All sections, explained

The library is the books, and everything else here is a way into them: an index built from the shelves, never a paragraph written about them. Each section below is described in the words its own page uses.

The books

• Browse all 2739 volumesA complete index of 2739 free public-domain esoteric and occult texts, by subject.
• Scripture in parallel7 English Bibles (KJV, WEB, ASV, Young, Darby, Webster and Douay) verse against verse, every chapter linked to its page; the Douay's names and numbering shown rather than silently changed; and the Ethiopic canon as Harden gives it, each book matched to what the library holds.
• What this library publishes, and what it does notEvery book here is either in the public domain or published with its rights holder’s permission. 179 works are held back, each with the reason on the record.

Indexes into the shelves

• Where is this from?Paste a line attributed to Hermes, Agrippa, the Zohar, anyone - and find the page it is on across 2,756 public-domain volumes, or learn that it is not in any of them.
• The glossary10,766 words glossed from two dictionaries the library holds: Blavatsky's Theosophical Glossary (1892) for the esoteric vocabulary and Webster's Unabridged (1913) for the hard words, each entry in the dictionary's own words with Webster's pronunciation marks, and a switch in the reader that underlines them on every page.
• Chapter and verse123,953 citations of scripture in 1,121 volumes, filed under the verse cited with the verse beside them and the volume's own sentence quoted and page-linked; or the reverse, every volume's scripture.
• Sura and verse2,437 citations of the Qur'an in 118 volumes, filed under the sura and verse cited with Rodwell's verse beside them and each volume's sentence quoted and page-linked; or the reverse, every volume's Qur'an.
• The rituals492 rites, conjurations, invocations, consecrations and degrees, under the headings the books give them, each linked to its page in 34 volumes the library publishes.
• Culpeper's herbs and their planets306 herbs and the planet Culpeper gives each, in his own sentence, page-cited, checked against the 1814 printing and linked to Agrippa's table of the same planet.
• The wand, as the books have itHow a wand is cut and of what wood, in the words of the Key of Solomon, Abramelin, Lévi and the Grand Grimoire; the rod of Moses; the wands of Hermes and Circe; the divining rod; and every wood the shelves name, with the planet each authority gives it.
• The dream books2,631 dream symbols across three dictionaries the library holds, each book's reading printed in full and cited, never merged.
• The Seventy-Two SpiritsAll seventy-two spirits of the Goetia, taken directly from the Lesser Key of Solomon as this library publishes it — name, rank, legions and the text itself, with the page cited for every one.
• The Seventy-Eight CardsAll seventy-eight tarot cards in A. E. Waite’s own words — his description, his divinatory meaning and his reversed meaning, taken from the Pictorial Key to the Tarot as this library publishes it.
• CorrespondencesWhat belongs to which planet, in Agrippa's own words — the elements, metals, stones, plants, animals, birds and fishes of the seven classical planets, searchable, with every attribution cited to its page.
• The Pantheon925 gods, goddesses and figures of myth — Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse, Hindu and more — taken from a public-domain dictionary of mythology this library publishes, each with the page it came from.
• The SkyMoon phases, equinoxes and solstices, the sun's signs, the sabbats and the meteor showers — computed from first principles and answered from the library's own shelves.

Reading and research

• What the collection says about itselfWhat 2,756 public-domain esoteric volumes reveal when counted rather than read: when they were printed, how the vocabulary of the subject changed, and what the collection cannot tell you.
• ReadingsClose readings of individual shelves: what each is made of, whose hand shaped it, and which of its books are arguing with each other.
• ConjecturesThe argument about the holes: 68 places where these manuscripts are damaged, and what two independent readers said could and could not be restored.
• Research vaultBackground research on subjects this library holds, commissioned from outside and checked against the shelf.

Around the library

• Documentaries8 documentaries the library points to at their own homes, never hosted, each with the volumes on these shelves its argument draws on.
• For webmastersHow to link to, embed and build on the library from another site: page links, a frame for any volume, the public JSON data and its shapes, a WordPress plugin, and the terms, which are free use with a source line.
• Suggest a bookSuggest a book for this free library — public domain, or in copyright with the author’s permission to pass it on. Tell us what it is and where it can be found.
• Report a rights claimIf you hold rights in a work in this library, tell us and we will review it. Anything credibly claimed is removed from public view while it is checked.
• Rights claimsA public record of rights claims made against works in this library, and what was decided.

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