Library
Sacred texts and philosophy, organized for reading and comparison.
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1 Machabees
A historical narrative of the Maccabean revolt, the rededication of the Jerusalem temple, and the rise of the Hasmonean dynasty.
2 Machabees
An independent, rhetorically vivid account of the persecution under Antiochus IV and Judas Maccabeus’s struggle to restore the temple.
Apocryphon of John
A revelatory dialogue in which the risen Christ explains the transcendent God, the divine realm, the origin of the world, and humanity’s awakening.
Doctrine and Covenants
A collection of revelations, declarations, and instructions associated with the founding and development of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach)
A wide-ranging Jewish wisdom collection by Ben Sira, joining practical instruction with praise of Torah, creation, worship, and Israel’s ancestors.
Gospel of Peter
A fragmentary passion and resurrection narrative attributed to Peter, notable for its dramatic apologetic and visionary details.
Gospel of Philip
A Valentinian Christian anthology of reflections on sacraments, names, images, union, and spiritual interpretation, traditionally called the Gospel of Philip.
Gospel of Thomas
A Coptic collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, many paralleled in the canonical gospels and others preserved only here.
Gospel of Truth
A lyrical Valentinian homily describing ignorance as a nightmare dispelled by the Father’s revelation through Christ.
Infancy Gospel of Thomas
A collection of stories about the child Jesus, portraying startling power gradually joined to wisdom and social responsibility.
KJV Bible
An influential 1611 English translation of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, celebrated for its literary cadence and enormous impact on Anglophone religion and culture.
Pearl of Great Price
A compact Latter-day Saint collection containing the books of Moses and Abraham, Joseph Smith—Matthew, Joseph Smith—History, and the Articles of Faith.
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)
A composite Jewish apocalyptic work attributed to Enoch, preserved complete in Geʿez and deeply influential on early Jewish and Christian imagination.
The Book of Mormon
A foundational scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement, presented as an ancient record of peoples in the Americas and centered on Jesus Christ.
The Books of Jeu
Fragmentary Coptic revelatory and ritual texts from the Bruce Codex, traditionally divided into two books and centered on heavenly treasuries, seals, baptisms, and the soul’s ascent.
The Koran
The central scripture of Islam, arranged in 114 surahs and understood by Muslims as revelation given in Arabic to the Prophet Muhammad.
Tobias (Tobit)
A Jewish diaspora tale in which piety, family loyalty, healing, and the guidance of the angel Raphael converge across two households.
Wisdom of Solomon
A Hellenistic Jewish meditation on divine Wisdom, righteousness, immortality, and God’s guidance of Israel’s history.
Dhammapada
A Buddhist anthology of concise verses on mind, conduct, wisdom, and the path beyond suffering, arranged in thematic chapters.
Diamond Sutra
A Mahayana Buddhist dialogue challenging fixed ideas of self, attainment, and the act of giving, translated from Kumarajiva’s Chinese version.
Confucian Analects
A layered record of sayings and encounters associated with Confucius and his disciples, focused on ethical formation and humane social order.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius’s private reflections on character, impermanence, duty, and life in a shared cosmos. A work of Stoic philosophy.
Metaphysics
Aristotle’s investigation of being, substance, cause, change, and first principles, assembled from related philosophical treatises.
Phaedrus
A Platonic dialogue on love, rhetoric, the soul, memory, and the strengths and limits of writing.
The Republic
A dialogue on justice in the person and the city, education, political order, knowledge, and the philosopher’s responsibility.
Atharva Veda — selected hymns
A diverse Vedic collection of hymns, prayers, charms, royal rites, healing formulas, and speculative poetry.
Bhagavad-Gita
A dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna within the Mahabharata, exploring action, knowledge, devotion, discipline, and the vision of divine reality.
Black Yajur Veda
Collections of sacrificial formulas and explanatory prose used by officiating priests to perform and interpret Vedic ritual.
Rig Veda
The oldest Vedic collection, preserving hymns to deities and cosmic powers used in early Indo-Aryan ritual and poetic speculation.
Sama Veda
A liturgical Veda arranging verses—mostly drawn from the Rig Veda—for melodic performance in Soma sacrifice.
The Upanishads
Speculative and contemplative texts examining self, ultimate reality, ritual, death, knowledge, and liberation at the culmination of Vedic literature.
Yoga Sutras
Patanjali’s aphorisms on attention, practice, and liberation, in Charles Johnston’s 1912 interpretation.
Tao Te Ching
A compact Chinese classic of poetic sayings on the Dao, naturalness, non-coercive action, simplicity, and political restraint.
Selections from the Zend-Avesta
A collection of Zoroastrian sacred texts preserved in Avestan, including liturgy, hymns, law, mythology, and prayers.