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This is the new page for foundational texts in PDF  format only, regarding Astronomy,  Hermetica, Alchemy, Qabala and related subjects. Please be advised that many books in this section are in Latin, Greek or Hebrew and in some cases exceed 50 mgs. Broadband connection is strongly advised for downloading larger files. Some of these PDF  files require Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 or higher

 

 

Renaissance:

Adam, Master (attrib). Sefer HaShmoth. Book of the Names

_____,  Idra Rabba Qadusha

Agrippa, Henry Cornelius. Of Occult Philosophy or Of Magical Ceremonies. Book One Book Two. Book Three Book Four

_____, Of Geomancy

Browne,  Sir Thomas Religio Medici

Burton,  Robert.  The Anatomy of Melancholy. (Project Guttenberg) Book One Book Two Book Three Book Four

Castaglione, Baldassar. The Book of the Courtier (London 1561) 

Culpeper, Nicholas : The English physitian:  (London : Peter Cole, 1652.)

_____,  Opus_Astrologicum

Dee, John  Monas Hieroglyphica  (Latin original)

_____, The Hieroglyphic Monad (English edition.)

Fell-Smith, Charlotte. John Dee (biography)

Ficino, Marsilio. Tractatus (1518)

Finkin, Jordan Maintaining God’s Living Reality Through Images of the Torah in the Zohar

Fludd, Robert. Utriusque Cosmi Historia (Latin - over 200 mgs)

Kircher, Athanasius. Oedipus Aegyptiacus. Book One. Book Two (Latin & Hebrew) Temporarily Unavailable

Michael Laitman, Rav. The Book of Zohar.

Maimonides, Moses. The Guide for the Perplexed. Trans. M. Friedlander. 2nd Ed. 1904

Rabbi  Shimon Bar Yochai. Zohar. (Hebrew)

Sefer HaZohar. Mantuan Codex: Shmoth II: 186b

 

Classical:

Archimedes. Archemedis Opera Omnia (Latin)

Aristotle. Metaphysics 

_____, On Dreams

Boylan, Patrick. Thoth: The Hermes of Egypt

Chambers,  John David. The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus (1892)

Croxall, Samuel The Secret History of Pythagoras.

D' Olivet, Fabre. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras

Enoch.  Ethiopian Book of Enoch. Trans. & Intro. Andy McCracken

_____, Three Books. (Selections with Commentary.)

Euclid. Elements of Geometry The Greek text of J.L. Heiberg (1883–1885) Trans. Richard Fitzpatrick

Heath, T.L  Aristarchus of Samos: The Ancient Copernicus. A History of Greek Astronomy to Aristarchus

Hermes Trismegistus. The Corpus Hermeticum. Trans. G.R.S. Mead

Liddell and Scott. A Concise Greek-English Lexicon.

Philo of Alexandria. On the Creation

Plato: Timeaus. Ed. Intro. R.D. Archer Hind. 1888. (376 pp)

Plotinus. Enneads. Trans. Stephen Mackenna and B. S. Page

Ptolemy, Claudius. The Centiloquy. Compiled by Todd Carnes

_____,  Opera Quae Exstant Omnia

_____, Phaseis Trans. Alexander Jones

_____, Syntaxis Mathematica. Ed. J.L Heiberg. (Greek Text.)

_____, The Tetrabiblos 1822. Ed. P. James Clark.  (Revised)  2008

Sefer Yetzirah: Book of Formation.

Smyth, Herbert Weir. Greek Grammar for Colleges. (1920)

 

History of Astronomy & Miscellany:

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Ahmad, Imad & Volker Doormann: Astronomy of Babylon

 

Al Biruni Chronology of Ancient Nations

 

------, India Part I

 

____, India Part II

 

Anonymous: Assyrian Astrology

 

Bey, Amir. Egyptian Astrology

Brahe, Tycho. Astronomiæ Instauratæ Mechanica (Latin) PDF

Carpenter, Edward. The Symbolism of the Zodiac 

 

Cruttenden, W. & V. Dayes: Understanding Precession of the Equinox

 

deVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology

 

Fitzpatrick, Richard A Modern Almagest : An Updated Version of Ptolemy’s Model of the Solar System. Highly recommended

 

Fowler, Michael. How the Greeks Used Geometry to Understand the Stars

 

_____,   Early Greek Science: Thales to Plato  

  

Harris, John N. The Star of Babylon & Bethlehem

 

Heindel, Max & Augusta Foss  The Message of the Stars (Chapter XXX)

 

McDonald, Michael Jonathan. 'Astreology'

Pundit Bapu Deva Satri. Surya Siddhantra (A Text Book of Hindu Astronomy) Trans. Lancelot Wilkinson PDF

Whyte, Nicholas. The Assassination of Domitian

_____, Medieval Time Keeping

_____, Roger of Hereford's Liber de Astronomice iudicandi:  (A Twelfth-Century Astrologer's Manual)

 

 

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