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Notable Recent Additions
The Biography of the Bible (6/16/2009)
The Buddhist Catechism (6/11/2009)
The Path on the Rainbow (6/1/2009)
The World Bible (6/1/2009)
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (5/28/2009)
Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art (5/25/2009)
The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary (5/20/2009)
Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic (5/17/2009)
True Irish Ghost Stories (5/6/2009)
Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt (4/25/2009)
The Devils of Loudun (4/20/2009)
Folk-lore of Shakespeare (4/16/2009)
Illustrations of Masonry (4/9/2009)
The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries (3/29/2009)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (3/11/2009)
Records of the Past, 2:4 (3/8/2009)
Arabian Wisdom (3/4/2009)
The Golden Mountain (3/1/2009)
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3 (2/26/2009)
Jesus An Essene (2/10/2009)
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2 (2/5/2009)
The Oera Linda Book (2/2/2009)
Secret Science Behind Miracles (1/26/2009)
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1 (1/22/2009)
Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna (1/12/2009)
The Wisdom of the Talmud (1/3/2009)
Genji Monogatari (12/31/2008)
Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (12/28/2008)
Shinran and His Work (12/22/2008)
The Smoky God (12/19/2008)
Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery (12/8/2008)
The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala (12/2/2008)
The Creed of Half Japan (11/26/2008)
Abominable Snowmen (11/18/2008)
The Bustan of Sadi (11/9/2008)
Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Volume 1 (11/6/2008)
Principal Teachings of the True Sect of Pure Land (10/21/2008)
The Roman and Greek Questions of Plutarch (10/18/2008)
Chinese Occultism (10/15/2008)
The Art of War (10/12/2008)
Kung-Fu, or Tauist Medical Gymnastics (10/9/2008)
The Migration of Symbols (9/30/2008)
Salaman and Absal (9/26/2008)
Stolen Legacy (9/23/2008)
Initiation, Human and Solar, by Alice Bailey [1922] (9/20/2008)
Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46) (9/17/2008)