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A Year with the Birds

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W. Warde Fowler


William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the his…

The Astral Plane: Its Inhabitants, Scenery, and Phenomena

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C. W. Leadbeater


Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public dema…

William Blake

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G. K. Chesterton


From the author’s introduction: "Blake’s life of Blake … would have been full of symbolic wild beasts and naked women, of monstrous cl…

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot

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Wilkie Collins


Two travellers, the writer of this book, and an artist friend who is the companion of his ramble, explored Cornwall together, on foot in the…

Practical Mysticism (Version 2)

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Evelyn Underhill


I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…

Orthodoxy (Version 3)

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G. K. Chesterton


… [In] its pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state t…

How the Whale Got His Throat

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 038

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Rudyard Kipling


Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 038: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Lecture II - On the Threshold of Religion: Survivals

In The Religious Experience of the Roman People

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W. Warde Fowler


A series of lectures delivered by Professor Fowler at Edinburgh University for a public audience, concerning the development and decay of t…

Mahayanist Metaphysics

In Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2

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Charles Eliot


Started in 1907, An Historical Sketch was a work in 3 volumes. The author was a British diplomat posted to Asia and his great work was inter…

If I knew What Poets Know - Read by DBG

In If I knew What Poets Know

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James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of If I knew What Poets Know by James Whitcomb Riley.This was the Weekly Poetry project for July…

Psalm 84. Quam dilecta!

In The Psalmes of David (Sidney Psalms)

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Sir Philip Sidney


A poetic version of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) and his sister, Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621). &…

Book 2 Chapter 4. Plurality of existences.

In The Spirits' Book

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Allan Kardec


The Spirits' Book, published in French in 1857, is considered the most important book in the Spiritist philosophy. It contains the bases for…