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| Liber LIX - Across the Gulf |
Liber LIX - Across the Gulf “There fore with faith and confidence do I who was -- in a certain mystical sense -- the Priest of the Princes, Ankh-f-na-khonsu, child of Ta-nech, the holy and mighty one, and of B…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Liber Aleph vel CXI (The BOOK of WISDOM or FOLLY) |
Liber Aleph vel CXI (The BOOK of WISDOM or FOLLY) “Yes, thou in ragged Raiment, with the Staff of Priapus and the Wineskin! thou standest up on the Crocodile, like Hoor-pa-Kraat; and the Great Cat leapeth upon thee! Yea, and more a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Atlantis the Antediluvian World |
Atlantis the Antediluvian World “I give one map showing the profile of this elevation in the frontispiece, and another map, showing the outlines of the submerged land, on page 47. It rises about 9000 feet above th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Book of the Law |
The Book of the Law “42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know &destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my se…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| SEPHER YETZIRAH |
SEPHER YETZIRAH “The Eighteenth Path is called the Intelligence or House of Influence (by the greatness of whose abundance the influx of good things upon created beings is increased), and from its …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Story of Atlantis |
The Story of Atlantis “The place of origin of the Tlavatli or 2nd sub-race was an island off the west coast of Atlantis. The spot is marked on the 1st map with the figure 2. Thence they spread into Atlan…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Golden Chain of Homer |
The Golden Chain of Homer “This Chaotic Waters are commonly called Dew, Rain, Showers, Hail, Snow: But really and truly it is the true regenerated Chaos, the genuine spirit and Anima Mundi animates it, who g…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Nightmare Tales |
Nightmare Tales “One day an arrogant and boisterous enemy threatens the father's kingdom, and the savage instincts of the warrior of old awaken in the Soul-Ego. It leaves its dreamland amid the blo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Writings of Nostradamus |
Writings of Nostradamus “After that five will not put out the flock, /A fugitive for Penelon he will turn loose: /To murmur falsely then help to come, /The chief will then abandon the siege.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King |
An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King “Whoever wishes to possess this secret Golden Fleece, which has virtue to transmute metals into gold, should know that our Stone is nothing but gold digested to the highest degree o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Book of Enoch |
The Book of Enoch “Then said I: 'For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely filled with trees, and this 2 accursed valley between?' Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, an…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Corpus Hermetica |
The Corpus Hermetica “99. And learn this of me: Above all other virtues entertain Silence, and impart unto no man, O Son, the tradition of Regeneration, lest we be reputed Calumniators; For we both have…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Twelve Keys |
Twelve Keys “All flesh that is derived from the earth, must be decomposed and again reduced to earth; then the earthy salt produces a new generation by celestial resuscitation. For where there …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Anatomy of the Body of God |
The Anatomy of the Body of God “We should remember that just as the Soul is the link between Body and Spirit, so is the Sun between Earth and Heaven, and the Great Central Sun between the Two Infinites. This Link…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum |
The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum “Listen to the words of Solomon which he spake to his son Rehoboam: "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, but the end of wisdom is the knowledge and love of Him who is the So…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Secret Book of Artephius |
The Secret Book of Artephius “Gather this with a spoon or feather dipping it in; and in doing so often times a day until nothing more arises; evaporate the water with a gentle heat, i.e., the superfluous humidi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Corpus Hermeticum |
The Corpus Hermeticum “This would be the version translated by Blavatsky enthusiast G.R.S. Mead. Hopefully, nobody was stuck in the middle of an alchemy session waiting for vital details the other versio…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Book of the Damned |
The Book of the Damned “It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Planet Mars &Its Inhabitants |
The Planet Mars &Its Inhabitants “That is, some particular parts of the planet, owing to climatic and other conditions, are better adapted for the production of some special kind of raw material used in the manufac…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Roswell Testimony |
Roswell Testimony “On July 3, 1947, William "Mac" Brazel (rhymes with "frazzle") and his 7-year-old neighbor Dee Proctor found the remains of the crashed flying saucer. Brazel was foreman of the Fost…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Vital Message |
The Vital Message “The physical basis of all psychic belief is that the soul is a complete duplicate of the body, resembling it in the smallest particular, although constructed in some far more tenuo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The New Revelation — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
The New Revelation “Now, leaving this large and possibly contentious subject of the modifications which such new revelations must produce in Christianity, let us try to follow what occurs to man after…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| A Daughter of Lilith and a Daughter of Eve — Kate Buffington Davis |
A Daughter of Lilith and a Daughter of Eve “It is just three months since Cleopatra Tarrasal experimented with her force as a hypnotizer. If her power over her subject extended to the suggestion a echeance, to-night, in this…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Man from Atlantis — Alice H. Sill |
The Man from Atlantis “"Man is much older than your scientific men credit him; he came into existence during the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic age, and was the contemporary of those huge animals that r…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| THEOSOPHY — Lafcadio Hearn |
THEOSOPHY “Yet their philosophy is not without some sound foundation; and they have constructed quite a remarkable range of scientific buttresses to brace up the slender structures of Alchemi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| THE LAST OF THE VOUDOOS — Lafcadio Hearn |
THE LAST OF THE VOUDOOS “About his person he always carried two small bones wrapped around with a black string, which bones he really appeared to revere as fetiches. Wax candles were burned during his perf…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| ARADIA, or the Gospel of the Witches — Charles G. Leland |
ARADIA, or the Gospel of the Witches “And when Diana saw that the light was so beautiful, the light which was her other half, her brother Lucifer, she yearned for it with exceeding great desire. Wishing to receive the …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| THE GOD OF THE WITCHES — MARGARET ALICE MURRAY |
THE GOD OF THE WITCHES “The form for the admission of infants is best recorded in France. The mother took her young child to one of the great quarterly Sabbaths, and kneeling before the Incarnate God she …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Malleus Maleficarum |
Malleus Maleficarum “And the power of God is stronger than the power of the devil, so divine works are more true than demoniac operations. Whence inasmuch as evil is powerful in the world, then it must…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Witch Cult in Western Europe — Margaret Alice Murray |
The Witch Cult in Western Europe “IT is impossible to understand the witch-cult without first understanding the position of the chief personage of that cult. He was known to the contemporary Christian judges and re…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Poem of Hashish — Charles Baudelaire |
The Poem of Hashish “In the intoxication of hashish there is nothing like this. We shall not go outside the class of natural dream. The drunkenness, throughout its duration, it is true, will be nothing…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Psychology of Hashish — Oliver Haddo |
The Psychology of Hashish “In writing my notes on one occasion I found that my right arm (which of course is not in the line of vision at all, normally) was many thousands of miles in extent. It was strange …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Miscellanies upon Various Subjects — John Aubrey |
Miscellanies upon Various Subjects “Mr. Ashmole told me, that a woman made use of a spell to cure an ague, by the advice of Dr. Nepier; a minister came to her, and severely repremanded her, for making use of a diabol…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES — SABINE BARING-GOULD |
THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES “This strange series of sermons was preached at Strasbourg in the year 1508, and was taken down and written out by a barefooted friar, Johann Pauli, and by him published in 1517. Th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Light of Egypt, V II — Henry O. Wagner/Belle M. Wagner/Thomas H. Burgoyne |
Light of Egypt, V II “In this aspect the visible cosmos may be represented as a kaleidoscope. The visible constellations, planets, and other heavenly bodies, are the bits of colored glass; and Deity the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel — Ignatius Donnelly |
Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel “In the first place, there was no cause assigned for these waves, which must have been great enough to have swept over the tops of high mountains, for the evidences of the Drift age…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Mars — Percival Lowell |
Mars “On the other hand, their length is usually great, and in some cases enormous. A thousand or fifteen hundred miles may be considered about the average. The Ganges, for example, whic…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Emerald Tablet of Hermes — Multiple Translations |
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes “And things have been from this primal substance through a single act. How wonderful is this work! It is the main (principle) of the world and is its maintainer.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| THEORY of the EARTH — JAMES HUTTON |
THEORY of the EARTH “WE have found, that there is not in this globe (as a planet revolving in the solar system) any power or motion adapted to the purpose now in view; nor, were there such a power, cou…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Ghosts — Robert Green Ingersoll |
The Ghosts “For thousands of years it was believed that ghosts, good and bad, benevolent and malignant, weak and powerful, in some mysterious way, produced all phenomena; that disease and heal…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Superstition — Robert Ingersoll |
Superstition “There were centuries of darkness when religion had control of Christendom. Superstition was almost universal. Not one in twenty thousand could read or write. During these centuries…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Etheric Vision and What It Reveals |
Etheric Vision and What It Reveals “Many persons who have developed a small degree of etheric sight have expressed astonishment when first beholding showers of stars, pyramids, double pyramids, cubes and other geomet…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Kybalion |
The Kybalion “Some confusion has arisen in the minds of persons considering this Principle, from the fact that they were unable to explain how one thing could cause another thing-that is, be the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Rosicrucian Principles of Child Training — Max Heindel |
The Rosicrucian Principles of Child Training “In order to compensate for this lack the Ego is then usually brought to birth among the same friends who lamented over it, and is taken from them while yet in the years of childhoo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Outcast — Winwood Reade |
The Outcast “But I was a clergyman. I was the priest of what I now believed to be a pagan religion, and received money to teach what I knew to be false. I felt it incumbent upon me at once to l…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Teachings of an Initiate — Max Heindel |
Teachings of an Initiate “We find that these "stones" for the "temple made without hands" undergo an evolution or process of preparation. There is first the "petros," the diamond in the rough, so to speak, …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Natural Law in the Spiritual World — HENRY DRUMMOND |
Natural Law in the Spiritual World “What then determines the difference between different animals? What makes one little speck of protoplasm grow into Newton's dog Diamond, and another, exactly the same, into Newton …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| AE In The Irish Theosophist |
AE In The Irish Theosophist “Drawing aside a heavy curtain, Liban entered her sister's room. They saw Fand seated at a little table. A scroll lay on it open before her, but her eyes were not fixed on it. With …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Rosa Alchemica — W. B. Yeats |
Rosa Alchemica “All those forms: that Madonna with her brooding purity, those rapturous faces singing in the morning light, those bronze divinities with their passionless dignity, those wild shape…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Flying Saucers are Real — Donald Keyhoe |
The Flying Saucers are Real “If a leaking balloon had come down to one thousand feet at Fargo, it would either have remained at that height or kept on descending. The mystery light was observed at this altitud…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| KABBALA DENUDATA: THE KABBALAH UNVEILED |
KABBALA DENUDATA: THE KABBALAH UNVEILED “426. "Therefore do not then all things depend from the influx? Also we have learned that the Book of the Law must be holy, and its covering holy, and the Temple holy. 427. "Also it…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| God and my Neighbour — Robert Blatchford |
God and my Neighbour “I was not perverted by an Infidel book. I had not read one when I wavered first in my allegiance to the orthodoxies. I was set doubting by a religious book written to prove the "Ve…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| A Dweller on Two Planets — Phylos (Frederick S. Oliver) |
A Dweller on Two Planets “So long did I defer action in the case of Lolix that I came to fear to take any course except to let events order their own settlement. Yea, I lost confidence in my ability to solv…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| The Secret Common-Wealth — Robert Kirk |
The Secret Common-Wealth “8. Their weapons are most-what solid earthy bodies, nothing of iron, but much of a Stone like to yellow soft flint shaped like a Barbed arrow head, but flung as a dart with great f…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Lives of the Necromancers — William Godwin |
Lives of the Necromancers “Full title: LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS: OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS IN SUCCESSIVE AGES, WHO HAVE CLAIMED FOR THEMSELVES, OR TO WHOM HAS BEEN IMPUTED BY OTHERS, THE EXE…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents — William Beckford |
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents “August 4th.--The heats were so excessive in the night, that I thought myself several times on the point of suffocation, tossed about like a wounded fish, and dreamt of the devil an…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 — George Lincoln Burr |
Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 “I. Susanna Martin, pleading Not Guilty to the Indictment of Witchcraft brought in against her, there were produced the evidences of many persons very sensibly and grievously Bewitc…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| LES NOCES CHIMIQUES DE CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ — CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ |
LES NOCES CHIMIQUES DE CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ “La corde nous fut tendue une seconde fois; mais beaucoup parmi nous avaient des chaînes trop lourdes et des mains trop délicates pour y rester accrochés, et, en tombant ils en entr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |
| Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft — Walter Scott |
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft “At length, in 1562, a formal statute against sorcery, as penal in itself, was actually passed; but as the penalty was limited to the pillory for the first transgression, the legisl…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive |