Good Works Library
Texts
Aenglisc116 pagesTexts from the English literary and folk traditions, from Old English and Middle English through ballads, early modern prose, witchcraft pamphlets, and wonder literature.
Aquarian100 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.
Archival Aboriginal Australian traditions, story collections, and early ethnographic records arranged by region and genre.
Bon and Old Tibetan frontier texts: Dunhuang ritual materials, divination manuals, funeral rites, myths, law, contracts, royal inscriptions, and imperial Buddhist documents.
Buddhist323 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.
Irish, Welsh, Manx, Breton, Scottish, and pan-Celtic myth, saga, folklore, fairy faith, and literary revival.
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.
Gnostic112 pagesTexts from the Gnostic traditions, including Nag Hammadi scriptures, Sethian and Valentinian writings, and apocrypha.
Sacred and philosophical texts from the ancient Greek tradition.
Texts from the Hermetic tradition, the Greco-Egyptian wisdom literature attributed to Hermes Trismegistus.
Hindu160 pagesSacred texts from the Hindu tradition, spanning devotional, tantric, and philosophical literature.
Internet702 pagesTexts born on the internet — digital-native sacred and philosophical writings.
Judean and Jewish texts, including Dead Sea Scrolls, Second Temple writings, biblical reception, midrashic legend, and later traditional collections.
Texts and teachings from living religious communities, devotional movements, and contemporary lineages represented in the Good Works Library.
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.
Mesopotamian158 pagesSacred texts from ancient Mesopotamia, including epics, hymns, and mythological literature.
Sacred texts from the Norse tradition, including the Poetic Edda and selections from the Prose Edda.
Scythian, Sarmatian, Taurian, Alan, Black Sea, and northern-steppe witnesses from classical literature, history, geography, and inscriptions.
Syriac Christian scripture, hymnody, wisdom, and devotional literature from the Aramaic Christian traditions of the Middle East and Asia.
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.
Vedic1039 pagesTexts from the Vedic tradition, the oldest layer of Indian scripture including hymns, rituals, and cosmic philosophy.
Yiguandao70 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.