I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down th...
Feb 02, 2024
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian man named Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse’s ninth novel (1922), was written in German, in a simple, powerful, and lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. Hesse dedicated Siddhartha to Romain Rolland and Wilhelm Gundert. The word Siddhartha derives from two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (meaning or weal...
Feb 02, 2024
Discover the key to the world’s esoteric traditions, and unlock some of the most fascinating and closely held secrets of myth, religion, and philosophy. Unrivaled in its beauty and completeness, this classic reference distills ancient and modern teachings of nearly 600 experts. Compelling themes range from the riddle of the Sphinx and the tenets of Pythagorean astronomy to the symbolism of the pentagram, the significance of the Ark of the Covenant, and the design of the American flag. World-reno...
Feb 02, 2024
Written 1902 (CW 8) “As simultaneously mysticism and fact, Christianity is a breakthrough in the historical development of humanity, for which the mysteries, with the results that they brought about, form a prior evolutionary stage.” ― Rudolf Steiner During the fall and winter of 1901–02, Steiner gave a series of lectures called “Christianity as Mystical Fact” to members of the Theosophical Society. The lectures were rewritten and issued as a book later that year. They mark a watershed in the de...
Dec 25, 2023
Account of A Vampire. (1738). By Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens. – 00:00 Dead Persons in Hungary Who Suck The Blood Of The Living. (1746) By Antoine Augustin Calmet. – 2:24 The Vampyre. (1819). By John William Polidori. – 5:29 The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo. (1819) By. Uriah Derick D’Arcy. – 1:02:04 Wake Not the Dead. (1823). By Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach. – 1:51:12 The Dead Leman. (1836). By Théophile Gautier. – 3:01:10 The Family of the Vourdalak. (1839). By Aleksey Ko...
Dec 24, 2023
The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from the rush of life; it depends on facing frankly the thought of death; it is signalized, especially, by the identification of self with others, even of the guiltless with the guilty. Spirituality is sometimes spoken of as if it were a kind of moral luxury, a work of supererogation, a token of fastidiousness and over-refinement. It is nothing of the sort. Spirituality is simply morality carried to its farthest bounds; it is not an ...
Dec 07, 2023
Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus is the founding stone of Western esotericism. Hermes is regarded as being the author of numerous philosophical and spiritual texts, including the Divine Pymander. Even though the historical existence of Hermes is not clear, he has been regarded as the master of wisdom and the initiator of the divine knowledge for centuries. The Divine Pymander is one of the ancient texts attributed to Hermes. The Divine Pymander explains a cosmology and philosophy which blends Egypt...
Dec 04, 2023
A novel with incredible prescience from late 1800’s about the perpetual corruption of the elites and out of control oppression of the working class, set in late 80’s of our time. Only if the steam could have been released before the revolution! And oh, the dangers of massive revolution. He seemed to predict computer screens and AI news, advanced weaponry, globalization, Capitalism, the collapse of Democracy, the insane corruption at al levels, and the split in society between the halves and the ...
Dec 03, 2023
Everybody’s Political What’s What? By George Bernard Shaw Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Everybody’s Political What’s What? and learn about politics today! IS HUMAN NATURE INCURABLY DEPRAVED? 00:00 THE LAND QUESTION 16:49 THE BRITISH PARTY SYSTEM 1:00:20 THE PARLIAMENTS OF THE POOR 1:39:48 DEMOCRACY; THE NEXT STEP 1:46:16 KNOWING OUR PLACES 2:03:25 EQUALITY 2:23:34 THE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF CLASSES 2:32:50 THE STATE AND THE CHILDREN 3:00:41 SCHOOLMADE MONSTERS 3:22:43 FIN...
Nov 19, 2023
The New World Order – H.G. Wells. One of the central texts in explaining the psychopathic drive of elitists to enslave the world in a unified empire. H. G. Wells was an insider with a British group tasked with the revival of their once great empire—this time in conjunction with Venetian Black Nobility Khazar bankers (not mentioned this explicitly in the book). Wells evidently grew less sympathetic to their aims as time went on, and published a version of the plans for public consumption in this ...
Nov 19, 2023•1 hr 2 min
The Pivot of Civilization, By Margaret Sanger Birth control, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. I do not know how far one is justified in calling it the pivot or the cornerstone of a progressive civilization. These terms involve a criticism of metaphors that may take us far away from the question in hand. Birth control is no new thing in human experience, and it has been practiced in societies of the most various types and fort...
Nov 19, 2023
This guide offers a modern interpretation of Hermetic doctrine, distilling its teachings into seven compelling principles that can be applied to self-development in daily life. For centuries, the legendary Egyptian man-god Hermes Trismegistus – regarded as the father of astrology, alchemy, and other magical arts – inspired writers and readers of occult literature. In 1908, the anonymous authors known as “Three Initiates” prepared this concise and engaging edition of the master’s teachings. It ou...
Nov 19, 2023
Varney the VAMPIRE! Great Grand-Father of the way we know vampires in modern writing and culture. Written in 1845-47 and still going strong after over 170 years! Featured in TV shows, books, movies, youtube video shorts, and has a long and connected history in the Marvel Comics Universe. An epic tale that was told in parts in what during the Victorian Age was called, Penny Dreadfuls. Cheap little pamphlets that would be much like our own 20th Century PULP FICTION magazines. Chapter 1 – 00:00 Cha...
Nov 10, 2023
In Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu created one of the great Gothic tales that has haunted readers for almost two hundred years. One of a series of stories about the vampire Countess Bathory and her companion Reides, this chilling tale tells how a young girl falls under the spell of another girl who turns out to be a vampire. Chapter 1 – 00:00 Chapter 2 – 1:45 Chapter 3 – 12:30 Chapter 4 – 28:23 Chapter 5 – 43:48 Chapter 6 – 1:06:16 Chapter 7 – 1:14:51 Chapter 8 – 1:24:08 Chapter 9 – 1:36:33 Ch...
Nov 10, 2023
Wild Talents is the fourth and final nonfiction book written by paranormal author Charles Fort. In recounting a wide variety of odd phenomena, Fort largely disregards his previous teleportation theory, or at least incorporates it into his new thesis. Rather than a vague “cosmic joker”, as he postulated in his earlier books, the responsibility for these occurrences are freak powers that occur in the human mind, that cannot be naturally developed, but are there, Fort feels, as a sort of throwback ...
Oct 10, 2023
This book came out at the beginning of the UFO craze, seventy years ago. With continuing interest in the subject (History series Project Blue Book, Ancient Aliens, etc.), The Flying Saucers are Real is great resource for those curious about the early days of this field. This edition has been updated for modern reading. Here is the story as it was told in the Kansas City Star: In flight, the ring revolved at a high rate of speed, while the cabin remained stationary like the center of a gyroscope....
Oct 10, 2023
Zinfaendel – The Mystic’s Path of Self-Knowledge It is sometimes said that at the heart of all spiritual traditions, we find essentially the same values of love, virtue, and altruism. However, one notion consistently resurfaces even more prominently in the discourse of the greatest mystics throughout history: self-knowledge. Far beyond a mere psychological endeavour, the path of personal revelation remains enigmatic. Aside from our physical forms, our tragedies, ecstasies, and opinions, what els...
Oct 10, 2023
REPORT OF MEETINGS OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS CONVENED BY OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, CIA January 14 – 18, 1953 Part I: History of Meetings of Panel – 00:00 Part II: Comments and Suggestions of Panel – 9:51 Tab A: Report of Panel – 41:20
Oct 09, 2023
The issue between the old regime and the new, the crux of the social problem, is entirely a question of conviction in the minds of the people as to the nature of the Universe. When they realize that the transcendent force of spirit or mind of the Cosmos is within each individual, it will be possible to frame laws that shall consider the liberties and rights of the many instead of the privileges of the few. As long as the people regard the Cosmic power as a power non human and alien to humanity, ...
Oct 09, 2023
Lo! Welcome to the worlds of Charles Fort, chronicler of the odd, the weird, the strange, the unexpected, and the inexplicable. In words at times as beautiful as anything ever written in English, Fort reveals the marvels of an age, questions the nature of what we think we know for certain, and provides the listener with leads on how not to be fooled by shaggy-dog stories. Here you’ll find rains of the unexpected, fish, snakes, and other items from the “super Sargasso sea” of the unexplained that...
Sep 06, 2023
The Secret Doctrine Volume 1 Cosmogenesis. The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, a book originally published as two volumes in 1888, is Helena P. Blavatsky’s magnum opus. The first volume is named Cosmogenesis, the second Anthropogenesis. It was an influential example of the revival of interest in esoteric and occult ideas in the modern age, in particular because of its claim to reconcile ancient eastern wisdom with modern science. Blavatsky claimed that its con...
Sep 06, 2023
Following the success of his 1937 landmark bestseller, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill wrote Outwitting the Devil, an exposé on the methods the Devil uses to ensnare and control the minds of human beings. Exploring the innermost depths of the psychology of motivation to understand why so many individuals, including himself, cannot find the initiative and courage they need to consistently implement the philosophy of individual achievement, Hill went so far as to interview the Devil himself. Th...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 19 min
The Third British Empire. Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879–1957) was an English classical scholar, historian, and political scientist writing on international relations. His book, The Third British Empire, was among the first to apply the expression “British Commonwealth” to the British Empire. He is also credited with the phrase “welfare state”, which was made popular a few years later by William Temple. PREFACE – 00:00 Lecture I – The Third British Empire – 4:25 Lecture II – The British Empire...
Sep 06, 2023
The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which the author attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense da...
Sep 06, 2023
Hints on Esoteric Theosophy #1. These letters are published with the permission of the writers, not because any of them are altogether free from errors and misconceptions, but because it is hoped that they may help to explain to all interested in the question the present position of Theosophy, and, by increasing the earnestness of all concerned in the movement, pave the way for more authoritative and less imperfect views on the whole question. No tree can grow without soil, and Theosophy can onl...
Sep 06, 2023
The Secret of Plato’s Atlantis, Lord Arundell of Wardour Philosophy is the study of problems concerning matters as fundamental as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Pythagoras (c. 570–495 BC) is said to have coined the term. Philosophical methods were applied through questioning, critical discussion, rational arguments, and systematic presentations on questions like “Is it possible to know anything and to prove it?” Major areas in academic philosophy include metaphysics, e...
Sep 06, 2023
On Youtube: The Lost Language of Symbolism, Volume 1. An Inquiry Into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies. By Harold Bayley Mining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origins and their meanings. The ultimate symbols are the letters and words in language as Bayley moves beyond mere pictures to understand the vital messages that have been ignored or l...
Sep 04, 2023
The Occult World The book begins with the author’s allegation that there is a school of thought which modern culture has forgotten, and that the metaphysics, and to a large degree the present physical science, “have been groping for centuries blindly after knowledge which occult philosophy has enjoyed in full measure all the while”. Sinnett takes the liberty to express his belief that his knowledge is certainly true. He argues: “I have come into some contact with persons who are heirs of a great...
Sep 04, 2023
A SERIES IN ELEVEN LESSONS in KARMA YOGA (THE YOGI PHILOSOPHY OF THOUGHT-USE) and THE YOGIN DOCTRINE OF WORK Bhikshu is a Sanskrit word; it is the technical designation for a fully ordained Buddhist monk, one who leads a pure and celibate life and who upholds the basic 250 monastic regulations (227 in the Theravada tradition). “Bhikshu has three meanings, and so it is not translated from Sanskrit. It means ‘mendicant’, ‘frightener of Mara’ [i.e., the king of the heavenly demons], and ‘destroyer ...
Sep 03, 2023
In the design of this book three primary themes interlace and pursue and develop each other.There is first, that invention and science have completely altered the material environment ofhuman life. Next, that the disruptive driving force of an excess of bored and unemployed young men., which must in some manner find relief, will probably shatter human life altogether under the new conditions. And thirdly, that the existing mental organisation of our species is entirely insufficient to control th...
Sep 02, 2023
