Good Works Library
Texts
Aenglisc175 pagesTexts from the English literary and folk traditions, from Old English and Middle English through ballads, early modern prose, witchcraft pamphlets, and wonder literature.
Speculative humanities, anomalous evidence, contact hypotheses, phantom geographies, ethnonym trails, and disciplined theories about the human past.
Aquarian166 pagesPost-Blake New Age and modern reenchantment: Theosophy, New Thought, mysticism, folklore theory, neopagan revival, depth psychology, and mythopoesis.
Arabic20 pagesArabic-language literature: pre-Islamic poetry, adab, maqamat, and neighboring links to Arabic Sufi texts.
Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian textual tradition: Nineveh, Ashurbanipal's library, royal reports, court prophecy, ritual, medicine, fables, Ahikar, and scholarly tablets.
Archival Aboriginal Australian traditions, story collections, and early ethnographic records arranged by region and genre.
Babylonian and Akkadian sacred literature: Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, Enuma Elish, Marduk and Ishtar theology, Hammurabi, prayers, incantations, omens, scholarly texts, and wisdom.
Baltic folklore, mythic survivals, and sacred narratives from Lithuanian, Latvian, and neighboring traditions.
Basque legends, folklore, and mythic traditions from the western Pyrenees and the wider Basque world.
Bon and Old Tibetan frontier texts: Dunhuang ritual materials, divination manuals, funeral rites, myths, law, contracts, royal inscriptions, and imperial Buddhist documents.
Buddhist324 pagesBuddhist texts and study materials across Pali, Gandhari, Sanskrit, Mahayana, Zen, and Tibetan traditions.
The myths and rituals of ancient Canaan, preserved on clay tablets from the ruins of Ugarit — the storm god, the sea, and the descent into death.
Surviving texts from the Cathar tradition, the dualist Christian movement of medieval southern France.
Caucasus myth, epic, folklore, and sacred storytelling from the mountain traditions between the Black and Caspian seas.
Irish, Welsh, Manx, Breton, Scottish, and pan-Celtic myth, saga, folklore, fairy faith, and literary revival.
Chinese texts and translations in the Good Works Library.
Christian scripture, history, theology, hagiography, liturgy, and devotional writing across ancient, medieval, and later traditions.
Radical commons, communalist, anti-enclosure, and common-treasury texts from early modern and modern social-religious movements.
Confucian classics, commentaries, moral philosophy, ritual theory, and East Asian traditions of cultivation and governance.
Daoist51 pagesTexts from the Daoist tradition, encompassing philosophy, alchemy, and the way of naturalness.
Egyptian29 pagesSacred texts from ancient Egypt, including funerary literature and hymns to the gods.
Texts and teachings from living religious communities, devotional movements, and contemporary lineages represented in the Good Works Library.
French literary, religious, legendary, and romance traditions, beginning here with Old French epic, courtly romance, and Grail literature.
German and Germanic literary, legendary, and religious-cultural inheritance, beginning here with heroic legend, Rhine story, and Nibelung reception.
Gnostic114 pagesTexts from the Gnostic traditions, including Nag Hammadi scriptures, Sethian and Valentinian writings, and apocrypha.
Greek, Roman, and late antique religion, philosophy, myth, literature, ritual, empire, and classical reception gathered as an antiquity field.
Texts from the Hermetic tradition, the Greco-Egyptian wisdom literature attributed to Hermes Trismegistus.
Hindu191 pagesSacred texts from the Hindu tradition, spanning devotional, tantric, and philosophical literature.
Internet723 pagesTexts born on the internet — digital-native sacred and philosophical writings.
Islamic scripture, law, theology, philosophy, poetry, history, and devotional literature across Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and global Muslim worlds.
Italian literary, religious, legendary, and poetic traditions, beginning here with Renaissance chivalric epic.
Jain scripture, doctrine, ethics, monastic discipline, stories, and philosophical traditions centered on nonviolence and liberation.
Japanese religious literature, travel writing, aesthetics, poetry, and Buddhist, Shinto, and literary reflections on impermanence.
Judean and Jewish texts, including Dead Sea Scrolls, Second Temple writings, biblical reception, midrashic legend, and later traditional collections.
Texts from the Mandaean tradition, the ancient Gnostic religion centred on John the Baptist and the World of Light.
Texts from the Manichaean tradition, Mani's universal religion of light and darkness.
Nahua song, flower-and-song theology, royal memory, war lyric, grief song, and colonial manuscript tradition from the Cantares Mexicanos.
Native American oral traditions, origin stories, ceremonial texts, and sacred narratives from distinct Indigenous nations and communities.
Sacred texts from the Norse tradition, including the Poetic Edda and selections from the Prose Edda.
Oceanic and Pacific sacred narratives, Polynesian concepts, oral traditions, and mythic literatures of mana, tapu, place, and ancestry.
Ferdowsi's Shahnameh through Helen Zimmern's public-domain Epic of Kings: Iranian epic memory, kingship, fate, heroism, and translation.
Portuguese literary, religious, legendary, and imperial epic traditions, beginning here with Camoes and the Lusitanian epic imagination.
Scythian, Sarmatian, Taurian, Alan, Black Sea, and northern-steppe witnesses from classical literature, history, geography, and inscriptions.
Shinto myth, ritual, shrine tradition, kami practice, classical Japanese sources, and the religious worlds of Kojiki and Nihongi.
Sikh scripture, history, gurmat, devotional practice, community formation, and the Guru Granth Sahib tradition.
Slavic folklore, mythic survivals, Christianized legends, epic motifs, and sacred narratives across eastern, western, and southern Slavic worlds.
Spanish epic, romance, legend, devotional memory, and literary traditions from Iberian and related worlds.
Sufi poetry, doctrine, devotional practice, saints, orders, ecstatic utterance, and Islamic mystical literature across languages.
Sumerian sacred and literary corpus: temple hymns, city laments, royal praise poems, Inanna myths, Enki and Ninurta narratives, disputations, wisdom, and scribal tradition.
Tamil devotional poetry, Saiva and Vaisnava bhakti, ethical classics, temple song, and South Indian sacred literary traditions.
Fragmentary Buddhist, secular, and linguistic witnesses from the vanished Tocharian languages of the Tarim Basin.
Sacred texts and translations from the shamanic, ritual, and folk-sacred traditions of the Finno-Ugric, Samoyedic, and Permian peoples — Mansi, Udmurt, Sami, Finnish, Hungarian, and more.
Vedic1041 pagesTexts from the Vedic tradition, the oldest layer of Indian scripture including hymns, rituals, and cosmic philosophy.
Yiguandao72 pagesTexts from the Yiguandao tradition, the Way of Pervading Unity — scriptures of the Eternal Mother and the returning Dao.
Sacred texts from the Zoroastrian tradition, including the Gathas of Zarathustra.