The Talmud – Complete SEDER ZERAI’M

Here is the first eleven tractates of the Jewish Mishnah our first part of the Jerusalem Talmud, the SEDER ZERAI’M. This section of the Mishnah was written by the rabbis to inform all Jews what must be done to fulfil their biblical obligations of prayer and commandments about food. Of all the Tractates in Seder [...]

Seeing Through – Guide to Insight Meditation

This is Bhikkhu K. Nananandas Guide to Insight Meditaiton – Seeing Through. From the intro: “Insight meditation paves the way to that penetrative wisdom which delivers the mind from bondage to Sarilsiira. This bondage often baffles the thinker because there is a ‘catch’ in the tools he has to take up to break it. Percepts [...]

Fundamentals of Buddhism by Dr. Peter D. Santina

This 136 pages work by Dr. Peter D. Santina covers the basic Buddhist teaching over a series of twelve lectures. Among them are the life of the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, Karma, rebirth, dependent origination, the three universal characteristics and finally the five aggregates. – Good introduction to the basics [...]

THE BUDDHA’S DOCTRINE OF ANATTA

This is a comparative study of the concepts of ‘self’ and ‘non-self’ in Buddhism, Hinduism and Western Philosophy by Buddhadasa Bikku. It extensively describes the Buddha’s principle of not -self and contrasts it with those in other doctrines, for example, the Six Teachers’ wrong views, the viewpoints of the Vedanta and the Bhagavadglta of Hinduism, [...]

Works of Thomas Vaughan

THOMAS VAUGHAN is the most interesting figure in Hermetic literature of the seventeenth century in England.Vaughan was unusual amongst alchemists  of the time in that he worked closely with his wife Rebecca Vaughan, and valued and even saw as essential, their joint work. Thomas was a member of the famous Society of Unknown Philosophers. He [...]

Bhagavad Gita – three modern translations

Three English versions of the Bhagavad Gita, the greatest devotional book of Hinduism. It has long been recognized as one of the world’s most important spiritual classics and a Hindu guide to all on the path of Truth. The Bhagavad Gita is sometimes known as the Song of the Lord or the Gospel of the [...]

St. John’s Passion – 60 Eternity Daily Bible Studies

Introduction to St. John’s Passion: John chapters 12-21. 60 Eternity Daily Bible Studies by  John Edmiston. Download the book here (123 pages): St. John Passion – a Bible Study

The Eightfold Path for the Householder

These meditation instructions are aimed at the householder. Each part of the Eightfold Path is explained in a separate chapter. The tone of the teaching is contemporary and non-technical. The universality and relevance of the Buddha’s teaching are illustrated by numerous quotations from more recent luminaries. Download it here (488 KB/143 pages): The Eightfold Path [...]

Introductory Concepts of Kabbalah

Kabbalah can be translated from the Hebrew as “received tradition”, and is a term applied to a vast and seemingly disparate body of esoteric knowledge and practice. It is used to describe Jewish mysticism in general, or more specifically the tradition which found its impetus in the Sefer ha-Zohar (“The Book of Splendor”) of the [...]

Be Still, It Is The Wind That Sings

Be Still, It Is The Wind That Sings is a collection of works by Arthur Osborne. In these texts (467 pages) you will find a selection of his poems and thoughts about Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Christianity. From the poem “The Sleeping Beauty” “A pretty children’s tale is found Of how a lady slept spell-bound [...]

The Hermetical Triumph: or, The Victorious Philosophical Stone

The Hermetical Triumph: or, The Victorious Philosophical Stone. A Treatise more compleat and more intelligible than any has been yet, concerning The Hermetical Magistery. London 1723. An English translation of Limojon de Saint Didier’s ‘Le triomphe hermétique’. which comprised Didier’s French translation of a Latin version of the German work ‘Uralter-Ritter-Krieg’, with his commentary : [...]

Buddhisms Noble Eightfold Path

The essence of the Buddha’s teaching can be summed up in two principles: the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. The first covers the side of doctrine, and the primary response it elicits is understanding; the second covers the side of discipline, in the broadest sense of that word, and the primary response [...]

Now is the Knowing

The Buddha said that the greatest gift if the gift of Dhamma. This book represents the wish of some of those fortunate enough to have received Dhamma teachings from Venerable Ajahn Sumedho to share them with others. Download here (148 KB): Now is the Knowing

Data integrity patterns of the Torah

In this text: Data Integrity Patterns of the Torah, Author Kevin Acre presents numerous intriguing types of evidence that the total number of letters in each of the books of the Torah are exactly what they originally were. This could support the belief that the Torah has been copied virtually without error down through dozens [...]

RIG VEDA

Rig Veda or ‘Rigveda’ means praise/verse of knowledge. It is counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas. The others are: Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda. The Rig Veda is the oldest of them and it consists of 1,028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10,600 verses in all, organized [...]