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Read the world's scriptures.
Compare what they actually say.
The Bible, the Quran, the Ethiopian Bible, the Gnostic gospels, Hindu and Buddhist texts, ancient myth, and occult writings - side by side, with source context visible.
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Coverage map
More than one collection, more than one religion
Religions, mythologies, esoteric systems, occult traditions, and disputed movements each get their own source-labeled area.
Islam
Quran, hadith handling, tafsir, Sufi writings, Iblis traditions, prophets, law, and eschatology.
8 readable texts
Gnostic / Alternative Early Christian
Nag Hammadi texts, Thomas, Mary, Apocryphon of John, Sophia, Demiurge, archons, and salvation by knowledge.
8 readable texts
Luciferianism
Lucifer as light-bearer, rebellion, illumination, self-deification, literary sources, and modern esoteric movements.
3 readable texts
Satanism
Literary Satan, romantic Satanism, LaVeyan Satanism, theistic Satanism, modern groups, ethics, and ritual texts.
3 readable texts
The Archive
Texts open for reading
Public-domain scripture and sacred texts, verse by verse. New collections are added as rights and provenance are verified.
Analects
ConfucianismScholarly Reconstruction
James Legge's public-domain English translation of the Confucian Analects.
Classical Chinese· Warring States / Han compilation
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland
Folk Magic / White MagicLegend / Oral Tradition
Lady Wilde's Irish folklore collection is indexed for charms, healing lore, fairy traditions, evil eye, seasonal rites, and folk belief.
English with Irish folklore source material· 19th-century collection; 1919 public-domain edition
Deep dives
Featured dossiers
Focused guides that pull one tangled question apart, text by text and source by source.
Serpent / Satan / Lucifer / Iblis
One figure or many? The Genesis serpent, the Hebrew adversary, the Isaiah 'Lucifer', the Quranic Iblis, the Gnostic revealer, and the Revelation dragon are routinely merged into a single Devil. The texts do not actually say that in one voice.
Open dossier →Watchers / Nephilim / Giants
Genesis 6 says the 'sons of God' took human wives and produced the Nephilim — then drops it in four verses. 1 Enoch, preserved in the Ethiopian Bible, tells the fuller story: rebel angels, forbidden teaching, and giant offspring.
Open dossier →Creation Stories
Order out of chaos waters, a dividing of light from dark, a spoken or patterned cosmos. Genesis, John's Logos, the Dao, and Mesopotamian myth rhyme in structure while disagreeing on who or what does the creating.
Why this is different
Source context is not the same as spiritual value.
We do not mix a 2,000-year-old manuscript, a 1908 visionary text, and a modern internet claim as if they carry the same kind of source history. Every text carries its label in the open, so you can judge the material yourself.
Read the editorial rules →Accepted Scripture
Accepted as scripture in at least one living religious tradition.
Accepted by Some Traditions
Accepted by some branches of a tradition and rejected by others.
Apocrypha / Mixed Acceptance
Included by some communities and placed outside the main collection by others.
Scripture Selection
A selected scripture or source text prepared for reading and comparison.
Ancient Myth / Comparative
Ancient mythological or pagan source preserved in early manuscripts or tablets.
Alternative Early Christian
Early Christian or related mystical material outside later orthodox collections.
Ancient Attributed Text
Ancient material attributed to earlier figures, usually outside the main accepted collections.
Patterns across traditions