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*This translation is not currently available.* Lebor Gabála Érenn ("The Book of the Taking of Ireland") is a medieval Irish compilation describing a mythic sequence of invasions of Ireland from the Flood through the Milesians. The standard English edition, by R.A.S. Macalister for the Irish Texts…

## The First Book of Pistis Sophia IT came to pass, when Jesus had risen from the cHapP.1. dead, that he passed eleven years discoursing a with his disciples, and instructing them only up hitherto to the regions of the First Commandment and eure up to the regions of the First Mystery, that within…

## Chapter I [1] And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, [2450 Anno Mundi] that God spake to Moses, saying: 'Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will give thee two tables of stone of the law an…

## Introduction and Analysis Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had the greatest influence over the ancient and mediaeval world. The obscurity arises in the infancy of physical science, out…

*This translation is not currently available.* The Gospel of Philip is a Valentinian Gnostic text preserved in Nag Hammadi Codex II. Like the other Nag Hammadi codices, it was discovered in Egypt in 1945; no translation is possible before that date. Adequate English translations post-date the disc…

## Chapter 1 [1] The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. [2] Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebell…

## Chapter 1 [1] Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. [2] In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin…

## Chapter 1 [1] In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. [2] And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the…

## Chapter 1 [1] The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; [2] To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; [3] To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; [4] To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and dis…

## Chapter 1 [1] The song of songs, which is Solomon’s. [2] Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. [3] Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. [4] Draw me, we will run after thee:…

BEOWULF AN ANGLO-SAXON EPIC POEM _TRANSLATED FROM THE HEYNE-SOCIN TEXT_ BY JNO: LESSLIE HALL, Ph. D. (J.H.U.) Professor of English and History in The College of William and Mary D.C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1892, by…

## The Book of the Watchers (Chapters I–XXXVI) I-XXXVI. I-V. _Parable of Enoch on the Future Lot of the Wicked and the Righteous._ I. 1. The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect 〚and〛 righteous, who will be living in the day of tribu…

## Part I — The Tao (Chapters 1–37) Ch. 1. 1. The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. 2. (Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it…

*This translation is not currently available.* The Gospel of Thomas is a Coptic sayings-gospel attributed to Didymos Judas Thomas and preserved in Nag Hammadi Codex II. The codex was discovered in Egypt in December 1945; no translation of any kind is possible before that date. All adequate English…

## Book I — Bala Kanda INVOCATION.(1) Praise to Válmíki,(2)bird of charming song,(3) Who mounts on Poesy’s sublimest spray, And sweetly sings with accent clear and strong Ráma, aye Ráma, in his deathless lay. Where breathes the man can listen to the strain That flows in music from Válmíki…

## Preface The "Popol Vuh" is the New World's richest mythological mine. No translation of it has as yet appeared in English, and no adequate translation in any European language. It has been neglected to a certain extent because of the unthinking strictures passed upon its authenticity. That ot…

## Chapter I — The Twin-Verses 1. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage. 2. All that we ar…

THE YOUNGER EDDA: also called SNORRE’S EDDA, OR THE PROSE EDDA. An English Version of the Foreword; The Fooling of Gylfe, The Afterword; Brage’s Talk, The Afterword to Brage’s Talk, and the Important Passages in the Poetical Diction (Skaldskapar…

## Chapter I — The Book of the Distress of Arjuna Dhritirashtra: Ranged thus for battle on the sacred plain-- On Kurukshetra--say, Sanjaya! say What wrought my people, and the Pandavas? Sanjaya: When he beheld the host of Pandavas, Raja Duryodhana to Drona drew, And spake these words: "Ah, Guru!…

THE POETIC EDDA TRANSLATED FROM THE ICELANDIC WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY HENRY ADAMS BELLOWS TWO VOLUMES IN ONE…