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Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery

C. T. Russell

This volume is the seventh installment of Charles Taze Russell’s “Studies in the Scriptures,” a series that…

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 Demonstrating the existence of spirits and their communion with mortals. Doctrine of the spirit world respecting heaven, hell, morality, and God. Also, the influence of Scripture on the morals of Christians.

Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations Demonstrating the existence of spirits and their communion with mortals. Doctrine of the spirit world respecting heaven, hell, morality, and God. Also, the influence of Scripture on the morals of Christians.

Robert Hare

Robert Hare’s work is a meticulous record of nineteenth‑century experimental spiritualism.

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 Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

Faxian

The work is a scholarly edition of the 5th‑century Chinese pilgrim’s own account of his journeys through…

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Gitanjali

Rabindranath Tagore

The work is a collection of prose poems by Rabindranath Tagore, presented here in English translation.

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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1

The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of Ælfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I.

The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of Ælfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I.

Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

The volume presents the first part of Ælfric’s Homilies, a collection of Anglo‑Saxon sermons that were…

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Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada

M. E. Billings

The work is a polemical survey of criminal and immoral conduct among Christian ministers in the United States…

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

Benjamin, of Tudela, active 12th century

Cover of Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3
 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age

W. E. Gladstone

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Lao-tzu, A Study in Chinese Philosophy

Thomas Watters

Thomas Watters’ work is a scholarly survey of Lao‑tzu and his seminal text, the Tao‑te‑ching, presented as a…

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 Being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination. Crystal gazing, birth-stones, lucky stones and talismans, astral, zodiacal, and planetary

The Curious Lore of Precious Stones Being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination. Crystal gazing, birth-stones, lucky stones and talismans, astral, zodiacal, and planetary

George Frederick Kunz

The Curious Lore of Precious Stones is a scholarly survey of the many ways humanity has imbued gems with…

The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day

The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day

Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill’s The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To‑day is a scholarly yet practical exploration of…

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 Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism

A Body of Divinity, Vol. 3 (of 4) Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism

Thomas Ridgley

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The third part of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica is a systematic theological treatise that begins…

The Sayings of Confucius A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects

The Sayings of Confucius A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects

Confucius

The volume presents a new translation of the greater part of the Confucian Analects, framed by an extensive…

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers

William Walker Atkinson

The work is a systematic treatise on the hidden faculties of the human mind, presented as a series of…

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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 01 of 12)

James George Frazer

James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough is a scholarly treatise that began as a modest attempt to explain the…

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Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation

Martin Luther

The work is a scholarly commentary by Martin Luther on the Book of Genesis, presented as the first volume in…

Cover of The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester
 A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops

The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops

R. J. King

Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup

Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup

Cicely Kent

Kent Cicely’s Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves is a practical guide to the art of tasseography, presented as a…

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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 1 (of 4)

Valmiki

The Yoga‑Vasishtha is presented as the earliest systematic treatise on yoga and speculative philosophy,…

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Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Aids to Reflection is a dense, didactic work that seeks to shape a “manly…

The Koran (Al-Qur'an)

The Koran (Al-Qur'an)

The work before you is an English translation of the Qur’an produced by the eighteenth‑century scholar George…

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淮南子

An Liu