AN INTRODUCTION TO MAHAYANA BUDDHISM
An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism. Buddhism is divided into two great schools, Mahayana and Hinayana. Both systems originated in India, but since the former predominates in China, Japan, Nepal, Japan, in a modified form, in Tibet and Mongolia, while the latter is confined almost exclusively to Ceylon, Burma, and Siam, they are often, and rather […]
The Creation of God
The Creation of God by Dr. Jacob Hartmann was published in 1893 and is a major atheist work of the time. Being a doctor, Jacob Hartmann outlines the science of biology and life on planet earth and concludes that nothing here really needs the presence of a God or any divine powers. Furthermore, he studies […]
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 […]
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 in one free PDF
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 number of plays, stories, poems, stories, Apocrypha, tragedies and comedies. It is all here in pure text formatted as a single […]
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 in Denmark, […]
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