The Autobiography of St. Ignatius
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius is considered by the Société des Bollandistes the most valuable record of the great Founder of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, also known as Ignatius of Loyola. The editors of the Stimmen Aus Maria Laach, the German review, as well as those of the English magazine, The Month, tell […]
The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche in English as PDF
The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche. I am proud to present this collection gathered from various sources. The books are cleaned and processed so all scans consist of clear, searchable text and some empty pages have been removed for faster downloads. These 18 volumes are the complete writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, the 18’th volume being […]
The Book of Jasher
The Book of Jasher is also known as the Book of the Just Man or the Book of the Upright and it is one of the non-canonical books referenced in the Bible. It is mentioned in the Bible the following places in Joshua 10:13: “And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed,until the people had […]
Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church
Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church is an immense work in 14 volumes of early christian writings. It complements the series on the Ante-Nicene Fathers, we also have here on holybooks.com. Together the writings outline the progress of Christianity through the life and works of the very early christian scholars and thinkers that led to […]
Asimov’s Guide to the Bible
Asimov’s Guide to the Bible is a huge classic companion to reading the Bible. In this version, the two volumes have been compiled in a single. Asimov’s Guide to the Bible features a number of maps and it goes through the books of the Bible in the order of the benchmark bible the King James Version and explains […]
The Book of Soyga
The Book of Soyga also known as Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor or Soyga: the book that kills was written in the 16th-century and apparently lost until it was found at the British Library in 1994. The work consists of several books Liber Aldaraia, Liber Radiorum, and Liber decimus septimus and a number of minor books. Together they form a […]
Rohonc Codex
The Rohonc Codex is a illustrated, handwritten manuscript in some ways similar to the The Voynich Manuscript and other mysterious, encoded texts from the European Middle Ages. Not a single word has been decoded from the Rohonc Codex, though many have tried. Year-long studies have been made and experts in encryption have worked on the case. What […]
Compendium Rarissimum
Compendium Rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per Celeberrimos Artis Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tengere – is the complete title of this obscure work, it translates to something like: “A rare summary of the entire Magical Art by the most famous Masters of this Art”. Despite the year mentioned in the title, scholars suggest that […]
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient manuscript more than 3.000 years old. It was carved in 12 tablets by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia. More of the stories in Gilgamesh have close relationship to the Christian Bible. For example the Garden of Eden and Noah´s Flood seems to derive from the Epic of Gilgamesh. It […]
Ten Teachings for one World
Ten Teachings for one World, with the subtitle Wisdom from Mother Mary is written by Gina Lake but the words are directly channeled by the spiritual being introducing herself as Mother Mary. During 2013 they had a number of conversations and the result is this ten chapter book. From the preface: I am Mother Mary, and […]
Cultivating Inner Peace
Cultivating Inner Peace was written to animate in readers a myth of possibility, to inspire through captivating biographical images, to evoke sympathetic realignment rather than to convince. The people whose stories are told in this books do not represent spiritual homogeneity. They can’t necessarily be considered on the way to mystical union; nor are most […]
Shakespeare The Complete Works
Shakespeare – The Complete Works. Yet another massive “complete-works-of” for free on Holybooks.com. Here you have The Complete Works of Shakespeare. 3.601 pages of pure Shakespearian wisdom and eternal truths divided in a huge numbers of plays, stories, poems, stories, apocrypha, tragedies and comedies. It is all here in pure text formatted as a single PDF-file (3.601 […]
The works of Sunyata Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
The works of Sunyata Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen – By coincidence i yesterday learned about Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen, who was better known by his Buddhist name Sunyata, as the ‘janam-siddha’ or simply as the ‘rare born mystic’ as Ramana Maharshi called him. He was born on a farm in a village just outside Aarhus i Denmark, my […]
Jnaneshvar – The Life and Works of the Celebrated Thirteenth Century Indian Mystic-Poet
Jnaneshvar – The Life and Works of the Celebrated Thirteenth Century Indian Mystic-Poet is posted here with permission from the author Swami Abhayananda. Other books and articles by Swami Abhayananda may be read and freely downloaded on his website at: www.themysticsvision.weebly.com, he has graciously allowed us to offer them here as well. Jnaneshvar’s biography is in this 2012-version […]
The Geneva or Breeches Bible translations
The Geneva – Breeches Bible translation. Here on the site, we have the more readable and modern version, the King James version of the bible in many languages and it has been downloaded thousands of times, but I have been asked to provide some of the lesser known versions as well. The Geneva-Breeches Bible is about half […]
History of Mysticism – The Unchanging Testament
History of Mysticism – The Unchanging Testament by Swami Abhayananda is an authoritative history book on mysticial experiences. Other books and articles by Swami Abhayananda may be read and freely downloaded on his website at: www.themysticsvision.weebly.com, he has graciously allowed us to offer them here as well. Throughout succeeding ages mystical expericences were echoed by others who had experienced […]
Thomas Á Kempis: On the Love of God
This version of Thomas Á Kempis: On the Love of God, is a modern rendition of the 15 century manual of devotion. The book is edited and published by Swami Abhayananda, whose books and articles may be read and freely downloaded on his website at www.themysticsvision.weebly.com, he has graciously allowed us to offer them here as well. Download Thomas […]
Smith’s and Eastons Bible Dictionaries
Smith’s Bible Dictionary by William Smith and Eastons Bible Dictionary by M. G. Easton are two of the most widespread bible dictionaries. The two huge works are known to be precise and very detailed. Smith’s Bible Dictionary has some few illustrations while Eastons is only words. Both dictionaries are objective works, not marked by sectarian or dogmatic […]
The greatest achivement in life – five traditions of mysticism by R. D. Krumpos
The greatest achivement in life – five traditions of mysticism by R. D. Krumpos (2012) consists of a series of essays based on talks with mystics in 12 countries and 180 books. Many people were consulted, including the directors of a Buddhist Center and of the Eastern Orthodox theological institute at two major universities, a […]
The Bible Atlas
The Bible Atlas is a terrific resource for those of us who digest maps like others read comic books. Here you will find nearly no texts but hundreds of detailed political maps, historical maps, city maps, 3-D maps of Palestine, explanatory maps, maps of journeys by biblical figures, geographical expansion of empires, churches and much more. All […]
The Illuminated Sketchbook of Stephan Scriber
The Illuminated Sketchbook of Stephan Scriber anno 1494. This is a surprisingly well preserved sketchbook by Stephan Scriber, a monk from South-West Germany. This book is considered a playground for ideas for his work as illustrator. This gives an interesting insight into how ideas and layouts for illuminated manuscripts were tried out and skills developed in production of late-gothic […]
The Gospel of Philip by Vladimir Antonov
The Gospel of by Philip by Vladimir Antonov was first published in 2008. The book presents a full and competent translation of the Gospel written by apostle Philip — a personal Disciple of Jesus Christ, who attained Divinity thanks to help from Jesus. Although this gospel may at first appear similar to the Gospel of Thomas, it is not […]
Meister Echart´s Sermons
Meister Echart´s Sermons – Meister Echart was a Dominican monk, and one of the most profound thinkers of the Middle Ages. He was born about 1260 A.D. in Thuringia, and died at Cologne 1327 A.D. In 1295 he was Prior of the Dominicans at Erfurt and Vicar-General of Thuringia. In 1300 he was sent to […]
The New Being by Paul Tillich
The New Being by Paul Tillich is a collection of sermons, unique in many ways. Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century. He died 22. october 1965 – precisely 95 years after the birth Puran Singh. Tillich developed of Christology, […]
Fathers of the Desert VOL I+II
Fathers of the Desert was first published in English in 1867. The book describes the beliefs, lives and practices of a number of individual desert fathers and groups like the Anchorites. It also goes into details about the general spiritual life in the first six centuries in the Middleast. Fathers of the Desert is despite the […]
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