Earth's Sacred Texts

A collection of funerary spells, hymns, and prayers intended to guide the deceased through the underworld and secure their resurrection, including the famous Negative Confession before the judges of the dead. Presents E. A. Wallis Budge's 1895 translation of the Papyrus of Ani.

The Mesopotamian epic of the king of Uruk's quest for immortality after the death of his companion Enkidu, including a Babylonian flood narrative that parallels the biblical story of Noah. Presents R. Campbell Thompson's 1928 translation across all twelve tablets.

The Babylonian creation epic, recounting the primordial conflict among the gods and the rise of Marduk to kingship after his defeat of the chaos-goddess Tiamat. Presents L.W. King's 1902 translation across all seven tablets.

The central book of laws written by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Presents the complete authorized 1992 English translation (Universal House of Justice / Bahá'í World Centre), including the Questions and Answers appendix.

A mystical text outlining the journey of the soul through seven stages to reach its ultimate goal.

Meaning "Three Baskets," the foundational collection of Buddhist scriptures prominent in Theravada Buddhism, divided into discourses of the Buddha (Sutta), rules for monks and nuns (Vinaya), and philosophical analysis (Abhidhamma) -- the latter two are presented separately below as Vinaya Texts and the Compendium of Philosophy. This entry presents the Sutta Pitaka: the complete Dhammapada, the complete Digha Nikaya and Majjhima Nikaya, and a substantial selection from the Samyutta and Anguttara Nikayas, in Bhikkhu Sujato's translation (SuttaCentral, CC0) plus 19th-century selections -- not the full Sutta Pitaka, which runs to many millions of words.

The actual monastic disciplinary code of the Sangha -- the Patimokkha (the rules recited fortnightly by monks), the Mahavagga, and the Kullavagga -- covering ordination, communal life, and procedures for settling disputes. Presents the complete text in T.W. Rhys Davids's and Hermann Oldenberg's 1881-85 translation (Sacred Books of the East).

The classical Theravada manual of Abhidhamma (systematic Buddhist philosophy/psychology), covering consciousness, mental properties, matter, causal relations, and the stations of meditative practice across nine compendiums. Presents Shwe Zan Aung's 1910 translation, edited by Caroline Rhys Davids (Pali Text Society).

A philosophical dialogue between the Indo-Greek king Menander (Milinda) and the Buddhist monk Nagasena, using similes and reasoned argument to resolve apparent contradictions in Buddhist doctrine. Presents the complete text in T.W. Rhys Davids's 1890/1894 translation (Sacred Books of the East).

A verse biography of the Buddha by the poet Asvaghosha, from his birth and youth in the palace through the great renunciation, enlightenment, and early teaching. Presents the complete surviving 17 books in E.B. Cowell's 1894 translation (Sacred Books of the East).

A collection of 547 birth-story fables illustrating the Buddha's past lives across the animal, human, and divine realms, each teaching a moral through allegory. Presents the complete work across all six volumes, in the E.B. Cowell-edited 1895-1913 translation.

A broad collection of teachings central to Mahayana Buddhism. Presents the complete Diamond Sutra, Heart Sutra, and Lotus Sutra in 19th-century Sacred Books of the East translations.

The three core scriptures of Pure Land Buddhism, describing the Buddha Amitabha and his paradise Sukhavati, the vows and practices that lead to rebirth there, and the meditations for visualizing it. Presents the Larger and Smaller Sukhavati-vyuha in F. Max Muller's translation and the Amitayur-Dhyana-Sutra in J. Takakusu's translation (Sacred Books of the East, 1894).

A concise, foundational Mahayana treatise traditionally attributed to Ashvaghosha, laying out the doctrine of Suchness (Buddha-nature) and the practice of faith across five short chapters. Presents D.T. Suzuki's 1900 translation -- his first published translation.

The autobiography and teachings of Hui-Neng, the illiterate woodcutter who became the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, covering his enlightenment, his teaching on Prajna and sudden enlightenment, and his final instructions before death. Presents Wong Mou-lam's 1930 translation as edited and abridged by Dwight Goddard for A Buddhist Bible (1932) -- a readable rather than strictly literal rendering, and (unlike most texts on this site) of genuinely uncertain public-domain status given its 1930 Shanghai publication.

The classic collection of 48 Zen koans compiled by the Chinese master Wu-men (Mumon) in 1228, each paired with his commentary and verse, plus a 49th koan added by a later commentator. Presents Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps's 1934 translation.

The hagiography and teachings of Milarepa, Tibet's most revered yogi and poet-saint, from his troubled youth and mastery of black magic through his renunciation, solitary meditation, and enlightenment under the guru Marpa. Presents Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's translation (the same translator as this site's Tibetan Book of the Dead), edited by W.Y. Evans-Wentz (1928).

A text from the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism intended to guide consciousness through the intermediate state (bardo) between death and rebirth. Presents Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's translation as compiled and edited by W.Y. Evans-Wentz (1927).

The central religious text, divided into the Old Testament, which shares its foundation with the Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament, which focuses on the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the early Christian church.

A collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, part of the 1945 Nag Hammadi find and heavily favored by Gnostic scholars for its emphasis on inward spiritual enlightenment over physical resurrection -- excluded from the New Testament canon. Presents Thomas O. Lambdin's translation (from James M. Robinson's The Nag Hammadi Library in English).

A fragmentary Gnostic text, several pages of which are lost, portraying Mary Magdalene as a spiritual leader receiving private teachings from Jesus -- excluded from the New Testament canon. Presents the George W. MacRae and R. McL. Wilson translation, with the manuscript's gaps noted rather than smoothed over.

A Gnostic text, from the separate Codex Tchacos manuscript, that reinterprets Judas Iscariot not as a traitor but as the disciple who alone understood Jesus's mission -- excluded from the New Testament canon. Presents Mark M. Mattison's translation from the Coptic, explicitly released to the public domain.

A collection of Gnostic codices discovered in Egypt in 1945, outlining a dualistic cosmology with a lesser creator deity (the Demiurge) -- excluded from the New Testament canon. Presents eight tractates -- including the Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Truth, and the Gospel of Philip -- from James M. Robinson's The Nag Hammadi Library in English (the Gospel of Thomas is listed separately above).

A modern narrative biography of Jesus of Nazareth, written for this site rather than translated from an ancient source. Drawing on the Gospels, Josephus, Roman and Jewish primary sources, and current historical scholarship, it reconstructs the world of first-century Galilee and Judea -- the village economy, the Roman occupation, the movement Jesus gathered, and the week that ended in his execution -- while carefully distinguishing what the evidence supports from where it runs out. Illustrated throughout with historical maps and plans of Galilee, Jerusalem, and the Temple precinct.

A modern narrative biography of Paul of Tarsus, written for this site rather than translated from an ancient source, drawing primarily on Paul's own letters -- with the Acts of the Apostles read second and more cautiously where the two disagree -- alongside current historical scholarship. Presents Paul as a Jew who never converted away from Judaism, whose crisis at Damascus was a call rather than a guilt-driven reversal, and whose churches were substantially run by women. Illustrated throughout with period maps of Paul's missionary journeys and photographs of Tarsus, Corinth, Ephesus, Philippi, and Jerusalem.

A collection of sayings and ideas attributed to Confucius and his disciples, organized into 20 books, covering ethics, government, ritual propriety, and the cultivation of the 'superior man.' Presents the complete text in James Legge's 1893 translation (The Chinese Classics).

A short foundational Confucian text on the connection between self-cultivation, family order, and good government, traditionally read as the first of the Four Books. Presents James Legge's translation (Sacred Books of the East, from the Li Ki).

A short Confucian text, traditionally attributed to Confucius's grandson Zisi, on sincerity, moral balance, and the harmony between human nature and the cosmic order. Presents James Legge's translation (Sacred Books of the East, from the Li Ki).

The teachings of Mencius, the most influential Confucian philosopher after Confucius himself, on innate human goodness, benevolent government, and the duties of rulers, recorded in dialogues across seven books. Presents the complete text in James Legge's 1895 translation (The Chinese Classics).

The most influential grimoire of European ceremonial magic, covering the days and planetary hours for magical operations, conjurations, and the construction of pentacles and magical tools. Presents S.L. MacGregor Mathers's 1889 translation from British Museum manuscripts.

The first book of the Lemegeton, focused on the seventy-two spirits said to have been bound by King Solomon: their seals, ranks, and the rituals for summoning and commanding them. Presents S.L. MacGregor Mathers's and Aleister Crowley's 1904 translation.

A magical treatise framed as the teachings of the sage Abramelin, given to Abraham of Worms in 1458: a path of purification and prayer culminating in one's Holy Guardian Angel, followed by lists of spirits and their magic squares. Presents the complete three books in S.L. MacGregor Mathers's 1900 translation.

A compendium of natural, celestial, and ceremonial magic compiled from earlier sources including Agrippa and Trithemius, covering amulets, alchemy, talismans, and the invocation of spirits. Presents Francis Barrett's complete 1801 text in three books.

A German-American folk grimoire attributing magical seals, conjurations, and citations of spirits to Moses and Aaron, widely circulated in 19th-century Pennsylvania Dutch and hoodoo traditions. Presents the 1849 German original in its 1880 English translation.

A collection of folk charms, remedies, and protective formulas from the Pennsylvania Dutch "Pow-wow" healing tradition, for ailments in people and livestock alike. Presents John George Hohman's 1820 text.

A scholarly survey and compilation of Western ceremonial magic, covering the literature of magical ritual and reproducing extensive material from grimoires including the Grimorium Verum, the Grand Grimoire, and the Black Pullet. Presents A.E. Waite's complete 1911/1913 text.

The most infamous of the medieval witch-hunt manuals, laying out theological argument for the reality of witchcraft alongside inquisitorial procedure for identifying, interrogating, and sentencing accused witches. Presents the complete text -- introduction and all three parts -- in Montague Summers's 1928 translation.

King James I's 1597 Socratic dialogue on witchcraft, necromancy, possession, and spirits, paired with Newes from Scotland (1591), a contemporary account of the North Berwick witch trials that helped prompt it. Presents both texts complete, transcribed letter for letter without modernized spelling.

A purported gospel of Italian folk witchcraft centered on the goddess Diana and her daughter Aradia, compiled by folklorist Charles G. Leland from material given to him by a Florentine fortune-teller. Its authenticity as a genuine surviving tradition is disputed by scholars, but the 1899 publication itself profoundly shaped the emergence of modern neo-Paganism.

Reginald Scot's 1584 argument against the witch-hunts of his day, written to debunk claims of witches' supernatural power -- and in doing so, preserving a wealth of contemporary conjuring tricks, charms, and grimoire material as the very deceptions he set out to expose. Presents the complete 16 Books of the original work, in this 1886 Brinsley Nicholson edition.

Éliphas Lévi's influential 19th-century synthesis of Kabbalah, ceremonial magic, and Hermeticism, organized as a Doctrine (theory) and a Ritual (practice) of 22 chapters each. Presents the complete work in A. E. Waite's 1896 translation.

The central liturgical and ritual text of Gerald Gardner's Wicca -- rites of initiation, seasonal Sabbats, tools, and ethics. Gardner presented it as an ancient witch-cult's surviving tradition, but scholars have concluded he composed it himself in the mid-20th century, drawing on sources from Aleister Crowley to the KJV Bible; no single "official" version exists, as covens traditionally hand-copy and adapt their own. Presents Aidan A. Kelly's compilation of material circulated online in the mid-1990s, arranged in estimated chronological order (1949-1961). Still under copyright (Gardner d. 1964), included here as a documented exception to this site's usual sourcing standard.

A single-volume treatment of astral magic in the Hermetic-Arabic tradition: the celestial hierarchy, the making and consecration of talismans, the properties and images of the planets and zodiac signs, and the prayers and rites used to attract their powers. Organized, like the historical work it draws its name and subject from, into four books.

Two foundational texts of Western Hermeticism. The Emerald Tablet -- a short, cryptic alchemical maxim ("as above, so below") attributed to Hermes Trismegistus -- is presented here through its history and roughly a dozen historical translations side by side. The Kybalion (1908) systematizes Hermetic philosophy into Seven Principles (Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, Gender), as compiled by the pseudonymous "Three Initiates."

The oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the most authoritative texts in Hinduism. Presents all four complete Vedas -- Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharva -- in Ralph T.H. Griffith's 1890s translations.

The later portions of the Vedas, focusing on philosophy, meditation, and the nature of ultimate reality (Brahman) and the self (Atman). Presents the twelve principal Upanishads in Max Müller's translation (Sacred Books of the East, 1879/1884).

A 700-verse scripture from the Mahabharata, taking the form of a dialogue between the warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty, righteousness, and spiritual liberation.

A foundational Hindu dharma text of law, ethics, and social duty, covering cosmology and creation, the duties of the four varnas and four life-stages, kingship and justice, and rules of conduct, purification, and penance. Presents the complete text -- all 12 chapters -- in Georg Bühler's 1886 translation (Sacred Books of the East).

A foundational text of the Yoga school of Hindu philosophy, presented in four books: spiritual consciousness, the means of soul growth, spiritual powers, and liberation. Presents Charles Johnston's 1912 translation of all 194 sutras.

A wide-ranging introduction to the traditional religions of the African continent: cosmology and the nature of God, divinities, spirits and ancestor veneration, ritual and sacred art, religious specialists, and the continent's encounters with Christianity and Islam. Illustrated with photographs of an Ifá divination tray, a Yoruba Gelede mask, and a Kongo nkisi power figure.

A guide to Native American spiritual teachings organized around the Sacred Hoop: the Great Mystery, the interconnection of all life, sacred ceremonies such as the vision quest and the sweat lodge, and the relationship between the land, the seasons, and the soul.

An exploration of Celtic spiritual wisdom -- the living world, the inner life of solitude and courage, work and creativity as sacred acts, and the soul's journey toward the Otherworld -- framed around the Celtic sense of anam cara, the friendship of the soul.

A gathering of Celtic oral tradition and modern Celtic spirituality: triads of the Gael, proverbs and sayings, a memoir-style guide to the "Mist-Filled Path" of Celtic animism and Celtic-Christian mysticism, and a first-person account of contact with the Sidhe and the six exercises said to have come from it.

A real medieval collection of Old Norse mythological and heroic poems -- the primary source for most of what is known of pre-Christian Norse religion, including Völuspá's account of creation and Ragnarok and Hávamál's proverbs of Odin. Presents 39 poems in Benjamin Thorpe's 1866 translation.

Snorri Sturluson's 13th-century prose handbook of Norse mythology, written to preserve the old tales for skaldic poets. Presents the Gylfaginning ("The Deluding of Gylfi") and part of the Skáldskaparmál in I. A. Blackwell's 1866 translation.

The sacred narrative of the Kʼicheʼ Maya: the creation of the world and of humankind, and the adventures of the Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque against the lords of the underworld, Xibalba. Presents Lewis Spence's 1908 English-language account of the four books -- not a line-by-line translation (none existed in English at the time), but a synopsis following the original narrative closely.

The teachings of the Seneca prophet Handsome Lake (Ganio'dai'io'), still followed today in the Iroquois Longhouse religion: the traditional account of how four heavenly messengers gave him the Great Message, followed by the message itself across 130 sections on temperance, family duty, and right living. Presents Arthur C. Parker's 1912 translation and compilation (New York State Museum Bulletin 163).

126 sacred narratives recorded directly from Cherokee sources: cosmogonic myths of how the world and death entered it, animal and bird myths explaining the natural world, wonder stories of monsters and spirit-folk, and historical traditions. Presents James Mooney's 1900 collection (Bureau of American Ethnology).

The Hawaiian creation chant, tracing the cosmos from primordial darkness through the emergence of sea life, plants, animals, and humanity, culminating in a genealogy linking the chant's royal patrons to the gods. Presents Queen Liliʻuokalani's own 1897 translation, made while she was held under house arrest at Iolani Palace.

Twenty sacred hymns of the Aztec/Nahua religion, addressed to Huitzilopochtli, Tlaloc, and other deities, preserved in Nahuatl by Bernardino de Sahagún's informants and here given in English for the first time. Presents Daniel G. Brinton's 1890 translation.

Four 16th/17th-century Spanish manuscript accounts of Inca religion: the fables and rites of the Yncas by Cristóbal de Molina, the antiquities of Peru by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-Yamqui Salcamayhua, the idolatries of Huarochirí by Francisco de Ávila, and a report on Inca history and administration by Polo de Ondegardo. Presents the complete text of all four in Clements Markham's 1873 translation (Hakluyt Society).

Sacred and mythological narratives of the Noongahburrah people of Aboriginal Australia, explaining the origins of the sun, moon, stars, and the animal ancestors, collected directly from Aboriginal storytellers. Presents K. Langloh Parker's complete 1896 collection of 31 tales.

Inuit oral tradition from Greenland, collected directly from Inuit storytellers by the Danish-Greenlandic explorer Knud Rasmussen: creation narratives, shamanic journeys to the land of the dead, spirit-helpers and tupilaks, and the taboos governing the relationship between humans, animals, and the unseen world. Presents the complete 1921 collection in W. Worster's translation.

A guide to modern Northern European Heathenry: the historical roots of the pre-Christian Germanic and Norse religions and their revival, the cosmology of the World Tree, the gods and goddesses of the Aesir and Vanir, runic magic and seiðr, and the ethics and communal practice of the tradition today. Illustrated with photographs of Bronze Age rock carvings, the Gundestrup Cauldron, a Mjölnir pendant, and the Elder Futhark runes.

A retelling of Norse mythology and cosmology drawn from the Eddas and sagas: the World Tree Yggdrasil and the nine realms, the gods of Asgard from Odin and Thor to Loki and Baldr, the giants and the dead, and the final battle of Ragnarok.

A comprehensive guide to Norse Pagan belief and practice, covering the cosmos and fate (wyrd), the Aesir and Vanir and the ancestral spirits, ethics for modern life, the ritual year, and the mystical arts of the runes and seidr.

An exploration of the worldview of Viking-age Scandinavia beyond the well-known myths: seiðr sorcery, the Sami-Norse magical frontier, battle-magic, the material culture of the dead, and the fluid boundary the Norse drew between the human, the animal, and the supernatural.

The primary and most sacred text in Islam, believed by Muslims to be the literal, immutable word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over 23 years.

Secondary but highly influential collections of reports documenting the sayings, actions, and approvals of the Prophet Muhammad. Presents Book I ("On Faith") of A.N. Matthews's 1809-1810 translation of Mishkat al-Masabih, plus Stanley Lane-Poole's 1882 Table-Talk anthology -- a modest selection, not the full canonical collections (Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, etc.), whose standard translations are commercially copyrighted.

A Sufi poem by Attar of Nishapur that uses allegory and mystical poetry to describe the soul's journey outside mainstream legalistic theology. Presents Edward FitzGerald's 1889 "Bird Parliament" -- an abridged poetic paraphrase, not a literal translation.

A modern narrative biography of Muhammad ibn Abdullah, written for this site rather than translated from an ancient source, drawing on the Qur'an, the early sira and hadith sources, and current historical scholarship to reconstruct a human life -- the orphan, the merchant, the persecuted preacher, the statesman, the general, and the man who died in his wife's room -- for readers without religious or academic background. Weighs what the sources claim rather than presenting one traditional account as settled fact, and illustrated throughout with historical maps and an early Qur'anic manuscript folio rather than any depiction of the Prophet, in keeping with Islamic aniconic practice.

The original texts based on the teachings of Mahavira, detailing Jain cosmology, philosophy, and the path to spiritual liberation through non-violence (ahimsa). Presents four of the Svetambara canon's roughly 45 Agamas -- the Acaranga Sutra, Kalpa Sutra, Uttaradhyayana Sutra, and Sutrakritanga Sutra -- in Hermann Jacobi's 1884/1895 translations.

The canonical collection of Jewish texts: the Torah (the Five Books of Moses), the Nevi'im (Prophets), and the Ketuvim (Writings, such as Psalms and Proverbs).

A massive, multi-volume compendium of rabbinic debates and commentary on the Torah that forms the basis of Jewish religious law, ethics, and practice. Presents all 37 tractates with Gemara, via Sefaria's William Davidson Talmud (the Koren Talmud Bavli translation, CC BY-NC), plus Avot and Eduyot (which have no Gemara) via Michael L. Rodkinson's 1896-1918 translation.

An ancient Jewish text of fallen angels (the Watchers), heavenly realms, and apocalyptic visions, excluded from the Tanakh and most Christian canons but still part of the Ethiopian Orthodox canon. Presents the complete text -- all 108 chapters -- in R.H. Charles's 1917 translation.

Known as the "Little Genesis," this text retells the events of Genesis and Exodus with additional detail said to have been revealed to Moses by angels -- excluded from the Tanakh. Presents the complete text -- all 50 chapters -- in R.H. Charles's 1902 translation.

A foundational text of Jewish Kabbalah outlining an esoteric creation cosmology through Hebrew letters and numbers, distinct from mainstream rabbinic commentary. Presents Wm. Wynn Westcott's 1887 translation of the short recension, with his appended "Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom."

A modern narrative biography of Moses, written for this site rather than translated from an ancient source, weighing the biblical account against the archaeological and historical record of New Kingdom Egypt and the Exodus for readers with no religious or academic background. Traces the man the text gives us -- birth, flight, the burning bush, the plagues, Sinai, the forty years, and a death outside the promised land -- alongside the evidence for what can and can't be verified, and the story's own long afterlife from Philo and the rabbis to the American civil rights movement. Illustrated throughout with historical maps of Egypt, the Sinai, and the Levant.

A modern comparative-mysticism book arguing for a shared mystical core beneath the world's spiritual traditions, in the spirit of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy. Covers the double aspect of the divine, the self and the Ground, purification and the different ways of approach, love and the likeness of saints, and the fruit of the shared core in ordinary life -- drawing on Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Sufi, Jewish, and indigenous sources, with a glossary and thematic reading list appended.

A modern individualist philosophical treatise on self-authored meaning and personal sovereignty in an indifferent cosmos, organized in six parts: the foundations of natural law, the technology of self (belief, emotion, attention), the technology of power (influence, networks, discipline), the domains of sovereignty (body, mind, environment), shadow and reclamation, and the integration of a complete life.

A practical manual for building a twice-daily, mantra-based meditation practice inspired by Transcendental Meditation, for readers without access to the official course: where the practice came from, how it differs from related approaches, step-by-step instructions, and how to live with the practice over time, including common pitfalls and honest caveats.

A five-volume original comparative work reading the world's primary spiritual texts side by side -- the nature of reality and consciousness, the discipline of will, attention, and the heart, ways of knowing, what each tradition uniquely offers, and the questions the traditions genuinely cannot agree on -- alongside a shorter standalone overview essay, honoring the traditions' real differences rather than smoothing them into one doctrine.

The oldest surviving historical records of Japan, containing the mythology surrounding the origins of the Japanese islands, the kami (spirits/deities), and the imperial lineage. Presents the complete Kojiki (Basil Hall Chamberlain, 1919) and the complete Nihon Shoki (W.G. Aston, 1896).

The central religious scripture of Sikhism, revered not merely as a holy book but as the final, sovereign, and eternal living Guru following the lineage of the ten human Gurus. Presents the complete text -- all 1,430 Angs -- in Bhai Sant Singh Khalsa's English translation.

The foundational text attributed to the sage Laozi, focusing on living a life of simplicity, naturalness, and harmony with the "Tao" (the Way).

A compilation of anecdotes, allegories, and fables that illustrate the carefree nature of the ideal Taoist sage.

The foundational scripture of Thelema, received by Aleister Crowley in Cairo in 1904 and organized into three chapters, one for each of the speaking deities Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Presents the complete text as published on sacred-texts.com -- widely distributed for non-commercial reproduction, though O.T.O. asserts a copyright claim over some Thelemic material.

Thelema's central public ritual liturgy, written by Crowley in 1913 and still performed by Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica congregations today. Presents the complete rite in eight parts, from the furnishing of the temple through the consecration and sharing of the elements.

A short A∴A∴ instructional text on equilibrium, self-discipline, and ethical conduct as the necessary foundation for magical work.

Crowley's practical training manual for the A∴A∴, covering the recording of magical experiments, physical clairvoyance, posture (asana), breath control (pranayama), and control of thought (dharana), closing with a reading list for further study.

The primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, containing hymns (the Gathas, attributed to Zoroaster himself), laws, and rituals. Presents the Vendidad, Yasna, Visperad, Yasts, Sirozahs, and Nyayis in James Darmesteter's and L.H. Mills's 1880s Sacred Books of the East translations.