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African Religion & Spirituality - Complete Text Collection African Spirituality Comparative African-American Caribbean Rastafarianism Vodun History Ultimately, we are all Africans. Studies of mitochondrial DNA have proven that all human beings are… 1225 pages Alchemy Alchemy Although the alchemists' fundamental goal of elemental transmutation was flawed, on a deeper level the work of alchemy (cloaked in allegorical images) also represented the… 138 pages Americana This page includes texts relating to uniquely American expressions of belief, as well as folklore and supersition, that don't fit into any other category. General Folklore Myths and Legends… 552 pages Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East the Ancient Near East General Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. Mackenzie [1915] A massive survey of the religion, culture, and history of the ancient Near East. The… 383 pages The Age of Reason 'Age of Reason' The Age of Reason What if God doesn't exist? What if humanity is not the center of the universe? What if there is no absolute truth? Here are some texts by free-thinking… 2101 pages Asia This page links together resources pertaining to traditional people of Asia, including Siberia and Southeast Asia. Asia is also the origin of many of the most important and ancient world… 839 pages Astrology This page indexes resources related to the lore of the sky, and celestial objects, including Astrology and historical texts on Astronomy. Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos tr. J.M. Ashmand [1833] A key… 281 pages Sacred Texts: Atlantis Atlantis Timaeus Critias by Plato [360 B.C] The two dialogs of Plato which contain the primary ancient account of Atlantis. There is a short framing story about Solon in Egypt in Timaeus… 428 pages Sacred Texts - Australia Australian Spirituality Finding texts about Australian Aboriginal religion in the public domain was extremely difficult. There is a landslide of 19th and early 20th Century books and… 200 pages Sacred Texts: Baha'i texts Baha'i Baha'i Formatted texts The Kitab-i-Aqdas 394,453 bytes The Kitab-i-Iqan (Book of Certitude) 306,614 bytes Epistle to the Son of the Wolf 260,644 bytes The Splendour of God by Eric… 44 pages Hypertext Bible Home African Age of Reason Alchemy Americana Ancient Near East Asia Atlantis Australia Basque Baha'i Bible Book of Shadows Buddhism Celtic Christianity Classics Confucianism DNA Earth… 58869 pages Internet Book of Shadows This is a large (+9Mb) collection of articles related to Neo-Paganism which can be found archived at a number of FTP sites (for instance, here). This is a collection of posts to bulletin… 656 pages Sacred Texts: Buddhism Buddhism The Gospel of Buddha: Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus [1909] A modern retelling of the Buddha's work and life. 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This is the first 60,000 'letters' of chromosome one of the draft public domain human genome, formatted in… 4 pages Earth Mysteries Shape: Flat \ Hollow Ancient Monuments \ Legendary Creatures \ Ancient Voyagers \ Elsewhere at this site This part of the site has texts that deal with earth mysteries, such as ley lines… 723 pages Sacred Texts: Ancient Egypt Egypt The civilization of Ancient Egypt lasted longer than the entire span of what we have come to accept as 'recorded history': over three thousand years. During these millenia the… 814 pages Western Esoteric Texts This page indexes resources at this site in the Western Esoteric tradition. There is much more related to this topic at this site, listed below. The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius… 1223 pages ETC Sacred Texts This page indexes etexts which don't currently have a category at this site, are just plain uncategorizable, or deal with a wide range of religions, mythologies or folklore. Several of… 597 pages Sacred Texts: Evil Evil is, on one level, a cultural construct. The Easter Islanders believed that stealing, if successful, was virtuous. This was probably a social mechanism for redistributing scarce items… 74 pages Fortean Texts In the early twentieth century Charles Fort put together great quantities of exhaustively documented 'puzzling evidence.' This is data which science is unable or unwilling to explain, such… 214 pages Gnosticism This page indexes resources about Gnosticism, the Hermetica, and other related belief systems . GNOSTICISM Fragments of a Faith Forgotten by G.R.S. Mead [1900] An indispensable and… 332 pages Gothic Texts Gothic refers to a Romantic literary style which can include supernatural aspects, particularly vampires. This is because many of these stories are set in locales with Gothic architecture… 200 pages Grimoires Grimoires The name "Grimoire" is derived from the word "Grammar". A grammar is a description of a set of symbols and how to combine them to create well-formed sentences. A Grimoire is… 671 pages Hinduism Hinduism The Vedas There are four Vedas, the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda. The Vedas are the primary texts of Hinduism. They also had a vast influence on Buddhism… 13619 pages The I Ching, Legge tr. I-Ching I Ching The I Ching James Legge, tr. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16 [1899] Contents Start Reading The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is the most widely read of the five Chinese… 93 pages Texts of Islam Islam Islamic Date Qur'an The Qur'an is the primary text of Islam, revealed to the Prophet Muhammed beginning in the year 610 C.E. It was canonicalized between 644 and 656. The Qur'an is… 7072 pages Jain Texts Jaina Sutras, Translated from the Prakrit by Hermann Jacobi, 1884 (from: Sacred Books of the East vol. 22) Akaranga Sutra297,922 bytes Kalpa Sutra136,515 bytes 176 pages Project Gutenberg Archive Name Last modified Size Description --- --- --- --- --- Parent Directory - taichiyoga62.htm 2012-04-27 17:57 89K tai chi yoga 6_2.doc 2012-04-26 23:29 85K jbh2yr.htm 2012-04-27 11:06 11K… 22 pages Journal Articles Journals: IA JA JAOS JPTS JRAS Mon. OC Topics: Buddhism Chinese Christianity Hinduism Islam Judaism Zoroastrian These files are articles excerpted from a number of scholarly (and… 110 pages Texts of Judaism Judaism Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) The Tanakh is the Hebrew Bible, the quintessential sacred text. The first five books of this comprise the Torah (or Pentateuch), the core sacred writings of… 2179 pages Legendary Creatures Legendary creatures play important roles in many ancient texts. Sometimes they are symbols of the hermetic processes of alchemy; in other cases they crop up in antique accounts of natural… 163 pages LGBT Texts The Hebrew Bible The New Testament Gay Marriage in the Bible The Qur'an Other Religions Other Texts Modern Texts For Further Reading NEW! Abortion in the Bible Did you know? * Of 32,000… 84 pages Freemasonry Freemasonry The Internet has long been home to all kinds of sites about Freemasonry, pro and con. However, it has been hard to find reliable, vetted information on the web on this topic… 360 pages Sacred Texts: Mormons Mormonism The Bible The Bible is considered the fundamental sacred text by Mormons. The Articles of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Historical Accounts Unfiltered… 393 pages Sacred Texts: Mysticism Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill [1911] The classic study of the path to oneness, written by a leading student of Mysticism. Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. [1957… 34 pages Sacred Texts: Native American Home African Age of Reason Alchemy Americana Ancient Near East Asia Atlantis Australia Basque Baha'i Bible Book of Shadows Buddhism Celtic Christianity Classics Confucianism DNA Earth… 4342 pages Necronomicon The Necronomicon originated as a fictional book in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and grew into an extended literary in-joke as other horror writers organically added to the Cthulhu mythos… 80 pages Paleolithic Cave Paintings the Paleolithic Explanatory text: English French. Copyright information Paleolithic Cave Paintings 2 pages Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas Legends and Sagas This section archives the rich literature of Sagas and Legends. These are mostly (but not all) from Northern Europe, and primarily based on legendary events and people… 9601 pages Nostradamus Nostradamus The Prophecies of Nostradamus Texts Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Through Time by Lee McCann [1941]. A biography and historical novel of Nostradamus, with many interpreted… 76 pages Sacred Texts: New Thought The New Thought movement, which originated in the late 19th and early 20th century, has at its core a belief that a higher power pervades all existence, and that individuals can create… 809 pages Oahspe Oahspe is a book written in 1880 by an American dentist named John Ballou Newbrough [1828-1891]. He claimed that it was the result of automatic writing, dictated to him by spirits in a… 820 pages Ordo Templi Orientis I have begotten thee, o my Son, and that strangely, as thou knowest, upon the Scarlet Woman called Hilarion, as it was mysteriously foretold unto me in The Book of the Law. Now therefore… 257 pages Sacred Texts -- Pacific Islander Religions Pacific Mythology This section has texts relating to the religion and mythology of the Pacific Islanders. General Oceanic Mythology by Roland B. Dixon [1916]. 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Tolkiens' Middle Earth did not come out of thin air. Tolkien, an academic linguist, drew on the following source materials to inspire his world-building exercise. The… 87 pages Sacred Books of the East Sacred Books of the East Index of Translators Transliteration Tables Available reprints JUMP TO SBE VOLUME The Sacred Books of the East (SBE) series, comprising fifty volumes, was issued by… 14 pages Sacred Texts: Sexuality Tantra Ancient Sacred Sexuality Modern Rediscovery General Other Texts The dominant world religions treat sexuality as (at best) a distraction from the spiritual path. On the other hand… 284 pages Shamanism - Sacred Texts Collection Shamanism This section has texts about Shamanism and Animism. These are traditional belief systems which consider the entire universe to be alive and interconnected. Shamanism in practice… 53 pages Shinto Documents Shinto This section has scriptures of the Shinto religion, as well as other texts that relate to the spirituality of Japan, which combines Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, Animism and other… 652 pages Sikh Texts Sikhism The Sikh Religion, Volume 1 by Max Arthur MacAuliffe [1909] Detailed information on the historical and philosophical background of Sikhism. The Religion of the Sikhs by Dorothy… 87 pages Shakespeare First Folio Shakespeare Plays Books About Shakespeare Why include the works of Shakespeare ? The answer to this will be self-evident to some, and a mystery to others. This site includes the… 109 pages Sub Rosa Masonry Esoteric Rosicrucians Apocrypha Gnosticism This section contains resources related to secret societies, conspiracies, and hidden knowledge. Proofs of a Conspiracy by John Robison… 491 pages Swedenborg Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was a Swedish philosopher and scientist who, at 56, had a spiritual awakening and wrote numerous books on his theological views and related topics. He… 557 pages Symbols Esoteric Sub Rosa One of the key markers of intelligence is the ability to manipulate symbolic thought. Symbols are found in mythology and folklore worldwide, and here are some books at… 59 pages Tantra Tantra These texts describe the esoteric teachings of Tantra, a belief system which originated in India, praticed by a small number of Hindus and Buddhists. Tantra has become a synonym in… 119 pages Taoist Texts Home African Age of Reason Alchemy Americana Ancient Near East Asia Atlantis Australia Basque Baha'i Bible Book of Shadows Buddhism Celtic Christianity Classics Confucianism DNA Earth… 877 pages Tarot Tarot The best known Tarot deck is the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. There are hundreds of others, but the images of the RWS Tarot are the ones which are instantly recognizable. This page has… 503 pages Theosophy Theosophy Isis Unveiled by Helena P. Blavatsky [1877] The Secret Doctrine by Helena P. Blavatsky [1888] Clairvoyance by Charles Webster Leadbeater [1899] A Theosophical manual of remote… 122 pages Sacred Time This page has links to resources related to time: chronology of sacred texts and religion, and information about calendrical systems used by major religions. The above image is a whole-sky… 85 pages The UFO Files UFOs From India to the Planet Mars by Théodore Flournoy, tr. Daniel B. Vermilye [1900] Psychic contact with Mars at the dawn of the 20th century. The Complete Works of Charles Fort by… 473 pages Utopia/Dystopia The dream of a golden age, first expressed by Hesiod, and philosophical writings such as Plato's Republic, has become a recurring theme in literature. Many have attempted to define the… 151 pages Sacred Texts: Women and Religion Goddesses All of the major world religions deprecate women to some degree. This page archives texts which relate specifically to women and religion from a female perspective. This includes… 234 pages Sacred Texts: Wisdom of the East This page spotlights the books in the series The Wisdom of the East, most of which were published in the first two decades of the twentieth century under the editorship of L. Cranmer-Byng… 1 pages Zoroastrian Sacred Texts Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism, in spite of its small current number of adherents, has played a huge role in the study of comparative religion. Not only was it a cohort of the ancient Vedic… 260 pages