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James Legge's public-domain English translation of the Confucian Analects.
The Great Learning is the shortest of the Confucian Four Books, setting out the program of self-cultivation that proceeds from the investigation of things to the ordering of family, state, and world. Legge's edition presents the brief Text attributed to Confucius with the traditional ten chapters of commentary ascribed to Zengzi.
The Doctrine of the Mean is one of the Confucian Four Books, teaching the way of equilibrium and harmony: the superior person holds to the Mean, and perfect sincerity is presented as the power that joins the human order to Heaven. Legge's edition divides the classic into 33 chapters.
The Shih King (Book of Poetry) is one of the Five Confucian Classics, containing 305 odes including ritual hymns, dynastic praise songs, and folk poetry. This selection covers the Sacrificial Odes of Shang and Kau — liturgical hymns used in royal ancestral temple worship, representing the oldest stratum of preserved Chinese sacred ritual poetry.
The Works of Mencius records the teachings of the Confucian philosopher Mencius: dialogues with kings and disciples on benevolent government, the innate goodness of human nature, and Heaven's mandate. Complete in Legge's seven books (fourteen chapters).
Lady Wilde's Irish folklore collection is indexed for charms, healing lore, fairy traditions, evil eye, seasonal rites, and folk belief.
Reginald Scot's early modern source is indexed for witchcraft accusations, charms, exorcisms, conjuring, familiar spirits, incubi and succubi, augury, alchemy, stage illusion, and criticism of witch trials.
A public-domain Book of Mormon text for search, comparison, and Deep Thought context.
Doctrine and Covenants sections indexed for restoration scripture, modern revelation, priesthood, covenant, Zion, temple, and eschatology comparison.
Pearl of Great Price indexed for Moses, Abraham, Joseph Smith Matthew, Joseph Smith History, Articles of Faith, creation, premortal life, covenant, and restoration comparison.
Egyptian Book of the Dead material with Budge's public-domain presentation and Renouf/Naville's chapter-level public-domain translation for spell lookup.
The Pyramid Texts are indexed by section and utterance for royal afterlife, resurrection, sky ascent, offerings, protective charms, serpent spells, divine council, Osiris, Horus, Nut, Geb, ka, ba, and ritual speech.
Budge's public-domain English presentation of the Book Am-Tuat, organized by the twelve night divisions or hours traversed by the sun god through the Tuat.
Budge's public-domain English presentation of the Book of Gates, organized by the fourteen Book of Gates chapters and the named gates or divisions traversed by the sun god through the Tuat.
Budge's concise survey of Egyptian beliefs about the soul, judgment, resurrection, Osiris, and the life after death.
A public-domain collection of Egyptian mythic narratives, including creation material, divine conflict, and Osiris-Isis-Horus traditions.
Corpus Hermeticum sermons and the Asclepius/Perfect Sermon indexed for Hermetic creation, Mind, Logos, soul, rebirth, divine names, daimons, fate, and ascent.
The Kybalion is indexed as a modern Hermetic reception text for mentalism, correspondence, polarity, vibration, rhythm, causation, and gender.
The Emerald Tablet is indexed for above/below correspondence, one-thing creation, sun and moon symbolism, ascent and descent, subtle/gross separation, Hermetic wisdom, and the work of the Sun.
The Dhammapada is indexed across its 26 chapters and 423 verses for mind, hatred, discipline, wisdom, craving, the path, the Buddha, the arhat, rebirth, nirvana, purity, and liberation.
Seven public-domain Buddhist suttas indexed for the Buddha's last days, the first sermon, the middle way, the four noble truths, monastic discipline, rebirth, Brahma-world critique, impermanence, liberation, asavas, and early Buddhist practice.
The Lotus Sutra is indexed for the one vehicle, bodhisattva vows, parables, Buddha-fields, many Buddhas, stupa devotion, Avalokitesvara, prophecy of Buddhahood, and Mahayana scripture practice.
Moral tales of the Buddha's former births from the Pali Jātaka book, in T. W. Rhys Davids's 1880 translation. Among the world's oldest collections of fables, many with parallels in Aesop and world folklore.
Devotional hymns by Shinran, founder of Japan's Pure Land Shin school, praising Amida Buddha and the way of salvation through faith. A cornerstone of Japanese Pure Land Buddhist piety.
Paul Carus's 1894 arrangement of the Buddha's life and teaching in 100 numbered chapters, compiled from canonical Buddhist texts. Widely used in early Western Buddhism and endorsed by contemporary Buddhist teachers.
The Buddhacarita, or Acts of the Buddha, is an early biographical poem about Gautama Buddha. This selection uses Samuel Beal's public-domain English translation from the Chinese tradition.
Genesis, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Exodus, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Leviticus, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Numbers, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Deuteronomy, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Joshua, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Judges, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Ruth, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
1 Samuel, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
2 Samuel, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
1 Kings, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
2 Kings, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
1 Chronicles, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
2 Chronicles, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Ezra, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Nehemiah, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Esther, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Job, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Psalms, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Proverbs, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Ecclesiastes, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Song of Solomon, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Isaiah, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Jeremiah, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Lamentations, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Ezekiel, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Daniel, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Hosea, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Joel, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Amos, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Obadiah, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Jonah, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Micah, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Nahum, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Habakkuk, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Zephaniah, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Haggai, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Zechariah, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Malachi, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Rodkinson's public-domain English Tract Sabbath is indexed by chapter, Mishna, and Gemara section for Sabbath law, rabbinic argument, transfer, labor, ritual boundaries, vows, circumcision, sacred scrolls, and daily practice.
Full Gospel of Thomas translation indexed by saying for hidden knowledge, kingdom language, self-knowledge, Mary, James, ritual critique, and Gnostic Jesus comparison.
Pistis Sophia is indexed for Sophia, the mysteries of the Light, aeons, archons, ascent, repentance, soul judgment, Mary Magdalene's questions, and Gnostic cosmology.
Gospel of Mary indexed for Mary Magdalene, visionary knowledge, the soul's ascent, powers, Peter's objection, Levi's defense, and authority conflict.
Gospel of Philip indexed for names, bridal chamber, baptism, Eucharist, resurrection, Mary Magdalene, wisdom, hidden union, and Valentinian sacramental language.
Gospel of Truth indexed for ignorance, Error, knowledge of the Father, fullness, the living book, the Word, rest, return, and Valentinian salvation language.
Secret Book of James indexed for post-resurrection revelation, James and Peter, hidden books, being filled, the cross, prophecy, knowledge, ascent, and salvation language.
Gospel of Judas indexed for Judas, secret revelation, Barbelo, Saklas, stars, rulers, baptism critique, sacrifice critique, Judas's vision, and betrayal traditions.
The Secret Book of John is indexed by manuscript version for the Monad, Barbelo, Sophia's error, Yaltabaoth, archons, Adam and Eve, the soul's destiny, and the revealer's descent.
Full Theogony import for Chaos, Gaia, Uranus, Cronos, the Titans, Zeus, the Muses, Aphrodite, Typhon, divine succession, monster genealogies, and Olympian order.
Works and Days is indexed for Prometheus, Pandora, the ages of humanity, Zeus, justice, labor, sacrifice, omens, divine timing, and everyday piety.
Andrew Lang's public-domain Homeric Hymns edition for Greek gods, mysteries, divine epithets, and myth comparison.
Homer's Odyssey follows the hero Odysseus on his ten-year voyage home from Troy, encompassing encounters with gods, monsters, prophets, and the dead. This import covers all 24 books in Samuel Butler's public-domain 1900 prose translation, including the divine council on Olympus, Telemachus's journey, the Nekyia in Book XI, and the return to Ithaca.
Homer's Iliad narrates the wrath of Achilles and the Trojan War, centering on cosmic battle, divine intervention, sacrifice, and heroic fate. This import covers all 24 books in Samuel Butler's public-domain 1898 prose translation, including the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilles, divine councils, battlefield interventions, Hector's death, and Priam's ransom.
The epic of Jason and the Argonauts: the mustering of the heroes, the voyage of the Argo through the Clashing Rocks to Colchis, Medea's love and sorcery, the winning of the golden fleece from the sleepless serpent, and the long wandering home. R. C. Seaton's 1912 prose translation, Books I-IV complete.
Acharanga Sutra and Kalpa Sutra selections indexed for ahimsa, ascetic discipline, living beings, vows, purity, karma, rebirth, Mahavira, Tirthankaras, and monastic practice.
Uttaradhyayana Sutra and Sutrakritanga Sutra selections indexed for discipline, karma, liberation, vows, ascetic conduct, food, living beings, hells, doctrinal disputes, and monastic renunciation.
The Key of Solomon is indexed for Solomonic ritual magic, planetary hours, pentacles, purification, divine names, conjurations, and ceremonial tools.
A public-domain Goetia edition for ceremonial magic, spirit catalogues, secret names, and ritual-language comparison.
The Kojiki is indexed for kami, creation, Izanagi and Izanami, Amaterasu, Susa-no-wo, descent myths, divine genealogy, purification, ritual, sacred kingship, and early Japanese mythic history.
Aston's public-domain Shinto study for kami, purity, ritual, mythic narrative, and Japanese religious comparison.
Queen Liliuokalani's Kumulipo translation is indexed by era and verse for Hawaiian creation, night, sea life, land life, gods, genealogy, kapu, chiefly descent, and royal lineage comparison.
Pele and Hiiaka is indexed for Hawaiian mythology, volcanic divinity, journey, chant, family conflict, and goddess traditions.
Legends of the volcano goddess Pele and her house of fire — her migration to Hawaii, her clashes with Kamapuaa and the snow goddesses, and the shark, ghost, and taboo lore of Kilauea — collected and translated from the Hawaiian by W. D. Westervelt in 1916.
The cycle of the Polynesian demi-god Maui — snaring the sun, fishing up islands, lifting the sky, seeking immortality — and the legends of his mother Hina, as collected and translated by W. D. Westervelt in Honolulu in 1910.
The Mabinogion in a public-domain English translation for Celtic myth and Arthurian comparison.
Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men is indexed for Tuatha De Danann, Lugh, the Dagda, the Morrigu, Manannan, the Children of Lir, Finn, Oisin, Fianna, geasa, Otherworld journeys, battle, kingship, and heroic-cycle comparison.
Faraday's Cattle-Raid of Cualnge is indexed for Medb, Ailill, Cuchulainn, Fergus, the Brown Bull, geasa, war-band honor, prophecy, single combat, heroic rage, and Irish Ulster Cycle comparison.
Eleanor Hull's connected narrative of the whole Cuchulain saga: the hero's birth-tales and boyhood deeds, his training under the woman-warrior Scathach in Shadowland, the winning of Emer, the Cattle-Raid of Cualnge, the Morrigan, his breaking of geasa, death and vengeance. A standard public-domain gateway to the Ulster Cycle beyond the bare Tain text.
Rolleston's retelling of the Irish Mythological Cycle: the invasion myths of Partholan, Nemed, the Firbolgs, the god-race of the Tuatha De Danann and the Milesians, the battles of Moytura, the early Milesian kings, and the otherworld voyage of Maeldun. Selected chapters III, IV and VII; the Ulster, Fenian and Welsh chapters are omitted as the corpus indexes those cycles separately.
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books I-VII, for Roman mythology and transformation-story comparison.
The second half of Ovid's Metamorphoses for Roman mythology, transformation, apotheosis, and flood-story comparison.
Dryden's public-domain Aeneid for Roman epic, descent to the underworld, fate, gods, empire, and hero comparison.
Apuleius' Metamorphoses: Lucius, dabbling in Thessalian witchcraft, is transformed into an ass and passes through the hands of robbers, priests and magistrates until the goddess Isis restores him and he is initiated into her mysteries. Contains the celebrated inset myth of Cupid and Psyche. William Adlington's 1566 English translation, complete in 48 chapters.
Henry Adams Bellows's public-domain English translation of the Poetic Edda.
A public-domain Prose Edda edition for Norse creation, Ragnarok, gods, giants, and skaldic myth comparison.
The Old Norse prose saga of the Volsung clan: Odin's descendant Sigi through Sigmund and Sigurd the dragon-slayer, the cursed gold of Andvari, Brynhild, and the fall of the Giukings. Translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888); the translators' appendix of Poetic Edda excerpts is omitted here because the Poetic Edda is indexed separately.
The legendary books of Saxo's Gesta Danorum, a euhemerized treasury of Norse myth and heroic legend: Hadding's dealings with Odin, the death of Balder at Hother's hand, Amleth (the source of Hamlet), Thorkill's voyages to the giant Geirrod and Utgarda-Loki, and Ragnar Lodbrok. This selection covers Books I-IV, VIII and IX of Oliver Elton's 1894 translation.
A public-domain Popol Vuh edition for creation, flood, hero-twin, and underworld comparison.
Twenty ancient Nahuatl hymns to the Aztec gods, recorded in the sixteenth century by Sahagun and translated with commentary by Daniel G. Brinton in 1890. Among the very few surviving liturgical texts of pre-conquest Mexico.
The native chronicle of the Kaqchikel Maya of Guatemala: creation and migration legends from Tulan, tribal history, and annals continuing into the Spanish period. Translated by Daniel G. Brinton in 1885 as volume VI of his Library of Aboriginal American Literature.
The Quran indexed for search, comparison, source-language review, and Deep Thought context using Rodwell English, George Sale English, and Tanzil Uthmani Arabic versions.
The Table-Talk of Muhammad is indexed from the public-domain 1882 edition for prophetic sayings on mercy, prayer, charity, fasting, work, judgment, household ethics, government, death, destiny, and resurrection.
Al-Ghazzali's religious and moral teachings are indexed for the nature of humanity, heart, spirit, nafs, freedom, responsibility, knowledge, worship, and Sufi moral discipline.
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali is indexed for the search for truth, theology, philosophy, inspiration, certainty, prophecy, Sufi knowledge, and the limits of scholastic argument.
Nicholson's Mystics of Islam is indexed for the Sufi path, repentance, illumination, ecstasy, gnosis, divine love, saints, miracles, and union with Reality.
Rumi's Mesnevi Book One is indexed for the reed-flute proem, love, soul, discipline, parable, divine mercy, prophecy, spiritual poverty, and Sufi teaching stories.
Sa'di's Rose Garden is a 13th-century collection of moral tales, maxims, and Sufi-influenced wisdom. This selection indexes the public-domain English text preserved by Project Gutenberg.
The quatrains of the Persian astronomer-poet Omar Khayyam in Edward FitzGerald's famous English rendering, given here in both the First (1859) and Fifth (1889) editions. Long read both as skeptical carpe-diem poetry and, by Sufi-inclined readers, as mystical allegory.
The Rig Veda is indexed hymn by hymn and verse by verse for Agni, Indra, Soma, Varuna, Mitra, dawn, sacrifice, cosmic order, creation, waters, afterlife, and Vedic comparison.
The Bhagavad Gita is indexed across all 18 chapters for Krishna's counsel to Arjuna, dharma, yoga, action, knowledge, devotion, the deathless self, rebirth, renunciation, divine manifestation, and liberation.
Public-domain Upanishads selections for search, comparison, and Deep Thought context.
Principal public-domain Upanishads indexed for Atman, Brahman, Om, death, rebirth, liberation, meditation, sacrifice, teacher-disciple dialogues, and Vedanta comparison.
The Ramayana is indexed by book, canto, and stanza block for Rama, Sita, exile, dharma, divine kingship, sacrifice, forest asceticism, Hanuman, Ravana, Lanka, cosmic battle, and avatar comparison.
The Mahabharata is indexed by book, parva section, and paragraph for Pandavas, Kauravas, Krishna, dharma, kingship, exile, Draupadi, Kurukshetra war, afterlife, ascetic instruction, sacrifice, and Hindu epic comparison.
The aphorisms of the Brahma Sutras (Adhyayas I-II) with the opening of Adi Sankara's Advaita commentary on each, from George Thibaut's 1890 translation (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 34).
Selections from the Vishnu Purana: Book I on the creation of the universe from Vishnu, and Book VI on the degenerate Kali age and the dissolution of the world. Prose translation by Manmatha Nath Dutt (1894), based on H. H. Wilson.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are aphorisms that systematize classical yoga philosophy and practice. This import uses Charles Johnston's public-domain 1912 English translation and commentary.
Sefer Yetzirah is indexed for the thirty-two paths of wisdom, sefirot, Hebrew letters, creation by speech, elemental correspondences, zodiacal signs, planets, and Abrahamic covenant imagery.
Ginsburg's public-domain study is indexed for sefirot, divine names, creation, angels, soul, and Kabbalistic reception history.
Public-domain Guru Nanak selections including Twelve Months, Japji, Asa Ki War, Rahiras, Sohila, Guru Nanak hymns, and additional sloks for Sikhism search, comparison, and Deep Thought context.
Public-domain selections for Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, and Guru Ram Das, including life narratives, sloks, hymns, Anand, Sadd, Lawan, and raga-based compositions for Sikhism search, comparison, and Deep Thought context.
The Tao Te Ching is indexed across all 81 chapters for Tao, nameless origin, non-action, sage rule, water, reversal, simplicity, power, heaven and earth, and the Way's relation to governance and inner life.
Herbert A. Giles's public-domain Zhuangzi translation for Taoist, mystical, ethical, and paradox comparison.
The Book of Lieh Tzu is the third great Taoist classic beside the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi: parables and anecdotes on the Tao, cosmogony, dreams and reality, destiny, and effortless skill. Giles's 1912 selection covers seven of the eight books, omitting the hedonist Yang Chu book as un-Taoist.
Volume 1 of Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine for Theosophy, cosmogenesis, esoteric comparison, and modern occult reception.
Troward's Edinburgh Lectures are indexed for New Thought, Mental Science, spirit and matter, subjective mind, intuition, healing, will, body, soul, and spirit.
Atkinson's Nuggets of the New Thought is indexed for I AM language, law of attraction, mental pictures, faith, success, fear, worry, healing thought, and early New Thought practice.
A public-domain New Thought classic on thought, character, discipline, and inward transformation.
A Theosophical-era mystical and initiatory text, preserved from a public-domain Project Gutenberg edition that also includes Through the Gates of Gold.
A public-domain New Thought and occult-mind-power work by William Walker Atkinson.
A public-domain New Thought work on spiritual alignment, inward life, peace, and power.
A public-domain historical survey of New Thought, Christian Science, Theosophy, spiritualism, and related modern religious movements. Imported as a historical source, not as a movement scripture.
A public-domain Yogi Ramacharaka course presenting Raja Yoga through the New Thought and Theosophical reception of yoga.
A public-domain Yogi Ramacharaka course on Gnani/Jnana Yoga, the Absolute, manifestation, and spiritual knowledge.
A public-domain manual of breath practice and spiritual physiology from the Yogi Ramacharaka corpus.
A public-domain esoteric Christian reading from the Yogi Ramacharaka corpus.
A public-domain survey of reincarnation and karma in Western esoteric and comparative religious reception.
A public-domain occult and New Thought work on aura, astral color symbolism, and thought forms.
Public-domain Zend-Avesta selections for search, comparison, and Deep Thought context.
Public-domain Avesta corpus indexed across Vendidad, Sirozah, Yashts, Nyayis, Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagan, Gahs, and fragments for Zoroastrian comparison.
The Bundahishn ('Primal Creation') is the great Zoroastrian account of cosmogony: Ohrmazd's creation of the world, the assault of the evil spirit Ahriman, the natures of creatures, stars and sacred fires, and the final resurrection and renovation of the universe.
The Book of Arda Viraf recounts the visionary journey of the priest Viraf, whose soul travels across the Chinwad bridge to tour heaven, the intermediate state, and hell, witnessing the rewards of the righteous and the graphic punishments of sinners before returning with a message from Ohrmazd. It is a landmark of afterlife-vision literature, often compared to Dante's Divine Comedy.
Stephen Langdon's public-domain Gilgamesh edition for flood, underworld, friendship, kingship, and immortality comparison.
Budge's public-domain English edition of the Babylonian creation tradition, including the Seven Tablets of Creation and older classical summaries connected with Berosus and Damascius.
Babylonian creation epic: primeval waters, divine conflict, Tiamat, Marduk, and cosmic ordering.
Milton's Paradise Lost for Satan, rebellion, fall, hell, angelic war, and later Satan/Lucifer reception comparison.
Milton's sequel to Paradise Lost, centered on the temptation of Jesus and Satan's challenge in the wilderness.
Daniel Defoe's eighteenth-century prose treatment of Satan, devils, witchcraft, temptation, hell, and Christian demonological imagination. Useful for reception history beside biblical, Miltonic, Luciferian, Satanic, and occult materials.
Blake's public-domain Marriage of Heaven and Hell for contraries, devil symbolism, Milton reception, and esoteric comparison.
Byron's dramatic retelling of Cain with Lucifer as a major figure in a challenge over knowledge, mortality, and divine justice.
Byron's flood-era drama built around angelic figures, human desire, judgment, and the destruction of the old world.
The Salem witch-trial material is indexed as historical context for witchcraft accusation, demonology, testimony, and trial records.
Aradia is indexed across its 15 chapters for Diana, Aradia, Lucifer, witch-meetings, ritual supper, charms, moon language, liberation from oppression, Laverna, and modern witchcraft reception.
Full public-domain 1 Enoch text for Watchers, giants, forbidden arts, heavenly journeys, judgment, Son of Man imagery, luminaries, and apocalypse comparison.
Jubilees retells Genesis and Exodus through angelic revelation, calendar, covenant, Sabbath, purity law, watchers, flood, and patriarchal chronology.
Testamentary speeches of the sons of Jacob indexed for repentance, moral warning, priesthood, messianic expectation, angels, Beliar, resurrection, judgment, and tribal prophecy.
Tobit in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for wider-canon comparison.
Judith in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for wider-canon comparison.
Wisdom of Solomon in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for wisdom, soul, and afterlife comparison.
Sirach in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for wisdom, law, ethics, and ancestor comparison.
Baruch in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for exile, wisdom, law, and prophetic comparison.
1 Maccabees in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for temple, revolt, martyrdom, and sacred-king comparison.
2 Maccabees in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for resurrection, martyrdom, temple, and prayer-for-the-dead comparison.
1 Esdras from the public-domain King James Apocrypha tradition for temple restoration and wider-canon comparison.
2 Esdras from the public-domain King James Apocrypha tradition for apocalypse, judgment, restoration, and wider-canon comparison.
The Greek Additions to Esther from the public-domain King James Apocrypha tradition for wider-canon comparison.
The Song of the Three Holy Children from the public-domain King James Apocrypha tradition for prayer, deliverance, and wider-canon comparison.
Susanna from the public-domain King James Apocrypha tradition for Danielic tradition, justice, and wider-canon comparison.
Bel and the Dragon from the public-domain King James Apocrypha tradition for Danielic tradition, idols, dragons, and wider-canon comparison.
Prayer of Manasses from the public-domain King James Apocrypha tradition for repentance and wider-canon comparison.
Public-domain Apostolic Fathers edition for early Christian comparison beside the New Testament and later church texts.
Augustine's Confessions indexed for conversion, memory, sin, grace, creation, time, soul, desire, and early Christian self-examination.
Augustine's City of God indexed for Rome, pagan religion, demons, providence, the two cities, creation, evil, free will, resurrection, and final judgment.
Matthew, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Mark, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Luke, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Gospel of John, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Acts, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Romans, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
1 Corinthians, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
2 Corinthians, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Galatians, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Ephesians, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Philippians, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Colossians, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
1 Thessalonians, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
2 Thessalonians, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
1 Timothy, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
2 Timothy, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Titus, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Philemon, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Hebrews, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
James, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
1 Peter, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
2 Peter, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
1 John, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
2 John, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
3 John, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Jude, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
Revelation, available in public-domain English translations and the public-domain Spanish Reina-Valera 1909.
A disputed lost-years text claiming that Issa, identified with Jesus, traveled through India, Nepal, and surrounding regions before returning to Israel.
The best-known work of classical Quechua literature: the drama of the general Ollantay, his forbidden love for the Inca's daughter Cusi Coyllur, and his rebellion and pardon. Translated with an introduction by Sir Clements Markham.
Sarmiento's 1572 chronicle preserves the Inca creation cycle of Viracocha, the Ayar origin myth of Pacaritambo, and the legendary history of the Inca dynasty, compiled from the testimony of native record-keepers. Translated by Sir Clements Markham for the Hakluyt Society in 1907.
The first Ethiopian book of Meqabyan in the Ethiopian Orthodox broader biblical tradition. This work is distinct from Greek 1 Maccabees.
The second Ethiopian book of Meqabyan in the Ethiopian Orthodox broader biblical tradition. This work is distinct from Greek 2 Maccabees.
The third Ethiopian book of Meqabyan in the Ethiopian Orthodox broader biblical tradition, with sustained reflection on repentance, judgment, Adam, Satan, and resurrection.
A public-domain collection of Southern Nigerian folk stories gathered by Elphinstone Dayrell and introduced by Andrew Lang, useful for comparative folklore, trickster, origin-story, kingship, and spirit-world motifs.
A public-domain Gold Coast / West African folk-tale collection with Anansi cycles, origin tales, animal tales, kingship stories, and comparative folklore motifs.