Tianmu Anglican Church
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- Aenglisc — Texts from the English folk tradition, preserving the old stories and customs of the British Isles. (100)
- Aquarian — Texts of the New Age and Aquarian age. (86)
- Arabic — Poetry and sacred literature from the Arabic-speaking world, from the pre-Islamic odes to the traditions they inspired. (3)
- Bon (35)
- Buddhist — Sacred texts from the Buddhist tradition, spanning sutras, commentaries, and wisdom literature. (313)
- Canaanite — 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. (4)
- Cathar — Surviving texts from the Cathar tradition, the dualist Christian movement of medieval southern France. (4)
- Confucian (2)
- Daoist — Texts from the Daoist tradition, encompassing philosophy, alchemy, and the way of naturalness. (26)
- Egyptian — Sacred texts from ancient Egypt, including funerary literature and hymns to the gods. (12)
- Gnostic — Texts from the Gnostic traditions, including Nag Hammadi scriptures, Sethian and Valentinian writings, and apocrypha. (109)
- Greek — Sacred and philosophical texts from the ancient Greek tradition. (10)
- Hermetic — Texts from the Hermetic tradition, the Greco-Egyptian wisdom literature attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. (46)
- Hindu — Sacred texts from the Hindu tradition, spanning devotional, tantric, and philosophical literature. (23)
- Internet — Texts born on the internet — digital-native sacred and philosophical writings. (699)
- Judean (260)
- Living Traditions (209)
- Mandaean — Texts from the Mandaean tradition, the ancient Gnostic religion centred on John the Baptist and the World of Light. (2)
- Manichaean — Texts from the Manichaean tradition, Mani's universal religion of light and darkness. (8)
- Mesoamerican (53)
- Mesopotamian — Sacred texts from ancient Mesopotamia, including epics, hymns, and mythological literature. (92)
- Norse — Sacred texts from the Norse tradition, including the Poetic Edda and selections from the Prose Edda. (102)
- Sufi (29)
- Syriac (92)
- Tamil (12)
- Uralic — 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. (188)
- Vedic — Texts from the Vedic tradition, the oldest layer of Indian scripture including hymns, rituals, and cosmic philosophy. (1039)
- Yiguandao — Texts from the Yiguandao tradition, the Way of Pervading Unity — scriptures of the Eternal Mother and the returning Dao. (62)
- Zoroastrian — Sacred texts from the Zoroastrian tradition, including the Gathas of Zarathustra. (23)
- Glossary — A cross-traditional glossary of religious and philosophical terminology drawn from every tradition in the Good Work Library.
- Welcome — You found the library. Here's what you're holding.
- A Nightmare — I awake from the nightmare to find myself alone.
- Affective Empathy is Evil — Also titled: The CIA Controls Everything and That's Good Actually.
- AI Psychosis — Why oh why do good men... go crazy?
- Carve Your Block — Nobody can save you, except yourself.
- Choose Your Life — On forging your own path
- Dharma and Morality — A forest is refreshed by fire, a flower grows in decay.
- Enlightenment At the Bottom of a Bowl — On the simplicity of enlightenment.
- Father — A dirge for Doom.
- Gallery — A gallery of art by Tianmu, and fanart by Tianmites.
- God as Quantum Superposition — Is God a superposition?
- Guest and Host — How Indo-European culture meets the weight of our sins.
- History Is In Motion — The world in front of you still exists, the wind blows and the garden grows.
- How Can Many Religions Be True — Most people in 2025 are already Perennialists.
- Hun and Po, Heaven and Earth — Two souls, two worlds.
- In 2025 Everyone is a Shaman — On the modern proliferation of pseudo-shamanic identity
- Insight and Structure — A rant about the structure of conscious experience.
- Is Rationalism a Religion - What is a Religion — People who identify as not religious often reproduce the very structures of religion
- Judas and Jesus — Judas was clearly a good guy.
- Live Uniquely — Have fun and be yourself.
- Love in the New World — How love means something different now than it ever has.
- Mama Said Knock You Out — LL Cool Jacobite and the nature of power.
- Medusa — A kiss in the snow.
- Muse's Doughter — And a song was sang from all through the wheel.
- New York City Ethnography — America isn't post-racial, it's pre-ethnographic.
- Nobility and Wildness — The first thing you must rewild is yourself.
- On Enlightenment — On the simplicity of enlightenment.
- On Liberation — About man and his terrible split from life.
- On Mythopoeticism — On the re-enchantment of the world through living myth.
- On The Dissident Right and Internet Intellectuals — None of the popular internet intellectuals are actually intellectuals
- ON THE WORDCELS AND THEIR FOUL LIES — A flame for the voidlings.
- One-Not-One — Beating you with the paradox stick.
- Protestant Awareness — A prediction on the Protestantosphere.
- Public and Private Register — Public and private register in Yanks.
- Quantum Magic — As above; so below, a hypothesis.
- Reading List — THE OFFICIAL TIANMU . ORG LITERATURE CHART V 0.1, featuring: English Literature, Theology, and Anglo-American ethnography.
- Self and No-Self — The two crosstruths of the Self.
- Sensitivity and Nobility — A keen wound makes a keen edge.
- Singularity — The world was rendered a perfect painless pleasurable pastiche of paradise.
- Smol Bean Fascism, Why Liberalism Won — Even among far-right quasi-Hitlerites, true nazism is rare.
- The Great Eunuch — A meditation on an eschatological world.
- The Great Karma View of History — How Genghis Khan turned the wheel.
- The Mind Has No Interface — How to actually have free will.
- The Mind is My Doctrine — True enlightenment lay in wielding duality as a weapon and non-duality as a shield.
- The Mountain of Corpses — Civilisation's equivalent exchange.
- The Next Milton — Where did all the great ones go?
- The Point of Civilization is Utopia — On the telos of civilisation and why the impulse toward utopia
- The Tragedy of the Commons Is a Myth — The enclosure of the commons was not a natural inevitability but a deliberate act.
- The Waves of Suffering — When the waves of life wash over you, let them shape and erode you.
- The Wordcel's Dilemma — If you meet language on the road, kill it.
- True Polytheism Has Never Been Tried — Seriously, polytheism is not what you think it is.
- Vaporware Universe — The universe probably thinks to itself, where is my mind?
- Village Shit — Rant on the horror of the panopticon.
- Weal — spokes break, new fastenings come though, in the center of the wheel of the true weal
- Werie — The ages wear on and on...
- What Does it Mean to Kill Buddha — On the famous Zen koan!
- What Is Truth — The epistemology of truth.
- What Women Actually Want — How to actually fuck hoes and get bitches, no really it works
- Where Did the Hedonists Go — A lament for a pleasureless world of infinite pleasure.
- Whiteness — The 'white race' is a historically and culturally illiterate construction.
- Who Benefits From Your Child's Broken Will — It's not about chores, it's about enforcing submission.
- Yin Yang, Heaven and Earth — Or how one became two became three
- You Remember, Don't You — You remember, don't you? When it all began?
- Cheonbugyeong — A controversial Korean text on the creation of the universe, allegedly dating to the Finno-Korean hyperwar. (2)
- Dao De Jing — All 81 chapters of the Dao De Jing, translated and with introduction by Dalai Moo Naomi. (82)
- In Hail of Wisdom — Tianmu's translation of the Rigveda, continously being worked on. Last update: Jun 2025, Kindling. (5)
- Wisdom's End — The Perfection of Wisdom in its many forms. Last Update: Nov 2025, Weaving of the Heart. (2)