Religion and the Occult -- books on CD

Copyright © 2002 Richard Seltzer

The complete text of 1025 books and 834 sermons (by Spurgeon).

This Web page shows the table of contents of our "Religion and the Occult" CD. 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 CD, with 1025 books, in plain text, 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 ROM

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.

One exception -- Telling Fortunes by Tea Leaves is in html format instead of plain text, to accommodate 20 illustrations.

We publish plain text books (unencrypted) on CD, and we want to provide a simple way for customers and other interested people to share their insights into how to get the most out of this new way of reading and studying. To do so we have set up an email discussion group at Yahoo. All are welcome to join and to post here, but I'll manage this group in "moderated" style, filtering messages before they go out to the whole group, to control the volume of the messages and to make sure that they are on-topic. Tips and information that would be helpful to people you have plain text books on CD are welcome -- including examples of how you are using yours, suggestions for improvement,  suggestions for future CDs, and useful/interesting texts found on the Web that should be included in future CDs. To subscribe, go to the discussion group Web site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plaintextbooksoncd  or send a blank email to plaintextbooksoncd-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Click on a category to go to one of the major sections of this index page:

NB -- If you are interested primarily in Christian texts (Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant), including little-known and difficult-to-find works, you should also visit the Web site of Christian Classics Ethereal Library at www.ccel.org and/or buy from them their CD with all of their texts for $29. We didn't want to duplicate their good work.

Table of Contents of our Religion CD

This Religion CD, with 1025 books, in plain text, is available for $29 at our online store.

Jewish/Judaism

Jewish Cooking

Josephus

Christianity

The King James Bible

The King James Bible as a single document

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

*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.

Church History

  • History of the Catholic Church by James MacCaffrey
    • *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 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]
  • Bishop Laval by a. Leblond de Brumath, 1912
  • 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
  • A Treatise of the Cohabitacyon of the Faithfull with the unfaithfull by Peter Martyr (1206-1252)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lourdes by Robert Hugh Benson
  • Memoir by Father Vincent de Paul
  • Mexico and Its Religion by Robert Wilson
  • 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 History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart
  • Ten Reasons by Edmund Campion
  • Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 by W.D. Fellowes

    • Jesuit pioneers

    Greek Orthodox

    Church of England

    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

    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)

    • Christian 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

    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