Sacred Texts & Scriptures
Scriptures and wisdom literature from the world’s traditions.
Sacred texts are the foundational scriptures of the world’s religious and wisdom traditions — the works communities have held to carry revelation, sacred story, or the distilled insight of their sages. They range from vast canonical collections to single luminous poems.
This guide gathers scriptures and wisdom literature across cultures, with particular attention to their mystical and esoteric dimensions — the Eastern classics of Vedanta, Buddhism and Daoism alongside the sacred books of the Western world.
Essential Texts
Start Here
Follow your interest: the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching are short, profound, and widely translated. Each offers a complete vision of the spiritual life in a few pages.
From the Collection
A Manual of Khsnoom – The Zoroastrian Occult Knowledge
Anonymous
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga (The Yoga of Wisdom)
Yogi Ramacharaka
Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism
Yogi Ramacharaka
Alberuni's India. An account of the religion, philosophy, literature, geography, chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astrology of India about A.D. 1030
Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad, 973?-1048
Alberuni's India. An account of the religion, philosophy, literature, geography, chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astrology of India about A.D. 1030
Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad, 973?-1048
1030 · English · Indic Traditions