Primary sources. No gurus. No fake quotes.

The world's wisdom traditions, from their primary sources.

AKASHA is a research library of ancient and esoteric thought — the texts themselves, dated and in named translations, with the scholarship around them and an honest account of what later traditions added. Free to read, without an account.

How the Archive Works

A library, not a guru

Primary sources

Every quotation names its translator, its edition and its place in the text, and comes from a translation we are free to print. Where none exists, we paraphrase and point you to the original.

Evidence you can see

Each claim is marked Attested, Contested or Not supported. Our own interpretation is kept apart from the tradition's voice and labelled as ours.

Checked by someone else

Every entry is read by an independent reviewer before it is published, and carries a revision history. When we find an error, we correct it and say so.

AKASHA does not teach a path or claim spiritual authority. It shows you what the texts say, what has been added to them since, and what has simply been made up — and leaves the walking to you.

In Preparation

Series One: Creation Accounts

How the world begins, told tradition by tradition in the order of each one's earliest surviving source — not the age a tradition claims for itself. Each entry gives the sources and their dates, the account in public-domain translation, the key terms in their own languages, and what later esoteric traditions made of it.

  1. 01

    Mesopotamian

    Sumerian fragments · Atra-ḫasīs · Enūma eliš

  2. 02

    Egyptian

    Pyramid Texts · Coffin Texts · Memphite Theology

  3. 03

    Vedic

    Ṛgveda 10.129, 10.90, 10.121 · Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad

  4. 04

    Hebrew Bible

    Genesis 1–3 · Psalms · Job

  5. 05

    Greek

    Hesiod · the Derveni papyrus · Plato's Timaeus

…continuing through Iranian, Chinese, Hermetic, Gnostic, Neoplatonic, Jewish mystical, Norse, Maya and Hawaiian sources.

Being Re-checked

Popular claims, checked against the sources

Our first corrections were written before the library's current rules. Each is being re-checked against the primary sources and read by an independent reviewer; the earlier pages stay readable, clearly marked, until the checked version replaces them. Checked versions are listed first.

All corrections →

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  • Your Grimoire — a private research journal
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  • The Codex and the Compass, as new entries are published
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