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The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony

The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony

T. De Witt Talmage

The work is a moral‑instructional treatise that frames marriage as a spiritual decision rather than a social…

Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul

Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul

This volume presents a carefully curated anthology of poems whose chief aim is to nurture moral strength and…

Public School Education

Public School Education

Michael Müller

This work is a polemical treatise on American public schooling written by Michael Müller, a Catholic…

Seen and Unseen

Seen and Unseen

E. Katherine Bates

The work is a memoir that blends personal anecdote with a systematic discussion of psychic phenomena, written…

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel

John Donne

The work is a sprawling autobiographical meditation that blends personal history with theological reflection.

Devil-Worship in France; or, The Question of Lucifer

Devil-Worship in France; or, The Question of Lucifer

Arthur Edward Waite

Arthur Edward Waite’s Devil‑Worship in France is a scholarly investigation into the alleged resurgence of…

Vie de Jésus

Vie de Jésus

Ernest Renan

Ce volume, signé Ernest Renan, se présente comme une étude historique de la figure centrale du christianisme…

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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 03 of 12)

James George Frazer

The work is a scholarly treatise that expands the “taboo” chapter of Frazer’s original Golden Bough, focusing…

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Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)

Jean Calvin

This work is the second volume of Jean Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, a systematic…

The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit

The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit

Ralph Waldo Trine

The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit is a New Thought treatise that opens with a sweeping argument about the…

The Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grand Inquisitor is a dramatic episode taken from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s final novel, The Brothers…

My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year

My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year

John Henry Jowett

My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year is a devotional calendar that pairs each day of January with a…

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

Rudolf Schmid

Rudolf Schmid’s work is a scholarly attempt to untangle the tangled debates that have followed Darwin’s…

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The Children's Bible

Sherman, Henry A.; Kent, Charles Foster

The Children’s Bible, compiled by Henry A. Sherman and Charles Foster Kent, is a curated selection of Old and…

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Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion

Robert Alfred Vaughan

Hours with the Mystics is a scholarly survey of the development of mystic thought, assembled after many years…

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The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Origen

This volume gathers three of Origen’s most influential works, De Principiis, his letter to Africanus, and the…

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Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise

Joseph Pohle

The work is a scholarly theological treatise that opens by distinguishing two kinds of grace, actual and…

The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) Being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna

The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) Being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna

The Song Celestial, or Bhagavad‑Gîtâ, is a Sanskrit poem embedded in the sixth “Bhishma” Parva of the…

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Physico-theology: Or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from His works of creation

W. Derham

Physico‑theology is a work of natural theology in which William Derham, a canon of Windsor and Fellow of the…

Cover of Primitive culture, vol. 2 (of 2): Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom

Primitive culture, vol. 2 (of 2): Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom

Edward B. Tylor

This volume is the second part of Edward Burnett Tylor’s extensive comparative study of primitive culture, in…

Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature

Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature

The volume presents a scholarly guide to the literary diversity of the Old Testament, beginning with a…

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Jewish Theology, Systematically and Historically Considered

Kaufmann Kohler

The work presented by Kaufmann Kohler is a scholarly attempt to fill a gap that he perceives in Jewish…

Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.

Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.

Basilius Valentinus

The work is a sprawling alchemical treatise in which Basilius Valentinus sets out to explain how the visible…

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日知錄

Yanwu Gu