Religion and the Occult -- books on CD

Copyright © 2002 Richard Seltzer

The complete text of 1413 books (plus 834 sermons by Spurgeon) on CD.

This Web page shows the table of contents of our "Religion and the Occult" 2-CD set. Internal links will take you to the various sections, but you cannot get to the books themselves here on the Web. For that you need the CD.

Intended for use on Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs, this CD was compiled by Richard Seltzer. The books themselves are in the public domain. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its indexes, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com

This Religion and the Occult 2-CD set, with 1249 books, is available for $29 at our online store.

If you would like to have your PC (with speakers) read these texts aloud to you, while they are displayed in text on the screen, see below about the free ReadPlease software that we have included on this CD. (NB -- This version of  the ReadPlease software does not run on Macs).

For details about this publishing service, check the readme document. You can contact us at seltzer@samizdat.com, B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132-002. 617-469-2269.

User's Guide: Suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD

The vast majority of these books are in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original.  You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

  • Several huge works (The Talmud, Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, and Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica) are also presented in hmtl (Web format) or Word (.doc) with hyperlinks to make it easier for you to navigate to the passages you are interested in.
  • Click on a category to go to one of the major sections of this index page:

    Table of Contents of our Religion CD

    This Religion CD, with 1413 books, is available for $29 at our online store.


    Christianity

    The King James Bible

    The King James Bible, plus the Apocrphya as a single document


    Codex Junius, translations from the Anglo-Saxon version of select books of the Bible

    The Modern Reader's Bible: a series of works form the Sacred Scriptures presented in modern literary form edited by Richard G. Moulton, 1901

    The New Testament, American Bible Union, 1866

    The New Testament translated by Leicester Ambrose Sawyer, 1858

    The Prophete Ionas translated by William Tyndale (c. 1494-1536)

    The Douay-Rheims Bible

    World English Bible


    Apocrypha

    Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible also known as the Apocrypha *If when opening this file in IE, the lines extend to the right and do not wrap, either try opening it in Word or while in IE, click on View then on Source. That will show you the book in Notepad. If the lines are still long, in Notepad click Format, then click Word Wrap.


    Christian Bible in non-English languages

    Bible in Esperanto
    Bible in Swedish
    New Testament in Danish
    New Testament in Spanish (Reina Valera version)

    Books about the Christian Bible

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    Church History

  • History of the Catholic Church by James MacCaffrey
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    Christian Saints and Fathers and Saint-like Individuals

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    Catholic Church

  • History of the Catholic Church by James MacCaffrey
  • Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry (Cardinal) Newman)
  • The Autobiography of St. Ignatius [Loyola]
  • Autobiography of Madame Guyon
  • Bishop Laval by a. Leblond de Brumath, 1912
  • Cardinal Newman as a Musician by Edward Bellasis
  • A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (the Baltimore Catechism), 1885
  • part 1
  • part 2
  • part 3
  • A Cathechism of Familiar Things, 1881
  • Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose
  • Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly
  • Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Monsignor Baggs
  • Compte de l'Oeuvre de la Cathedrale de Chartres en 1415-1416 by M.L. Merlet [in French], 1889
  • Confession and Absolution by Monsignor Capel
  • Critical Miscellanies, volume II, essay 4 by Joseph de Maistre
  • The Cross and the Shamrock or How to Defend the Faith, an Irish-American Catholic Tale by a missionary priest
  • Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation by St. Thomas More
  • The Divine Office: a Study of the Roman Breviary by Rev. E.J. Quigley, 1920
  • The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, from the Mediations of Anne Catherine Emmerich
  • Early Double Monasteries by Constance Stoney
  • The Excellence of the Rosary by M.J. Frings
  • Explanation of Catholic Morals by John Stapleton
  • An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism by Rev. Thomas Kinhead
  • Exposition of the Apostle's Creed by Rev. James Dodds
  • The Faith of Our Fathers, Being a Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ by James Cardinal Gibbons, 1917
  • The Happiness of Heaven by F.J. Boudreaux
  • Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg
  • Hugh: Memoirs of a Brother by Arthur Christopher Benson
  • The Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott
  • Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation by a Religious of the Ursuline Community
  • The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois
  • Loss and Gain, the Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman
  • Lourdes by Robert Hugh Benson
  • Memoir by Father Vincent de Paul
  • Mexico and Its Religion by Robert Wilson
  • Of Natural and Supernatural Things by Basilius Valentinus, 1671
  • Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature by Emily Hickey, 1910
  • Paradoxes of Catholicism by robert Hugh Benson
  • Phases of Faith by Frances William Newman, 1874
  • The Practice of the Presence of God: the Best Rule of a Holy Life by Brother Lawrence, c. 1666
  • The Priest, The Woman, and the Confessional by Father Chiniquy
  • Projet de Restauration de Notre Dame de Paris
  • The Purpose of the Papacy by John Vaughan, Bishop of Sebastopolis
  • A Short Account of Romsey Abbey
  • A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart
  • Ten Reasons by Edmund Campion
  • A Treatise of the Cohabitacyon of the Faithfull with the unfaithfull by Peter Martyr (1206-1252)
  • Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 by W.D. Fellowes

  • Jesuit pioneers


    Greek Orthodox


    Ethiopian Church


    Church of England


    Matthew Henry  (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714),

  • Commentary on the Whole Bible

  • John Bunyan (1628-1688) brief bio at Wikipedia

    From The Works of John Bunyan, with an Introduction to Each Treatise, Notes, and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and Contemporaries, Experimental, Docrinal, and Practical. Edited by George Offor

    Martin Luther (1483-1546) and the Lutheran Church


    Adventist


    Baptist


    Jonathan Edwards  (1703 – 1758)


    Calvinist, Puritan, and Presbyterian


    Quaker


    Methodist


    Congregationalist


    United Brethern


    Unitarian


    Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science


    Huguenots


    Moravian Church


    Mormon Church/Church of the Latter Day Saints


    Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871-1952)


    Ellen G. White


    Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1762)


    Masons


    Salvation Army


    Christian Pilgrimages (travel to the Holy Land)


    Missionary Efforts

  • The American Missionary (periodical)

  • Sermons (see also, Charles Spurgeon, above)

  • The World's Great Sermons, edited by Grenville Kleiser

  • Other 17th, 18th, 19th Century Christian Writings


    Children, Sunday School, and Religious Training


    Christmas


    Church Music and Related Festivities


    Creationism


    Christian Historical Novels and Literature

    Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

  • La Divina Commedia
  • In Italian
  • In English translation:
  • translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Divine Comedy
  • translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary -- The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
  • translated by Charles Eliot Norton
  • Hell
  • Purgatory
  • Paradise
  • In German translation
  • Die Goetliche Komoedie
  • Il Convivo: The Banquet, translated by Elizabeth Sayer
  • about Dante
  • Dante: The Central Man of All the World by John Slattery

  • John Milton


    Leo Tolstoy


    Rev. A.D. Crake



     

    Jewish/Judaism

    Jewish Cooking

    Josephus


    Atheism


    Moslem/Islam


    Zoroastrianism (originally from Persia)


    Confucianism


    Taoism (translated by James Legge)


    Hinduism


    Buddhism


    India other


    China and Japan other


    Egypt/Babylon/Assyria


    About Religion and Ethics


    Anthropology and Myth


    Mysticism, Alchemy, Astrology, Magic, and the Occult


    This Religion and Occult CD, with 1413 books,  is available for $29 at our online store.


    Sacred Books of the East and related religious texts

    Some of the best books on this CD were obtained from the Internet Sacred Text Archive at www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm and are included here with their permission. Please visit their site and check the other riches they make available to the public for free.

    They note that: "The Sacred Books of the East (SBE) series, comprising fifty volumes, was issued by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Müller, who also produced many of the translations."

    HTML versions of those books are available at:

    Volumes 1 and 15 Upanishads, http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/upan/index.htm

    Volume 2 Sacred Laws of the Aryas volume 1 of 2 (Dharma Sutras)
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sla/index.htm

    Volume 3 The Sacred Books of China, vol. 1 of 6. Part I of The Texts of Confucianism.The Shû king. The religions portions of the Shih king. The Hsiâo king http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/sbe03/index.htm

    Volume 4 The Zend-Avesta, vol. 1 of 3 The Vendîdâd. http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe04/index.htm

    Volume 5 Pahlavi Texts, vol. 1 of 5 The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast La-Shayast.
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe05/index.htm

    Volumes 6 and 9, Qu'ran parts 1 and 2 http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/palm/index.htm

    Volume 7 Institutes of Vishnu http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe07/index.htm

    Volume 8 The Bhagavadgita With the Sanatsugâtiya and the Anugitâ
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/index.htm

    Volume 10 The Dhammapada and The Sutta-Nipâta, a collection of discourses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists, translated from Pâli; and The Dhammapada, a collection of verses, translated from Pâli  http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/index.htm

    Volume 11 Buddhist Suttas The Mahâ-parinibbâna Suttanta, The Dhamma-kakka-ppavattana Sutta, The Tevigga Suttanta, The Âkankheyya Sutta, The Ketokhila Sutta, The Mahâ-Sudassana Suttanta, The Sabbâsava Sutta.
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe11/index.htm

    Volume 13 Vinaya Texts, vol. 1 of 3 The Patimokkha. The Mahavagga, I-IV. http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe13/index.htm

    Volume 16 The Sacred Books of China, vol. 2 of 6 Part II of The Texts of Confucianism. The Yi King: (I Ching). http://www.sacred-texts.com/ich/index.htm

    Volume 21 The Saddharma-Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/lotus/index.htm

    Volume 23 The Zend-Avesta, vol. 2 of 3 The Sîrôzahs, Yasts, and Nyâyis.  http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/index.htm#sbe23

    Volume 24 Pahlavi Texts, vol. 3 of 5 Dinai Mainög-i khirad, Sikand-Gümanik Vigar, Sad Dar.  http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/index.htm#sbe24

    Volume 25 The Laws of Manu Translated, with extracts from seven commentaries. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/manu.htm

    Volume 27 The Sacred Books of China, vol. 3 of 6 Part III of the texts of Confucianism.
    The Lî Kî, part 1 of 2.  http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/liki/index.htm

    Volume 28 The Sacred Books of China, vol. 4 of 6 Part IV of the texts of Confucianism.
    The Lî Kî, part 2 of 2. http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/liki2/index.htm

    Volume 31 The Zend-Avesta, vol. 3 of 3 The Yasna, Visparad, Afrînagân, Gâhs, and miscellaneous fragments http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/index.htm#sbe31

    Volume 39 The Texts of Taoism, Part 1 of 2. The Sacred Books of China, vol. 5 of 6
    Also: The Tâo teh king (Tao te Ching): The writings of Kwang-tze, books I-XVII. http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/sbe39/sbe39.htm

    Volume 40 The Texts of Taoism, Part 2 of 2. The Texts of Taoism, Part 2 of 2. Includes The Writings of Kwang Tse, books XVII-XXXIII, The Thâi-shang tractate of actions and their retributions, other Taoist texts, and the Index to vols. 39 and 40. http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/sbe40/sbe40.htm

    Volume 42 Hymns of the Atharva-Veda Togther With Extracts From the Ritual Books and the Commentaries. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/av.htm

    Volume 48 The Vedanta-Sutras, vol 3 of 3. with the commentary of Râmânuja. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/index.htm

    The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides translated by M. Friedlander http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/gfp/gfp.htm

    The Ramayan of Valmimki, translated by Ralph Griffith, http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/index.htm

    The Tanach, the Jewish Bible, 1917 Jewish Publication Societies' English translation http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/index.htm

    Babylonian Talmud http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm

    Kabbala Denudat: The Kabbalah Unveiled, containing the following Books of the Zohar: The Book of Concealed Mystery, The Greater Holy Assembly, and The Lesser Holy Assembly, translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tku/index.htm

    Medieval Hebrew, featuring the Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish Biblical lore and legend  http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/mhl/index.htm

    Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth), translated by Charles Taylor http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/sjf/index.htm

    Kabbalah -- Sepher Yetzirah, translated by W.W. Westcott http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/yetzirah.htm

    Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/index.htm

    Hebraic Literature: translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/hl/index.htm

    The Golden Tractate by Hermes Trismegistus http://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/goldtrac.htm

    Paracelsus

    Helen Blavatsky -- Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine http://www.sacred-texts.com/the/index.htm


    How to install and use the free ReadPlease software included on this CD

    Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. (NB -- This version of  the ReadPlease software does not run on Macs). You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.

    Click here if you would like to install this software. When you click on that link, you will be asked wheter you want to save it on your computer or just run it. Choose Save -- it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select which version you want to install and the directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.

    When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the book aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows).

    When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and type whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

    Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer, more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their Web site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.  And you can contact them at: ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702



    Tips for using/enjoying the texts on this CD:

    The easiest way to get started is to click on My Computer, then on your CD drive, then on index.html. (That should bring you to here, in Word or your Web browser, or WordPad or Notepad, depending on your computer's setup.)

    From the index, click on an individual work to see the full text in your browser or in Word. Click "Back" in your browser to return here.  Use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document.

    When you stop reading, jot down the last phrase (a unique set of words) so you can search for that the next time you want to read and easily find the spot where you left off.

    If you just want to read and if you have a large screen, use your browser and under View increase the type size to meet your taste.

    If you just want to read and you have a small screen, try using WordPad or Word.

    If you want to take notes while you read, first save the file on your hard drive, then open it in WordPad or Word, enter your notes with the text (making them distinctive with bold or italic or by enclosing them in brackets] as you go along, and save the entire file, with those changes, when you are done.

    If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font and type size (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As] with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).


    Note regarding copyright:  On our "Classic Collections" CDs, we include works published in the US before 1923, works from Australia and Canada when the author died 50 years or more ago, and works from the European Union (including the United Kingdom and Ireland) when the author died 70 years or more ago. NB -- Due to The European Union's extension of copyright by 20 years to 70 years after the death of the author many works which had been in the public domain under the previous law are now once again under copyright. Hence we are unable to include on our CDs some popular writers whose works are still readily available over the Internet.


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