Tianmu Anglican Church

Good Work Library

• Aenglisc — Texts from the English literary and folk traditions, from Old English and Middle English through ballads, early modern prose, witchcraft pamphlets, and wonder literature. (116)
• African (26)
• Aquarian — Post-Blake New Age and modern reenchantment: Theosophy, New Thought, mysticism, folklore theory, neopagan revival, depth psychology, and mythopoesis. (100)
• Arabic — Arabic-language literature: pre-Islamic poetry, adab, maqamat, and neighboring links to Arabic Sufi texts. (6)
• Australian — Archival Aboriginal Australian traditions, story collections, and early ethnographic records arranged by region and genre. (11)
• Baltic (1)
• Basque (2)
• Bon — Bon and Old Tibetan frontier texts: Dunhuang ritual materials, divination manuals, funeral rites, myths, law, contracts, royal inscriptions, and imperial Buddhist documents. (69)
• Buddhist — Buddhist texts and study materials across Pali, Gandhari, Sanskrit, Mahayana, Zen, and Tibetan traditions. (321)
• 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)
• Celtic — Irish, Welsh, Manx, Breton, Scottish, and pan-Celtic myth, saga, folklore, fairy faith, and literary revival. (136)
• Christian (11)
• Classical (36)
• Commons (28)
• Confucian (11)
• Daoist — Texts from the Daoist tradition, encompassing philosophy, alchemy, and the way of naturalness. (51)
• Egyptian — Sacred texts from ancient Egypt, including funerary literature and hymns to the gods. (29)
• Esoteric (16)
• Gnostic — Texts from the Gnostic traditions, including Nag Hammadi scriptures, Sethian and Valentinian writings, and apocrypha. (112)
• Greek — Sacred and philosophical texts from the ancient Greek tradition. (26)
• Hermetic — Texts from the Hermetic tradition, the Greco-Egyptian wisdom literature attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. (64)
• Hindu — Sacred texts from the Hindu tradition, spanning devotional, tantric, and philosophical literature. (43)
• Internet — Texts born on the internet — digital-native sacred and philosophical writings. (700)
• Islamic (18)
• Jain (6)
• Japanese (2)
• Judean (289)
• Living Traditions (208)
• Mandaean — Texts from the Mandaean tradition, the ancient Gnostic religion centred on John the Baptist and the World of Light. (108)
• Manichaean — Texts from the Manichaean tradition, Mani's universal religion of light and darkness. (8)
• Masonic (7)
• Medieval (15)
• Mesoamerican (53)
• Mesopotamian — Sacred texts from ancient Mesopotamia, including epics, hymns, and mythological literature. (158)
• Native American (6)
• Norse — Sacred texts from the Norse tradition, including the Poetic Edda and selections from the Prose Edda. (136)
• Oceanic (18)
• Persian (1)
• Rastafari (2)
• Romani (6)
• Scythian — Scythian, Sarmatian, Taurian, Alan, Black Sea, and northern-steppe witnesses from classical literature, history, geography, and inscriptions. (192)
• Shinto (6)
• Sikh (2)
• Slavic (15)
• Spanish (2)
• Sufi (49)
• Swedenborg (3)
• Syriac (116)
• Tamil (34)
• Tocharian — Fragmentary Buddhist, secular, and linguistic witnesses from the vanished Tocharian languages of the Tarim Basin. (67)
• Turkish (1)
• 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. (197)
• 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. (70)
• Zoroastrian — Sacred texts from the Zoroastrian tradition, including the Gathas of Zarathustra. (34)

• 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.

Lore

• Ghosthall (26)
• Leafhall (3)
• Manhall (34)
• Sutras (2)
• Wayhall (29)

• Introduction to Tianmu — An introduction to the New Tianmu Anglican Church — its community, its intellectual genealogy, its epistemology, its theology, its writings and translations, and the Good Works Library.

Timeline

• 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?
• Audit Culture and GPTAcademia — How to stop the plague of students cheating with AI
• 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 Karmic 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?

Translations

• 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)

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