Good Work Library

Folders

  • 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)

Pages

  • 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.