Monthly Archives: July 2023

The Writings of Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble)    Kali the Mother [1900]  The Web of Indian Life [1904]  Studies from an Eastern Home [1913]

The Writings of Rabindranath Tagore     Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, philosopher, artist, playwright, composer and novelist. India’s first Nobel laureate, Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. He composed the text of both India’s and Bangladesh’s respective national anthems. Tagore travelled widely and was friends with many notable 20th century […]

Yoga    The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Another translation of this classic text of Yoga.  How To Be A Yogi by Swâmi Abhedânanda [1902] A road-map of the Yogic schools.  The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Charles Johnston [1912] This concise work describes an early stage in the philosophy and practise of Yoga. Dating from about 150 B.C., the work shows […]

The Satapatha Brahmana Sacred Books of the East, Vols. 12, 26, 24, 37, 47 translated by Julius Eggeling [published between 1882 and 1900] The gods love the mysterious–Satapatha Brahmana, 6:7:1:23This is the main index for the Satapatha Brahmana translation. The Satapatha Brahmana is a Hindu sacred text which describes details of Vedic rituals, including philosophical […]

of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli [published between 1883 and 1896] The Ganguli English translation of the Mahabharata is the only complete one in the public domain. Books 1-4 were proofed at Distributed Proofing (Juliet Sutherland, Project Manager), from page images scanned at sacred-texts.com. Books 5-7 and 12-15 were scanned and proofed at […]

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, appropriately enough, a description of a set of magickal symbols and how to combine them properly. Most of the texts linked below are […]

Gnosticism and Hermetica This page indexes resources about Gnosticism, the Hermetica, and other related belief systems at sacred-texts. GNOSTICISM  Fragments of a Faith Forgotten by G.R.S. Mead [1900] An indispensable and comprehensive sourcebook about the Gnostics.  The Gnostics and Their Remains by Charles William King [1887] King’s pioneering summary of what was known about the Gnostics prior to the Nag Hammadi […]

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. This page includes significant non-fiction and fiction books about vampires and related subjects. Why cover this subject at sacred-texts? From Lord Byrons’ literary circle […]

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. This page has electronic editions of core texts on Freemasonry in the public domain, presented complete and unaltered.  The Dionysian Artificers by Hippolyto Joseph da […]

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 rains of fish or blood, mysterious animals, or manufactured artifacts in deep strata. Fort collected numerous accounts of aerial phenomena prior to the invention […]