Taoism These are the principal texts of Taoism. Taoism, along with Confucianism and Buddhism was one of the principal religions of feudal China. Tao-te Ching translated by James Legge [1891] 66,099 bytes The Tao te Ching is one of the most widely read sacred texts, due to its simplicity and depth. It appeal is universal, and has been found […]
Thelema Texts These are texts relating to the philosophy of Thelema, many of them written by the occultist Aleister Crowley who founded the organization A.’. A.’. (Argentium Astrum — the Silver Star) as well as others by members of the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis — Order of the Eastern Temple) (founded by Theodor Reuss and […]
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 viewing in space and time. A Textbook of Theosophy by C.W. Leadbeater [1912] Theosophy by Rudolf Steiner, tr. by Elizabeth Douglas Shields [1910] The tripartate human, reincarnation, higher planes of existence, auras, and more. External Links Theosophical University […]
Sacred Calendar Systems This section of sacred texts contains information about calendrical systems and related data which have significance for religion and esoteric beliefs. About the Image: this is a map of cosmic background radiation, the leftovers from the big bang, the zero-time point of our universe. The yin-yang image is actually a doppler-effect […]
Sacred Time This page has links to resources at sacred-texts 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 map of fluctuations in cosmic background radiation, basically the closest thing to a photograph of the big bang that we have. […]
Sources of Lord of the Rings J.R.R. 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 texts presented at this site are complete and in some cases in the original languages. The Kalevala. [English] The Kalevala. [Finnish] This […]
UFO BBS Files BBS Files These files from the legendary KeeleyNet BBS and the ‘UFO Chronicles’ distribution list are documents of the UFO community, posted long ago on a pre-Internet bulletin boards, FIDOnet and Usenet by hard-core UFO believers. As usual, views expressed in these files are not necessarily the views of sacred-texts.com, and we can’t […]
Mars In the early years of the twentieth century Percivel Lowell and others speculated that Mars was inhabited by an intelligent species much older than our civilization. This page archives texts (fictional and otherwise) about this hypothesis. About the photo: This is a recent (2001) Mars Orbiter photo of the notorious ‘face’ formation in […]
The UFO Files 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 Charles Fort [1919-33] The premiere early 20th century compiler of accounts of strange objects in the sky, and much more … I Remember Lemuria […]
Utopia and 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 ideal society. For some, the dream has turned into a nightmare, a dystopia. This page includes the best of these speculations. Utopia by […]