Scriptures

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Perístanom is a syncretic religion. As such, its scriptures consist of all of the sacred texts of all of the world’s great faith traditions, whereof some are included below in English translations as files in ‘Portable Document Format’ (PDF).

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Bahá'í

Bahá'í Scriptures

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Buddhism

A Buddhist Bible

The Word of the Buddha

The Gospel of Buddha

In the Buddha’s Words

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists

Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism

Dhammapada

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Christianity

Holy Bible with Annotations

Holy Bible with Apocrypha

Bible: English Standard Version

Bible: Douay–Rheims Version

The Gnostic Bible

Nag Hammadi Library

Divina Commedia

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Divine Comedy

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

Beowulf

Le Morte d’Arthur

The Silmarillion

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

The Return of the King

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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Confucianism

Analects

I Ching

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Hellenism

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Theogony

Works and Days

The Aeneid

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Hinduism

Rig Veda

Yajur Veda

Sama Veda

Atharva Veda

Upanishads

Bhagavad Gita

Mahabharata

Ramayana

Puranas

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Humanism

Answer

The Last Question

The Jefferson Bible

The Good Book: A Humanist Bible

On the Origin of Species

Bertrand Russell

A History of Western Philosophy

Quantum Questions

Cosmos

Cosmos 1: A Personal Voyage

Cosmos 1.01: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean

Cosmos 1.02: One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue

Cosmos 1.03: Harmony of the Worlds

Cosmos 1.04: Heaven and Hell

Cosmos 1.05: Blues for a Red Planet

Cosmos 1.06: Travellers’ Tales

Cosmos 1.07: The Backbone of Night

Cosmos 1.08: Journeys in Space and Time

Cosmos 1.09: The Lives of the Stars

Cosmos 1.10: The Edge of Forever

Cosmos 1.11: The Persistence of Memory

Cosmos 1.12: Encyclopaedia Galactica

Cosmos 1.13: Who Speaks for Earth?

Cosmos 2: A Spacetime Odyssey

Cosmos 2.01: Standing Up in the Milky Way

Cosmos 2.02: Some of the Things That Molecules Do

Cosmos 2.03: When Knowledge Conquered Fear

Cosmos 2.04: A Sky Full of Ghosts

Cosmos 2.05: Hiding in the Light

Cosmos 2.06: Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still

Cosmos 2.07: The Clean Room

Cosmos 2.08: Sisters of the Sun

Cosmos 2.09: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth

Cosmos 2.10: The Electric Boy

Cosmos 2.11: The Immortals

Cosmos 2.12: The World Set Free

Cosmos 2.13: Unafraid of the Dark

Pale Blue Dot

The Demon-Haunted World

The Parable of the Tribes

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Islam

Qur’an

Sahih al-Bukhari

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Jainism

Akaranga Sutra

Jainism Treatise

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Judaism

Tanakh

Tales and Maxims

Tanhuma

Talmud

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Modern Indo-European

A Grammar of Modern Indo-European

A Tentative Syntax of Modern Indo-European

Modern Indo-European Writing System

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Mormonism

Holy Bible with Annotations

The Book of Mormon

Doctrine and Covenants

The Pearl of Great Price

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Omega Point

The Phenomenon of Man

The Physics of Immortality

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Politics

The Earth Charter

The Charter for Compassion

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

The Sneetches and Other Stories

The Lorax

The Butter Battle Book

The Wealth of Nations

Manifesto of the Communist Party

Das Kapital

A People’s History of the United States

Voices of a People’s History of the United States

A People’s History of the World

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Psychology

The Golden Bough

The White Goddess

Man and His Symbols

Carl Jung

Face to Face

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

The Masks of God I: Primitive Mythology

The Masks of God II: Oriental Mythology

The Masks of God III: Occidental Mythology

The Masks of God IV: Creative Mythology

Mythos 1: The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition

Mythos 1.1: Psyche & Symbol

Mythos 1.2: The Spirit Land

Mythos 1.3: On Being Human

Mythos 1.4: From Goddesses to God

Mythos 1.5: The Mystical Life

Mythos 2: The Shaping of the Eastern Tradition

Mythos 2.1: The Inward Path

Mythos 2.2: The Enlightend One

Mythos 2.3: Our Eternal Selves

Mythos 2.4: The Way to Illumination

Mythos 2.5: The Experience of God

Mythos 3: The Shaping of the Western Tradition

Mythos 3.1: Love as the Guide

Mythos 3.2: The Path of the Heart

Mythos 3.3: Beyond Time and Space

Mythos 3.4: Between Pairs of Opposites

Mythos 3.5: Into the Well of Myth

Sukhavati: Place of Bliss

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth

The Power of Myth: The Hero’s Adventure

The Power of Myth: The Message of the Myth

The Power of Myth: The First Storytellers

The Power of Myth: Sacrifice and Bliss

The Power of Myth: Love and the Goddess

The Power of Myth: Masks of Eternity

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Shinto

Kojiki

Nihon Shoki

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Sikhism

Guru Granth Sahib

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Taoism

Tao Te Ching

Zhuangzi

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Wicca

The Book of Shadows

Witchcraft for Tomorrow

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Zoroastrianism

Gathas

Avesta

Khordeh Avesta

Visperad

Vendidad

Avesta Fragments

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