Sacred Texts of the World – Free Downloads

We’ve compiled a list of our picks of spiritual texts from around the world. In our view these are much better than the products of modern commercialized spirituality, and are written by those who’ve clearly had personal experience of the process of enlightenment. More may be listed as we find sources for them.

The Flight of the Feathered Serpent by Armando Cosani

This little known work is a treasure of esoteric teachings which was published in the 1950s but contains writings said to be that of Judas Iscariot, including a first hand account of the betrayal. This book explained the divine role Jesus gave Judas – decades before the ancient text the Gospel of Judas was discovered and revealed the same.
Download it as a free eBook here

Taoist Texts

The Tao Te Ching

A misunderstood book that has given rise to countless do nothing or there is no path ideas. It relates to the Absolute, the source, the one, and the individual who attains it. If its read in that context, it can be better understood.

Translated by Gia Fu Feng and Jane English (pdf with illustrations)
Translated by Lionel Giles (html)

The Secret of the Golden Flower

Translated by Richard Wilhelm (pdf)

Hindu Texts

The Mahabarata

About the struggles and the wars that have to be fought against darkness in the process of awakening. This is the most complete version available in the English Language. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/mahatxt.zip

The Bhagavad Gita

A modern translation:
Translation by Shri Purohit Swami (pdf)

Older translations:
Translation by Edwin Arnold (html) Translation by Swami Swarupananda (html)

The Ramayana

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (multiple formats) Translated by C. Rajagopalachari (pdf)

The Rig Veda

The oldest of all Vedas.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (pdf)

Christian Texts

These are the most esoteric Christian texts, containing profound knowledge. The early Christians carried on practicing and teaching the esoteric wisdom of Jesus until they were persecuted out of visible existence. Deemed as heresy by the orthodoxy, their texts were banned and buried for over a thousand years.

The Nag Hammadi Library

The Nag Hammadi Library was a cache of esoteric Christian texts discovered in 1945 in Egypt after they had laid buried for over 1,500 years. They include incredible never before seen teachings of Jesus and the disciples, as they were part of a large number of texts that were excluded from the Bible. Although there are many texts that make up the library, the following texts are those that recount events and insights from the lives and experiences of some of the apostles:

The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
The (First) Apocalypse of James
The (Second) Apocalypse of James
The Apocalypse of Peter
The Letter of Peter to Philip

The scriptures below contain the sayings of Jesus, as well as further information about his life:

The Apocryphon of James ~ Williams translations (html), Cameron translation (html)
The Book of Thomas the Contender ~ pdf, html
The Gospel of Thomas ~ Patterson & Meyer translation (html), Lambdin translation (html), Patterson & Robinson translation (html)
The Apocryphon of John
The Gospel of Phillip
The Dialogue of the Savior

Pistis Sophia

This is an extraordinary and highly esoteric work, whose title means ‘the faith of Sophia’. It is possibly one of the few texts known to give detailed information on the final stages of enlightenment, which are rarely experienced let alone written down. It is an account of the conversations Jesus has for 11 years in secret with his disciples on the Mount of Olives following his resurrection. He speaks about the salvation of the consciousness (the immortal divine spark within each person) through Christ, which is an account of the stages experienced in the spiritual work. He describes vast spiritual regions and dimensions full of other beings, the process of rebirth and reincarnation of the soul through its “circuit of lives”, and discourses at length with the female disciples Mary Magdalene, Salome, Martha and his mother Mary, who were kept out of the orthodox depiction of the disciples.

Translated by G.R.S. Mead (html)

The Odes of Solomon

A beautiful poetic text dated to around the 2nd or 3rd century AD and referred to by Jesus and the disciples in the text the Pistis Sophia above. Although the title is attributed to Solomon, this is not an Old Testament text, but part of the writings following Jesus. Incredibly, this is a text that appears to have been studied by the disciples themselves.

pdf, html

The Essene Gospel of Peace

One treasure of esoteric teachings that managed to find its way out of the Vatican Library (we can only wonder what else remains inside, locked away from humanity). It reveals a very different picture of femininity in spirituality than found in many of the texts of the Bible that were not part of what Jesus taught. In it, Jesus reveals that we not only have a Heavenly Father, but also an Earthly Mother, and describes the role she has in creation and our lives.

Translated by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely (html)