FULL LIST OF TEACHING LINKS   

These are our links to all manner of websites, some more helpful than others. The presence of any link here does not indicate an endorsement of any kind: this set of links is meant to be of use for university and college faculty teaching in this field. We are doing our best to offer links to sites that are of value to you: please let us know if you have problems with any of them, or if you know of another site of more use. This is not a comprehensive set of links, by any means, but it is organized more or less according to historical periods. The research for this site was done by Joshua Strozeski, who is our current archivist. You may, as always, contact us at our address: studies@esoteric.msu.edu.

             

                                                                             

Antiquity

Ancient Christian magical texts
Ancient Christian Magical Texts
  

Sites for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean World
The Ancient World Web
Magic in Late Antiquity
The Coptic Network
Alexandria in the Roman Period
Classical Greek Mythology
Digital Library of the Ancient World, With Maps
Classical Mythology

Early Christian Documents
Guide to Early Church Documents, Institute for Christian Leadership
Ecole Initiative, Early Church Documents
St. Pachomius Library
Early Church Fathers at Wheaton
Fathers of the Church

Primary Works Concerning Gnosticism
Nag Hammadi Library/Gnostic Society
The Gnostic Society Library

Anti-Gnostic Works
Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses
Polemical Works against the Gnostics
Tertullian, The Prescription against Heretics
Tertullian, Against the Valentinians

Contemporary Gnostic Works
The Holy Gnostic Rosary
Sophia's Tale Retold
Benediction, Ecclesia Gnostica

Additional Sites for the Study of Modern Varieties of Gnosticism
Gnostic Christian Church Directory
The Gnosis Site

General Sites for the Study of Gnosticism
Societas Gnostica Norvegia Hotlist
WWW Resources for Gnosticism and Nag Hammadi
The Gnosis Archive
The Gnostic Society Virtual Library
The Gospel of Thomas Home Page
Noncanonical Homepage
"Thunder, Perfect Mind" translated by George W. MacRae (NHLE)
Ecclesia Gnostica Home Page

More Gnostic writings and groups
Nag Hammadi and Berlin Gnostic Library, index of online texts 
Gnostic Scriptures and Fragments 
The Books of the Saviour, online texts
The Books of the Pistis Sophia, online texts
Secondary Sources, Polemical and Critical Works of the Church Fathers
Text of "The Six Enneads"
Short biographies of Christian Gnostics
The Gnostic Society Library
Text of The Apocryphon of John
The Apocalypse of Adam
"Sampler" Gnostic introductory texts

Zoroastrian texts:
Zoroastrian Texts
Yasna
Catechism
Old Persian Texts (I)
Old Persian Texts (II)
Old Persian Texts (III)
Old Persian Texts (IV)
Old Persian Texts (V)

Neoplatonic Sources:
Neoplatonists I 
Neoplatonists II (Plotinus)
Neoplatonists III (Plotinus ii)

Hermetic Writings:
Online texts, including "The Emerald Tablet," "The Divine Pymander," and "A Treatise on Initiations"
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
The Hermetic Musaeum, with articles, resources, bibliographies, texts and images

St. Augustine:
Augustine (general I) 
Augustine (general II)
Confessions
City of God
On Christian Doctrine
Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love 

Medieval Period

General Links
Medieval Period

Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart (General)
Meister Eckhart

Johannes Tauler
John Tauler (inner way)
John Tauler (Latin Library)
John Tauler (Source Book)
John Tauler (General) 

St. Thomas Aquinas:
St. Thomas Aquinas (General)
Summa Theologica I
Summa Theologica II  
Summa and philosophy
Catena Aurea
Mark

Cornelius Agrippa
Agrippa Writings I
Agrippa Writings II

Julian of Norwich
Revelations of the Divine

St.John of the Cross
St. John of the Cross (general)
Ascent of Mount Carmel
Dark Night of the Soul
A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul
Collected Works

 

Early Modern Period

Witches in the Seventeenth Century
Guazzo
Bamberg
Ardennes
Marga Jones

Malleus Maleficarum
The Malleus Maleficarum

Alchemical writings:
Alchemical writings I
Alchemical writings II (texts)

Jacob Boehme (Boehmen)
Jacob Boehme (General I)
Jacob Boehme (General II)
Overview of the Androgyne in Boehmean Theosophy and Related Currents
The Way to Christ (I)
The Way to Christ (II)
Of Heaven and Hell
The Supersensual Life
The Way From Darkness
Of True Resignation 
Of True Repentence
Of Regeneration or The New Birth (I)
Of Regeneration or The New Birth (II) 

Swedenborg
Swedenborg Association
Swedenborg Writings, online texts, lists, software for scholars
Text of "Heaven and its Wonders and Hell" from Things Heard and Seen

William Blake
William Blake (general)
William Blake (general II)
The Song of Innocence
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Roscicrucian writings:
Roscicrucian Writings

Freemasonry:
The Dionysian Artificers (1820)
"What is Freemasonry?" by Aleister Crowley

 

Sites for the Study of Contemporary Magical or Esoteric Groups and Individuals:

Franz Bardon
Franz Bardon Writings I (Healing)
Franz Bardon Writings II (Magic)

Fraternitas Saturni
Fraternitas Saturni Writings (Koenig I)
(Koenig II)
(Koenig III)

Servants of Light
Servants of Light (general)

Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley: Writings
Aleister Crowley

 

Jewish Mysticism

Kabbalah:
Kabbalah (General I)
Kabbalah (General II)
Kabbalah (General III)

Sepher Yetzirah:
Sepher Yetzirah i
Sepher Yetzirah ii
Sepher Yetzirah iii

 

Modern Philosophers Influenced by the Christian Theosophy of Jacob Böhme

Soren Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard Writings

Pavel Florensky
The Pillar and Ground of the Truth 

Vladimir Solovyov
Solovyov Writings I
Solovyov Writings II

Nikolai Berdyaev:
Berdyaev (General)
Berdyaev (Thought Overview)
Berdyaev (Four Russian Thinkers)

Russian Philosophers' Portrait Gallery

Sources for the Study of New Religious Movements

New Religious Movements (NRM):
NRM- University of Virginia
NRM- Profiles

CESNUR

Global Observatory's Resource Information
SYZYGY- Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture
Nova Religio
Nova Religio- Links to other sites for the study of NRMs
NRM-University of Stirling
Religion and Spirituality

NUREL Home page
Anticult and Counter Culture Links

Jonestown:
Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and The Peoples Temple

General Links:

University of Amsterdam Academic Program in Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents

New Age search engine with links
Links to Theological Texts at the Michigan Electronic Library
Guide to Esotericism with biographies and links
Mysticism in World Religions
Resources from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Middle East Mysticism Resources
Full-text resources for Medieval writings
Links to Ancient Wisdom writings

Esoteric Archives

Roman Catholic Papal Encyclical (Refers to "neo-Gnostic" tendencies of the New Age)
Roman Catholic Encyclical *Fides et Ratio* (1998)