidden laws of mind and nature, the occult powers latent in human beings, thought force, mental healing, sleep and its regenerative power, health and beauty culture, and the cultivation of serenity and success. It belongs to the popular American occultism and New Thought literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Psychometry: Its Science and Law of Unfoldment (second edition) by J. C. F. Grumbine, President of the College of Psychical Sciences and Unfoldment and a prominent American Spiritualist teacher of the early twentieth century. Psychometry, a term coined by Joseph Rodes Buchanan in 1842, is the claimed faculty of reading the history, character or emotional imprint of a person, place or object through touch. Grumbine presents it as a natural spiritual sense that can be systematically developed, explaining its theory in terms of soul, aura and the 'soul of things', distinguishing it from clairvoyance and mediumship, and setting out the laws, conditions and exercises for unfolding it. Part of his series of textbooks on psychic development, it documents how Spiritualist circles framed psychic abilities as a teachable science.
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Sacred Geometry, an illustrated text on the symbolic geometry used in religious art, architecture and esoteric cosmology. It begins with the point (circular, or in three dimensions spherical) as the abstract seed of all form, and builds through line, circle and vesica piscis to the classic figures of sacred geometry. It treats Metatron's Cube and the five Platonic solids (tetrahedron, cube or hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron) and their traditional association with the elements and the cosmos, along with related forms such as the Flower and Seed of Life, the golden ratio and harmonic proportion. The author is not identified in the file. The work serves as a concise visual primer connecting Pythagorean and Platonic number mysticism with modern sacred-geometry practice, and sits alongside Plato's Timaeus, Kepler and Pacioli in the library.
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Sacred Geometry: An A-Z Reference Guide by Marilyn Walker, PhD, published by Rockridge Press with the subtitle History, Beliefs and Practices. Arranged as an alphabetical encyclopedia preceded by an introduction, it defines the key shapes, numbers, ratios and concepts of sacred geometry, including the circle, vesica piscis, Flower of Life, Metatron's Cube, Platonic solids, golden ratio and Fibonacci sequence, spirals, mandalas, labyrinths and yantras, alongside entries on the cultures, monuments, thinkers and systems where they appear, such as Pythagoras, Plato, Egyptian and Gothic architecture, the I Ching and Kabbalah. Each entry explains historical background and symbolic meaning and often suggests ways of using the form in meditation or creative work. It is a handy modern reference for identifying and interpreting geometric symbols across traditions.
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Secrets of Religion (Studies of the Past) by the pseudonymous 'Vindex Veri', published in Manchester by 'The Two Worlds' Publishing Co. in 1901, the press of the leading British Spiritualist newspaper. Taking as its motto Confucius's 'We must study the past to understand the present', the book is a freethinking Spiritualist critique of orthodox Christianity through comparative religion. Over many chapters it traces Christian doctrines, festivals and stories back to older solar and astral myths, mystery religions and the faiths of Egypt, India, Persia and Babylon, arguing that the churches have obscured a universal natural religion. It reflects the comparative mythology and anticlerical currents of late Victorian Spiritualism and is of interest for the history of 'Christ myth' and pagan-origins arguments.
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Telekinesis Power Secrets by Adrian P. Cooper, published by Mind Power Corporation (2006), the publisher of his Our Ultimate Reality. A short practical manual, it claims to teach telekinesis (psychokinesis), the moving or affecting of physical objects by the mind. After prerequisites, it works through chapters on relaxation, concentration and meditation as foundations, then exercises in creating 'psi balls' of energy, psychic shields, using the psi wheel (a paper spinner balanced on a needle), moving larger objects and bending metal, ending with a summary. Written in the popular New Age self-development genre and making no scientific case, it is best read as a document of contemporary psychic-training practice.
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An issue of The All-Seeing Eye, the monthly magazine 'Modern Problems in the Light of Ancient Wisdom' written, edited and compiled by Manly P. Hall in Los Angeles, here the number for May 1923, early in Hall's career and five years before The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Distributed free rather than sold, it presents short essays on symbolism, philosophy and esoteric interpretations of current problems. Articles listed in this issue include 'Nonsense as a Factor in Soul Growth' and 'Atlantis, the Lost Continent', alongside Hall's characteristic commentary on the mystery schools, occult anatomy and the spiritual path. It is a primary document of Hall's early teaching and of 1920s American esotericism, and complements his major work held in the library.
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The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch by James J. Hurtak (Academy for Future Science, first published 1977), one of the most influential modern channelled scriptures. Hurtak states that its 64 'Keys' were given to him in 1973 by the Masters Enoch and Metatron during an experience of being taken into higher realms. The keys combine biblical prophecy, Kabbalah, Hebrew divine names, astronomy, genetics and physics into a cosmology of a 'Brotherhood of Light', a hierarchy of intelligences (the Elohim and Merkabah), the role of Orion and the Pleiades, the transformation of human DNA and consciousness, and an approaching planetary transition. Dense with neologisms and diagrams, it helped popularise ideas such as the Merkabah light-body and the sacred-name chant 'Kodoish, Kodoish, Kodoish Adonai Tsebayoth' in New Age culture.
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The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness by Stanislav Grof (State University of New York Press, 1998), a founder of transpersonal psychology and pioneer of LSD-assisted and holotropic breathwork research. Drawing on four decades of observing non-ordinary states of consciousness in thousands of sessions, Grof distils the metaphysical worldview that emerged from his clients' experiences. He explores the nature of the creative principle (Absolute Consciousness), why it creates universes, the process of creation as a divine play (lila), the taboo against knowing who we are, good and evil, death and rebirth, reincarnation and karma, and the implications for the ecological and spiritual crisis of modern humanity. Grof shows how these insights converge with the perennial philosophy of the mystical traditions, making it a key bridge between consciousness research and esoteric metaphysics.
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The Key to the Universe, or a Spiritual Interpretation of Numbers and Symbols by Harriette Augusta Curtiss and F. Homer Curtiss, founders of the Order of the Christian Mystics (Curtiss Book Company; this copy also carries Samuel Weiser's imprint). First published in 1915, it presents the Curtisses' 'Teachings of the Order of Christian Mystics' on the occult meaning of the numbers 0 to 10, which they regard as keys to the structure of the cosmos and to human spiritual evolution. Each number is discussed through its geometric symbol, astrological and biblical correspondences, Tarot associations, and its lessons for the disciple, with frequent reference to Christ, the cross and initiation. A companion volume, The Key of Destiny, continues with the numbers 11 to 22. It is a characteristic work of early twentieth-century Christian theosophical numerology.
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A second copy of The Key to the Universe by Harriette and F. Homer Curtiss, here in the Forgotten Books reprint edition of the 1915 work of the Order of the Christian Mystics. It offers the same text: a spiritual interpretation of the numbers 0 to 10, treating each as a key to cosmic law and to the disciple's path of initiation, with geometric symbols, astrological, Kabbalistic and Tarot correspondences, and Christian mystical teaching. It is kept as an alternative scan of the same book; readers may prefer whichever copy has the clearer text.
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The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, Volume 1 (L/L Research, 2018), the definitive edition of the 'Law of One' channelling sessions recorded between 1981 and 1984. The source identifies itself as Ra, 'an humble messenger of the Law of One', a sixth-density social memory complex, speaking through the entranced instrument Carla L. Rueckert in answer to questions from Don Elkins, with Jim McCarty as scribe. Re-transcribed from the original audio by Tobey Wheelock's relistening project and edited by Gary Bean and Austin Bridges, this volume covers the early sessions. Topics include the unity of all creation in the One Infinite Creator, the densities of consciousness and the harvest, the paths of service-to-others and service-to-self, the energy centres, wanderers, healing, and Ra's account of its involvement in Egypt and the pyramids. It is the core text of a large modern esoteric and UFO-related spiritual movement.
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The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, Volume 2 (L/L Research, 2018), completing the definitive re-edited transcription of the 106 sessions held with the source calling itself Ra through Carla L. Rueckert, with Don Elkins as questioner and Jim McCarty as scribe (relistening project by Tobey Wheelock; production and editing by Gary Bean and Austin Bridges). This volume covers the later sessions, where the questioning grows more technical and intimate: the archetypical mind and the 22 images of the tarot as its concept complexes, the veil of forgetting, catalyst and experience, the energy centres and the balancing of the self, psychic greeting and negative entities, polarity and harvest, and the conditions of the contact itself, which ended with Elkins's death in 1984. Together with Volume 1, it forms the authoritative text of the Law of One material.
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Third Eye and Life by Nicole Campbell, a short modern self-help guide promising to 'discover how to activate your Third Eye and manifest your desires effortlessly into your life while boosting your inner power and connecting with the Universe's energy'. It explains the third eye or ajna chakra, its traditional associations with intuition and the pineal gland, signs of an awakening third eye, and practical methods for opening it, including meditation, aromatherapy and essential oils, crystals, diet and visualisation. It ties the practice to manifestation and law-of-attraction techniques for wellbeing, relationships and success, and includes a related bonus section ('Third Eye Code'). Accessible and non-academic, it represents contemporary popular chakra and manifestation literature.
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Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater (Theosophical Publishing Society, 1901), a classic of Theosophical clairvoyant investigation. Based on an 1896 article in Lucifer, it claims to describe the shapes and colours that thoughts and emotions take in the mental and astral matter of the subtle planes, as perceived by the authors' clairvoyant sight. After explaining the principles that produce thought-forms (the quality of the thought determines colour, its nature determines form, its definiteness determines clarity of outline), it presents a key to the meanings of colours and a series of colour plates showing forms produced by affection, devotion, intellect, ambition, anger, fear and other states, as well as the forms produced by music by Mendelssohn, Gounod and Wagner. Its images are often cited as an influence on early abstract artists such as Kandinsky, Mondrian and Hilma af Klint.
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Pistis Sophia, the major Gnostic text preserved in the fourth-century Coptic Askew Codex in the British Museum, presented in a classic English translation (G. R. S. Mead's 1896/1921 version is the best-known public-domain rendering). Set eleven years after the resurrection, it shows Jesus on the Mount of Olives revealing the hidden mysteries to his disciples, with Mary Magdalene as the most prominent questioner alongside Peter, John, Philip and others. Its centrepiece is the story of Pistis Sophia ('Faith-Wisdom'), an aeon who falls into chaos while yearning for the Light and sings thirteen repentances before being rescued by Jesus, each interpreted by the disciples through the Psalms and Odes of Solomon. Later books describe the aeons, archons and treasury of light, the fate of souls, reincarnation and punishments, and the saving mysteries. It is a primary source for late Sethian/Barbeloite Gnosticism and the figure of the divine Sophia.
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The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex
Krause, Robinson and Wisse (eds)
The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex, the critical edition of the Coptic texts preserved in the Bruce Codex (Bodleian Library), edited from Carl Schmidt's text with English translation by Violet MacDermot, and published in the Nag Hammadi Studies series (E. J. Brill, 1978), the series being under the editorship of scholars including Martin Krause, James M. Robinson and Frederik Wisse. The two Books of Jeu, related to the Pistis Sophia, present Jesus revealing to his disciples the emanations of the 'true God' Jeu, the treasuries of light, and the seals, names, ciphers and diagrams that let the soul pass the archons on its ascent, together with baptismal rites. The Untitled Text is a sophisticated Sethian-Platonising cosmology describing the transcendent Father, the Monogenes and the structure of the Pleroma. With introduction, notes and indices, it is an essential scholarly source on later Coptic Gnosticism and ritual ascent.
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The Dark Night of the Soul by St John of the Cross (1542-1591), Spanish Carmelite friar, poet, reformer with St Teresa of Avila and Doctor of the Church. The treatise is a commentary on his poem 'En una noche oscura' ('On a dark night'), written around 1584-86 as a continuation of The Ascent of Mount Carmel. It describes the passive purgations by which God purifies the soul on the way to mystical union. Book One treats the night of the senses, analysing the spiritual versions of the seven deadly sins found in beginners and the aridity that weans the soul from consolations. Book Two treats the deeper night of the spirit, in which contemplative light experienced as darkness strips the intellect, memory and will before union in love. A cornerstone of Christian apophatic mysticism, it gave the world the phrase 'dark night of the soul' and remains central to spiritual direction and contemplative psychology.
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The Gospel of Mary by Christopher Tuckett (Oxford University Press, 2007, Oxford Early Christian Gospel Texts series), the standard scholarly edition of this second-century text. The Gospel of Mary survives incompletely in a fifth-century Coptic manuscript (Berlin Codex 8502) and two third-century Greek fragments from Oxyrhynchus. In it the risen Saviour teaches about matter and sin, then departs. Mary Magdalene comforts the grieving disciples and relates a private vision describing the soul's ascent past four hostile powers, after which Peter and Andrew challenge her authority and Levi defends her. Tuckett provides an introduction on manuscripts, date, genre and theology, the Coptic and Greek texts with facing English translation, and a detailed commentary, assessing the text's relation to the New Testament and to Gnostic thought and its significance for debates about Mary Magdalene and women's leadership in early Christianity.
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The Nag Hammadi Library in English, edited by James M. Robinson as director of the Coptic Gnostic Library Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity (first published 1977; revised edition 1988). It is the complete translation of the thirteen leather-bound Coptic codices discovered near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt in 1945, along with the related Berlin Codex texts. The fifty-odd tractates include the Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Truth, Apocryphon (Secret Book) of John, Hypostasis of the Archons, On the Origin of the World, Thunder: Perfect Mind, the Tripartite Tractate, Sethian works such as Zostrianos and Allogenes, Hermetic texts including the Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth, and a fragment of Plato's Republic. Each tractate has a short scholarly introduction. This collection transformed the study of Gnosticism and early Christianity and is the primary reference for the library's Gnostic holdings.
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Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization (second edition) by Samuel Milham, MD, MPH (iUniverse), an American epidemiologist known for early studies of cancer among electrical workers. Milham argues that many 'diseases of civilisation', including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and suicide, rose with the spread of electrification in the twentieth century. He draws on historical mortality data comparing electrified and unelectrified areas of the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, on his occupational studies, and on case reports of school and office clusters, to blame high-frequency voltage transients ('dirty electricity') on household wiring as well as other electromagnetic fields. The book also offers advice on measuring and reducing exposure. Its conclusions are contested by mainstream science, and it is part of the electromagnetic-health literature rather than an esoteric text.
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Magnetic Brain, a short compiled document consisting mainly of references and links to scientific articles on magnetic nanoparticles and the remote control of biological systems. Cited sources include papers on superparamagnetic nanoparticle DNA vaccines, magnetogenetics ('Is Magnetogenetics the New Optogenetics?'), magnetic strategies for controlling the nervous system, and nanoparticle-embedded soft robotics, along with related PubMed, NCBI and IEEE Spectrum material. Its implicit theme is the possibility of influencing brain and body through magnetic or nanotechnological means, a subject associated with speculation about vaccines and neural control. It has no named author and presents source lists rather than argued analysis; it is best treated as a research bibliography on magnetogenetics and nanomedicine.
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Principles of Reiki in Life, a brief illustrated guide to the five Reiki principles (gokai) associated with Mikao Usui, the early twentieth-century Japanese founder of Reiki healing. Each principle, traditionally introduced with 'Just for today': I will not be angry; I will not worry; I will be grateful; I will do my work honestly; I will be kind to every living thing, is presented with a short explanation of its meaning and its practical value for calmness, emotional regulation, mindfulness and harmonious relationships. The guide frames the principles as a daily ethic for embracing the essence of Reiki and living a balanced life, rather than as instruction in hands-on healing technique. No author is identified.
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The Primal Diet: We Want to Live (expanded and revised 2005) by Aajonus Vonderplanitz (1947-2013), the American nutritionist and founder of the raw-animal-food Primal Diet movement. Part autobiography and part manual, it tells the author's account of recovering from a series of grave illnesses through eating raw foods, then sets out his dietary system: raw meat, fish, eggs, unpasteurised dairy and animal fats, raw vegetable juices and specific 'formulas', with detox and healing protocols and his theories that cooked food and processed products cause disease. The book's claims are highly controversial and conflict with mainstream medical and food-safety advice. It belongs in the library's Health section as the source text of a radical alternative-health philosophy.
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De Mysteriis (Greek-English, Dillon and Clarke 2003)
Iamblichus
De Mysteriis (On the Mysteries) by Iamblichus of Chalcis (c. 245-325 CE), in the Greek-English edition with translation, introduction and notes by Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon and Jackson P. Hershbell (Society of Biblical Literature, Writings from the Greco-Roman World, 2003). Written under the persona of the Egyptian priest Abamon, it replies to Porphyry's sceptical Letter to Anebo questioning the reality and efficacy of ritual. Iamblichus defends theurgy, the 'divine work' of sacrifice, prayer, divination and sacred symbols, arguing that the soul cannot reach union with the gods by philosophy alone but through rites the gods themselves have given. He sets out a hierarchy of gods, daemons, heroes and souls, and discusses divination, Egyptian and Chaldean theology, and the nature of the divine. The most important document of theurgic Neoplatonism, it shaped Proclus, the Renaissance revival of magic and modern esoteric ritual theory.
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On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans and Assyrians by Iamblichus, in the English translation by Thomas Taylor (1758-1835), the 'English Platonist' whose renderings brought Neoplatonism to the Romantics and later to Theosophy (first published 1821). It is the same treatise as De Mysteriis: Iamblichus, writing as the Egyptian priest Abamon, answers Porphyry's objections to ritual by defending theurgy as the means of the soul's union with the gods. Topics include the classes of divine beings (gods, archangels, angels, daemons, heroes and souls) and how to recognise their epiphanies, the meaning of sacrifice and prayer, divination by dreams, oracles and inspiration, Egyptian symbolic theology, and fate and providence. Taylor's notes connect the work to Proclus and the wider Platonic tradition. This version is historically important for the English-speaking esoteric revival.
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Curse of Canaan: A Demonology of History by Eustace Mullins (Revelation Books, 1987). Mullins, an American writer associated with far-right and antisemitic politics, offers a conspiratorial reading of world history in which the biblical curse on Canaan (Genesis 9) becomes the origin of a hidden lineage and a demonic, satanic tradition held to have shaped events from antiquity through the Babylonian and Phoenician cults to secret societies, Freemasonry, international banking, wars and modern revolutions. The book is widely regarded as antisemitic conspiracy literature, and its historical claims are not supported by scholarship. It is catalogued under Other as a document of twentieth-century conspiracy and 'demonology of history' writing rather than as a reliable source.
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A compilation on 'free energy' technology built around The Manual of Free Energy Devices and Systems by D. A. Kelly (Volume II), together with related papers. It surveys unconventional energy devices and their inventors, including the Searl effect generator of British inventor John Searl, the Wanlass motor, Bruce DePalma's 'N machine' homopolar generator, Viktor Schauberger's implosion and 'flying saucer' models, Paul Brown's nuclear-battery work, magnetic motors, M-L converters and other over-unity or ambient-energy concepts, with diagrams and descriptions of operating principles. It also includes theoretical material proposing that space contains vast unaccounted energy (with reference to the cosmic background radiation and missing mass). These devices and claims lie outside accepted physics; the collection is a document of the alternative-energy and fringe-science subculture.
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The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (Viking/Penguin, 1998), produced with Joost Elffers, an international bestseller on the dynamics of power, influence and manipulation. Greene distils three thousand years of history and the writings of strategists such as Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, Castiglione and Baltasar Gracián into 48 laws, such as 'Never outshine the master', 'Conceal your intentions', 'Always say less than necessary', 'Court attention at all costs' and 'Crush your enemy totally'. Each law is illustrated with historical anecdotes of its observance and its transgression, interpretation, and 'reversal' cases where it should not be applied, with marginal quotations and fables. Amoral by design, the book is widely read in business, politics and popular culture. It sits in the library's Other section as a classic of strategic and psychological realism rather than spirituality.
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The Authentic Creator: A Philosophical Exploration into Your Creative Truth, published under the name Creative Truth, a short workbook-style guide for 'multipotentialites', people with many interests and creative directions. It opens by acknowledging that multipotentiality is confusing and sets out the five most common paradoxes: generating many ideas but being paralysed by them, loving learning but bored easily, purpose-led rebels wanting to save the world, and similar tensions. It then leads the reader through reflections and exercises on identity, values, purpose, creative process and how to build a life and work around varied passions rather than a single specialism. It is a contemporary creativity and self-discovery resource, not an esoteric text.
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan (Random House, 1977), winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Sagan, the astronomer and science communicator, combines evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology and computer science to ask how human intelligence evolved. He uses the 'cosmic calendar' to compress the history of the universe into a year, discusses the information content of genes and brains, and draws on Paul MacLean's triune brain model (the reptilian R-complex, limbic system and neocortex) to explore aggression, ritual, emotion and reason. Further chapters cover the split brain and the two hemispheres, chimpanzee language studies, dreams, the Eden myth as a memory of the emergence of consciousness, and the future of artificial and extraterrestrial intelligence. It is a classic of popular science on the evolution of mind.
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The Hidden Evil by Mark M. Rich (version 2.0g, last updated 5 May 2006), a self-published account from Malden, Massachusetts, describing what the author calls organised stalking or 'gang stalking'. Rich asserts that networks of citizens, community groups and agencies covertly harass targeted individuals through surveillance, noise campaigns, street theatre, workplace mobbing, break-ins and the use of electronic devices, and he traces the alleged practice to historical precedents such as COINTELPRO and the Stasi. The book offers his description of tactics, his explanations of motives, accounts from people who believe themselves targeted, and suggestions for coping and documentation. Its claims are not supported by independent evidence; it is best read as a primary document of the 'targeted individual' phenomenon.
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The Rockefeller File by Gary Allen (1976, '76 Press), the American conservative writer and John Birch Society spokesman best known for None Dare Call It Conspiracy. Allen argues that the Rockefeller family, through its banks, oil interests, foundations and policy bodies such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve system, has pursued a programme of economic and political control leading toward world government. Chapters examine the Rockefeller dynasty from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil onward, Nelson Rockefeller's political ambitions, foreign aid, trade with the Soviet Union, environmental and population policy, and the role of tax-exempt foundations. A key text of Cold War-era American conspiracy literature, it is catalogued under Other and should be read as political polemic rather than balanced history.
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An early modern edition of the Geneva Bible, the English Protestant translation first published complete in Geneva in 1560 by Marian exiles including William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby and others, 'translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in divers langages'. It was the first English Bible with numbered verses throughout and in roman type, and was famous for its extensive marginal notes, maps, woodcuts, chapter summaries and Calvinist-leaning annotations. It was the Bible of Shakespeare, Milton, John Bunyan, Oliver Cromwell and the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower, and it influenced the wording of the King James Version. This file holds a scanned text of the Old and New Testaments, with early modern spelling and some OCR noise. It is a primary source for English Reformation religion and the language of English scripture.
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The first portion (pages 1-600) of a facsimile-derived text of the 1560 Geneva Bible, the landmark English Protestant translation produced by Marian exiles in Geneva. This part covers the opening of the volume, including the title and preliminary matter and the books of the Old Testament from Genesis onward, as far as page 600 of the original, with the translators' marginal notes, chapter arguments and cross-references in sixteenth-century spelling. The Geneva Bible was the first English Bible with verse numbers, the most popular English Bible of the Elizabethan age and the Bible of Shakespeare and the Puritans. It is a companion to the library's other Geneva Bible files, which hold the full text, the tables and the Apocryphal Wisdom of Solomon.
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The concluding tables (pages 1201-1224) of the 1560 Geneva Bible. These finding aids accompany the scripture text. 'The first table' is an alphabetical interpretation of Hebrew, Chaldean, Greek and Latin proper names, giving each name's meaning and a scriptural reference (for example 'Ishmael, God hath heard, Gen. 16'; 'Israel, a prince of God, or prevailing with God'). The second table is a topical index of 'the principal things' contained in the Bible, with references, and there are calendrical and reference materials. Written in sixteenth-century orthography, these tables show how the Reformation translators equipped lay readers for personal study and give onomastic interpretations that are of interest for biblical symbolism. It is a companion to the library's other Geneva Bible files.
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Gods Elect People, a handwritten notebook or manuscript of biblical study notes, preserved here as a scanned text with heavy OCR errors. Its opening lines take as their theme 'God's elect people' and refer to Isaiah ('the first and last'), God's deliverance of Israel from Pharaoh, the crossing of the Red Sea and related scripture, with many chapter-and-verse references, apparently assembling texts on the identity and destiny of Israel as God's chosen people. The author and date are not identified, and the garbled transcription makes detailed content hard to establish. It should be treated as a personal manuscript of uncertain origin; consult the PDF scan rather than the extracted text for accurate reading.
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Spiritual Warfare Prayers: Daily Armor for Today's Real Life Battles, a contemporary Christian devotional of 101 prayers 'to reclaim peace, crush darkness, strengthen your spirit, and walk boldly in God's authority'. Its preface opens with the claim that life is a battlefield and frames the believer's struggles in terms of Ephesians 6 and the armour of God. The prayers address anxiety and fear, temptation, family and relationships, health, finances, work, protection from evil and breaking spiritual strongholds, each grounded in scripture and written for daily use, and it ends with a conclusion titled 'The battle belongs to the Lord'. No author is named in the file. It represents modern evangelical and charismatic spiritual-warfare devotion.
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The Firmament: Vaulted Dome of the Earth by Zen Garcia (2016), an independent researcher and writer on biblical, apocryphal and Enochian themes. Taking as its starting point the 'ancient Hebrew conception of the universe' illustrated in older Bible reference works, Garcia argues that scripture describes a literal solid firmament or dome over the earth. The book works through the primeval earth as formless waste, the war in heaven and the antediluvian age, the fall of Lucifer, the first four days of creation and specific events of each, references in apocryphal and pseudepigraphal sources such as the Book of Enoch, and finally the firmament of heaven itself. It is a work of literalist biblical cosmology associated with flat-earth and 'firmament' movements, not mainstream scholarship.
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The Qur'an, Part II, translated by E. H. Palmer, being Volume IX of The Sacred Books of the East edited by F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880). Edward Henry Palmer (1840-1882), Cambridge orientalist and Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic, produced a translation praised for its vigorous, literal rendering of the Qur'an's rhetorical power. This second volume covers chapters (surahs) XVII to CXIV, from the Night Journey (al-Isra) and the Cave (al-Kahf), with its stories of the Seven Sleepers, Moses and Khidr and Dhu'l-Qarnayn, through the surahs of Mary, the Prophets, Light, the Merciful and Yasin, to the short Meccan surahs on the Day of Judgement, the Unity of God and the final protective chapters. Footnotes explain allusions and variants. The Sacred Books of the East was the defining Victorian collection of Asian scripture in translation.
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The Torah: The Five Books of Moses, the Jewish Publication Society's new translation of the Pentateuch according to the traditional Hebrew (Masoretic) text, first published in 1962 and later incorporated into the JPS Tanakh (1985). Prepared by a committee of scholars and rabbis led by Harry M. Orlinsky, it abandoned the King James tradition in favour of modern idiomatic English based on contemporary philology and Jewish exegesis, with notes on difficult readings. It contains Genesis (Bereshit), Exodus (Shemot), Leviticus (Vayikra), Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim): creation and the patriarchs, slavery and exodus from Egypt, the revelation at Sinai and the covenant, the tabernacle and priestly law, the wilderness journey, and Moses' farewell addresses. As the foundation of Judaism and source of Kabbalistic commentary, it underpins the library's Jewish mysticism holdings.
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The Wisdom of Solomon, a book of the Apocrypha (deuterocanonical in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles), here in an early English translation with chapter divisions; the text is affected by OCR errors. Written in Greek in Alexandria probably in the first century BCE by a Hellenistic Jew writing in the persona of King Solomon, it addresses the rulers of the earth. Chapters 1-5 contrast the fate of the righteous and the ungodly and affirm the immortality of the soul. Chapters 6-9 praise personified Wisdom (Sophia), 'a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty', in language that influenced the Christian Logos doctrine and later Gnostic and Kabbalistic ideas of divine Wisdom. Chapters 10-19 review sacred history, especially the Exodus, as Wisdom's saving work, with a critique of idolatry. It is a key bridge text between Jewish scripture and Greek philosophy.
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The Wisdome of Solomon from the Apocrypha section of the 1560 Geneva Bible, in the translators' sixteenth-century English spelling with chapter summaries and marginal notes (the extracted text contains OCR errors). The Geneva translators included the Apocrypha but set it apart as useful for edification rather than doctrine. The book, composed in Greek in Alexandria around the first century BCE in the voice of King Solomon, exhorts rulers to love righteousness, teaches the immortality of the soul and the destinies of the just and the wicked, praises personified Wisdom as the radiance of eternal light and the companion of God, and retells the Exodus as Wisdom's work, with an extended critique of idolatry. It is a companion to the library's other Geneva Bible files and to its modern-text Wisdom of Solomon.
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Life and Teachings of Zoroaster, the Great Persian by Loren Harper Whitney of the Chicago Bar (Chicago: de Laurence, Scott & Co., 1905), a study of the ancient Iranian prophet Zarathustra and the religion he founded. Part One recounts the traditions of Zoroaster's life, his call and revelations from Ahura Mazda, his struggle against the priests and the conversion of King Vishtaspa, and surveys the Avesta and the Gathas. The author then sets out Zoroastrian teaching on the one wise Lord, the conflict between the good spirit and the evil Angra Mainyu, the moral triad of good thoughts, good words and good deeds, the Amesha Spentas, judgement at the Chinvat Bridge, resurrection and the final renovation of the world. Part Two argues that much of Jewish and Christian belief came 'by way of Persia'. It reflects the comparative-religion enthusiasm of its era.
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The Submerged Continents of Atlantis and Lemuria (Cosmic Memory)
Rudolf Steiner
The Submerged Continents of Atlantis and Lemuria: Their History and Civilization, Being Chapters from the Akashic Records by Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D. (Vienna), in the authorised early English translation (1911). Originally published as essays in Steiner's journal Lucifer-Gnosis (1904-08) and later known as Cosmic Memory, it presents Steiner's clairvoyant reading of the Akashic Record on humanity's prehistory. He describes the Atlantean epoch with its seven sub-races, its use of life force, its leaders and initiates and its catastrophic end, and the earlier Lemurian age, the separation of the sexes, the development of the human body and soul faculties, and the cosmic stages of Earth's evolution through Saturn, Sun and Moon conditions. Written while Steiner led the German Theosophical Society, it is foundational for anthroposophical cosmology and parallels Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine.
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The Vision of God (De visione Dei) by Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), translated by Emma Gurney Salter with an introduction by Evelyn Underhill (1928). Written in 1453 for the Benedictine monks of Tegernsee, the treatise accompanied a painted 'all-seeing' icon whose eyes seem to follow every viewer. Cusanus asks the monks to experience how the gaze rests on each of them at once, and from this exercise develops a meditation on God's seeing as God's being and creating. In twenty-five chapters addressed in prayer to God, he explores the coincidence of opposites as the 'wall of paradise' beyond which God dwells, infinity, love, the Trinity, and Jesus as the consummation in whom the divine and human are united. A jewel of late medieval mystical theology, it joins Dionysian apophaticism with a new perspectival vision and is a key bridge to Renaissance thought.
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On Learned Ignorance (De docta ignorantia) by Nicholas of Cusa, in the English translation by Jasper Hopkins (Arthur J. Banning Press, 1981; 2nd ed. 1985), with notes. Completed in 1440, it is Cusanus's founding philosophical work. Book One treats the Absolute Maximum, God, as beyond all comparison and proportion, knowable only through a 'learned ignorance' that recognises the limits of reason; using mathematical symbols (the infinite line, triangle, circle and sphere), Cusanus shows how opposites coincide in the infinite. Book Two treats the universe as the 'contracted maximum', with famous anticipations of modern cosmology: the world has no fixed centre or circumference and the earth is not at rest. Book Three treats Jesus Christ as the maximum both absolute and contracted, uniting God and creation. A turning point between medieval mysticism and Renaissance philosophy, it influenced Bruno, Kepler and later speculative thought.
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Timaeus by Plato, in the classic translation of Benjamin Jowett (Oxford, first edition 1871), with his introduction and analysis. Written around 360 BCE, the dialogue opens with Critias's tale of Atlantis and ancient Athens before Timaeus of Locri delivers a 'likely story' of cosmic creation. A good divine craftsman, the Demiurge, looking to eternal Forms, shapes the visible cosmos as a living being with a World Soul, made in the image of the eternal, with time as 'a moving image of eternity'. Timaeus describes the planetary circles, the receptacle or chora, the construction of the four elements from triangles corresponding to the regular solids, and the formation of the human body, soul, senses and diseases. The most influential Platonic dialogue in antiquity and the Middle Ages, it underlies Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, sacred geometry, Kepler's cosmology and the Atlantis legend.
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Harmonices Mundi Libri V (The Harmony of the World), Johannes Kepler's Latin masterwork published at Linz in 1619. Kepler regarded it as his greatest achievement, and in it he seeks the divine harmonic order underlying geometry, music, astrology and the cosmos. Book I treats regular polygons and their constructibility; Book II the congruence of polygons and polyhedra, including the first systematic treatment of tilings and the discovery of two new star polyhedra; Book III the mathematical basis of musical consonance; Book IV the harmonic configurations of the heavens in astrology and the nature of the soul; and Book V the 'music of the spheres', where he relates the planets' extreme angular velocities to musical intervals and announces his third law of planetary motion (the squares of periods are proportional to the cubes of mean distances). It is the culmination of the Pythagorean-Platonic quest for cosmic harmony and a founding document of modern astronomy.
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Mysterium Cosmographicum (The Cosmographic Mystery), Johannes Kepler's first major work, published in Latin at Tübingen in 1596. A passionate defence of the Copernican heliocentric system, it proposes that the number, distances and order of the six then-known planets are explained by nesting the five Platonic solids (cube, tetrahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron and octahedron) between the planetary spheres, a design Kepler believed revealed the geometric plan by which God created the universe. He also suggests that a force emanating from the Sun moves the planets, the seed of physical astronomy, and compares his model with observational data. The theory was later superseded, but the book launched Kepler's career, brought him to the attention of Tycho Brahe and Galileo, and shows the fusion of Pythagorean sacred geometry, theology and empirical science at the birth of modern astronomy.
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Tetrabiblos (Quadripartitum, 'Four Books') by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria (second century CE), in the English translation by J. M. Ashmand (1822), with an appendix of related material from the Almagest on the aspects of the fixed stars. The most authoritative astrological text of the ancient and medieval world, it presents astrology as a natural science of celestial influence complementary to Ptolemy's astronomy. Book I defends astrology's possibility and sets out the powers of the planets, the signs, triplicities, houses, terms and aspects. Book II covers mundane astrology: the influence of the heavens on countries and peoples, eclipses and weather. Books III and IV treat the nativity: parents, siblings, sex, length of life, bodily form, temperament and disease, the quality of the soul, wealth, honour, marriage, children, travel and manner of death. It shaped Arabic, medieval and Renaissance astrology and remains a foundation of traditional practice.
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Divina Proportione (On the Divine Proportion) by the Franciscan mathematician Luca Pacioli, printed in Italian in Venice in 1509 with sixty illustrations of polyhedra drawn by his friend Leonardo da Vinci. The first part, the Compendium de divina proportione, studies the 'divine proportion' (the golden ratio, or extreme and mean ratio), listing its thirteen 'effects' and its theological significance as a proportion that, like God, is unique and cannot be expressed rationally, and applies it to the regular and semi-regular solids. Further sections treat architecture and the proportions of the human body after Vitruvius, the design of Roman capital letters, and an Italian translation of Piero della Francesca's work on the regular solids. A landmark of Renaissance mathematics and art theory, it gave the golden ratio its sacred name and underpins later sacred-geometry traditions.
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Matheseos Libri VIII, Volume 1, by Julius Firmicus Maternus, in the Latin critical edition by Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (Leipzig: Teubner, 1897), containing Books I-IV and the preface to Book V. Written around 334-337 CE by a Sicilian rhetorician who later converted to Christianity, the Mathesis is the longest and most complete surviving Latin manual of astrology. Book I defends astrology against its critics and argues that the stars signify rather than compel human fate. Following books explain the signs, planets, houses, aspects, decans and lots, and give hundreds of interpretations of planetary positions in the nativity, drawing on Hellenistic sources attributed to Nechepso, Petosiris, Hermes and Abraham. It preserves the famous 'Thema Mundi', the horoscope of the world's birth. It is a key source for Hellenistic astrology and Hermetic cosmology in the Latin West.
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Aurora (Morgenröte im Aufgang, 'The Day-Spring or Morning Redness in the Rising of the Sun') by Jakob Böhme (1575-1624), the Lutheran shoemaker-mystic of Görlitz, in the seventeenth-century English translation by John Sparrow (1656), edited in modern reprints by C. J. Barker and D. S. Hehner. Written in 1612 after a visionary illumination, it is Böhme's first book, and its circulation led to his being forbidden to write by the local pastor. It describes 'the root or mother of philosophy, astrology and theology' through an account of God's nature as dynamic interplay of qualities or 'source-spirits', the Trinity, the creation and fall of the angels and Lucifer, and the origin of good and evil, the heavens, the stars and the elements. Dense and visionary, it founded the theosophical tradition that influenced German Idealism, Romanticism, William Law, Blake and later Christian esotericism.
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Signatura Rerum: The Signature of All Things by Jakob Böhme (1622), in the English translation by John Ellistone (1651), often reprinted in Everyman's Library. In it the Silesian mystic shows how the inner spiritual essence of every created thing is expressed in its outward form, colour, smell and sound, its 'signature', so that nature is a language revealing God. Böhme describes the seven qualities or forms of eternal nature by which the divine will manifests out of the Ungrund, the generation of the 'eternal word', the contest of wrath and love, and the redemption of fallen creation through Christ. He uses the language of alchemy (salt, sulphur and mercury, the philosophers' stone, the planetary metals) as a symbolic key to the soul's rebirth. It is foundational for Christian theosophy, Paracelsian correspondence theory and the doctrine of signatures in esoteric medicine.
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Dionysius the Areopagite on the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology, translated with an introduction by C. E. Rolt (SPCK, 1920). The author, writing around 500 CE under the name of St Paul's Athenian convert, fused Christian theology with the Neoplatonism of Proclus, and his works became authoritative in both Eastern and Western Christianity. The Divine Names examines the names given to God in scripture, such as Good, Light, Beauty, Love, Being, Life, Wisdom, Power, Peace and One, interpreting them as the processions of the divine into creation while affirming that God transcends all names. The brief Mystical Theology teaches the way of negation: ascending beyond all affirmations and denials into the 'divine darkness' of unknowing where God is met beyond knowledge. Rolt's long introduction relates the works to Neoplatonism and later mysticism. These texts founded Christian apophatic theology and shaped Eriugena, Aquinas, Eckhart, the Cloud of Unknowing and Cusanus.
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Gregory of Nyssa, Dogmatic Treatises etc. (NPNF II-5)
Gregory of Nyssa
Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, etc., Volume V of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1893), translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-395), one of the Cappadocian Fathers with his brother Basil and Gregory Nazianzen, was among the most philosophically gifted early theologians. The volume includes his long treatise Against Eunomius defending the full divinity of the Son, works on the Trinity and Holy Spirit ('Not three Gods'), the Great Catechism, On the Making of Man, On the Soul and the Resurrection (a dialogue with his sister Macrina), On Infants' Early Deaths, On Virginity and selected letters. Gregory's teaching on God's infinity, the soul's endless ascent (epektasis), and universal restoration shaped Christian mysticism from Dionysius to the Orthodox tradition.
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Meister Eckhart, Volume 1, translated by C. de B. Evans (London: John M. Watkins, 1924) from the edition of Franz Pfeiffer (Leipzig, 1857), 'with some omissions and additions'. Eckhart von Hochheim (c. 1260-1328), Dominican friar, Paris master and preacher, is the greatest of the German mystics, and some of his propositions were condemned in 1329. This volume gathers his German sermons and collations, presenting his central teachings: the birth of the Word in the ground of the soul, the 'spark' or uncreated something in the soul, detachment (Abgeschiedenheit) and letting-be (Gelassenheit), the distinction between God and the Godhead beyond God, the breakthrough into the silent desert of the divine essence, and living 'without a why'. The Evans translation was the main English Eckhart for decades and influenced Theosophical, Traditionalist and comparative interest in him alongside Vedanta and Zen.
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The Cloud of Unknowing, the anonymous fourteenth-century English mystical treatise, edited from the British Museum manuscript with an introduction by Evelyn Underhill (1912). Written by an unknown contemplative priest, probably in the East Midlands, for a young disciple called to the solitary life, it teaches a method of contemplative prayer rooted in the apophatic tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius. God cannot be grasped by the intellect but may be reached by love: the contemplative places all created things, thoughts and even holy images beneath a 'cloud of forgetting' and directs a 'naked intent' of love, often focused in a single short word such as 'God' or 'love', into the 'cloud of unknowing' between the soul and God. Across seventy-five short chapters it gives practical advice on distractions, humility, discretion and signs of a true calling. A classic of English spirituality, it inspired modern centering prayer.
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Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich (c. 1342-after 1416), edited by Grace Warrack from the British Museum Sloane manuscript (Methuen, 1901), the edition that made Julian widely known. An anchoress at St Julian's Church in Norwich, she received sixteen 'shewings' during a severe illness in May 1373 and spent twenty years reflecting on them, producing the earliest surviving book in English known to be written by a woman. The visions centre on Christ's Passion and reveal the overwhelming love of God. Themes include the hazelnut as an image of all creation held in being by love, the parable of the lord and the servant reinterpreting the Fall, sin as 'behovely', the motherhood of God and Christ, and the assurance that 'all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'. Warrack supplies an introduction and glossary. It is one of the most beloved works of Christian mysticism.
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Cherubinischer Wandersmann (The Cherubinic Wanderer) by Angelus Silesius (Johann Scheffler, 1624-1677), in the original German. A Silesian physician who converted to Catholicism and became a priest, Scheffler first published the work in 1657 as Geistreiche Sinn- und Schlussreime, enlarging it to six books in 1675. It contains over 1,600 rhymed epigrams, mostly in alexandrine couplets, distilling the mystical theology of Eckhart, Tauler, Ruysbroeck and Böhme into paradoxes such as 'Die Ros ist ohn warum' ('The rose is without why') and 'I know that without me God cannot live an instant'. Themes include the birth of God in the soul, divine nothingness, detachment, union and the interchange of God and creature. A classic of German Baroque literature and mystical poetry, it influenced Leibniz, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Heidegger and remains much quoted in comparative mysticism.
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The Mirror of Simple Souls, attributed to Marguerite Porete, edited by Clare Kirchberger (London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, Orchard Books series, 1927) from the Middle English translation made from a French original. Porete, a beguine from Hainaut, was burned in Paris in 1310 after refusing to recant the book; her authorship was only identified in 1946, so this edition presents it as the work of an anonymous fourteenth-century mystic. Written as a dialogue among Love, Reason, the Soul and other allegorical figures, it describes seven stages by which the 'annihilated' or 'simple' soul passes beyond the guidance of Reason and the works of virtue into a state of union where it wills nothing but God's will and is at rest in divine love. Kirchberger's introduction discusses the manuscripts and the glosses of the English translator 'M.N.'. It is a key text of beguine mysticism and the 'Free Spirit' controversy.
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The Spiritual Espousals (Die Gheestelike Brulocht) by Jan van Ruusbroec (John of Ruysbroeck, 1293-1381), the Flemish priest and contemplative of Groenendaal, here in an English translation of the 1940s-50s by Eric Colledge, made from the Ruusbroec-Genootschap critical edition (1932) and with introduction and bibliography. Ruusbroec's masterpiece, written in Middle Dutch around 1335, is structured around Christ's words 'See, the bridegroom comes; go out to meet him' (Matthew 25:6). Its three books describe three levels of life: the active life of virtue and moral striving, the interior or yearning life of devotion and union with God through grace, and the contemplative or 'God-seeing' life, in which the soul is united with God without intermediary in the dark, fruitful silence of the divine essence and the life of the Trinity. A classic of Low Countries mysticism, it influenced the Devotio Moderna, Tauler and later Catholic spirituality.
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Theologia Germanica, the anonymous fourteenth-century German mystical treatise, in the English translation by Susanna Winkworth (London, 1854), made from the edition of Franz Pfeiffer, with prefaces including one by Charles Kingsley. Written by an unnamed priest of the Teutonic Order in Frankfurt (the 'Frankfurter'), probably in the later fourteenth century in the circle of the Friends of God, it was discovered and printed by Martin Luther in 1516 and 1518, who said that, after the Bible and Augustine, no book had taught him more about God, Christ and humanity. In fifty-odd short chapters it teaches that sin is self-will, the creature's claim to be something in itself, and that salvation lies in the death of selfhood and the union of the human will with the eternal Good. It describes the 'true light' and the false light, the life of Christ as the best life, obedience and poverty of spirit, and deification. It influenced Lutheran piety, Pietism, Johann Arndt and later Protestant mysticism, and was placed on the Catholic Index.
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Select Revelations of S. Mechtild, Virgin, taken from the five books of her Spiritual Grace and translated from the Latin by 'a secular priest' (London: T. Richardson, 1875), a selection from the Liber specialis gratiae (Book of Special Grace). Although the library index lists Mechthild of Magdeburg, the text, which speaks of 'Blessed Mechtild' and her 'praiseworthy conversation' as recorded by companions, matches the visionary record of St Mechtild of Hackeborn (1241-1298), the Cistercian-Benedictine nun of Helfta and mistress of the choir, compiled largely by her sister nun St Gertrude the Great. The selected revelations are bound up with the liturgy of the Divine Office and the Mass and develop an affective, Christ-centred mysticism of the Sacred Heart, communion of saints and intercession for souls. The Helfta convent was an exceptional centre of women's mysticism in the thirteenth century, and Mechtild's book was widely read in late medieval Europe.
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Heaven and its Wonders and Hell, from Things Heard and Seen (De Caelo et ejus Mirabilibus et de Inferno, London, 1758) by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), the Swedish scientist and visionary, in English translation. Swedenborg's most widely read work, it describes the spiritual world he claimed to have visited over many years. In 603 numbered sections it explains that God is visible in heaven as the spiritual sun of divine love, that heaven has the form of one 'Grand Man', the correspondences between spiritual and natural things, the life, homes, work, language and marriages of angels, the world of spirits where people go after death, the human being's state after death, and the nature of hell, which people choose according to their ruling love; freedom depends on the equilibrium between heaven and hell. It influenced Blake, Emerson, Balzac, Spiritualism and the doctrine of correspondences across later esotericism.
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The Song Celestial, or Bhagavad-Gita (from the Mahabharata), Sir Edwin Arnold's verse translation first published in 1885, being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna. Arnold, author of The Light of Asia, rendered the 700-verse Sanskrit poem into flowing English blank verse and lyric metres. It was through this translation that the young Mohandas Gandhi first read the Gita in London. On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna despairs at fighting his kinsmen, and Krishna teaches him in eighteen chapters on the immortal Self, duty (dharma), the yoga of selfless action, knowledge and devotion, the nature of Brahman and the three gunas, and reveals his universal cosmic form. The Gita is the most influential text of Hindu spirituality, central to Vedanta and to Theosophy, Transcendentalism and modern yoga.
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The Secret of Recognition (Pratyabhijnahrdayam, 'The Heart of Recognition') by Kshemaraja, translated by Kurt F. Leidecker with the Sanskrit text and notes (Adyar Library, 1938). Kshemaraja (c. 975-1025 CE), the foremost disciple of Abhinavagupta, wrote this concise manual of twenty sutras with his own commentary to make the subtle Pratyabhijna ('Recognition') school of Kashmir Shaivism accessible to those without philosophical training. It teaches that supreme Consciousness (Chiti), free and self-luminous, is the cause of the universe; that it contracts itself into the limited individual and the world, and that liberation consists in recognising one's identity with Shiva. It explains the five acts of Shiva, the categories (tattvas), the expansion of the centre (madhya) and practices such as the unfolding of the heart. A key primer on non-dual Tantric Shaivism, it has become central to modern interest in Kashmir Shaivism.
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The Upanishads, translated and commented on by Swami Paramananda (1884-1940) of the Ramakrishna Order, founder of the Vedanta Centre in Boston and Ananda Ashrama in California (Volume I, 1919). Aimed at Western readers, it gives clear English translations of principal Upanishads, among them the Isa, Katha and Kena Upanishads, each with an introduction and running commentary. The Isa opens with seeing the Lord in all things; the Katha tells of the boy Nachiketas who learns from Yama, the god of death, the secret of the immortal Self; the Kena asks by whom the mind is directed and recounts the parable of the gods' victory, Indra and Uma revealing that all power belongs to Brahman. The Upanishads are the philosophical culmination of the Vedas and the source of Vedanta's teaching that Atman and Brahman are one. Paramananda's version is valued for its devotional clarity.
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer, translated from the Chinese by Herbert A. Giles (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1889; revised 1926), the first complete English translation of the Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu, c. 369-286 BCE) is, with Laozi, the founding figure of philosophical Taoism. The work's thirty-three chapters combine philosophy, parable and humour: the giant Peng bird, Cook Ding carving the ox, the useless tree, the frog in the well, the debate on the happiness of fish, Zhuangzi dreaming he was a butterfly, and his drumming and singing at his wife's death. Its teaching celebrates spontaneity, the relativity of all perspectives, the equality of things, the free and easy wandering of the sage, and acceptance of death and change in harmony with the Tao. Giles's introduction and notes present Zhuangzi as a critic of Confucian moralism. It is a primary text for Taoist mysticism and later Chan and Zen.
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man, an interpretation by Charles Johnston (1867-1931), the Irish Theosophist and Sanskritist (1912). The Yoga Sutras, compiled by Patanjali in the early centuries CE, are the foundational text of classical Raja Yoga: 196 aphorisms in four books defining yoga as the stilling of the fluctuations of consciousness (chitta vritti nirodha). Book I explains concentration and the states of samadhi; Book II the means of practice, the kleshas and the eightfold path of restraints, observances, posture, breath, withdrawal, concentration, meditation and absorption; Book III the powers (siddhis) arising from samyama; and Book IV liberation as the isolation (kaivalya) of pure seeing. Johnston's version offers translation with commentary interpreting the sutras in terms of the 'spiritual man' emerging from the 'psychic man', reflecting Theosophical and Christian mystical sympathies.
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Buddhist Mahayana Texts, incl. Heart Sutra (SBE 49)
Max Muller (trans)
Buddhist Mahayana Texts, Volume XLIX of The Sacred Books of the East (Oxford, 1894), edited by F. Max Müller. Part I is the Buddhacarita of Ashvaghosha, the first-century epic poem on the life of the Buddha, translated from Sanskrit by E. B. Cowell. Part II contains the Larger and Smaller Sukhavativyuha Sutras, describing Amitabha Buddha's Pure Land of Bliss, together with the Vajracchedika (Diamond Sutra) and the Larger and Smaller Prajnaparamita-hridaya Sutras (the Heart Sutra), translated by Max Müller. Part III gives the Amitayur-dhyana Sutra, the meditation on the Buddha of Infinite Life, translated from the Chinese by J. Takakusu. These texts are foundational for Mahayana teaching on emptiness and the perfection of wisdom, for the life of the Buddha, and for Pure Land devotion across East Asia.
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Vivekachudamani (The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination) of Sri Sankaracharya, with the Sanskrit text, English translation and notes by Swami Madhavananda of the Ramakrishna Order (Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, first published 1921). Traditionally attributed to Adi Shankara (eighth century CE), the great exponent of Advaita Vedanta, this poem of some 580 verses is cast as a dialogue between a teacher and a disciple seeking freedom from the cycle of birth and death. It teaches the qualifications of the seeker, discrimination between the real and the unreal, the five sheaths (koshas) that veil the Self, the three bodies and three states of consciousness, the superimposition (adhyasa) of the not-self on the Self, and the realisation that Atman is identical with Brahman, the attainment of jivanmukti or liberation in life. Madhavananda's word-by-word translation makes it a standard study text of non-dual Vedanta.
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The Hymn of the Robe of Glory by G. R. S. Mead (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908), Volume V of his 'Echoes from the Gnosis' series. The hymn, also known as the Hymn of the Pearl, is a Syriac poem preserved in the apocryphal Acts of Thomas, probably composed in the Edessan milieu of the second or third century. It tells of a royal prince sent from the East by his parents, the King of Kings and the Queen of the East, down into Egypt to recover a pearl guarded by a serpent. He forgets his mission in the foreign land until a letter from home awakens him; he charms the serpent, takes the pearl and returns to put on his radiant robe of glory, which reflects his true self. Mead provides an introduction and a translation with commentary interpreting the hymn as an allegory of the soul's descent, forgetting, awakening and return. It is one of the most beautiful expressions of Gnostic soteriology.
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The Odes and Psalms of Solomon, published from the Syriac version by J. Rendel Harris (Cambridge University Press, 1909; second edition 1911), with introduction, translation and notes. Harris, the Quaker biblical scholar and manuscript hunter, discovered in 1909 a Syriac manuscript among his own papers containing the forty-two Odes of Solomon, previously known only from quotations in the Pistis Sophia, together with the eighteen Psalms of Solomon. The Psalms of Solomon are Jewish poems of the first century BCE lamenting Pompey's capture of Jerusalem and longing for the Davidic Messiah. The Odes, probably composed in Syria around the late first or early second century CE, are the earliest Christian hymnbook: ecstatic songs of union with the Lord, the living water, the crown of truth, the Word and the descent into Hades, with mystical and proto-Gnostic tones. Harris's discovery was a sensation and the Odes are central to the study of early Christian mysticism and liturgy.
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The Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandaean John-Book by G. R. S. Mead (London: John M. Watkins, 1924). The Mandaeans of southern Iraq and Iran, the last surviving Gnostic community, revere John the Baptist as their great teacher and practise repeated baptism in flowing 'living water'. Mead translates, largely from Mark Lidzbarski's German edition of the Mandaean Book of John (Drashe d-Yahya), the passages concerning John: his miraculous birth, his teaching and baptisms in the Jordan, his dialogues with the 'Messiah' and the Jews, and his death and ascent to the world of light. Introductory chapters survey Mandaean origins, cosmology and the controversy over their relation to early Christianity and the Gospel of John, and the book closes with essays on John the Baptist in Christian and Josephan tradition. It is an accessible early English gateway to Mandaean literature.
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Ginza: Der Schatz oder das grosse Buch der Mandäer (The Treasure, or the Great Book of the Mandaeans), translated into German and annotated by Mark Lidzbarski (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1925). The Ginza Rba is the principal holy book of the Mandaeans, the Gnostic baptist community of Iraq and Iran. It is divided into the Right Ginza, containing cosmology, theology, myths of creation and of the world of light and darkness, the descent of the saviour Manda d-Hayye, moral teachings, and polemics against Judaism, Christianity and Islam; and the Left Ginza, consisting of hymns and texts on the ascent of the soul after death through the watch-houses to the world of light. Lidzbarski's translation, based on the Petermann edition, with introductions and notes, remains the standard scholarly translation and the basis of most later study of Mandaean religion.
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Monas Hieroglyphica (The Hieroglyphic Monad) by John Dee (1527-1608/9), the Elizabethan mathematician, astrologer and magus, here in a Latin edition dated 1591 (the work was first printed at Antwerp in 1564 and dedicated to the Emperor Maximilian II). In twenty-four theorems Dee presents a single composite glyph, the Monad, combining the symbols of the Moon, Sun, the cross of the elements and the sign of Aries, and expounds it geometrically, arithmetically, astronomically, alchemically and Kabbalistically as a universal key unifying all knowledge and expressing the structure of creation. Dee claimed the Monad would revolutionise astronomy, alchemy, mathematics, languages and mechanics. Notoriously cryptic, it influenced the Rosicrucian manifestos (the Monad appears in the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz) and remains a central text of Renaissance Hermetic and alchemical symbolism.
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The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, Volume 1, translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor (London, 1788-89; reissued 1792), with a preliminary dissertation on the Platonic doctrine of ideas and other essays. Proclus (412-485 CE), head of the Neoplatonic school at Athens, wrote the most important surviving ancient commentary on Euclid, valuable both for the history of Greek mathematics (preserving the 'Eudemian summary' of early geometers from Thales to Euclid) and for its philosophy of mathematics. This first volume contains Proclus's two prologues, which present mathematical objects as intermediate between the sensible world and the divine Forms, explain how geometry awakens the soul's innate reasons and leads it toward theology, and discuss the Pythagorean view of number and figure, followed by commentary on Euclid's definitions. Taylor's notes connect it to Pythagorean and Platonic mysticism. It is a foundational text for the philosophy behind sacred geometry.
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The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, Volume 2, translated by Thomas Taylor (London, 1788-89; reissued 1792), completing his English version with Proclus's detailed commentary on the postulates, axioms and propositions of Euclid's first book, up to the Pythagorean theorem and its converse. Proclus explains each proof, records alternative demonstrations and objections from earlier geometers such as Heron, Posidonius, Geminus and Pappus, and repeatedly draws out the theological and symbolic meaning of geometrical figures, the point, line, circle, angle, triangle and square, as images of divine principles and of the soul's procession and return. Taylor adds his own translations and notes, including material on Pythagorean and Platonic mathematics. Together with Volume 1, it shows how late antique Platonists treated mathematics as a ladder to the divine and is a key source for the Neoplatonic philosophy of geometry.
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Thrice-Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis, Volume I: Prolegomena, by G. R. S. Mead (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906). Mead's three-volume work was the first comprehensive English translation of the extant sermons and fragments of the Trismegistic literature, with commentaries and notes. This first volume is the prolegomena: a survey of the history and sources of the Hermetic tradition, the figure of Hermes-Thoth in Egyptian religion, Plutarch on Isis and Osiris, the Naassene document and its Hermetic hymns, the Poimandres tradition, the relationship of the Hermetica to Philo, Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, and testimony from Church Fathers and Arabic writers. Combining Theosophical sympathy with serious scholarship, it profoundly influenced twentieth-century Western esotericism, Jung and literary modernism, and frames the library's Hermetic texts.
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Hermetica, Volume 1, edited with English translation and notes by Walter Scott (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), subtitled 'The ancient Greek and Latin writings which contain religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus'. This volume contains Scott's introduction on the Hermetic literature and its manuscripts, together with the Greek and Latin texts and facing translations of the Corpus Hermeticum (including the Poimandres, the Key, the Crater, the discourse on rebirth and others) and the Latin Asclepius, with its famous lament for Egypt and passage on the animation of statues. Scott's edition is learned but notorious for heavy emendation and rearrangement of the texts, so later scholars use it with caution. It nonetheless remains a major English resource on Hermetic theology: the divine Mind, the creation of the cosmos and humanity, the soul's ascent and rebirth, and gnosis of God.
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The Enneads, Volume 1, of Plotinus (c. 204-270 CE), in the translation by Stephen MacKenna (London: Medici Society, from 1917), the celebrated English rendering of the founder of Neoplatonism. The Enneads are fifty-four treatises arranged by Plotinus's disciple Porphyry into six groups of nine. MacKenna's first volume contains Porphyry's Life of Plotinus and the First Ennead, the ethical treatises on the living being and the human, the virtues, dialectic, happiness and whether it grows with time, beauty, the primal good and secondary goods, the nature and source of evil, and the 'reasoned dismissal' from life. Plotinus teaches the emanation of all reality from the One through Intellect (Nous) and Soul, and the soul's return to union with the One. MacKenna's lyrical translation, a lifelong labour, shaped the English reception of Neoplatonic mysticism.
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The Theology of Plato, by Proclus (412-485 CE), translated by Thomas Taylor (London, 1816), bound or associated with his Elements of Theology. Proclus, head of the Platonic Academy at Athens, produced in the Platonic Theology the most systematic exposition of late Neoplatonic theology. In six books he extracts from Plato's dialogues a complete hierarchy of divine principles: the One, the henads or gods, and the intelligible, intellectual and supermundane orders, interpreting the Parmenides, Timaeus, Phaedrus and other dialogues as a revealed theology. The Elements of Theology sets out 211 propositions, in the manner of Euclid, deriving the structure of reality from the One through procession and return. Taylor's translation, the first in English, carried Neoplatonism into English Romanticism and later esoteric movements. It is a cornerstone of systematic Neoplatonic metaphysics.
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Hermetica, Volume 3, edited by Walter Scott (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926), the third volume of Scott's edition of the Greek and Latin writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus. Where the first volume contains the texts of the Corpus Hermeticum and Asclepius, Volume 3 contains Scott's notes and commentary on the Latin Asclepius and on the Hermetic excerpts preserved by Stobaeus, including the Kore Kosmou (Virgin of the World), a mythic dialogue between Isis and Horus on the creation of souls and the origin of humanity. Scott's extensive commentary discusses textual problems, parallels in Plato, the Stoics, Philo and Gnostic writers, and the dating and milieu of the treatises. It is a scholarly reference for close study of Hermetic doctrine, to be used alongside the text volume.
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Select Works of Porphyry, translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor (London, 1823), with an appendix explaining the allegory of the wanderings of Ulysses. Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234-305 CE), disciple and biographer of Plotinus and editor of the Enneads, was a leading Neoplatonist philosopher. The volume contains On Abstinence from Animal Food, in four books, a philosophical defence of vegetarianism grounded in the kinship of all living beings, the purity of the soul and the religious customs of Egypt, Persia, India and the Pythagoreans; the Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures (Sententiae), concise propositions on the incorporeal and the soul's ascent; and the essay on the Cave of the Nymphs in Homer's Odyssey, a classic of allegorical interpretation reading the cave as an image of the cosmos and the soul's descent into generation. It is valuable for Neoplatonic ethics, symbolism and myth interpretation.
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The Chaldean Oracles, Volume 1, by G. R. S. Mead (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908), Volume VIII of the 'Echoes from the Gnosis' series. The Chaldean Oracles are fragments of a second-century CE hexameter poem attributed to Julian the Chaldean and his son Julian the Theurgist, which the later Neoplatonists Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus treated as divine revelation. In this first volume Mead introduces the Oracles, their history and their importance for theurgy, then presents and comments on fragments concerning the Paternal Depth and the Father, the Paternal Intellect, the triads, the Great Mother or Hecate as cosmic soul, the Iynges, the Connectors and Teletarchs, the Empyrean, ethereal and material worlds, and the 'flower of mind'. Mead's accessible introduction made these texts known to Theosophical and esoteric readers and to modern ritual magic.
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The Chaldean Oracles, Volume 2, by G. R. S. Mead (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908), Volume IX of the 'Echoes from the Gnosis' series, completing his presentation of the surviving fragments of the second-century theurgic poem revered by the later Neoplatonists. This volume covers fragments on the soul and its descent into the body, the body and its vehicles, the daemons and the material realm, fate and providence, the nature of evil, and above all the means of the soul's purification and ascent: theurgic rites, the fire of the soul, the 'vehicle' (ochema), the virtues and the mystical union with the divine. Mead's commentary links the Oracles to Platonism, Gnosticism, Mithraism and Hermeticism. With Volume 1, it is one of the best introductions for esoteric readers to this foundational text of theurgy.
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Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray (1925, revised from his 1912 Four Stages), in the Project Gutenberg edition, which includes Murray's translation of the treatise On the Gods and the World by Sallustius. Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, traces the development of Greek religion through five stages: the primitive 'Saturnia regna' of pre-Hellenic ritual; the Olympian conquest and the Homeric gods; the great age of philosophy and Plato and Aristotle; the 'failure of nerve' of the Hellenistic period, with its mystery cults, astrology and Gnosticism; and the last protest of paganism under the Emperor Julian. Sallustius's fourth-century catechism of Neoplatonic paganism explains the gods, myths, cosmos, fate and providence, sacrifice and the soul. It is a classic of the Cambridge Ritualist era and a concise primary source on late-antique pagan theology.
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The Life of Pythagoras, with Hierocles on the Golden Verses
Dacier and Rowe (trans)
The Life of Pythagoras, with his Symbols and Golden Verses, together with the Life of Hierocles and his Commentaries upon the Verses, translated from the French of André Dacier (first published in English in 1707, the version here attributed in the index to Dacier and Nicholas Rowe). Dacier's life of Pythagoras gathers ancient testimonies on the Samian sage's travels to Egypt and the East, his community at Croton, his teaching on number, harmony, the transmigration of souls, purification and silence, and the death of the master. The Golden Verses are the short Pythagorean poem of moral and spiritual precepts. The commentary of Hierocles of Alexandria, a fifth-century Neoplatonist, interprets them as a complete course of philosophical life, from civic virtue through purification to deification. It is an important early modern vehicle for the Pythagorean revival in English esotericism.
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3 Enoch, or The Hebrew Book of Enoch, edited and translated for the first time with introduction, commentary and critical notes by Hugo Odeberg (Cambridge University Press, 1928), with the Hebrew text. Also known as Sefer Hekhalot, the book belongs to Merkavah and Hekhalot mysticism and was probably redacted between the fifth and ninth centuries CE. It presents Rabbi Ishmael's ascent through the heavenly palaces to the divine throne, where he meets Metatron, who reveals that he was once the patriarch Enoch, transformed into a fiery angelic being, enthroned as the 'lesser YHWH' and prince of the divine presence. Metatron describes the angelic hierarchies, the celestial court, the curtain (pargod) on which all history is written, the souls of the righteous and the wicked, and the cosmic secrets. Odeberg's edition is a landmark of Jewish mysticism scholarship and a key link between apocalyptic Enoch literature and Kabbalah.
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Etz Chaim (The Tree of Life) by Rabbi Chaim Vital (1543-1620), here in the community English translation from Sefaria. Vital was the chief disciple of Isaac Luria (the Ari) in sixteenth-century Safed, and Etz Chaim is the principal systematic presentation of Lurianic Kabbalah. Organised into 'palaces' and 'gates', it begins with the hall of Adam Kadmon and the round and direct lights, and describes tzimtzum (God's self-contraction to make space for creation), the line of light (kav), Adam Kadmon and the lights emanating from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth, the shattering of the vessels (shevirat ha-kelim), the partzufim or divine 'faces' (Arikh Anpin, Abba, Imma, Zeir Anpin and Nukva), the worlds of Atzilut, Beriah, Yetzirah and Assiyah, and tikkun, the restoration of the world through human action. It is the foundation of all later Kabbalah and essential for the library's Adam Kadmon studies.
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Pardes Rimonim (Orchard of Pomegranates) by Rabbi Moses Cordovero (the Ramak, 1522-1570), the leading Kabbalist of Safed before Isaac Luria, here in the community English translation from Sefaria. Completed around 1548 and divided into thirty-two 'gates', it is the first comprehensive systematisation of Kabbalah, reconciling the diverse views in the Zohar and earlier Kabbalists. Cordovero discusses the Ein Sof and its relation to the sefirot, whether the sefirot are God's essence or vessels, their order, emanation and names, the divine names and their combinations, the channels connecting the sefirot, the worlds, the soul, the 'shells' (kelippot), and the mysteries of letters, vowels and prayer. Its rigorous, philosophical approach made it the classic textbook of pre-Lurianic Kabbalah.
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Sepher Yetzirah (The Book of Formation and the Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom), translated from the Hebrew with annotations by W. Wynn Westcott (first published 1887; later editions 1893 and 1911), the Freemason and co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Sefer Yetzirah, perhaps composed between the second and sixth centuries CE, is the oldest surviving text of Jewish esoteric cosmology. In a few terse chapters it describes how God created the world through the thirty-two paths of wisdom: the ten sefirot ('numbers' or 'spheres') and the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, divided into three mothers (Aleph, Mem, Shin), seven doubles and twelve simples, corresponding to elements, planets, days, zodiac signs and parts of the body. Westcott adds notes and the Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom attributed to it. His version shaped the Golden Dawn's attribution of Hebrew letters and Tarot to the Tree of Life.
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The Kabbalah Unveiled (Kabbala Denudata), translated into English by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (London, 1887) from the Latin of Christian Knorr von Rosenroth's Kabbala Denudata (1677-84), with an introduction by Mathers. It contains three key books of the Zohar: the Book of Concealed Mystery (Sifra di-Tzeniuta), the Greater Holy Assembly (Idra Rabba) and the Lesser Holy Assembly (Idra Zuta). These describe in daring anthropomorphic imagery the emanation of the divine 'countenances': the Ancient of Days or Vast Countenance (Arikh Anpin) and the Lesser Countenance (Zeir Anpin), their heads, beards and features, and the balancing of mercy and severity in the structure of the sefirot. Mathers, a founder of the Golden Dawn, introduced the Kabbalah to the English occult revival through this work, which became a foundational text for Hermetic Qabalah.
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Sha'ar HaGilgulim (The Gate of Reincarnations) by Rabbi Chaim Vital, recording the teachings of his master Isaac Luria, here in the community English translation from Sefaria. Part of the Shemonah She'arim (Eight Gates), it is the classic Kabbalistic treatise on reincarnation (gilgul) and the structure of the soul. It explains the five levels of the soul (nefesh, ruach, neshamah, chayah and yechidah), the roots of souls in the primordial Adam, the sparks scattered through the Fall and their rectification across lifetimes, soul impregnation (ibbur) and spirit possession, how the soul-roots of biblical figures such as Cain, Abel, Moses and the patriarchs reappear in later sages, and the reasons for suffering and particular commandments in terms of tikkun. It also contains Vital's account of Luria's own soul and his circle. It is the fundamental source for Jewish teaching on reincarnation.
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The Legends of the Jews, Volume 1, by Louis Ginzberg (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1909), translated from the German manuscript by Henrietta Szold. Ginzberg, the great Talmudic scholar of the Jewish Theological Seminary, wove thousands of passages from the Talmud, Midrash, apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Kabbalistic works and medieval folklore into a continuous retelling of biblical history. This first volume runs from the creation of the world through the patriarchs to Jacob: the pre-existent Torah, the creation of the heavens, earth and angels, Adam and Lilith, the fall, Cain and Abel, Enoch, the fallen angels and the giants, Noah and the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Its later volumes include extensive source notes. It remains the most comprehensive anthology of Jewish legend and an indispensable reference for aggadah and mythic themes.
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Tomer Devorah (The Palm Tree of Deborah) by Rabbi Moses Cordovero (the Ramak, 1522-1570), here in an English translation (the index credits Nataf). A short classic of Kabbalistic ethics written in Safed, it opens with the principle that a person should resemble the Creator, being configured 'in the secret of the Highest Form' in both image and likeness. The first chapter expounds the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy from Micah 7:18-20 as patterns for human conduct: patience, forgiveness, bearing insult, and loving even those who wrong us. Following chapters show how to imitate each of the ten sefirot, from the humility of Keter and the wisdom of Chokhmah through the kindness of Chesed, the restraint of Gevurah and the beauty of Tiferet, to the receptive Malkhut, in daily behaviour, thought and speech. It is one of the most influential works of Jewish musar and mystical ethics, translating sefirotic theory into practice.
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The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), the Indian revolutionary turned yogi, philosopher and founder of Integral Yoga, here in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram edition of the Complete Works (2005). First serialised in the journal Arya between 1914 and 1919 and revised into its final form in 1939-40, it is his principal metaphysical work. Book One sets out the omnipresent Reality as Sachchidananda (existence, consciousness, bliss) and the descent of Spirit into Matter through Supermind, Overmind and Mind, criticising both materialism and world-denying ascetic monism. Book Two describes the ignorance, knowledge and the evolution of consciousness, the triple transformation (psychic, spiritual and supramental), and the emergence of a 'gnostic being' and a divine life on earth, culminating in the chapters on the gnostic being and the divine life. A major synthesis of Vedanta and evolutionary thought, it ranks among the most important spiritual philosophies of the twentieth century.
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The Ten Hymns of Synesius, Bishop of Cyrene, A.D. 410, in English verse by Alan Stevenson, LL.B., F.R.S.E., the Scottish lighthouse engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses and uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson (privately printed, 1865), with some occasional pieces. Synesius of Cyrene (c. 373-414), a student of the Neoplatonist philosopher Hypatia in Alexandria, became a Christian bishop while retaining his Platonic convictions. His hymns, written in Doric Greek lyric metres, fuse Neoplatonic metaphysics with Christian devotion: the One as Monad beyond all, the Trinity as Father, Son and Spirit understood through Platonic triads, the descent of the soul into matter and its ascent back to the divine, and prayers for liberation from the body's bonds. Stevenson's verse translation, with notes, is a rare Victorian rendering of these key texts of Christian Platonism.
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Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato, Volume 1, translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor (London, 1820), in five books (the full work spans two volumes). Proclus's commentary on the Timaeus, the most important surviving ancient commentary on a Platonic dialogue, interprets Plato's cosmology in the light of the whole Neoplatonic theology. This volume covers the opening of the dialogue: the recapitulation of the Republic, the Atlantis story told by Critias and its allegorical meaning, and the beginning of Timaeus's discourse on the Demiurge, the paradigm, the generation of the cosmos and its being, drawing extensively on earlier commentators such as Porphyry and Iamblichus and on Orphic and Chaldean theology. Taylor's notes, typical of his advocacy for Platonism, supplement the text. It is indispensable for the history of Platonic cosmology and esoteric interpretation of the Timaeus.
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Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato, Volume 2, translated by Thomas Taylor (London, 1820), completing his English version of Proclus's monumental commentary. This volume continues the exposition of Timaeus's cosmology: the creation of the World Soul and its harmonic composition from the mixture of Same, Other and Being, the circles of the Same and Other and the planetary motions, time as the moving image of eternity, the creation of the stars and the celestial gods, the speech of the Demiurge to the young gods, and the formation of human souls and their vehicles. Proclus interweaves mathematics, harmonics, astronomy and theology, with appeal to Orphic, Chaldean and Pythagorean authorities. With Volume 1, it is a key source for late Neoplatonic cosmology and for the esoteric reading of the Timaeus that shaped Renaissance and modern thought.
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Theologoumena Arithmeticae (The Theology of Arithmetic), attributed to Iamblichus, in the Greek critical edition by Vittorio de Falco (Leipzig: Teubner, 1922). This anonymous late-antique compilation, probably drawing heavily on Iamblichus and on lost works by Nicomachus of Gerasa and Anatolius, is the chief surviving text of Pythagorean number mysticism. It treats each of the numbers one to ten, the Monad, Dyad, Triad, Tetrad, Pentad, Hexad, Heptad, Ogdoad, Ennead and Decad, describing their mathematical properties together with the gods, virtues, elements, cosmic principles and symbolic names associated with each (for instance the Tetrad as the source of the tetraktys and the Decad as 'universe'). De Falco's edition, with Latin preface and apparatus, is the standard text. It underlies later Neoplatonic, Renaissance and modern esoteric numerology.
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De Umbris Idearum (On the Shadows of Ideas) by Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), the Dominican philosopher burned for heresy in Rome, in the Latin new edition edited by Salvatore Tugini (Berlin: E. S. Mittler, 1868). First published in Paris in 1582 and dedicated to King Henri III, it is Bruno's first major work on the art of memory. The first part presents a Neoplatonic and Hermetic metaphysics: all things are shadows of the divine ideas, and the human mind can ascend from shadows to the light. The second part sets out an extraordinarily elaborate mnemonic system based on rotating concentric wheels, inspired by Ramon Llull, combined with images of the decans, planets and mythological figures, intended to imprint the order of the cosmos on the imagination. Made famous by Frances Yates's studies, it is a key work of Renaissance Hermeticism and magical memory arts.
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The Writings of Origen, Volume 1, in the Ante-Nicene Christian Library (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1869), translated by Frederick Crombie, chiefly containing De Principiis (On First Principles). Origen of Alexandria (c. 185-254), the most influential theologian of the early Church before Augustine, wrote De Principiis around 220-230 as the first systematic Christian theology. It survives mainly in Rufinus's Latin translation, with some Greek fragments. Its four books treat God, the Son and the Holy Spirit; rational beings, their pre-existence, fall and descent into bodies according to their merit; the world, free will and the powers; the restoration (apokatastasis) of all things; and the interpretation of scripture through its literal, moral and spiritual senses. Some of Origen's speculations were later condemned, but his allegorical exegesis and mystical ascent profoundly shaped Christian mysticism.
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The Works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 1, translated from the Greek by C. D. Yonge (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854), in Bohn's Ecclesiastical Library. Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 BCE-50 CE), the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher, sought to harmonise the Torah with Greek philosophy, especially Platonism and Stoicism, through allegorical interpretation. This first volume of Yonge's four-volume translation includes On the Creation of the World, the Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis, On the Cherubim, On the Sacrifices of Abel and Cain, That the Worse Is Wont to Attack the Better, On the Posterity of Cain, On the Giants and On the Unchangeableness of God, among others. Philo's doctrine of the Logos as God's instrument of creation, the heavenly and earthly man, and the soul's ascent influenced the Gospel of John, the Church Fathers, Gnosticism and Kabbalah.
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The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), translated from the Ethiopic by R. H. Charles (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912 revised edition, also issued in a popular SPCK edition in 1917), with introduction and notes. Preserved complete only in Ge'ez and canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, this Jewish apocalyptic compilation dates from the third century BCE to the first century CE. Its five parts are: the Book of the Watchers, telling of the fallen angels who mated with women and taught forbidden arts and Enoch's journeys through heaven and the underworld; the Similitudes or Parables, with the mysterious Son of Man; the Astronomical Book on the calendar and heavenly luminaries; the Dream Visions, including the Animal Apocalypse; and the Epistle of Enoch with the Apocalypse of Weeks. Quoted in the Epistle of Jude, it shaped early Christian angelology and eschatology. Charles's translation is the classic English version.
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The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch, the Slavonic Enoch), translated from the Slavonic by W. R. Morfill and edited with introduction, notes and indices by R. H. Charles (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896). Surviving only in Old Church Slavonic manuscripts but probably based on a Jewish or Jewish-Christian work of the first century CE, it recounts Enoch's ascent through seven (in some recensions ten) heavens, guided by two angels. He sees the prisons of the fallen angels, paradise and hell, the courses of the sun and moon, and finally the face of the Lord, before being transformed and instructed in the secrets of creation, including a cosmogony that describes creation from the invisible through the great aeon Adoil. Enoch returns to teach his sons, then is taken up, and the text closes with the story of Methuselah and the miraculous birth of Melchizedek. It is a key source on heavenly ascent and Enochic cosmology.
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The Sibylline Oracles, translated from the Greek into English blank verse by Milton S. Terry (New York, 1890; revised edition 1899). The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of twelve books of Greek hexameter prophecies attributed to the pagan Sibyls but in fact composed by Jewish and Christian authors between roughly the second century BCE and the seventh century CE, adapting the prestige of the ancient prophetesses for religious propaganda. They narrate world history in successive ages, foretell the downfall of empires such as Rome, denounce idolatry and immorality, and proclaim the coming judgement, the messianic age and the end of the world, with the return of Nero as an antichrist figure. Widely cited by the Church Fathers, they influenced medieval apocalyptic imagery (the 'teste David cum Sibylla' of the Dies Irae). Terry provides introduction and notes.
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The Apocalypse of Abraham, edited with a translation from the Slavonic text and notes by G. H. Box with J. I. Landsman (London: SPCK, 1918), in the 'Translations of Early Documents, Series I: Palestinian Jewish Texts (Pre-Rabbinic)'. Surviving only in Old Church Slavonic but originally a Jewish work of the late first or early second century CE, written after the destruction of the Temple, it has two parts. The first is a haggadic story of the young Abraham in his father Terah's idol workshop, discovering the folly of idolatry and the true God. The second is an apocalypse: guided by the angel Yahoel, Abraham offers sacrifice and ascends on the wings of a bird to the heavenly throne, where he sees the fiery chariot (Merkavah), the creation, the fall caused by the fallen angel Azazel, the history of Israel and the judgement to come. It is an important link between apocalyptic and Merkavah mysticism.
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The Writings of Clement of Alexandria, Volume 1, translated by William Wilson, in the Ante-Nicene Christian Library (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1867). Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-215), head of the catechetical school of Alexandria and teacher of Origen, sought to show that Christianity fulfils the best of Greek philosophy and presented the ideal Christian as the true 'gnostic'. This volume contains the Exhortation to the Heathen (Protrepticus), urging pagans to abandon the mysteries and idols for the Logos, with valuable descriptions of the Greek mystery cults; The Instructor (Paedagogus), in which Christ the Tutor guides the believer in daily conduct, diet, dress and manners; and the opening books of the Miscellanies (Stromata). It is a primary source on early Christian Platonism and the pagan mysteries.
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The Writings of Clement of Alexandria, Volume 2, translated by William Wilson, in the Ante-Nicene Christian Library (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1869). This volume continues the Miscellanies (Stromata), Clement's sprawling, deliberately unsystematic 'patchwork' of reflections, in which he argues that Greek philosophy was a preparation for the Gospel, that true knowledge (gnosis) builds on faith, and that the perfect Christian gnostic is passionless, loving and assimilated to God. He discusses symbolism and esoteric teaching in Egyptian, Pythagorean and biblical traditions, the 'theft' of the Greeks from Hebrew wisdom, marriage, martyrdom and the critique of heretical Gnostics such as Basilides and Valentinus. It also includes Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? and fragments, among them the Excerpts from Theodotus preserving Valentinian teaching. It is essential for Christian gnosis and early esotericism.
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Studies in Islamic Mysticism by Reynold A. Nicholson (Cambridge University Press, 1921), the great Cambridge scholar of Sufism and translator of Rumi. In three substantial studies Nicholson examines key figures and ideas of Sufism. The first is a study of the life of Abu Sa'id ibn Abi'l-Khayr (967-1049), the Persian Sufi saint famed for his quatrains and ecstatic practice. The second, on 'the Perfect Man', analyses the doctrine of al-Insan al-Kamil in the work of Abd al-Karim al-Jili, developing Ibn Arabi's teaching on the human being as the microcosm and the mirror of divine names. The third is a study of the Odes (Ta'iyya and others) of the Arab mystical poet Ibn al-Farid, with translations and commentary. Combining translation and analysis, it remains a classic of Western Sufi scholarship.
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The Mesnevi of Mevlana (Our Lord) Jelalu-'d-Din Muhammed er-Rumi, Book the First, translated and poetised by James W. Redhouse (London: Trübner, 1881), together with selections from the Acts of the Adepts (Manaqib al-Arifin) of Aflaki, giving the life and anecdotes of Rumi and his circle. Redhouse, the celebrated Ottoman lexicographer, rendered the first book of Rumi's great Persian mystical poem into English rhyming verse. The Mathnawi, called the 'Qur'an in Persian', opens with the song of the reed flute lamenting separation from its reed bed, symbol of the soul's longing for God, and unfolds through interwoven stories, parables and teachings: the king and the handmaid, the grocer and the parrot, the lion and the hare, Moses and the shepherd and many others. Redhouse's version was one of the first substantial English translations of Rumi.
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The Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi, Volume 1, edited by Reynold A. Nicholson (E. J. W. Gibb Memorial series, 1925 onward), Nicholson's monumental edition, translation and commentary on Rumi's masterpiece, which he completed over decades. This volume contains the critical Persian text of the first books of the Mathnawi, edited from the earliest manuscripts, with critical notes; Nicholson's English translation and commentary appear in companion volumes. Rumi's poem of some 25,000 couplets, beginning with the lament of the reed flute, teaches through tales, Qur'anic interpretation and metaphysical discourse the path of love, the annihilation of the self in God, the meaning of spiritual guidance and the hidden unity behind appearances. Nicholson's edition remains the standard text of the Mathnawi used by scholars worldwide and the basis of most modern translations.
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The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-Tayr) by Farid ud-Din Attar (c. 1145-1221), the Persian Sufi poet of Nishapur, in the English version by R. P. Masani (Oxford University Press, 1924), a prose rendering and study of the poem's Sufi teaching. In this allegorical epic the birds of the world gather to seek their king, the Simorgh. Led by the hoopoe, they voice their excuses and attachments, the nightingale its love of the rose and the parrot its desire for immortality, which the hoopoe answers with stories. They journey through seven valleys: quest, love, knowledge, detachment, unity, bewilderment, and poverty and annihilation. Only thirty birds (si murgh) survive to reach the Simorgh, where they discover that the Simorgh is themselves. A supreme classic of Sufi literature, it influenced Rumi and is read as a map of the mystical path.
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The Alchemy of Happiness (Kimiya-yi Sa'adat) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), translated by Claud Field (London: John Murray, Wisdom of the East series, 1910), an abridged English version made from the Hindustani. Al-Ghazali, the great Persian theologian whose spiritual crisis led him to Sufism, wrote this Persian summary of his monumental Revival of the Religious Sciences for a broader readership. It teaches that true happiness, the alchemy that transforms base metal into gold, is attained through knowledge of the self, of God, of this world and of the next. Chapters explain the heart as a mirror to be polished, the struggle with passions, the love of God as the highest end, music and ecstasy, self-examination and remembrance of death. Field's version introduces the ethical and mystical core of al-Ghazali's thought and its reconciliation of law, theology and Sufism.
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Al-Ghazzali's Mishkat al-Anwar (The Niche for Lights), translated with an introduction by W. H. T. Gairdner (Royal Asiatic Society, Asiatic Society Monographs, 1924). In this short and profound late work, al-Ghazali comments on the 'Light Verse' of the Qur'an (24:35), 'God is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the similitude of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp...', and on the hadith of the seventy thousand veils of light and darkness. He argues that God alone is light in the true sense, that all other lights are borrowed from Him, and interprets the niche, glass, lamp, tree and oil as the levels of human perception: sense, imagination, reason, reflection and prophetic spirit. He classifies seekers according to the veils that separate them from God. Gairdner's introduction discusses the work's Neoplatonic character and its influence on later illuminationist and Sufi metaphysics.
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The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys by Baha'u'llah, translated by Ali-Kuli Khan with Marzieh Gail (Baha'i Publishing Trust). Revealed in Baghdad around 1856-58, after Baha'u'llah's return from two years of solitude in the mountains of Kurdistan, these two mystical epistles respond to questions from Sufi figures in the language of Persian mysticism. The Seven Valleys, written for the judge Shaykh Muhyi'd-Din, adapts Attar's Conference of the Birds to describe the soul's journey through the valleys of search, love, knowledge, unity, contentment, wonderment and true poverty and absolute nothingness. The Four Valleys, addressed to Shaykh Abdu'r-Rahman of Karkuk, describes four kinds of mystic wayfarers according to self, reason, love and the heart. Rich in Qur'anic allusions, Sufi poetry and parables, they bridge the Sufi and Baha'i traditions.
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (London: William Heinemann, 1897), with introduction and notes. Hafiz of Shiraz (Shams al-Din Muhammad, c. 1315-1390) is the supreme master of the Persian ghazal, and his Divan has been revered for six centuries as a guide to the mystical life and used for divination. Bell, later famous as an archaeologist, traveller and political officer in the Middle East, translated forty-three ghazals into English verse after studying Persian in Tehran. The poems celebrate wine, the beloved, the rose and the nightingale, the tavern and the inspired libertine, against the hypocrisy of the pious, in imagery that can be read both as earthly love and as Sufi symbolism of divine love and intoxication. Bell's long introduction on Hafiz's life and age is admired, and her translation is still considered among the finest in English.
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The Secret Rose Garden (Gulshan-i Raz) of Sa'd ud Din Mahmud Shabistari, rendered from the Persian with an introduction by Florence Lederer (London: John Murray, Wisdom of the East series, 1920). Mahmud Shabistari (c. 1288-1340), a Sufi of Tabriz, composed this didactic poem of about a thousand couplets around 1317 in answer to fifteen questions on Sufi doctrine sent by a scholar from Herat. The answers concern thought and reflection, the self and the 'I', the traveller and the Perfect Man, the nature of union, the meaning of the sea and its pearls, and the symbolic vocabulary of Sufi poetry: the eye and lip, the curl, the cheek and mole, wine, the tavern, the idol, the girdle and the Christian boy. Drawing on Ibn Arabi's unity of being, it is a compact handbook of Sufi metaphysics and symbolism. Lederer offers a free poetic version emphasising its devotional meaning.
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Gulshan i Raz: The Mystic Rose Garden of Sa'd ud din Mahmud Shabistari, the Persian text with an English translation and notes, chiefly from the commentary of Muhammad bin Yahya Lahiji, by E. H. Whinfield (London: Trübner, 1880). Whinfield, a judge of the Bengal Civil Service and translator of Rumi and Omar Khayyam, provides a scholarly line-by-line version of Shabistari's poem of about a thousand couplets, composed around 1317 in answer to fifteen questions on Sufi doctrine. Topics include the nature of thought, the journey of the soul from the many to the One, the Perfect Man, the 'I' and the illusion of separate existence, the unity of being after Ibn Arabi, and the hidden meanings of Sufi poetic imagery such as wine, the beloved's curl, cheek and eye, the tavern and the idol. Whinfield's introduction on Sufism and his notes from Lahiji's classic commentary make this the most useful scholarly English edition, complementing Lederer's devotional version in the library.
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An Outline of Occult Science (Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriss, 1910) by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), founder of Anthroposophy, here in an early authorised English translation. One of Steiner's four foundational books, it presents the results of his spiritual-scientific (supersensible) research in systematic form. It describes the human being as composed of physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego, the states of sleep and death and the life between death and rebirth. Its central part is a vast cosmology of the evolution of the world and humanity through successive planetary conditions (Old Saturn, Old Sun, Old Moon and Earth, with future Jupiter, Venus and Vulcan), the work of spiritual hierarchies, the Lemurian and Atlantean epochs and the post-Atlantean cultures, and the deed of Christ as the turning point of earth evolution. A final section describes the path of knowledge and initiation. It is a cornerstone of anthroposophical teaching.
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The Way of Initiation, or How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
Rudolf Steiner
The Way of Initiation, or How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds by Rudolf Steiner, in the early English translation by Max Gysi, with biographical notes on the author by Édouard Schuré (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908), from the essays later published as Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten? Written while Steiner led the German Section of the Theosophical Society, it is a practical guide to spiritual development for modern people living in the world. It describes the conditions of esoteric training: reverence and devotion, inner tranquillity, meditation and the cultivation of moral qualities such as control of thought and action, equanimity and open-mindedness; and the stages of preparation, enlightenment and initiation, through which latent spiritual organs (the 'lotus flowers' or chakras) develop and the student meets the Guardian of the Threshold. It remains one of the most widely read introductions to Western meditative practice.
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The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky (London: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1889), 'being a clear exposition, in the form of question and answer, of the ethics, science and philosophy for the study of which the Theosophical Society has been founded'. Written for general readers, it is the most accessible of Blavatsky's major works. In a dialogue between an 'Enquirer' and a 'Theosophist', it explains what Theosophy is and is not, the aims of the Theosophical Society (universal brotherhood, comparative study of religion, philosophy and science, and investigation of the unexplained laws of nature and latent human powers), the difference between Theosophy and Spiritualism, the septenary nature of the human being, the states of the soul after death (Kama-loka and Devachan), reincarnation and karma, the nature of the Masters or Mahatmas, and practical ethics. It includes a glossary of Sanskrit and esoteric terms.
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The Voice of the Silence, being chosen fragments from the 'Book of the Golden Precepts', for the daily use of lanoos (disciples), translated and annotated by H. P. B. (H. P. Blavatsky) (London and New York, 1889). Blavatsky presented the work as translated from a secret Tibetan text she had memorised, studied in the same school as the Stanzas of Dzyan. It consists of three 'fragments': The Voice of the Silence, on the stilling of the senses and the mind so the disciple can hear the inner voice and achieve union with the Self; The Two Paths, contrasting the 'Doctrine of the Eye' (personal liberation) with the 'Doctrine of the Heart', the path of compassion of one who renounces nirvana to help humanity; and The Seven Portals, on the six paramitas or virtues and the seventh portal of wisdom. It was endorsed by the Dalai Lama in a 1989 centenary edition and is one of the most devotional texts of Theosophy.
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Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man by Rudolf Steiner (Theosophie, 1904), in an early English translation (1910). One of Steiner's four basic books, written while he was General Secretary of the German Theosophical Society, it presents his spiritual-scientific understanding of the human being. Part one describes the threefold nature of the human being as body, soul and spirit and its ninefold subdivision (physical, etheric and astral bodies, the sentient, intellectual and consciousness souls, and spirit-self, life-spirit and spirit-man). Part two explains reincarnation and karma as the destiny of the spirit. Part three describes the three worlds, the physical, the soul world and the spirit land (devachan), and the path of the soul through them after death. A closing chapter outlines the path of knowledge by which anyone may verify these teachings. It is a foundational text of Anthroposophy.
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Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity by Rudolf Steiner (Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache, 1902), in an early English translation. Based on lectures given in Berlin in 1901-02, it argues that Christianity grew out of the ancient mystery religions while fulfilling and transforming them. Steiner discusses the mysteries and the sages of Greece before Plato, Plato as a mystic, the wisdom of the mysteries and myth, the Egyptian mystery wisdom, the Gospels as accounts of initiation, the raising of Lazarus as an initiation, the Apocalypse of John, Jesus and his historical background, the nature of Christianity, Christianity and pagan wisdom, and Augustine and the Church. The central thesis is that what was enacted in secret in the mysteries became a historical event, open to all, in the life, death and resurrection of Christ. It is a key text of esoteric Christianity.
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Initiation, Human and Solar by Alice A. Bailey (New York: Lucifer Publishing Company, 1922), her first book, which she said was dictated telepathically by the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul. It sets out the structure and functioning of the spiritual Hierarchy of Masters said to guide human and planetary evolution: Sanat Kumara the Lord of the World at Shamballa, the Buddhas of Activity, the three great departments under the Manu, the Bodhisattva (Christ) and the Mahachohan, and the Masters of Wisdom and their ashrams. It describes the path of discipleship and the five major initiations, the role of the Hierophant, the rod of initiation, the oath, the Word, the secrets revealed at each stage, and the solar and cosmic dimensions of initiation. Drawing on and reworking Theosophy, it was foundational for Bailey's Arcane School and much of the later New Age movement, including the idea of the 'Great Invocation'.
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The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, Volume 1 (Cosmogenesis), by H. P. Blavatsky (first published London, 1888), here in the edition divided into separate volumes. The founding scripture of modern Theosophy, it presents commentaries on the 'Stanzas of Dzyan', which Blavatsky claimed to derive from an ancient secret text. After the Proem setting out the three fundamental propositions (an omnipresent, eternal, boundless principle; the periodicity of universal cycles; and the fundamental identity of all souls with the Over-Soul and their obligatory pilgrimage through the cycle of incarnation), it describes the emergence of the cosmos from the dark, undifferentiated Absolute, the awakening of the universe, the differentiation of the elements and planes, the hierarchies of Dhyan Chohans, the planetary chains and rounds. It supports its claims with references to Hindu, Buddhist, Kabbalistic, Hermetic, Egyptian and Greek sources and critiques of contemporary science.
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The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2, by H. P. Blavatsky, from the multi-volume edition of her 1888 magnum opus. This part continues the exposition of Cosmogenesis with its extensive commentary on symbolism: the 'Symbolism of the Archaic Teachings' explores the universal language of myth and the esoteric meaning of the primordial symbols, among them the egg, the lotus, the cross and circle, the serpent and dragon, the Deluge and the sacred numbers and geometry, together with the doctrine of the Logos and of the hierarchies of spiritual beings, as well as science versus occultism on matter, force and the ether. Blavatsky compares Hindu, Chaldean, Egyptian, Kabbalistic and Christian traditions to argue for a single primordial wisdom religion. Because volume divisions differ between editions, readers should check the table of contents for the exact sections included.
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The Secret Doctrine, Volume 3, by H. P. Blavatsky, from the multi-volume edition of her 1888 work. This part is chiefly devoted to Anthropogenesis, the esoteric history of humanity based on further Stanzas of Dzyan. Blavatsky describes the evolution of humankind through seven 'root races': the ethereal, sexless first race of the Imperishable Sacred Land, the Hyperborean second race, the Lemurian third race, in which humanity separated into sexes and received mind from the Manasaputras or 'Sons of Mind', the giant Atlanteans of the fourth race and their catastrophic destruction, and the present fifth (Aryan) race. She interweaves myths of giants, fallen angels, the Flood and lost continents with critiques of Darwinian evolution. These racial theories reflect nineteenth-century thinking and are now widely criticised. Volume divisions vary between editions, so readers should consult the contents.
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The Secret Doctrine, Volume 4, by H. P. Blavatsky, from the multi-volume edition of her 1888 work. This part continues and concludes Anthropogenesis, with Blavatsky's commentary on the symbolism of the archaic teachings concerning humanity: the sacred animals and the zodiac, the serpents and dragons as symbols of divine wisdom and of the Atlantean adepts, the war in heaven and the fall of the angels interpreted esoterically, the 'Holy of Holies' and the mysteries of sex and creation, the cross and the swastika, the Mysteries of the Hebdomad (the number seven in nature and religion), and addenda on science versus the occult doctrine of human origins. It closes the synthesis of science, religion and philosophy that Blavatsky offered as a revelation of the ancient wisdom religion behind all faiths. Volume divisions vary between editions; check the contents for the sections included.
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A New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology
Ebenezer Sibly
A New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology, or the Art of Foretelling Future Events and Contingencies by the Aspects, Positions and Influences of the Heavenly Bodies, by Ebenezer Sibly (1751-c. 1799), the English physician, astrologer and Freemason (first published in parts from 1784 and reissued many times). Its title page describes it as 'founded on natural philosophy, scripture, reason and the mathematics', demonstrating 'the abstruse doctrine of the stars, of magic, divination, exorcism and familiarity with spirits', the calculation of nativities and horary questions, drawn from the writings of over five hundred authors. Its four parts cover astrological principles and the planets, signs and houses, the calculation and judgement of nativities, horary astrology, and the occult sciences of magic, spirits and witchcraft. It contains the famous horoscope of the United States (the 'Sibly chart' for 4 July 1776) and many engraved plates. It was hugely influential in reviving English astrology.
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Astrology As It Is, Not As It Has Been Represented
Zadkiel
Astrology As It Is, Not As It Has Been Represented: A Compendium, by an author writing under the pseudonym 'Zadkiel', the name used by several nineteenth-century English astrologers and almanac makers. The book defends astrology as a rational science of planetary influence, against what it presents as caricature and misrepresentation by its critics, and gives a compendium of its principles and their application. Topics include the nature and influences of the planets on the mind and body, the signs and houses, aspects, the calculation and judgement of nativities, and illustrative horoscopes of notable persons (for example the Rev. Edward Irving), together with discussion of rival astrologers such as Raphael. It reflects the Victorian revival of popular astrology. The precise identity of the author and the date of this edition are not confirmed here.
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Heliocentric Astrology, or Essentials of Astronomy and Solar Mentality, with Tables of Ephemeris, by Holmes W. Merton (writing as Yarmo Vedra), here in the 1921 edition (published by David McKay, Philadelphia). Merton advocates an astrology based on the heliocentric (Sun-centred) positions of the planets rather than the traditional geocentric chart, arguing that it reflects the true astronomical order and the solar source of life and mind. The book explains basic astronomy, the planets' heliocentric motions and their characteristics, the zodiac signs and their influence on character and talents ('solar mentality'), and how to set up and read a heliocentric chart using the included ephemeris tables. It is a pioneering work of the heliocentric astrology movement and a companion to the 1910 edition also in the library.
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Heliocentric Astrology, or Essentials of Astronomy and Solar Mentality, with Tables of Ephemeris to 1913, by Holmes W. Merton under the pen name Yarmo Vedra, here in the 1910 edition. The book presents an astrology calculated from the Sun-centred positions of the planets, which Merton argues represent the real structure of the solar system and the solar origin of human mental and spiritual life. It covers fundamentals of astronomy, the heliocentric motions of the planets and their meanings, the twelve signs as types of character and aptitude, guidance on vocation, health and relationships, and instructions for using the ephemeris tables (to 1913) to construct heliocentric charts. It is the earlier edition of the work also held in its 1921 form, useful for comparing the development of the text.
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Everybody's Astrology by Magnus Jensen, an early twentieth-century popular introduction to astrology, here from an Internet Archive scan. Written for the general reader, it explains in plain language the signs of the zodiac and the character traits, talents, health tendencies and compatibilities associated with being born under each, the influence of the planets, and simple methods for interpreting a birth chart. It belongs to the wave of accessible astrology handbooks published in Britain and America in the early twentieth century, when astrology spread to a mass audience through magazines and almanacs. The text, produced by optical character recognition, contains some errors.
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Earthology: Humanity Characterized by the Earth, Sun and Zodiac, with Prognostications from the Moon, by Albert Raphael, 'President of the School of Science' (London and New York: Raphael, 1901). A popular astrological character manual, it describes the personality, talents, health, fortunes and compatibilities of people born in each period of the year according to the Sun's place in the zodiac and the corresponding season and position of the Earth, framed as the 'science' of earthology. It also gives guidance on lunar prognostication: the Moon's phases and its passage through the signs as indicators for undertakings and daily life. It is typical of the mail-order astrology publications of the turn of the twentieth century and a period document of popular astrology.
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The Sixteen Principal Stars, 1824-1948, by Joseph G. Dalton (1898), the American astronomer-astrologer and author of The Spherical Basis of Astrology. A technical work for practising astrologers, it gives tables of the positions (longitude, latitude and declination) of sixteen of the brightest and most astrologically significant fixed stars, such as Aldebaran, Regulus, Spica, Antares and Fomalhaut, calculated for the years 1824 to 1948 with allowance for precession, so that their influence can be included in nativities and directions. Dalton also explains how fixed stars have been used in traditional astrology and how to apply his tables. It reflects the late nineteenth-century effort to put astrology on a more accurate astronomical footing. The text is OCR from a public-domain scan and may contain errors.
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Were You Born in July? The Character, the Talents, the Strong Points, the Weak Points of Those Born in July, a booklet in the 'When Were You Born' series published by the Great Aim Society of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Toronto, Canada, in the early twentieth century and priced at ten cents. Based on popular astrology for the Sun signs of the month (Cancer and Leo), it describes the typical temperament, talents, health, best occupations, friendships and marriages of people born in July, and offers advice on developing their strengths and overcoming their weaknesses. It is a small ephemeral example of the mass-market astrology and self-improvement pamphlets of its period, preserved in the Edith and Lorne Pierce Collection of Canadiana at Queen's University.
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Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on the Dream of Scipio) by Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius (early fifth century CE), here in the Latin text of the Teubner edition by Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1868), which also contains his Saturnalia. Macrobius comments on the 'Dream of Scipio' that closes Cicero's Republic, in which Scipio Africanus the Elder shows his grandson the cosmos from the Milky Way. The commentary became a principal channel of Neoplatonic thought to the Latin Middle Ages. It discusses the classification of dreams, the immortality and descent of the soul through the planetary spheres, the virtues, number symbolism (the monad, the seven and the eight), the structure of the cosmos and the planetary order, the music of the spheres, the zones of the earth and the antipodes, and the Great Year. It influenced Boethius, Chaucer, Dante and medieval cosmology.
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De Vita Libri Tres (Three Books on Life) by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine priest, physician and translator of Plato, Plotinus and the Corpus Hermeticum, here in a Latin edition of 1549, 'freed from errors' and with additions. First published in 1489, it is a medical and magical guide addressed to scholars, whose melancholic temperament (associated with Saturn) endangers their health. Book I, On a Healthy Life, gives advice on diet, sleep, exercise and remedies for learned people. Book II, On a Long Life, covers prolonging life in old age. Book III, On Obtaining Life from the Heavens, a commentary on Plotinus, explains how to draw down beneficial celestial influences through the world spirit by means of music, images, talismans, plants, stones, scents and colours. It is the central text of Renaissance natural and astrological magic and influenced Agrippa, Bruno and Campanella.
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Ausgewählte Werke, Band 1 (Selected Works, Volume 1) of Vladimir Solovyov (Wladimir Solovjeff, 1853-1900), translated from the Russian into German by Harry Köhler (Stuttgart: Der Kommende Tag Verlag, 1922, Philosophisch-Anthroposophische Bibliothek, second printing). This volume contains Die geistigen Grundlagen des Lebens (The Spiritual Foundations of Life), first part, preceded by a biographical foreword. Solovyov, the leading Russian religious philosopher of the nineteenth century and theorist of Sophia (Divine Wisdom) and 'Godmanhood', wrote this work in the early 1880s as a meditation on the foundations of Christian life: prayer, almsgiving and fasting as the means of uniting the human with the divine, the person of Christ, and the Church as the body of the God-man. The anthroposophical publisher reflects Rudolf Steiner's admiration for Solovyov. It is a German-language source for Russian sophiology.
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Ausgewählte Werke, Band 2 (Selected Works, Volume 2) of Vladimir Solovyov, translated from the Russian into German by Harry Köhler (Stuttgart: Der Kommende Tag Verlag, 1922, Philosophisch-Anthroposophische Bibliothek). This volume contains the Sonntags- und Osterbriefe (Sunday and Easter Letters), short essays written by Solovyov in the 1890s on religious, moral and social questions. Beginning with 'The Family of Peoples', they reflect on nations and universal humanity, Christianity and national life, the meaning of Easter and resurrection, the Church and the kingdom of God, and the duties of Christians in history. Together with the first volume, it presents to German readers the thought of the Russian philosopher of Divine Wisdom (Sophia), all-unity and Godmanhood, who influenced Berdyaev, Bulgakov and the Russian religious renaissance as well as Steiner's anthroposophical circle.
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The Teaching of Vimalakirti (Toh 176, Thurman trans.)
84000
The Teaching of Vimalakirti (Vimalakirtinirdesa, Toh 176), translated from the Tibetan by Robert A. F. Thurman for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, the non-profit project translating the Tibetan Buddhist canon (Kangyur), with the Tibetan text and English translation. Thurman, a leading scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, first published his translation of this sutra in 1976. One of the most celebrated Mahayana scriptures, it centres on Vimalakirti, a wealthy lay bodhisattva of Vaishali who feigns illness so that the Buddha's disciples and bodhisattvas will visit him. In a series of dramatic encounters he outwits the great disciples, displays miraculous powers, and leads a discussion on non-duality, culminating in his famous 'thunderous silence' as the supreme teaching on the entrance into non-duality. It affirms that enlightenment can be realised in lay life and influenced Chan and Zen Buddhism.
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Liber Scivias ('Know the Ways') by Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the Benedictine abbess, visionary, composer and Doctor of the Church, here in a Latin digital copy from Heidelberg University Library. Written between 1141 and 1151 with the support of Bernard of Clairvaux and Pope Eugenius III, it records twenty-six visions in three books, each described and then interpreted by a heavenly voice. Book I treats creation, the fall, the cosmos (in the famous image of the universe as a cosmic egg) and the human soul; Book II treats Christ the Redeemer, the Trinity, the Church as Bride and Mother, the sacraments and the struggle against the devil; and Book III treats the building of salvation through the virtues and history up to the Last Judgement and the new heaven and earth, ending with a cycle of songs. Its striking symbolic imagery made it one of the most important works of medieval visionary mysticism.
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The Philokalia (Philokalia ton Ieron Neptikon, 'Love of the Beautiful of the Holy Watchful Fathers'), compiled by St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St Makarios of Corinth, here in the Greek edition published in Athens in 1893 (the original was printed in Venice in 1782). It is a vast anthology of texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox tradition, among them Evagrius Ponticus, John Cassian, Mark the Ascetic, Diadochos of Photiki, Maximus the Confessor, Hesychios, Philotheos of Sinai, Peter of Damascus, Symeon the New Theologian, Nikitas Stithatos, Gregory of Sinai and Gregory Palamas. Its theme is watchfulness (nepsis), the guarding of the heart, the struggle with passions and thoughts, and continual prayer, especially the Jesus Prayer, leading to stillness (hesychia), the vision of divine light and deification (theosis). Translated into Slavonic and Russian, it sparked a spiritual revival and remains the central text of hesychasm.
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The Forty-One Homilies of Gregory Palamas (c. 1296-1359), Archbishop of Thessalonica and the great theologian of hesychasm, here in a Greek edition dated 1857. The homilies were preached to his congregation in Thessalonica on the feasts of the liturgical year and on themes of Christian life. They cover the great feasts of Christ and the Mother of God, the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, where the uncreated divine light was revealed, Lent and repentance, fasting, prayer, almsgiving, the sacraments and the moral life, expressing in pastoral form Palamas's teaching on the distinction between God's essence and uncreated energies and on human deification. They are a key source for the Orthodox theology of light.
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Sepher ha-Zohar, Le Livre de la Splendeur Vol. 3 (French, Pauly trans. 1908)
Jean de Pauly
Sepher ha-Zohar (Le Livre de la Splendeur), Volume 3, a French translation of the Zohar by Jean de Pauly, published in Paris by Ernest Leroux (1906-11) after the translator's death and edited by Émile Lafuma-Giraud. Pauly, a converted Jew of controversial personality, produced the first complete translation of the Zohar into a European language, from the Mantua edition, with notes. The Zohar, the foundational work of Kabbalah written in Aramaic in late thirteenth-century Castile and attributed to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, is a mystical commentary on the Torah. This volume continues the commentary on the weekly portions, revealing the inner life of the sefirot, the divine names, the soul, the mysteries of creation, the Shekhinah and the union of the Holy One and his Bride. Though its accuracy has been criticised, Pauly's translation had wide influence on French esotericism.
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Sha'arei Orah (Gates of Light) by Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla (1248-c. 1305), the Castilian Kabbalist and disciple of Abraham Abulafia, here in a Hebrew manuscript copy of Italian origin. Written in the late thirteenth century, it is one of the most important and clearest introductions to the theory of the ten sefirot. Its ten 'gates' each correspond to a sefirah, moving upward from Malkhut (Kingdom, the Shekhinah) to Keter (Crown), and explain the many biblical divine names and epithets associated with each, so that the reader can understand the scriptural text and prayer as a map of the divine structure. It became a standard primer of Kabbalah, was translated into Latin by Paulus Ricius in 1516 (Portae Lucis), influencing Christian Kabbalah, and is still widely studied. The scan of the manuscript is difficult to read by OCR.
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Ginat Egoz (The Garden of Nuts) by Joseph Gikatilla, here in a Hebrew printed edition (the index gives 1615; the first printing was Hanau, 1614-15). Written in 1274 when Gikatilla was in his twenties and under the influence of Abraham Abulafia, it belongs to his early, more philosophical and linguistic phase, before Sha'arei Orah. Its title alludes to the Song of Songs (6:11) and to the nut as a symbol of the hidden kernel of mystical wisdom within its shells. It has three parts: on the divine names and the mysteries of the Tetragrammaton; on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and their combinations, gematria and permutations (techniques related to Abulafia's prophetic Kabbalah); and on the vowel points and their mystical significance. It provides a bridge between philosophical and Kabbalistic understandings of language as the instrument of creation.
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The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy by Manly P. Hall (San Francisco: H. S. Crocker, 1928), with colour plates by J. Augustus Knapp. Written when Hall was in his twenties and published by subscription in a grand folio edition, it is the most famous encyclopedia of Western esotericism. Its forty-six chapters survey the ancient mysteries and secret societies, Atlantis and the gods of antiquity, the life and philosophy of Pythagoras and Pythagorean mathematics, the Hermetic and Isiac traditions, the Kabbalah and the Tree of Life, Tarot, alchemy and its theory, the Rosicrucians and Freemasons, Bacon, Shakespeare and the cipher controversies, sacred birds, flowers and stones, astrology and the zodiac, Christian mysticism and American destiny. Despite uneven scholarship, it shaped twentieth-century occultism and remains a standard reference on esoteric symbolism.
The supplied 1928 edition, with a scanned PDF and Internet Archive OCR-derived EPUB. PDF obtained from the public source named in the curator index because Dropbox temporary downloading of this source PDF was unavailable.
A Hebrew work of Jewish mystical thought associated with Isaac of Acre, supplied in an 1886 Izmir imprint. This historical edition offers access to Kabbalistic teaching in its original language.
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Sefer Chayei HaNefesh, print edition text (Hebrew)
Abraham Abulafia
Sefer Chayei HaNefesh (The Book of the Life of the Soul) by Abraham Abulafia (1240-c. 1291), the founder of 'prophetic' or 'ecstatic' Kabbalah, here in a Hebrew printed edition text. Abulafia, born in Saragossa, travelled widely, sought an audience with Pope Nicholas III and developed meditative techniques of letter combination (tzeruf), breathing and recitation of divine names intended to lead the practitioner to prophetic experience and union with the Active Intellect. This work is his commentary on the secrets of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, read as an esoteric document of prophecy and the soul's intellectual perfection, interpreting philosophical ideas through the mysteries of the divine names and letters. It is an important source for the fusion of Maimonidean philosophy and Kabbalah and for Abulafia's mystical psychology. A separate manuscript-based text of the same work is also in the library.
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Derekh Hokhmah (The Way of Wisdom) by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (the Ramchal, 1707-1746), the Italian Kabbalist, ethicist and poet, here in a Hebrew printed edition from Amsterdam, where Luzzatto lived in the late 1730s. A short work in dialogue form between a sage and a student, it sets out the proper order and method for studying the Torah and its branches: Scripture, Mishnah and Talmud, law, ethics and finally the hidden wisdom of Kabbalah, explaining the purpose of each discipline and how knowledge leads to love and service of God. It reflects Luzzatto's systematic approach, also seen in Derekh Hashem and Mesillat Yesharim, of presenting Jewish theology and mysticism in an ordered, rational framework. It is valued as a guide to the curriculum and goals of Torah learning.
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Judah Abrabanel's Dialogues of Love explores love as a principle connecting human experience, philosophical knowledge and the cosmos. This 1565 Italian edition provides access to a major work of Renaissance Jewish philosophy.
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Mandäische Liturgien (Mandaean Liturgies), edited and translated into German by Mark Lidzbarski (Berlin: Weidmann, 1920, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen). It contains the Mandaic text, transliterated, of the main liturgical collections of the Mandaeans, the Gnostic baptist community of Iraq and Iran, with a German translation. The core is the Qolasta, the canonical prayer book with hymns and prayers for baptism (masbuta), the 'ascent of the soul' or death mass (masiqta), and daily prayers, together with the Oxford collection of liturgies. The hymns praise the Great Life and the beings of light, invoke the living water and seek the soul's safe return through the watch-houses to the world of light. With his translations of the Ginza and the Book of John, this completes Lidzbarski's great trilogy that founded modern Mandaean studies.
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Ikhwanu-s-Safa; or, Brothers of Purity (English, Dowson 1869)
Ikhwan al-Safa
Ikhwanu-s-Safa; or, Brothers of Purity, translated from the Hindustani by Professor John Dowson (London: W. H. Allen, 1869). The Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa) were a secret association of scholars in tenth-century Basra who composed an encyclopedia of fifty-two epistles (Rasa'il) uniting Neoplatonic, Pythagorean, Hermetic and Islamic, especially Ismaili, thought. This volume translates the famous fable known as the Dispute between Animals and Man, from the Hindustani version Ikhwan us-Safa by Maulavi Ikram Ali. In it the animals bring a complaint before the King of the Jinn against humanity's claim to superiority and mastery over them, and representatives of every class of creature argue their case, with humans finally prevailing only through the existence of saints and the promise of the afterlife. It is a celebrated work of medieval Islamic literature and philosophical fable.
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Die Propaedeutik der Araber im zehnten Jahrhundert (Arabic-German, Dieterici 1865 Quartile of arithmetic & music)
Ikhwan al-Safa
Die Propaedeutik der Araber im zehnten Jahrhundert (The Propaedeutics of the Arabs in the Tenth Century) by Friedrich Dieterici (Berlin, 1865), part of his multi-volume series on the philosophy of the Arabs in the tenth century, presenting in German translation and study the opening epistles of the encyclopedia of the Ikhwan al-Safa (Brethren of Purity) of Basra. The 'propaedeutic' sciences correspond to the mathematical quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. The index notes that this copy contains the arithmetic and music sections. The Brethren treat number in Pythagorean fashion as the key to the structure of the cosmos and the soul, and music as the harmony uniting the movements of the heavens, the human body and the soul, with discussions of musical theory and its healing and spiritual effects. It is an important source on Islamic Pythagoreanism and the esoteric philosophy of the Ikhwan.
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Hikmat al-Ishraq (The Philosophy of Illumination) by Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi (1154-1191), here in an Arabic printing with Persian material (Delhi, 1920), probably with commentary. Suhrawardi, executed in Aleppo at the age of thirty-eight and known as Shaykh al-Ishraq, founded the Illuminationist school of Islamic philosophy. In this masterwork he criticises aspects of Aristotelian logic and metaphysics as taught by Avicenna and develops a metaphysics of light: all reality is a hierarchy of lights emanating from the Light of Lights, with knowledge as presence and self-illumination. He integrates Platonic Forms as angelic 'lords of the species', ancient Persian wisdom (the xvarnah or royal glory and Zoroastrian angelology) and Hermetic themes, and describes an intermediate 'world of images' (alam al-mithal). It profoundly shaped later Persian philosophy, including Mulla Sadra.
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'The Manichaean Scriptures' by Martin Sprengling, a short scholarly article published in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures (1920), now available as early journal content on JSTOR. Writing in the wake of the discoveries at Turfan in Chinese Turkestan, which had recovered Manichaean manuscripts in Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Old Turkish and Chinese, Sprengling discusses the canonical writings attributed to Mani, the third-century Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism, as described by ancient and medieval sources, and how the new finds of Manichaean hymns and texts were beginning to illuminate them. Manichaeism, a dualistic religion of light and darkness that spread from the Roman Empire to China, drew on Gnostic, Zoroastrian, Christian and Buddhist elements. It is a brief article rather than a book, included as a source on Manichaean literature.
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Opera Omnia S. Maximus Confessor 1 (Migne P.G. 90)
Maximus the Confessor
Opera Omnia of St Maximus the Confessor, Volume 1, from Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Graeca, volume 90 (Paris, 1865), the Greek texts with Latin translation. Maximus (c. 580-662), Byzantine monk and theologian, defended the doctrine of Christ's two wills against Monothelitism, suffering mutilation and exile, and is regarded as one of the greatest theologians of the Eastern Church. This volume opens with the ancient lives and acts of Maximus and contains major works including the Questions to Thalassius (Quaestiones ad Thalassium), a deep spiritual exegesis of difficult passages of scripture; the commentary on the Lord's Prayer; and the Chapters on Love and the Chapters on Theology and the Economy of the Incarnation, among other treatises. Maximus's teaching on the logoi of creation, cosmic liturgy and deification shaped Byzantine mystical theology and the Philokalia.
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Ta Heuriskomena Panta, Greek opera omnia incl. Triads (Migne PG 150-151, 1865)
Gregory Palamas
Ta Heuriskomena Panta (Complete Surviving Works) of St Gregory Palamas, from Migne's Patrologia Graeca, volumes 150-151 (Paris, 1865), in Greek with Latin translation, including the Triads in Defence of the Holy Hesychasts. Gregory Palamas (c. 1296-1359), Athonite monk and Archbishop of Thessalonica, defended the hesychast monks against the Calabrian philosopher Barlaam, who mocked their psychosomatic method of prayer and their claim to see the divine light. The Triads argue that the light seen by the saints, and by the apostles on Mount Tabor, is the uncreated energy of God, distinct from God's unknowable essence, and that through it humans participate in deification. The volumes also contain the One Hundred and Fifty Chapters, homilies, letters and polemical treatises. The Palamite synthesis was affirmed by councils in Constantinople in 1341-51 and remains foundational for Orthodox theology and mysticism.
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Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance), here in a Hebrew-Aramaic printed edition from Lublin, 1882. The Zohar is the central work of Kabbalah, a vast mystical commentary on the Torah written in Aramaic in late thirteenth-century Castile, attributed by tradition to the second-century sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his companions, but identified by modern scholarship with Moses de León and his circle. Organised by the weekly Torah portions, it combines biblical interpretation, narratives of the wandering companions, and treatises on the sefirot and the inner life of God, the divine names, the Ein Sof, the masculine and feminine aspects of the divine and their union, the Shekhinah in exile, the origin of evil (the Other Side), the soul and its destiny, and the mystical meaning of the commandments. The Lublin edition follows the standard pagination of the classic Mantua and Cremona printings.
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Sefer Chayei HaNefesh, letters-manuscript text (Hebrew)
Abraham Abulafia
Sefer Chayei HaNefesh (The Book of the Life of the Soul) by Abraham Abulafia, here in a separate Hebrew text derived from manuscript letters (a shorter text than the print edition held elsewhere in the library). Abulafia, the thirteenth-century founder of prophetic Kabbalah, wrote this work as an esoteric commentary on Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, interpreting its philosophical teachings on prophecy, the intellect and the soul through the mysteries of the divine names and letter combinations, which he taught as a path to prophetic union with the Active Intellect. This version is useful for comparison with the printed text. The scan was produced by optical character recognition of Hebrew and may contain errors.
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Das Johannesbuch der Mandäer (German, Lidzbarski 1915)
Mark Lidzbarski
Das Johannesbuch der Mandäer (The Book of John of the Mandaeans), the Mandaic text with German translation, introduction and commentary by Mark Lidzbarski (Giessen: Alfred Töpelmann, 1915). The Drashe d-Yahya (Discourses of John), also called the Book of Kings, is one of the principal holy books of the Mandaeans, the Gnostic baptist community of southern Iraq and Iran. It contains discourses, dialogues and legends centred on Yahya-Yohana (John the Baptist), presented as a prophet of the Great Life, his baptism of the faithful in living water, his debates with priests and with the Messiah, and his ascent to the world of light, together with teachings on the beings of light, the soul and the fight against the demons of darkness. Lidzbarski's edition founded modern study of this text and was the basis of G. R. S. Mead's English selections in The Gnostic John the Baptizer.
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Explores the idea that the body's own biochemical and biomechanical pathways—heart rate variability coherence, the heart–brain axis and neuroplasticity—are routes to higher consciousness, set out as a four-phase self-regulation model. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Presents wisdom as the alignment of the heart's intuitive coherence, the brain's biochemical plasticity and directed awareness, framed as a 'hyperdimensional' narrative of contemplative physiology. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Examines the tension in ancient texts between reverence for a divinely ordered heaven and condemnation of divination, drawing on the Qumran 364-day calendar, Enochic astronomy and Mesopotamian omen literature such as Enuma Anu Enlil. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Reads the Books of Jeu as a Gnostic 'post-mortem cryptography'—seals, ciphers and names for passing the aeons—alongside the purification rites and botanical crowns the texts describe. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Walks through the baptismal rites of the Bruce Codex (Books of Jeu)—water, fire and spirit—and their symbolism, such as the olive crown and the inversion of wine into water. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Compares the protective circles, squares and pathways of ancient afterlife maps with symbols of the unconscious mind, arguing for a continuous archetypal vocabulary of sacred geometry. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Synthesises a seven-sphere model of consciousness, linking each planetary sphere to a daily contemplative practice and culminating in the 'eighth day' and the vehicle of light. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Maps the seven planetary spheres and the Ogdoad (eighth sphere) of Hermetic ascent, presenting the path as integrating rather than escaping each sphere's influences. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Asks how the heavens can be read as signs without being treated as fate, using the Enochic Astronomical Book and the angel Uriel to contrast celestial order with deterministic astrology. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A contemplative presentation on Barbelo, the divine feminine of Sethian Gnostic texts, framed as an invitation to 'remembrance' and inner authority rather than doctrine. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores the Nag Hammadi text Trimorphic Protennoia and its three forms of First Thought—Voice, Speech and Word—including the myth of Sophia's descent, Yaldabaoth's usurpation and the awakening of the scattered sparks. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Presents a path of initiation drawing on esoteric themes—from Atlantis to hidden faculties of mind—and urges the initiate to serve the world rather than withdraw from it. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Revisits an 1896 text on personal magnetism and mental mastery (L. H. Anderson's How to Win), restating its principles of success for modern readers. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Sets out the ancient Hebrew three-tiered cosmology—earth on pillars, a solid firmament (raqia) and the divine throne above—contrasting it with a heliocentric worldview and relating it to tabernacle and temple architecture. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Discusses the pineal gland ('third eye') as a biological and quantum pathway to manifestation, including claims about calcite crystals and electromagnetic interference from modern devices. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Reflects on creativity as continuous self-discovery, arguing that authentic work comes from inner connection rather than external validation or perfectionism. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Decodes the Emerald Tablet as a staged alchemy of personal transformation, pairing each operation with a planet and metal and comparing the formula to modern physics. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Examines superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) and magnetic fields as possible interfaces for remotely stimulating neural proteins, framed as a 'bio-digital convergence'. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Summarises Aajonus Vonderplanitz's Primal Diet as four 'pillars'—raw fats, unheated honey, raw dairy and raw meat—presented as materials for cleansing and rebuilding the body. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Traces the layered evolutionary history of human intelligence, including brain hemispheres and the cultural association of 'right' with goodness and 'left' with weakness. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Based on the works of Carl Sagan, follows the evolution of mind, matter and cosmos and the argument that intelligence may be common in the universe. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A reading of the Wisdom of Solomon as a pathway to wisdom, highlighting themes such as the 'great reversal' of the righteous and the wicked at judgement (ch. 5). A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Surveys symbolic 'foundations' of human belief—Hindu, Egyptian and other cosmological vessels and life-power motifs—and their echoes in later religious architecture. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Compares Zoroastrian (Avestan) and Abrahamic traditions, for example setting Yima's vara against Noah's ark, to explore Persian influence on Western faith. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A devotional guide to 'spiritual warfare' centred on Psalm 91 and daily prayers of protection for unseen personal battles. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs as metaphysical 'technology'—apotropaic imagery such as the mulliku—and compares them with the role of modern devices in daily life. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Examines the apotropaic programme of Neo-Assyrian reliefs and uses material evidence (e.g. the banduddu bucket) to rebut fringe 'ancient alien handbag' claims. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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An architectural and apotropaic analysis of Neo-Assyrian relief sculpture (911–609 BCE) at Kalhu, Dur-Sharrukin and Nineveh, using cuneiform evidence to counter pseudo-archaeological readings. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores the cosmology of the Law of One (Ra Contact) material—creation, polarity and the densities up to the eighth-density 'octave'. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Decodes Daoist Bagua hand seals, mapping each seal to its trigram, elemental domain and practical use in internal practice. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A visual guide to Daoist hand seals and internal alchemy, including the eight trigrams and a cross-tradition comparison with Buddhist and Hindu mudras. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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An overview of metaphysical knowledge drawing on astrology, including the zodiac's traditional rulership of the parts of the body. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Synthesises quantum mechanics, biology and spiritual awakening, presenting the 'Atmanic singularity' as a parallel between cosmic toroidal dynamics and the heart–brain system. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A keynote by Ethan James Farrell presenting the 'Atmanic singularity' as inner realisation rather than technological takeover, with practical takeaways on stillness and living in the world but not of it. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Presents Christ consciousness as an achievable state of spiritual connection, discussing ego, forgiveness and grace in quantum metaphors. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Analyses the Hopi idea of koyaanisqatsi ('life out of balance') through cultural reprogramming in boarding schools and resource extraction at Black Mesa, reading Hopi prophecy as cause-and-effect. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores Hopi prophecy, sovereignty and the crisis of the Fourth World, including the prophesied return to natural law and emergence into the Fifth World. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Decodes Hopi prophecy through the history of indigenous sovereignty, including the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act and the imposition of a federally recognised Tribal Council. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Examines Hopi prophecy and the crisis of sovereignty, contrasting traditional governance by the Kikmongwis with the 1936 IRA referendum and its aftermath. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores the figure of Sophia and her suppression, setting Gnostic ideas of Sophia as a living field beside the language of modern physics, such as David Bohm's work. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Argues that the feminine face of God was erased—through readings of Eve, the sidelining of Mary Magdalene and the masculinising of the Holy Spirit—and presents a prophesied return of Sophia. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Presents Sumerian texts as an institutional memory of knowledge transmitted to early civilisation—an 'ancient archive' interpretation of Mesopotamian origins. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A critical, academic deconstruction of Eustace Mullins' The Curse of Canaan, analysing its totalising logic and reversal of moral concepts as features of a fringe narrative. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Examines claims about modern witchcraft, directed energy and covert influence against empirical research, including Loftus and McNally on false and recovered memory. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A dual-lens investigation into coercive control, trauma and belief, covering institutional betrayal, workplace mobbing and covert reputation attacks. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Investigates coercive influence and extreme persecution narratives from both empirical and lived-experience perspectives, ending with evidence-based approaches such as trauma-informed safety and cognitive restructuring. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A cognitive case study in paranoia and perception that separates psychological vulnerability from genuine injustice and proposes a stance of 'grounded vigilance'. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores the Báb's writings and the idea of progressive, continuous divine revelation, beginning with the visionary context of 1844. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Maps the 'systems architecture' of covert power and parallel justice, drawing on The Hidden Evil, and argues that awareness is what dissolves its influence. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A reading of Bahá'u'lláh's Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude) that moves from literal to spiritual interpretation of scripture, prophecy and 'corruption' of the text. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Follows Bahá'u'lláh's vision from the unknowable divine essence to the collective destiny of humanity, centred on the unity of humankind. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Navigates Bahá'u'lláh's mystical and social teachings, beginning with the Valley of Search and the purification of the heart. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores the Pistis Sophia's cosmology of rulers, emanations and the soul's ascent as a stream of light. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Examines astrotheological readings of saviour figures, such as the cross as a zodiacal calendar and the crown of thorns as solar rays. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Presents the Gnostic seven heavens as a map of present psychological reality and offers a path of 'activation' without specialist study. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores vibrational practices attributed to ancient mystics and links them to a cosmological shift, citing the Schumann resonance. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Translates themes of the Book of Enoch—the Watchers, cosmic order and final judgement—into a visual narrative ending with the renewed earth and the Tree of Life. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Introduces core Gnostic ideas—gnosis as saving self-knowledge, the cosmic prison and Christ as revealer—quoting the Gospel of Thomas. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Hosted by Ethan James Farrell, presents the 'Christ within' as a biological blueprint linking lunar timing, the body and the 'sacred secretion'. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores the 'Astro-Biochemic' teaching that the body's twelve mineral (cell) salts correspond to the twelve zodiac signs, presented as a key to ascension. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Decodes the 'sacred secretion', astrotheology and the Christos within, presenting awakening as an inward biological ascent. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A somatic and cosmological guide to 'seven breaths' through the Seven Heavens, releasing bodily and psychological armour towards the Pleroma. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A meditative ascent through the seven planetary spheres, pairing each with a part of the body and a pattern to release (from fear to time and limitation). A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Presents the Seals of Solomon as a suppressed spiritual technology of human sovereignty, contrasting a 'dependent' worldview with a 'sovereign' one. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores Ganesha's cosmic psychology, strategic frameworks and sacred geometry through a mythic narrative of Ganesha as guardian of dharma. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Decodes the attributes, values and cosmic responsibilities of Ganesha, including his forms as the eternal guardian of dharma. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Argues that a map of human initiation was suppressed yet survived underground through Kabbalah's Tree of Life, Rosicrucianism and other mystical traditions. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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An initiatory reading of the Gospel of Mary, arguing that it turns apocalyptic expectation inward to the 'Son of Man' within. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Maps theories of consciousness—from divine emanation and spiritual achievement to biological, informational, quantum and cognitive models—as a pluralist convergence. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Surveys frameworks for understanding consciousness as biological, informational, quantum, constructed and fundamental, treating them as complementary rather than competing. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Deciphers the Untitled Apocalypse of the Codex Brucianus, tracing the light spark's descent from the Pleroma into matter. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores the Untitled Text of the Bruce Codex and its central image of the human soul as a 'City' or Man of Light containing the whole Pleroma. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Summarises Swami Vivekananda's Raja Yoga as stages of consciousness, beginning with the yamas and niyamas. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explains Raja Yoga's account of liberation, including how samskaras in the chitta generate karma and how counter-waves can 'burn the seeds' of misery. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Contrasts the earthly Adam of Genesis with Pigera-Adamas, the pre-material heavenly human of Sethian Gnosticism. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Introduces Pigera-Adamas, the Sethian Gnostic heavenly Adam, as the incorruptible archetype of humanity, in contrast with the earthly Adam, and the idea of the 'Seed of Seth'. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A conceptual synthesis of J. J. Hurtak's The Keys of Enoch, presenting its 64 keys and seven seals as a programme to unite science and spirituality. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A visual codex of The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch, including its account of the Merkabah as a vehicle of light and translation. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Presents The Keys of Enoch as a blueprint for spiritual evolution, including its themes of the 144,000 and a coming 'quantum leap'. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores the Nag Hammadi text The Thunder, Perfect Mind and its paradoxical divine voice, ending with the theme of rest and sobriety. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A reading of The Thunder, Perfect Mind that presents its paradoxes as a path to clarity—letting go of rigid opposites and reaching the 'place of rest'. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A reader's map to Carl Gustav Jung's Collected Works and legacy, set out as a staged path from beginner texts to the Red Book. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Introduces Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution—the élan vital and intuition—and the universe as continuous creation. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores Bergson's philosophy of Creative Evolution and its relevance to artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Applies Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution to decentralised AI and cites fields such as epigenetics as modern support for his intuitions. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Describes rootwork-style 'uncrossing' rituals for removing perceived spiritual attacks and restoring personal agency. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Presents a protocol against perceived spiritual attacks that combines vibrational frequency, physical geometry and natural elements. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Decodes the number seven in the Bible as a link between the first creation and the new creation. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Traces the biblical significance of the number seven, including the seven signs and seven 'I am' statements of John's Gospel. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Explores the mysteries of Isis and Sophia as a hidden current of wisdom that survived the loss of temples and libraries. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A course on Gnostic cosmology—emanation from the Monad and return—contrasting the Demiurge (Yaldabaoth) with the true source. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A 30-day protocol for direct recognition of the Monad, reframing the descent into matter as exploration rather than punishment. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A 30-day contemplative practice built on the meaning of 'I am that I am', using simple attention-to-awareness exercises. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Synthesises neurology, mystical traditions and ideas of meta-reality about consciousness beyond the body, including the stages of Daoist internal alchemy (neidan). A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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Maps out-of-body experiences across neuroscience, world mysticism and psychology, arguing from independent convergence across cultures. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
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A cross-disciplinary look at out-of-body experiences across neurology, anthropology and frontier physics, including a common pattern of initiation, induction and return. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
Curator-supplied PDF slide deck, preserved in its original widescreen layout. This is a research presentation about its subject, not an original edition of the historical text. No EPUB edition is supplied.
Presented by Ethan James Farrell, sets out a 'universal architecture' of human awakening built on interconnection, with parallels from several traditions. A modern research presentation from the Acuity Institute collection.
Curator-supplied PDF slide deck, preserved in its original widescreen layout. This is a research presentation about its subject, not an original edition of the historical text. No EPUB edition is supplied.
Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines
Traditional · Aboriginal Australian
Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines from the aboriginal australian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1897 Edmund Gregory, Government Printer (Brisbane) edition (Google scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1897 Edmund Gregory, Government Printer (Brisbane) edition (Google scan)
Ashanti from the african akan tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1923 Clarendon Press edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1923 Clarendon Press edition
The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, Vol. I
Traditional · African Bantu — Edwin W. Smith
The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, Vol. I from the african bantu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1920 Macmillan edition (University of Toronto scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1920 Macmillan edition (University of Toronto scan)
The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, Vol. II
Traditional · African Bantu — Edwin W. Smith
The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, Vol. II from the african bantu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1920 Macmillan edition (University of Toronto scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1920 Macmillan edition (University of Toronto scan)
The Life of a South African Tribe, Vol. I (The Social Life)
Traditional · African Bantu — Henri A. Junod
The Life of a South African Tribe, Vol. I (The Social Life) from the african bantu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1912 Attinger Freres edition (University of Toronto scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1912 Attinger Freres edition (University of Toronto scan)
The Life of a South African Tribe, Vol. II (The Psychic Life)
Traditional · African Bantu — Henri A. Junod
The Life of a South African Tribe, Vol. II (The Psychic Life) from the african bantu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1913 Attinger Freres edition (University of Toronto scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1913 Attinger Freres edition (University of Toronto scan)
Jamaica Anansi Stories from the afro caribbean tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #72735. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #72735
Aino Folk-Tales from the ainu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #29287. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #29287
Traditional · Akan — W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair
West African Folk-Tales from the akan tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #66923. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #66923
The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes
Traditional · Amazonian
The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes from the amazonian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #55540 of the 1915 Constable London edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #55540 of the 1915 Constable London edition
On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands
Traditional · Andamanese — Edward Horace Man
On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands from the andamanese tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1885 Royal Anthropological Institute edition (Wellcome Library scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1885 Royal Anthropological Institute edition (Wellcome Library scan)
The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology
Traditional · Andamanese
The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology from the andamanese tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #78356 of the 1922 Cambridge University Press edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #78356 of the 1922 Cambridge University Press edition
Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition
Traditional · Arctic Inuit — Knud Rasmussen
Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition from the arctic inuit tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1927 G. P. Putnam's Sons edition (Million Books Project scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1927 G. P. Putnam's Sons edition (Million Books Project scan)
Traditional · Arctic Inuit — Edward William Nelson
The Eskimo about Bering Strait from the arctic inuit tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1899 Bureau of American Ethnology edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1899 Bureau of American Ethnology edition
The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay, Part I from the arctic inuit tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1901 AMNH Bulletin 15 part I (pp. 1-370). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1901 AMNH Bulletin 15 part I (pp. 1-370)
The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay, Part II from the arctic inuit tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1907 AMNH Bulletin 15 part II (pp. 371-570). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1907 AMNH Bulletin 15 part II (pp. 371-570)
Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory
Traditional · Arctic Inuit — Lucien M. Turner
Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory from the arctic inuit tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt, CIHM microfiche) of the 1894 Bureau of Ethnology edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt, CIHM microfiche) of the 1894 Bureau of Ethnology edition
The People of the Polar North: A Record from the arctic inuit tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1908 Kegan Paul London edition, compiled and translated by G. Herring (University of Toronto scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1908 Kegan Paul London edition, compiled and translated by G. Herring (University of Toronto scan)
Traditional · Arctic Inuit — Ernest William Hawkes
The Labrador Eskimo from the arctic inuit tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1916 Geological Survey of Canada edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1916 Geological Survey of Canada edition
Armenian Legends and Poems from the armenian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #54036. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #54036
The High History of the Holy Graal from the arthurian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #750 (Sebastian Evans's 1898 translation of the Perlesvaus). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #750 (Sebastian Evans's 1898 translation of the Perlesvaus)
Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies
Traditional · Australian Aboriginal — K. Langloh Parker
Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies from the australian aboriginal tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3833. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3833
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
Traditional · Australian Aboriginal — K. Langloh Parker
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia from the australian aboriginal tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3819. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3819
Traditional · Australian Aboriginal — K. Langloh Parker
More Australian Legendary Tales from the australian aboriginal tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1898 David Nutt edition (Cornell University scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1898 David Nutt edition (Cornell University scan)
The Native Tribes of Central Australia from the australian aboriginal tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1899 Macmillan first edition (University of Toronto scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1899 Macmillan first edition (University of Toronto scan)
The Northern Tribes of Central Australia from the australian aboriginal tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1904 Macmillan first edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1904 Macmillan first edition
Basque Legends from the basque tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #34902. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #34902
At the Back of the Black Man's Mind; or, Notes on the Kingly Office in West Africa
Traditional · Bavili
At the Back of the Black Man's Mind; or, Notes on the Kingly Office in West Africa from the bavili tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1906 Macmillan edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1906 Macmillan edition
Traditional · Biblical — King James Version translators
The Bible, King James Version, Book 27: Daniel from the biblical tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8027 (KJV per-book edition). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8027 (KJV per-book edition)
Traditional · Biblical — King James Version translators
The Bible, King James Version, Book 26: Ezekiel from the biblical tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8026 (KJV per-book edition). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8026 (KJV per-book edition)
Traditional · Biblical — King James Version translators
The Bible, King James Version, Book 23: Isaiah from the biblical tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8023 (KJV per-book edition). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8023 (KJV per-book edition)
Traditional · Biblical — King James Version translators
The Bible, King James Version, Book 18: Job from the biblical tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8018 (KJV per-book edition). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8018 (KJV per-book edition)
Traditional · Biblical — King James Version translators
The Bible, King James Version, Book 19: Psalms from the biblical tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8019 (KJV per-book edition). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8019 (KJV per-book edition)
The Bible, King James Version, Book 66: Revelation
Traditional · Biblical — King James Version translators
The Bible, King James Version, Book 66: Revelation from the biblical tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8066 (KJV per-book edition). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8066 (KJV per-book edition)
Traditional · Biblical — Douay-Rheims translators, revised by Richard Challoner
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus from the biblical tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8326 (Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8326 (Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision)
Traditional · Biblical — Douay-Rheims translators, revised by Richard Challoner
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom from the biblical tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8325 (Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8325 (Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision)
Traditional · Jewish Christian — World English Bible contributors
Deuteronomy from the jewish christian tradition. This edition: World English Bible Classic. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. World English Bible Classic
Traditional · Jewish Christian — World English Bible contributors
Exodus from the jewish christian tradition. This edition: World English Bible Classic. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. World English Bible Classic
Traditional · Jewish Christian — World English Bible contributors
Genesis from the jewish christian tradition. This edition: World English Bible Classic. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. World English Bible Classic
Traditional · Jewish Christian — World English Bible contributors
Leviticus from the jewish christian tradition. This edition: World English Bible Classic. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. World English Bible Classic
Traditional · Jewish Christian — World English Bible contributors
Numbers from the jewish christian tradition. This edition: World English Bible Classic. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. World English Bible Classic
Buddhism in Translations (Harvard Oriental Series, Vol. 3)
Traditional · Buddhist — Henry Clarke Warren
Buddhism in Translations (Harvard Oriental Series, Vol. 3) from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Henry Clarke Warren, Buddhism in Translations (Harvard Oriental Series, Vol. 3), Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 1896; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Henry Clarke Warren, Buddhism in Translations (Harvard Oriental Series, Vol. 3), Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 1896; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Buddhist Suttas (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 11)
Traditional · Buddhist — T. W. Rhys Davids
Buddhist Suttas (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 11) from the buddhist tradition. This edition: T. W. Rhys Davids, Buddhist Suttas (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 11), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1881; Internet Archive (Google) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. T. W. Rhys Davids, Buddhist Suttas (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 11), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1881; Internet Archive (Google) scan with OCR plain text
The Jataka; or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. I
Traditional · Buddhist — Robert Chalmers
The Jataka; or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. I from the buddhist tradition. This edition: The Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. I, translated by Robert Chalmers under the editorship of E. B. Cowell, Cambridge University Press, 1895; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. The Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. I, translated by Robert Chalmers under the editorship of E. B. Cowell, Cambridge University Press, 1895; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Jataka; or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. III
Traditional · Buddhist — H. T. Francis and R. A. Neil
The Jataka; or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. III from the buddhist tradition. This edition: The Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. III, translated by H. T. Francis and R. A. Neil under the editorship of E. B. Cowell, Cambridge University Press, 1897; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. The Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. III, translated by H. T. Francis and R. A. Neil under the editorship of E. B. Cowell, Cambridge University Press, 1897; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Jataka; or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. VI
Traditional · Buddhist — E. B. Cowell and W. H. D. Rouse
The Jataka; or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. VI from the buddhist tradition. This edition: The Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. VI, translated by E. B. Cowell and W. H. D. Rouse, Cambridge University Press, 1907; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. The Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. VI, translated by E. B. Cowell and W. H. D. Rouse, Cambridge University Press, 1907; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Buddhist Mahayana Texts (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 49)
Traditional · Buddhist — E. B. Cowell, F. Max Muller, J. Takakusu
Buddhist Mahayana Texts (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 49) from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1894 Clarendon Press edition (2023 open scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1894 Clarendon Press edition (2023 open scan)
Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #2017. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #2017
Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists
Traditional · Buddhist — F. Max Müller
Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #2017; F. Max Müller, The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 10, Part I, 1881). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #2017; F. Max Müller, The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 10, Part I, 1881)
The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita
Traditional · Buddhist — William Gemmell
The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #64623. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #64623
Traditional · Buddhist — Wilhelm Geiger, assisted by Mabel Haynes Bode
The Mahavamsa, or The Great Chronicle of Ceylon from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Pali Text Society 1912 edition, translated by Wilhelm Geiger assisted by Mabel Haynes Bode (University of California scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Pali Text Society 1912 edition, translated by Wilhelm Geiger assisted by Mabel Haynes Bode (University of California scan)
The Questions of King Milinda, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 35)
Traditional · Buddhist — T. W. Rhys Davids
The Questions of King Milinda, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 35) from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1890 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 35. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1890 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 35
The Questions of King Milinda, Part II (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 36)
Traditional · Buddhist — T. W. Rhys Davids
The Questions of King Milinda, Part II (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 36) from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1894 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 36. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1894 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 36
The Saddharma-Pundarika, or The Lotus of the True Law (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 21)
Traditional · Buddhist — H. Kern
The Saddharma-Pundarika, or The Lotus of the True Law (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 21) from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1884 Clarendon Press first edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1884 Clarendon Press first edition
The Sutta-Nipata (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 10, Part II)
Traditional · Buddhist — V. Fausboll
The Sutta-Nipata (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 10, Part II) from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Sacred Books of the East vol. 10 (Motilal Banarsidass reprint scan of the 1881 Clarendon edition). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Sacred Books of the East vol. 10 (Motilal Banarsidass reprint scan of the 1881 Clarendon edition)
Vinaya Texts, Part I: The Patimokkha, The Mahavagga I-IV (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 13)
Traditional · Buddhist — T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
Vinaya Texts, Part I: The Patimokkha, The Mahavagga I-IV (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 13) from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1881 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 13 (University of Toronto scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1881 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 13 (University of Toronto scan)
Vinaya Texts, Part II: The Mahavagga V-X, The Kullavagga I-III (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 17)
Traditional · Buddhist — T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
Vinaya Texts, Part II: The Mahavagga V-X, The Kullavagga I-III (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 17) from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1882 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 17. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1882 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 17
Vinaya Texts, Part III: The Kullavagga IV-XII (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 20)
Traditional · Buddhist — T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
Vinaya Texts, Part III: The Kullavagga IV-XII (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 20) from the buddhist tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Sacred Books of the East vol. 20 (Digital Library of India scan; OCR quality should be checked at conversion). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Sacred Books of the East vol. 20 (Digital Library of India scan; OCR quality should be checked at conversion)
The Soul of a People from the burmese tradition. This edition: H. Fielding (Harold Fielding Hall), The Soul of a People (Macmillan, London, 1898); Internet Archive (Cornell) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. H. Fielding (Harold Fielding Hall), The Soul of a People (Macmillan, London, 1898); Internet Archive (Cornell) scan with OCR plain text
A Journey in Southern Siberia, the Mongols, Their Religion and Their Myths
Traditional · Buryat Mongol — Jeremiah Curtin
A Journey in Southern Siberia, the Mongols, Their Religion and Their Myths from the buryat mongol tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1909 Little, Brown edition (Cornell University scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1909 Little, Brown edition (Cornell University scan)
Traditional · Caucasian — Adolf Dirr (German); Lucy Menzies (English)
Caucasian Folk-Tales from the caucasian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the J. M. Dent 1925 English edition, selected and translated by Adolf Dirr, English version by Lucy Menzies (community-uploaded scan; OCR quality should be checked at conversion). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the J. M. Dent 1925 English edition, selected and translated by Adolf Dirr, English version by Lucy Menzies (community-uploaded scan; OCR quality should be checked at conversion)
Cuchulain of Muirthemne from the celtic tradition. This edition: Lady Augusta Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne (John Murray, London, 1902); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Lady Augusta Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne (John Murray, London, 1902); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Volume 1 from the celtic tradition. This edition: J. F. Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Orally Collected, Vol. I (Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1890 ed.); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. J. F. Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Orally Collected, Vol. I (Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1890 ed.); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Volume 2 from the celtic tradition. This edition: J. F. Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Orally Collected, Vol. II (Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1890 ed.); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. J. F. Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Orally Collected, Vol. II (Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1890 ed.); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Celtic Fairy Tales from the celtic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7885. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7885
Gods and Fighting Men from the celtic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #14465. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #14465
The Mabinogion from the celtic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #5160. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #5160
More Celtic Fairy Tales from the celtic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #34453. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #34453
The Mythology of the British Islands from the celtic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #54616. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #54616
Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race from the celtic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #34081. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #34081
Gods and Fighting Men from the celtic irish tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #14465. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #14465
Heroic Romances of Ireland from the celtic irish tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #5680. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #5680
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge from the celtic irish tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #16464. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #16464
The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living
Traditional · Celtic Irish — Kuno Meyer
The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living from the celtic irish tradition. This edition: Volume 1 of Kuno Meyer's edition and translation with Alfred Nutt's essay on the Happy Otherworld (David Nutt, London, 1895); OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Volume 1 of Kuno Meyer's edition and translation with Alfred Nutt's essay on the Happy Otherworld (David Nutt, London, 1895); OCR plain text
The Mabinogion from the celtic welsh tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #5160. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #5160
An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: An Account of the Life and Customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco
Traditional · Chaco Amerindian — W. Barbrooke Grubb
An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: An Account of the Life and Customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco from the chaco amerindian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1911 Seeley & Co. London edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1911 Seeley & Co. London edition
Διδαχή των Δώδεκα αποστόλων = Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
Traditional · Christian — Roswell D. Hitchcock and Francis Brown (English portion)
Διδαχή των Δώδεκα αποστόλων = Teaching of the Twelve Apostles from the christian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #42053 of the 1884 Hitchcock & Brown edition (Greek text of Bryennios manuscript with facing English translation). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #42053 of the 1884 Hitchcock & Brown edition (Greek text of Bryennios manuscript with facing English translation)
The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Complete
Traditional · Christian Apocrypha — William Wake
The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Complete from the christian apocrypha tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #6516 (complete edition, Volumes 1-9). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #6516 (complete edition, Volumes 1-9)
The Four Books: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, and The Works of Mencius
Traditional · Confucian — James Legge
The Four Books: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, and The Works of Mencius from the confucian tradition. This edition: The Four Books, with English translation and notes by James Legge (originally in The Chinese Classics, 1861-1893; bilingual reprint, Chinese Book Company, Shanghai, c. 1900); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. The Four Books, with English translation and notes by James Legge (originally in The Chinese Classics, 1861-1893; bilingual reprint, Chinese Book Company, Shanghai, c. 1900); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
論語 from the confucian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #23839, traditional-character Chinese text of the Analects (20 books, numbered sections). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #23839, traditional-character Chinese text of the Analects (20 books, numbered sections)
The Analects of Confucius from the confucian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3330. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3330
The Yi King (I Ching) (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 16)
Traditional · Confucian — James Legge
The Yi King (I Ching) (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 16) from the confucian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Sacred Books of the East vol. 16 (Motilal Banarsidass reprint scan of the 1882 Clarendon edition). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Sacred Books of the East vol. 16 (Motilal Banarsidass reprint scan of the 1882 Clarendon edition)
The Li Ki, Books I-X (The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part III; Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 27)
Traditional · Confucian — James Legge
The Li Ki, Books I-X (The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part III; Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 27) from the confucian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1885 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 27. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1885 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 27
The Li Ki, Books XI-XLVI (The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part IV; Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 28)
Traditional · Confucian — James Legge
The Li Ki, Books XI-XLVI (The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part IV; Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 28) from the confucian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Sacred Books of the East vol. 28 (scan of a modern Motilal Banarsidass reprint of the 1885 Clarendon edition). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Sacred Books of the East vol. 28 (scan of a modern Motilal Banarsidass reprint of the 1885 Clarendon edition)
The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I - The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao King (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3)
Traditional · Confucian — James Legge
The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I - The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao King (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3) from the confucian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1879 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 3. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1879 edition, Sacred Books of the East vol. 3
Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer from the daoist tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #59709. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #59709
Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt
Traditional · Egyptian
Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt from the egyptian tradition. This edition: James Henry Breasted, Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1912); Internet Archive (Google) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. James Henry Breasted, Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1912); Internet Archive (Google) scan with OCR plain text
The Book of the Dead from the egyptian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7145. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7145
The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Volume I: The Book of the Am-Tuat
Traditional · Egyptian — E. A. Wallis Budge
The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Volume I: The Book of the Am-Tuat from the egyptian tradition. This edition: E. A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Vol. I, The Book of the Am-Tuat (Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., London, 1905); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. E. A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Vol. I, The Book of the Am-Tuat (Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., London, 1905); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life from the egyptian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #11277. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #11277
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri: First Series, IVth to XIIth Dynasty
Traditional · Egyptian — F. Ll. Griffith
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri: First Series, IVth to XIIth Dynasty from the egyptian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7386 (Methuen 1895 edition, edited by W. M. Flinders Petrie, translations by F. Ll. Griffith). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7386 (Methuen 1895 edition, edited by W. M. Flinders Petrie, translations by F. Ll. Griffith)
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri: Second Series, XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty
Traditional · Egyptian — F. Ll. Griffith
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri: Second Series, XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty from the egyptian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7413 (Methuen 1895 edition, edited by W. M. Flinders Petrie, translations by F. Ll. Griffith). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7413 (Methuen 1895 edition, edited by W. M. Flinders Petrie, translations by F. Ll. Griffith)
The Gods of the Egyptians; or, Studies in Egyptian Mythology, Volume I
Traditional · Egyptian — E. A. Wallis Budge
The Gods of the Egyptians; or, Studies in Egyptian Mythology, Volume I from the egyptian tradition. This edition: E. A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. I (Methuen, London, 1904); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. E. A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. I (Methuen, London, 1904); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Gods of the Egyptians; or, Studies in Egyptian Mythology, Volume II
Traditional · Egyptian — E. A. Wallis Budge
The Gods of the Egyptians; or, Studies in Egyptian Mythology, Volume II from the egyptian tradition. This edition: E. A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. II (Methuen, London, 1904); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. E. A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. II (Methuen, London, 1904); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Legends of the Gods: The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
Traditional · Egyptian — E. A. Wallis Budge
Legends of the Gods: The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations from the egyptian tradition. This edition: E. A. Wallis Budge, Legends of the Gods (Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., London, 1912); Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #9411. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. E. A. Wallis Budge, Legends of the Gods (Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., London, 1912); Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #9411
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians from the egyptian tradition. This edition: E. A. Wallis Budge, The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1914); Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #15932. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. E. A. Wallis Budge, The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1914); Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #15932
The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia from the egyptian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #35856; A. H. Sayce, The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, the Gifford Lectures (Edinburgh, 1902). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #35856; A. H. Sayce, The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, the Gifford Lectures (Edinburgh, 1902)
In the Shadow of the Bush from the ekoi tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1912 William Heinemann edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1912 William Heinemann edition
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country
Traditional · Estonian — W. F. Kirby
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country from the estonian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #19438 (W. F. Kirby, two-volume work in one file, John C. Nimmo, London, 1895). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #19438 (W. F. Kirby, two-volume work in one file, John C. Nimmo, London, 1895)
The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast)
Traditional · Ethiopian Christian — E. A. Wallis Budge
The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast) from the ethiopian christian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Medici Society 1922 edition (University of California scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Medici Society 1922 edition (University of California scan)
Tales from Old Fiji from the fijian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1904 Alexander Moring edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1904 Alexander Moring edition
Philippine Folk Tales from the filipino tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #12814 (A. C. McClurg 1916 edition, compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #12814 (A. C. McClurg 1916 edition, compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole)
Finno-Ugric, Siberian Mythology from the finnic tradition. This edition: Uno Holmberg (Harva), Finno-Ugric, Siberian (Mythology of All Races, Volume IV), ed. J. A. MacCulloch (Marshall Jones, Boston, 1927); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Uno Holmberg (Harva), Finno-Ugric, Siberian (Mythology of All Races, Volume IV), ed. J. A. MacCulloch (Marshall Jones, Boston, 1927); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns, Volume 1 from the finnic tradition. This edition: John Abercromby, The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns, Both Eastern and Western, with the Magic Songs of the West Finns (David Nutt, London, 1898), Volume 1; Internet Archive (Google) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. John Abercromby, The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns, Both Eastern and Western, with the Magic Songs of the West Finns (David Nutt, London, 1898), Volume 1; Internet Archive (Google) scan with OCR plain text
The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns, Volume 2 - The Magic Songs
Traditional · Finnic — John Abercromby
The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns, Volume 2 - The Magic Songs from the finnic tradition. This edition: John Abercromby, The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns (David Nutt, London, 1898), Volume 2: The Magic Songs of the West Finns; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. John Abercromby, The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns (David Nutt, London, 1898), Volume 2: The Magic Songs of the West Finns; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Traditional · Finnish Karelian — John Martin Crawford
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland from the finnish karelian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #5186. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #5186
Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort (French Congo) from the fjort tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1898 Folk-Lore Society edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1898 Folk-Lore Society edition
The Baganda: An Account of Their Native Customs and Beliefs
Traditional · Ganda
The Baganda: An Account of Their Native Customs and Beliefs from the ganda tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1911 Macmillan edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1911 Macmillan edition
The Man in the Panther's Skin from the georgian tradition. This edition: Shota Rustaveli, The Man in the Panther's Skin, a romantic epic, translated from the Georgian by Marjory Scott Wardrop (Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1912); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Shota Rustaveli, The Man in the Panther's Skin, a romantic epic, translated from the Georgian by Marjory Scott Wardrop (Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1912); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Georgian Folk Tales from the georgian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #44536. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #44536
Teutonic Mythology, Volume 1 from the germanic tradition. This edition: Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, translated from the fourth edition with notes and appendix by James Steven Stallybrass, Vol. I (George Bell and Sons, London, 1882); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, translated from the fourth edition with notes and appendix by James Steven Stallybrass, Vol. I (George Bell and Sons, London, 1882); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Teutonic Mythology, Volume 2 from the germanic tradition. This edition: Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, translated from the fourth edition with notes and appendix by James Steven Stallybrass, Vol. II (George Bell and Sons, London, 1883); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, translated from the fourth edition with notes and appendix by James Steven Stallybrass, Vol. II (George Bell and Sons, London, 1883); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Teutonic Mythology, Volume 3 from the germanic tradition. This edition: Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, translated from the fourth edition with notes and appendix by James Steven Stallybrass, Vol. III (George Bell and Sons, London, 1883); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, translated from the fourth edition with notes and appendix by James Steven Stallybrass, Vol. III (George Bell and Sons, London, 1883); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Teutonic Mythology, Volume 4 from the germanic tradition. This edition: Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, translated from the fourth edition with notes and appendix by James Steven Stallybrass, Vol. IV (Supplement) (George Bell and Sons, London, 1888); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, translated from the fourth edition with notes and appendix by James Steven Stallybrass, Vol. IV (Supplement) (George Bell and Sons, London, 1888); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem from the germanic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #16328 (Francis B. Gummere translation). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Germanic — Margaret Hunt (Mrs. Alfred William Hunt)
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm from the germanic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #5314 (Margaret Hunt translation). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Nibelungenlied from the germanic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7321 (George Henry Needler translation). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten from the gnostic tradition. This edition: G. R. S. Mead, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1900); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. G. R. S. Mead, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1900); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Pistis Sophia from the gnostic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #76266 (George Horner literal translation from the Coptic, with introduction by F. Legge, 1924). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #11339. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Library, Volume I (Apollodorus), with an English Translation by James George Frazer
Traditional · Greek — James George Frazer
The Library, Volume I (Apollodorus), with an English Translation by James George Frazer from the greek tradition. This edition: Apollodorus, The Library, Vol. I, trans. J. G. Frazer (Loeb Classical Library, Heinemann/Putnam, 1921); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Apollodorus, The Library, Vol. I, trans. J. G. Frazer (Loeb Classical Library, Heinemann/Putnam, 1921); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Argonautica from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #830. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Bacchae of Euripides from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #35173. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Extant Odes of Pindar from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #10717. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #348. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Homeric Hymns from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #16338. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, and the Furies
Traditional · Greek — E. D. A. Morshead
The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, and the Furies from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8604. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Iliad from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #6130. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals
Traditional · Greek
Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #66116. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Odyssey from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #1727. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Pausanias's Description of Greece, Volume I, Translated with a Commentary by J. G. Frazer
Traditional · Greek — James George Frazer
Pausanias's Description of Greece, Volume I, Translated with a Commentary by J. G. Frazer from the greek tradition. This edition: Pausanias's Description of Greece, Vol. I, trans. J. G. Frazer (Macmillan, 1898); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Phaedrus from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #1636. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Plutarch's Morals from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #23639. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
Traditional · Greek — Theodore Alois Buckley
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #27458. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Republic from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #1497. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Symposium from the greek tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #1600. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome from the greek roman tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #22381. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Among the Indians of Guiana: Being Sketches Chiefly Anthropologic from the Interior of British Guiana
Traditional · Guiana Amerindian
Among the Indians of Guiana: Being Sketches Chiefly Anthropologic from the Interior of British Guiana from the guiana amerindian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1883 Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. edition (Google Books scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians
Traditional · Guiana Amerindian — Walter E. Roth
An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians from the guiana amerindian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1915 Government Printing Office edition (Cornell University scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guiana
Traditional · Guiana Amerindian — William Henry Brett
Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guiana from the guiana amerindian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1880 William Wells Gardner edition (Cornell University scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Guiana Amerindian — William Curtis Farabee
The Central Caribs from the guiana amerindian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1924 University of Pennsylvania Museum edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1924 University of Pennsylvania Museum edition
Hausa Superstitions and Customs: An Introduction to the Folk-Lore and the Folk
Traditional · Hausa — Arthur John Newman Tremearne
Hausa Superstitions and Customs: An Introduction to the Folk-Lore and the Folk from the hausa tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1913 John Bale, Sons & Danielsson edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1913 John Bale, Sons & Danielsson edition
Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends
Traditional · Hawaiian — various (including native Hawaiian contributors)
Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends from the hawaiian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #18450. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. I: Prolegomena from the hermetic tradition. This edition: G. R. S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. I (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1906); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. G. R. S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. I (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1906); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. II: Sermons (Corpus Hermeticum) from the hermetic tradition. This edition: Google Books scan of G. R. S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume II (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1906); OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Laws of Manu (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 25)
Traditional · Hindu — Georg Bühler
The Laws of Manu (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 25) from the hindu tradition. This edition: Georg Bühler, The Laws of Manu (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 25), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1886; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Georg Bühler, The Laws of Manu (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 25), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1886; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Markandeya Purana from the hindu tradition. This edition: F. Eden Pargiter (trans.), The Markandeya Purana, Bibliotheca Indica, Asiatic Society of Bengal (Calcutta, 1904); Internet Archive (DLI) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. F. Eden Pargiter (trans.), The Markandeya Purana, Bibliotheca Indica, Asiatic Society of Bengal (Calcutta, 1904); Internet Archive (DLI) scan with OCR plain text
Thirty Minor Upanishads from the hindu tradition. This edition: K. Narayanasvami Aiyar, Thirty Minor Upanishads, Madras, 1914; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. K. Narayanasvami Aiyar, Thirty Minor Upanishads, Madras, 1914; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Vedic Hymns, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 32)
Traditional · Hindu — F. Max Müller
Vedic Hymns, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 32) from the hindu tradition. This edition: F. Max Müller, Vedic Hymns, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 32), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1891; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. F. Max Müller, Vedic Hymns, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 32), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1891; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Vedic Hymns, Part II (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 46)
Traditional · Hindu — Hermann Oldenberg
Vedic Hymns, Part II (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 46) from the hindu tradition. This edition: Hermann Oldenberg, Vedic Hymns, Part II: Hymns to Agni (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 46), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1897; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Hermann Oldenberg, Vedic Hymns, Part II: Hymns to Agni (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 46), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1897; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Hymns of the Rigveda, Complete 2 Volumes from the hindu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the two-volume Griffith translation. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the two-volume Griffith translation
Maha-bharata from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #19630; Romesh Chunder Dutt, Maha-bharata: Epic of the Bharatas, condensed into English verse (1899). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #19630; Romesh Chunder Dutt, Maha-bharata: Epic of the Bharatas, condensed into English verse (1899)
Maha-bharata from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #19630. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
Traditional · Hindu — Kisari Mohan Ganguli
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #15474; Kisari Mohan Ganguli complete prose translation (Pratap Chandra Roy edition, Calcutta, 1883-1896), Volume 1. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2: Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
Traditional · Hindu — Kisari Mohan Ganguli
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2: Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #15475; Kisari Mohan Ganguli complete prose translation (Pratap Chandra Roy edition, Calcutta, 1883-1896), Volume 2 (Books 4-7). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3: Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
Traditional · Hindu — Kisari Mohan Ganguli
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3: Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #15476; Kisari Mohan Ganguli complete prose translation (Pratap Chandra Roy edition, Calcutta, 1883-1896), Volume 3 (Books 8-12). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4: Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
Traditional · Hindu — Kisari Mohan Ganguli
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4: Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #15477; Kisari Mohan Ganguli complete prose translation (Pratap Chandra Roy edition, Calcutta, 1883-1896), Volume 4 (Books 13-18). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
The Ramayan of Valmiki from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #24869. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse
Traditional · Hindu — Ralph T. H. Griffith
The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #24869; Ralph T. H. Griffith, The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse (1870-1874). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Hindu Philosophy: The Sankhya Karika of Iswara Krishna
Traditional · Hindu — John Davies
Hindu Philosophy: The Sankhya Karika of Iswara Krishna from the hindu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Trubner's Oriental Series 1881 edition (Bavarian State Library scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)
Traditional · Hindu — Edwin Arnold
The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #2388; Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial, or Bhagavad-Gîtâ, first published London 1885. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gita from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #2388. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Upanishads from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3283. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Upanishads, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 1)
Traditional · Hindu — F. Max Muller
The Upanishads, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 1) from the hindu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Clarendon Press 1879 first edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Upanishads, Part II (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 15)
Traditional · Hindu — F. Max Muller
The Upanishads, Part II (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 15) from the hindu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Clarendon Press 1884 first edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Sri Vishnu Sahasranaamam from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #9000, romanized (ITRANS transliteration) Sanskrit text of the full stotra. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #66208 (Calcutta 1894 edition, based on H. H. Wilson's 1840 translation). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man
Traditional · Hindu — Charles Johnston
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man from the hindu tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #2526. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Traditions of the Hopi from the hopi tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1905 Field Columbian Museum edition (Google scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1905 Field Columbian Museum edition (Google scan)
Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas from the inca tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1873 Hakluyt Society edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1873 Hakluyt Society edition
Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas from the inca tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1873 Hakluyt Society edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1873 Hakluyt Society edition
First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas, Vol. II
Traditional · Inca — Clements R. Markham
First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas, Vol. II from the inca tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1871 Hakluyt Society edition (Volume II). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1871 Hakluyt Society edition (Volume II)
Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies
Traditional · Indigenous Australian
Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies from the indigenous australian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3833. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3833
The Central Eskimo from the inuit tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #42084. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #42084
Eskimo Folk-Tales from the inuit tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #28932. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #28932
Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo from the inuit tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1875 Blackwood edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1875 Blackwood edition
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) from the islamic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3434. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #3434
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) from the islamic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7440. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7440
The Arabian Nights Entertainments from the islamicate folklore tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #128. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #128
Jaina Sutras, Part II: The Uttaradhyayana Sutra and the Sutrakritanga (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 45)
Traditional · Jain — Hermann Jacobi
Jaina Sutras, Part II: The Uttaradhyayana Sutra and the Sutrakritanga (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 45) from the jain tradition. This edition: Hermann Jacobi, Jaina Sutras, Part II: The Uttaradhyayana Sutra, The Sutrakritanga Sutra (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 45), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1895; Internet Archive (Motilal Banarsidass) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Hermann Jacobi, Jaina Sutras, Part II: The Uttaradhyayana Sutra, The Sutrakritanga Sutra (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 45), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1895; Internet Archive (Motilal Banarsidass) scan with OCR plain text
Jaina Sutras, Part I: The Akaranga Sutra and the Kalpa Sutra (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 22)
Traditional · Jain — Hermann Jacobi
Jaina Sutras, Part I: The Akaranga Sutra and the Kalpa Sutra (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 22) from the jain tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Sacred Books of the East vol. 22 (scan of later reprint of the 1884 Clarendon edition). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Sacred Books of the East vol. 22 (scan of later reprint of the 1884 Clarendon edition)
Japanese Fairy Tales from the japanese tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #4018. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #4018
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things from the japanese tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #1210; Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #1210; Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)
Traditional · Jewish Pseudepigrapha — R. H. Charles
The Book of Enoch from the jewish pseudepigrapha tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #77935 (R. H. Charles translation, SPCK 1917). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #77935 (R. H. Charles translation, SPCK 1917)
Traditional · Jewish Pseudepigrapha — R. H. Charles
The Book of Jubilees, or, The Little Genesis from the jewish pseudepigrapha tradition. This edition: Cornell University Library scan of R. H. Charles translation (A. & C. Black, London, 1902); OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Cornell University Library scan of R. H. Charles translation (A. & C. Black, London, 1902); OCR plain text
Reynard the Fox in South Africa; or, Hottentot Fables and Tales
Traditional · Khoekhoe — Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Reynard the Fox in South Africa; or, Hottentot Fables and Tales from the khoekhoe tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1864 Trübner & Co. edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1864 Trübner & Co. edition
Traditional · Khoisan South African — James A. Honey
South-African Folk-Tales from the khoisan south african tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #38339. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #38339
With a Prehistoric People: The Akikuyu of British East Africa
Traditional · Kikuyu
With a Prehistoric People: The Akikuyu of British East Africa from the kikuyu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 Edward Arnold edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 Edward Arnold edition
Folk-Tales of Angola: Fifty Tales, with Ki-mbundu Text, Literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes
Traditional · Kimbundu — Heli Chatelain
Folk-Tales of Angola: Fifty Tales, with Ki-mbundu Text, Literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes from the kimbundu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1894 American Folk-Lore Society edition (Memoirs vol. 1). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1894 American Folk-Lore Society edition (Memoirs vol. 1)
Corea, the Hermit Nation from the korean tradition. This edition: William Elliot Griffis, Corea, the Hermit Nation (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889 ed.); Internet Archive (Cornell) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. William Elliot Griffis, Corea, the Hermit Nation (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889 ed.); Internet Archive (Cornell) scan with OCR plain text
Korean Folk Tales - Imps, Ghosts and Fairies from the korean tradition. This edition: Im Bang and Yi Ryuk, Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies, translated by James S. Gale (J. M. Dent, London / E. P. Dutton, New York, 1913); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Im Bang and Yi Ryuk, Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies, translated by James S. Gale (J. M. Dent, London / E. P. Dutton, New York, 1913); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Korean Tales from the korean tradition. This edition: Horace N. Allen, Korean Tales: Being a Collection of Stories Translated from the Korean Folk Lore (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1889); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Horace N. Allen, Korean Tales: Being a Collection of Stories Translated from the Korean Folk Lore (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1889); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Great African Island: Chapters on Madagascar from the malagasy tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1880 Trübner & Co. edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1880 Trübner & Co. edition
Madagascar Before the Conquest: The Island, the Country, and the People
Traditional · Malagasy — James Sibree
Madagascar Before the Conquest: The Island, the Country, and the People from the malagasy tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1896 T. Fisher Unwin edition (Cornell University scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1896 T. Fisher Unwin edition (Cornell University scan)
Malay Magic from the malay tradition. This edition: Walter William Skeat, Malay Magic: Being an Introduction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of the Malay Peninsula (Macmillan, London, 1900); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Walter William Skeat, Malay Magic: Being an Introduction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of the Malay Peninsula (Macmillan, London, 1900); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, Volume 1 from the malay tradition. This edition: Walter William Skeat and Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula (Macmillan, London, 1906), Volume 1; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Walter William Skeat and Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula (Macmillan, London, 1906), Volume 1; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, Volume 2 from the malay tradition. This edition: Walter William Skeat and Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula (Macmillan, London, 1906), Volume 2; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Walter William Skeat and Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula (Macmillan, London, 1906), Volume 2; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Myths and Songs from the South Pacific from the mangaian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1876 Henry S. King & Co. edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1876 Henry S. King & Co. edition
The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions, Volume 3
Traditional · Maori — John White
The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions, Volume 3 from the maori tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1887 Government Printer (Wellington) edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1887 Government Printer (Wellington) edition
Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race
Traditional · Maori — George Grey
Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race from the maori tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1855 John Murray first edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1855 John Murray first edition
The Maya Chronicles from the maya tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #20205. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #20205
The History of Melanesian Society, Volume 1 from the melanesian tradition. This edition: W. H. R. Rivers, The History of Melanesian Society (Percy Sladen Trust Expedition; Cambridge University Press, 1914), Volume 1; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. W. H. R. Rivers, The History of Melanesian Society (Percy Sladen Trust Expedition; Cambridge University Press, 1914), Volume 1; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The History of Melanesian Society, Volume 2 from the melanesian tradition. This edition: W. H. R. Rivers, The History of Melanesian Society (Cambridge University Press, 1914), Volume 2 (analysis and theory); Internet Archive (Wellcome) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. W. H. R. Rivers, The History of Melanesian Society (Cambridge University Press, 1914), Volume 2 (analysis and theory); Internet Archive (Wellcome) scan with OCR plain text
The Melanesians of British New Guinea from the melanesian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 Cambridge University Press edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 Cambridge University Press edition
The Popol Vuh from the maya quiche tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #56550. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #56550
Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations
Traditional · Mesopotamian — various (edited by Robert Francis Harper)
Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations from the mesopotamian tradition. This edition: Robert Francis Harper (ed.), Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations (D. Appleton, New York, 1901); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Robert Francis Harper (ed.), Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations (D. Appleton, New York, 1901); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation from the mesopotamian tradition. This edition: British Museum booklet (1921) presenting L. W. King's translations of the Seven Tablets of Creation from Nineveh; Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #9914. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. British Museum booklet (1921) presenting L. W. King's translations of the Seven Tablets of Creation from Nineveh; Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #9914
Traditional · Mesopotamian — Robert William Rogers
Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament from the mesopotamian tradition. This edition: Robert William Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament (Eaton & Mains, New York, 1912); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Robert William Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament (Eaton & Mains, New York, 1912); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Epic of Gilgamish from the mesopotamian tradition. This edition: R. Campbell Thompson, The Epic of Gilgamish: A New Translation from a Collation of the Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum, rendered literally into English hexameters (Luzac & Co., London, 1928); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. R. Campbell Thompson, The Epic of Gilgamish: A New Translation from a Collation of the Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum, rendered literally into English hexameters (Luzac & Co., London, 1928); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic from the mesopotamian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #11000. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #11000
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria from the mesopotamian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #20758. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #20758
The Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands
Traditional · Micronesian — F. W. Christian
The Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands from the micronesian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1899 Methuen London edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1899 Methuen London edition
The Island of Stone Money: Uap of the Carolines from the micronesian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 J. B. Lippincott edition (Cornell University scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 J. B. Lippincott edition (Cornell University scan)
The Mongols - A History from the mongol tradition. This edition: Jeremiah Curtin, The Mongols: A History (Little, Brown, Boston, 1908); Internet Archive (Toronto) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Jeremiah Curtin, The Mongols: A History (Little, Brown, Boston, 1908); Internet Archive (Toronto) scan with OCR plain text
Gessar Khan from the mongol tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1927 George H. Doran edition, New York. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1927 George H. Doran edition, New York
Sagas from the Far East from the mongol tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #40402; [Rachel Harriette Busk], Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian Traditionary Tales (Griffith and Farran, London, 1873). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #40402; [Rachel Harriette Busk], Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian Traditionary Tales (Griffith and Farran, London, 1873)
Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans
Traditional · Nahua — Daniel G. Brinton
Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans from the nahua tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #14993. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #14993
The Myths of Mexico & Peru from the nahua maya inca tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #53080. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #53080
Traditional · Native American California — Jeremiah Curtin
Creation Myths of Primitive America from the native american california tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1898 Little, Brown edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1898 Little, Brown edition
Traditional · Native American California — Edward Sapir
Yana Texts from the native american california tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 University of California edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 University of California edition
Social Life and Ceremonial Bundles of the Menomini Indians
Traditional · Native American Great Lakes — Alanson Skinner
Social Life and Ceremonial Bundles of the Menomini Indians from the native american great lakes tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1913 American Museum of Natural History edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1913 American Museum of Natural History edition
Traditional · Native American Great Lakes — Frances Densmore
Chippewa Music from the native american great lakes tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 Government Printing Office edition
Traditional · Native American Great Lakes — Frances Densmore
Chippewa Music II from the native american great lakes tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1913 Government Printing Office edition (archive.org item metadata misdates it 1910; volume 2 = Bulletin 53, 1913). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1913 Government Printing Office edition (archive.org item metadata misdates it 1910; volume 2 = Bulletin 53, 1913)
Traditional · Native American Great Lakes — William Jones
Fox Texts from the native american great lakes tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1907 American Ethnological Society edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1907 American Ethnological Society edition
The Ritual and Significance of the Winnebago Medicine Dance
Traditional · Native American Great Lakes — Paul Radin
The Ritual and Significance of the Winnebago Medicine Dance from the native american great lakes tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #70615 of the 1911 journal printing. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #70615 of the 1911 journal printing
Traditional · Native American Northeast Woodlands — Alanson Skinner
Notes on the Eastern Cree and Northern Saulteaux from the native american northeast woodlands tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt, Google-digitized) of the 1911 American Museum of Natural History edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt, Google-digitized) of the 1911 American Museum of Natural History edition
Sacred Texts / Native American Northeast Woodlands
Traditional · Native American Northeast Woodlands — Jeremiah Curtin and J. N. B. Hewitt
Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths from the native american northeast woodlands tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1918 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1918 Government Printing Office edition
Sacred Texts / Native American Northeast Woodlands
Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa
Traditional · Native American Northeast Woodlands — Frank G. Speck
Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa from the native american northeast woodlands tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1915 Geological Survey of Canada edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1915 Geological Survey of Canada edition
Sacred Texts / Native American Northeast Woodlands
Traditional · Native American Northwest Coast — Franz Boas
Chinook Texts from the native american northwest coast tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1894 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Northwest Coast — Franz Boas
Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, Part 1 from the native american northwest coast tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1921 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Northwest Coast — Franz Boas
Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, Part 2 from the native american northwest coast tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1921 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Northwest Coast — John R. Swanton
Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect from the native american northwest coast tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #74172 of the 1905 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #74172 of the 1905 Government Printing Office edition
Traditional · Native American Northwest Coast — Franz Boas
The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians from the native american northwest coast tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1898 American Museum of Natural History edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Northwest Coast — John R. Swanton
Tlingit Myths and Texts from the native american northwest coast tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #78871 of the 1909 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #78871 of the 1909 Government Printing Office edition
Traditional · Native American Northwest Coast — Franz Boas
Tsimshian Mythology from the native american northwest coast tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1916 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Northwest Coast — Franz Boas
Tsimshian Texts from the native american northwest coast tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1902 Bureau of American Ethnology edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Plains — George Bird Grinnell
Blackfoot Lodge Tales from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1892 Charles Scribner's Sons edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Plains — Alfred L. Kroeber
Gros Ventre Myths and Tales from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1907 American Museum of Natural History edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Plains — Clark Wissler
Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt, Google-digitized) of the 1908 American Museum of Natural History edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Plains — Robert H. Lowie
Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1918 American Museum of Natural History edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Plains — George A. Dorsey
The Pawnee - Mythology (Part I) from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1906 Carnegie Institution edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1906 Carnegie Institution edition
Traditional · Native American Plains — Frances Densmore
Teton Sioux Music from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1918 Government Printing Office edition (Google scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Plains — Robert H. Lowie
The Assiniboine from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1909 American Museum of Natural History edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Plains — Alice C. Fletcher
The Omaha Tribe from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1911 Bureau of American Ethnology edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Plains — George A. Dorsey
Traditions of the Arikara from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #68666 of the 1904 Carnegie Institution edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Plains — George A. Dorsey
Traditions of the Arapaho from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1903 Field Columbian Museum edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1903 Field Columbian Museum edition
Traditional · Native American Plains — George A. Dorsey
Traditions of the Caddo from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt, Google-digitized) of the 1905 Carnegie Institution edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Plains — George A. Dorsey
Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee from the native american plains tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1904 Houghton Mifflin edition for the American Folk-Lore Society. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1904 Houghton Mifflin edition for the American Folk-Lore Society
Traditional · Native American Plateau — Jeremiah Curtin
Myths of the Modocs from the native american plateau tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt, Cornell scan) of the 1912 Little, Brown edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt, Cornell scan) of the 1912 Little, Brown edition
Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia
Traditional · Native American Plateau — James Teit
Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia from the native american plateau tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt, CIHM microfiche) of the 1898 American Folk-Lore Society edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt, CIHM microfiche) of the 1898 American Folk-Lore Society edition
Traditional · Native American Plateau — Edward Sapir
Wishram Texts from the native american plateau tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1909 American Ethnological Society edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Native American Southeast — James Mooney
Myths of the Cherokee from the native american southeast tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #45634 of the 1900 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #45634 of the 1900 Government Printing Office edition
Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights: Being the Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona
Traditional · Native American Southwest — Edward Hubert Wood
Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights: Being the Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona from the native american southwest tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #38064 of the 1911 Lloyd Group, Westfield NJ edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #38064 of the 1911 Lloyd Group, Westfield NJ edition
Traditional · Native American Southwest — Pliny Earle Goddard
Jicarilla Apache Texts from the native american southwest tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1911 American Museum of Natural History edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1911 American Museum of Natural History edition
Traditional · Native American Southwest — Washington Matthews
The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony from the native american southwest tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #20839 of the 1887 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #20839 of the 1887 Government Printing Office edition
Traditional · Native American Southwest — Pliny Earle Goddard
Myths and Tales from the San Carlos Apache from the native american southwest tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1918 American Museum of Natural History edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1918 American Museum of Natural History edition
Traditional · Native American Southwest — Frank Russell
The Pima Indians from the native american southwest tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1908 Government Printing Office edition (Google Books scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1908 Government Printing Office edition (Google Books scan)
Traditional · Native American Southwest — Matilda Coxe Stevenson
The Sia from the native american southwest tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1894 Government Printing Office edition (Google scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1894 Government Printing Office edition (Google scan)
Traditional · Native American Southwest — Jesse Walter Fewkes
Tusayan Migration Traditions from the native american southwest tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Government Printing Office edition (Cornell University scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Zuñi Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies
Traditional · Native American Southwest — Matilda Coxe Stevenson
The Zuñi Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies from the native american southwest tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1904 Government Printing Office edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1904 Government Printing Office edition
Navaho Legends from the navajo tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #60165. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #60165
Traditional · Norse — Gudbrand Vigfusson and F. York Powell
Corpus Poeticum Boreale, Volume 1 from the norse tradition. This edition: Gudbrand Vigfusson and F. York Powell, Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, Vol. I (Eddic Poetry) (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1883); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Gudbrand Vigfusson and F. York Powell, Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, Vol. I (Eddic Poetry) (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1883); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga
Traditional · Norse — George Webbe Dasent
The Story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga from the norse tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #17919 (Dasent's 1861 translation). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #17919 (Dasent's 1861 translation)
The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga from the norse tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #347 (G. A. Hight's 1914 Everyman translation). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #347 (G. A. Hight's 1914 Everyman translation)
Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
Traditional · Norse — Samuel Laing
Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway from the norse tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #598. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #598
Laxdaela Saga from the norse tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #17803. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas from the norse tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #28497. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Poetic Edda from the norse tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #73533. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda
Traditional · Norse — Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris
The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda from the norse tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #1152 (Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris translation). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda
Traditional · Norse — Rasmus Björn Anderson
The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda from the norse tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #18947 (Rasmus B. Anderson translation: Foreword, Gylfaginning, and selections from Skaldskaparmal). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #18947 (Rasmus B. Anderson translation: Foreword, Gylfaginning, and selections from Skaldskaparmal)
Oceanic Mythology from the oceanic tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1916 Marshall Jones (Mythology of All Races vol. 9) edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan from the persian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #13060. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Persian — James Atkinson; Herman Bicknell; Edward FitzGerald
Persian Literature, Volume 1 from the persian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #10315. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · Persian — Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner
The Shahnama of Firdausi, Vol. I from the persian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner 1905 first volume of the nine-volume Warner verse translation (University of Toronto scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner 1905 first volume of the nine-volume Warner verse translation (University of Toronto scan)
Traditional · Persian — Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner
The Shahnama of Firdausi, Vol. II from the persian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner 1906 second volume of the nine-volume Warner verse translation (University of Toronto scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner 1906 second volume of the nine-volume Warner verse translation (University of Toronto scan)
Aeneidos from the roman tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #227, Latin text of the Aeneid in twelve books. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #227, Latin text of the Aeneid in twelve books
The Aeneid of Virgil from the roman tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #22456. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Fasti from the roman tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8738, Latin text of the six books of the Fasti with Thomas Keightley's English introduction and notes. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #8738, Latin text of the six books of the Fasti with Thomas Keightley's English introduction and notes
The Georgics from the roman tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #232. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Golden Asse from the roman tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #1666. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Mysteries of Mithra from the roman tradition. This edition: Franz Cumont, The Mysteries of Mithra, trans. Thomas J. McCormack (Open Court, Chicago, 1903); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Franz Cumont, The Mysteries of Mithra, trans. Thomas J. McCormack (Open Court, Chicago, 1903); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
On the Nature of Things from the roman tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #785. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Roumanian Fairy Tales from the romanian tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #20552 (Henry Holt 1885 edition, collected by Mite Kremnitz, adapted and arranged by J. M. Percival). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #20552 (Henry Holt 1885 edition, collected by Mite Kremnitz, adapted and arranged by J. M. Percival)
Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before from the samoan tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #14224. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Traditional · San — W. H. I. Bleek and Lucy C. Lloyd
Specimens of Bushman Folklore from the san tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1911 George Allen edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Shans at Home, With Two Chapters on Shan History and Literature
Traditional · Shan — Leslie Milne
Shans at Home, With Two Chapters on Shan History and Literature from the shan tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the John Murray 1910 edition by Leslie Milne (University of California scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the John Murray 1910 edition by Leslie Milne (University of California scan)
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, Volume 1
Traditional · Shinto — W. G. Aston
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, Volume 1 from the shinto tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1896 Japan Society supplement edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1896 Japan Society supplement edition
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, Volume 2
Traditional · Shinto — W. G. Aston
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, Volume 2 from the shinto tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1896 Japan Society supplement edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1896 Japan Society supplement edition
Aboriginal Siberia - A Study in Social Anthropology
Traditional · Siberian
Aboriginal Siberia - A Study in Social Anthropology from the siberian tradition. This edition: M. A. Czaplicka, Aboriginal Siberia: A Study in Social Anthropology (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1914); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. M. A. Czaplicka, Aboriginal Siberia: A Study in Social Anthropology (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1914); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Chukchee Mythology from the siberian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 E. J. Brill / G. E. Stechert edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1910 E. J. Brill / G. E. Stechert edition
Koryak Texts from the siberian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Publications of the American Ethnological Society Vol. V, 1917. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of Publications of the American Ethnological Society Vol. V, 1917
Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia
Traditional · Siberian — Waldemar Bogoras
Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia from the siberian tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1918 American Museum of Natural History edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1918 American Museum of Natural History edition
The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Vol. 1
Traditional · Sikh — Max Arthur Macauliffe
The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Vol. 1 from the sikh tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the Oxford Clarendon Press 1909 edition, vol. 1 of 6. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Epic Songs of Russia from the slavic tradition. This edition: University of Toronto scan of Isabel Florence Hapgood's translation with introductory note by Francis J. Child (Scribner's, New York, 1886); OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. University of Toronto scan of Isabel Florence Hapgood's translation with introductory note by Francis J. Child (Scribner's, New York, 1886); OCR plain text
Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen from the slavic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #25555. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars
Traditional · Slavic — Jeremiah Curtin
Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars from the slavic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #50011 (Jeremiah Curtin collection, Little, Brown 1890). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
Traditional · Slavic — William Ralston Shedden Ralston
Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore from the slavic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #22373 (W. R. S. Ralston translation and commentary). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources
Traditional · Slavic — Albert Henry Wratislaw
Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources from the slavic tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #48761. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Bird Parliament from the sufi tradition. This edition: Edward FitzGerald's verse translation of Attar's Mantiq ut-Tayr, first published posthumously in Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald (Macmillan, 1889); Internet Archive plain-text transcription. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Edward FitzGerald's verse translation of Attar's Mantiq ut-Tayr, first published posthumously in Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald (Macmillan, 1889); Internet Archive plain-text transcription
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali from the sufi tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #58977. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Masnavi i Ma'navi: Teachings of Rumi from the sufi tradition. This edition: E. H. Whinfield, Masnavi i Ma'navi, the Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-'d-Din Muhammad Rumi, translated and abridged (2nd ed., Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., London, 1898); Internet Archive (Digital Library of India) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. E. H. Whinfield, Masnavi i Ma'navi, the Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-'d-Din Muhammad Rumi, translated and abridged (2nd ed., Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., London, 1898); Internet Archive (Digital Library of India) scan with OCR plain text
Mystics and Saints of Islam from the sufi tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #24314. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Mystics of Islam from the sufi tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #67388. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox
Traditional · Sufi — Norton F. W. Hazeldine
The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox from the sufi tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #50619. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer from the taoist tradition. This edition: Herbert A. Giles, Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1889; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Herbert A. Giles, Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1889; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Taoism, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 39)
Traditional · Taoist — James Legge
The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Taoism, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 39) from the taoist tradition. This edition: James Legge, The Texts of Taoism, Part I: The Tao Te Ching and the Writings of Kwang-tze (Books I-XVII) (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 39), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1891; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. James Legge, The Texts of Taoism, Part I: The Tao Te Ching and the Writings of Kwang-tze (Books I-XVII) (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 39), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1891; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Taoism, Part II (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 40)
Traditional · Taoist — James Legge
The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Taoism, Part II (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 40) from the taoist tradition. This edition: James Legge, The Texts of Taoism, Part II: The Writings of Kwang-tze (Books XVIII-XXXIII), the Thai-Shang Tractate, and appendices (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 40), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1891; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. James Legge, The Texts of Taoism, Part II: The Writings of Kwang-tze (Books XVIII-XXXIII), the Thai-Shang Tractate, and appendices (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 40), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1891; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
道德經 from the taoist tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7337, traditional-character Chinese text of the Daodejing (81 chapters). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #7337, traditional-character Chinese text of the Daodejing (81 chapters)
Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales
Traditional · Temne — Florence M. Cronise
Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales from the temne tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #48828. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
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Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part 1 from the tibetan buddhist tradition. This edition: A. H. Francke, Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part I: Personal Narrative, Archaeological Survey of India, New Imperial Series (Calcutta, 1914); Internet Archive (DLI) scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. A. H. Francke, Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part I: Personal Narrative, Archaeological Survey of India, New Imperial Series (Calcutta, 1914); Internet Archive (DLI) scan with OCR plain text
The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism from the tibetan buddhist tradition. This edition: L. Austine Waddell, The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism, with its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology (W. H. Allen, London, 1895); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. L. Austine Waddell, The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism, with its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology (W. H. Allen, London, 1895); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Tibetan Book of the Dead from the tibetan buddhist tradition. This edition: W. Y. Evans-Wentz (ed.), The Tibetan Book of the Dead, English rendering by Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup (Oxford University Press, 1927); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. W. Y. Evans-Wentz (ed.), The Tibetan Book of the Dead, English rendering by Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup (Oxford University Press, 1927); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Tongan Myths and Tales from the tongan tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1924 Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 8 edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1924 Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 8 edition
Stories and Legends of Annam from the vietnamese tradition. This edition: Clotilde Chivas-Baron, Stories and Legends of Annam, translated from the French by E. M. Smith-Dampier, Andrew Melrose, London, 1920; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Clotilde Chivas-Baron, Stories and Legends of Annam, translated from the French by E. M. Smith-Dampier, Andrew Melrose, London, 1920; Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Kaffir Folk-Lore: A Selection from the Traditional Tales Current among the People Living on the Eastern Border of the Cape Colony
Traditional · Xhosa — George McCall Theal
Kaffir Folk-Lore: A Selection from the Traditional Tales Current among the People Living on the Eastern Border of the Cape Colony from the xhosa tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1886 Swan Sonnenschein edition (Google scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1886 Swan Sonnenschein edition (Google scan)
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc.
Traditional · Yoruba
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc. from the yoruba tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1894 Chapman and Hall edition (Google scan). Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1894 Chapman and Hall edition (Google scan)
Pahlavi Texts, Part I: The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast la-Shayast
Traditional · Zoroastrian — E. W. West
Pahlavi Texts, Part I: The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast la-Shayast from the zoroastrian tradition. This edition: E. W. West, Pahlavi Texts, Part I, The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast la-Shayast (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 5, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1880); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. E. W. West, Pahlavi Texts, Part I, The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast la-Shayast (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 5, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1880); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Zend-Avesta, Part I: The Vendidad from the zoroastrian tradition. This edition: James Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta, Part I, The Vendidad (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 4, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1880); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. James Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta, Part I, The Vendidad (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 4, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1880); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Zend-Avesta, Part II: The Sirozahs, Yasts, and Nyayis
Traditional · Zoroastrian — James Darmesteter
The Zend-Avesta, Part II: The Sirozahs, Yasts, and Nyayis from the zoroastrian tradition. This edition: James Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta, Part II, The Sirozahs, Yasts, and Nyayis (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 23, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1883); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. James Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta, Part II, The Sirozahs, Yasts, and Nyayis (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 23, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1883); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
The Zend-Avesta, Part III: The Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagan, Gahs, and Miscellaneous Fragments
Traditional · Zoroastrian — L. H. Mills
The Zend-Avesta, Part III: The Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagan, Gahs, and Miscellaneous Fragments from the zoroastrian tradition. This edition: L. H. Mills, The Zend-Avesta, Part III, The Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagan, Gahs, and Miscellaneous Fragments (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 31, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1887); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. L. H. Mills, The Zend-Avesta, Part III, The Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagan, Gahs, and Miscellaneous Fragments (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 31, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1887); Internet Archive scan with OCR plain text
Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus, in Their Own Words
Traditional · Zulu — Henry Callaway
Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus, in Their Own Words from the zulu tradition. This edition: Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1868 Springvale/Trubner edition. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Internet Archive full-text OCR (_djvu.txt) of the 1868 Springvale/Trubner edition
Zuni Folk Tales from the zuni tradition. This edition: Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #54682. Complete transcription supplied by Ancient Wisdom Atlas, with source and edition metadata.
Ancient Wisdom Atlas, edited by İlayda Büyükdoğan; pinned revision 07b52ea814bd. Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #54682