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The Meaning Of Masonry by W. L. Wilmshurst A look inside the symbolism of Masonry. The papers here collected have been written with a view to promoting the deeper understanding of the meaning of Masonry; to providing the explanation of it that one constantly hears called for. The meaning...

A Vedic Reader By Arthur Anthony Macdonell Containing Thirty Hymns Of The Rigveda In The Original Samhita And Pada Texts. About the Author: "Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1854 - 1930), 7th of Lochgarry, was a noted Sanskrit scholar. Macdonell was born in India and educated...

Folk-Lore Of Women by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer Folklore of misogny would probably be a better title for this book. Replete with Victorian stereotypes of women, this book draws on many different traditions from around the world to portray women as simultaneously the 'weaker sex' and the...

UNDER THE SUNSET by Bram Stoker Under the Sunset is a short story by Bram Stoker.“Under the Sunset” is a fairy tale written by the famous Bram Stoker, writer of Dracula. This little tale is about a land described as “under the sunset” and the story of what happens when hearts grow cold. About...

YACHT CLUB SERIES by OLIVER OPTIC (WILLIAM TAYLOR ADAMS) This Series contains 3 existing novels: Little Bobtail The Yacht Club The Coming Wave About the Author: Oliver Optic (William Taylor Adams) (July 30, 1822 – March 27, 1897) was a noted academic,...

The Religion Of The Sikhs by Dorothy Field This entry in the Wisdom of the East series is the only one devoted to the Sikh religion. This volume, written by a sympathetic westerner at the turn of the 20th century, includes background on the history, beliefs and sacred texts of the Sikh religion....

Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art by John Vinycomb This is a review of the folk-lore of animals, mostly of a legendary or purely symbolic nature, particularly as appearing in English Heraldry. It's a gold-mine of lore about such fantastic beasts as the hydra, the basilisk, the phoenix,...

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont Originally published in 1911. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake Orion Press Hardcover, First published in 1967, copyright 1967, with 54 Plates. - Wm. Blake was a great artist as well as one of the greatest poets in the English language. Blake wrote out his poems with the surrounding designs, etched...

Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia by Baldwin Spencer This is a comprehensive ethnography of the Australian Aborigines of Northern Australia, particularly the group known as the Kakadu, and the tribes of Melville Island. This is one of about half a dozen ethnographies written...

Tom Tit Tot, An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale by Edward Clodd IN commenting on the prominent example of the conversion of the old epics into allegories which is supplied by Tennyson's Idylls of the King, whereby the legends 'lose their dream reality without gaining the reality of...

The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish. by E. A. Wallis Budge "THIS brochure, The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish, was originally written by the late Keeper of the Department, SIR ERNEST WALLIS BUDGE, LITT.D., F.S.A. It is now re-issued in...

Babylonian Talmud Book 1 (Vols. I and II) Translated by Michael L. Rodkinson On this, the appearance of our latest literary undertaking, we deem a few explanatory remarks necessary. The brief outline of the origin of the Talmud that follows may suggest the thought that we have departed from...

The Satapatha Brahmana, Part II 
by Julius Eggeling THE contents of the third and fourth books of the Satapatha-brâhmana form an important chapter of its dogmatic explanation of the sacrificial ceremonial. This portion of the work treats of the ordinary forms of the most sacred of Vedic...