The Hindu Book of Astrology by Bhakti Seva [1902] Contents Start Reading Page Index Text [Zipped] If this was really a vintage Hindu Astrology book, it would be a real find. I have yet to locate one, and there has been a steady drip of requests for Hindu Astrology since the inception of the site, which I would…
Sun Lore of All Ages by William Tyler Olcott [1914] Contents Start Reading Page Index Text [Zipped] This is a review of the literature of Sun lore. While for the most part factually correct, this is not an academic study. Olcott is light on the citations, and it apparent that he didn’t use primary sources for the…
The Book of Talismans, Amulets and Zodiacal Gems by William Thomas and Kate Pavitt [1922] Contents Start Reading Page Index Text [Zipped] This is a study of the symbolism of precious stones, and how they have been used as magical objects through the ages, both intrinsically, and as a vehicle for symbolic engravings. The Pavitts cover Hindu, Jewish,…
Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler tr. by Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] Contents Start Reading Nature, which is never not lavish of herself, after a lying-in of two thousand years, has finally brought you forth in these last generations, the first true images of the universe. By means of your concords of various voices, and through your…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe by Alexandre Koyré Contents Start Reading Page Index Text [Zipped] The infinite Universe of the New Cosmology, infinite in Duration as well as in Extension, in which eternal matter in accordance with eternal and necessary laws moves endlessly and aimlessly in eternal space, inherited all the ontological attributes of Divinity. Yet only…
Pow-Wows or Long Lost Friend By John George Hoffman [1820] Contents Start Reading Page Index Text [Zipped] Written by a Pennsylvania Dutch healer in the 1820s, this book is a rambling collection of rural home remedies and folk invocations. Pow-wow is a unique creole of Christian theology and a shamanistic belief system. It is still practiced in some rural…
The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists.By Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, Paracelsus the Great NATURE begets a mineral in the bowels of the earth. There are two kinds of it, which are found in many districts of Europe. The best which has been offered to me, which also has been found genuine in experimentation, is externally in the figure of the greater…
VI – THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT “Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.” – The Kybalion This Principle embodies the fact that there is a Cause for every Effect; an…
V. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM. “Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.” — The Kybalion. This Principle embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion,…
IV. THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY “Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.” — The Kybalion. This Principle embodies the truth that “everything is dual”; “everything has two poles”;…