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• Early works to 1800

• Eleusinian mysteries -- Early works to 1800

• Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham for the translator, 1821), by Iamblichus, trans. by Thomas Taylor, contrib. by Porphyry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (second edition; London: B. Dobell, and Reeves and Turner, 1895), by Iamblichus, trans. by Thomas Taylor, contrib. by Porphyry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• On the Mysteries, by Andocides (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Arts of Orpheus (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1941), by Ivan M. Linforth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christianity as Mystical Fact; and the Mysteries of Antiquity (West Nyack, NY: Rudolf Steiner Publications, c1961), by Rudolf Steiner, trans. by E. A. Frommer, Gabrielle Hess, and Peter Kandler (HTML at elib.com)
• Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World (1929), by Harold R. Willoughby (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Mystery-Schools, by Grace F. Knoche (HTML at TUP)
• Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries (London: Philip Wellby, 1906), by Edouard Schuré, trans. by Fred Rothwell (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Ancient and Modern Initiation, by Max Heindel (HTML at phoenixmasonry.org)
• Christianity as Mystical Fact; and the Mysteries of Antiquity (third edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by Rudolf Steiner, ed. by Harry Collison
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: or the Great Gods of Phenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete (2 volumes; Oxford: At the University press for the author, 1803), by George Stanley Faber (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (1928), by Manly P. Hall (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• On the Origin of Free-Masonry (published posthumously, with some passages critical of Christianity omitted; New York: Elliot and Crissy, 1810), by Thomas Paine, ed. by Margaret Brazier de Bonneville
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Origin of All Religious Worship (with a description of the zodiac of Dandarah; New Orleans, 1872), by Dupuis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (second edition; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1908), by Jane Ellen Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: or the Great Gods of Phenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete (2 volumes; Oxford: At the University press for the author, 1803), by George Stanley Faber (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)

• The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries (4th edition; New York: J.W. Bouton, [1891]), by Thomas Taylor, ed. by Alexander Wilder (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites (London and Denver: Theosophical Pub. House, 1919), by Dudley Wright (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Porphyrii De Philosophia ex Oraculis Haurienda: Librorum Reliquiae (main text in Greek, commentary in Latin; Springer, 1856), by Porphyry, ed. by Gustav Wolff
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Gleanings of Antiquities (London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1724), by John Beaumont
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Book of Fate: Formerly in the Possession of and Used by Napoleon (New York: H. S. Nichols, 1923), trans. by H. Kirchenhoffer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Sibylline Oracles, Books III-V (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1918), trans. by H. N. Bate (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sibylline Oracles, Translated from the Greek into English Blank Verse, trans. by Milton Spenser Terry (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• De Anaxandrida Polemone Hegesandro Rerum Delphicarum Scriptoribus (in Latin with extensive Greek quotations; 1865), by Ludwig Weniger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Religio Medici; Its Sequel, Christian Morals (both works, presented with similar passages from Cowper; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1844), by Thomas Browne, ed. by John Peace, contrib. by William Cowper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1893), by Friedrich Schleiermacher, trans. by John Oman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici, by Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at CCEL
  • HTML at Bartleby

• Of Justification: Four Disputations Clearing and Amicably Defending the Truth, Against the Unnecessary Oppositions of Divers Learned and Reverend Brethren (London: Printed by R. White for N. Simmons and N. Elkins, 1658), by Richard Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Evident Demonstration to Gods Elect (London: Printed for T. Simmons, 1660), by Margaret Fell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Cure of Deism: or, The Mediatorial Scheme by Jesus Christ the Only True Religion (2 volumes; London: Printed for the author, 1737), by Elisha Smith
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume (Gutenberg text)
• The Folewer to the Donet (EETS original series #164; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, 1924), by Reginald Pecock, ed. by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, by Samuel Clarke (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolation Philosophiae" (EETS extra series #5; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1868, reprinted 1969), by Boethius, ed. by Richard Morris, trans. by Geoffrey Chaucer (Gutenberg text)
• The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius, trans. by W. V. Cooper (HTML at ex-classics.com)
• The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, Translated into English Prose and Verse (London: E. Stock, 1897), by Boethius, trans. by H. R. James (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Theologico-Political Treatise, by Benedictus de Spinoza, trans. by R. H. M. Elwes
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text
  • Part III: Gutenberg text
  • Part IV: Gutenberg text
• Of Justification: Four Disputations Clearing and Amicably Defending the Truth, Against the Unnecessary Oppositions of Divers Learned and Reverend Brethren (London: Printed by R. White for N. Simmons and N. Elkins, 1658), by Richard Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Theological Tractates (English versions of the Tractates only), by Boethius, trans. by H. F. Stewart and Edward Kennard Rand (page images and partial HTML at CCEL)
• The Theological Tractates; The Consolation of Philosophy (in English and Latin; 1918), by Boethius, trans. by H. F. Stewart and Edward Kennard Rand (Gutenberg text)
• Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, by Joseph Priestley (page images here ay Penn)

• Reason: The Only Oracle of Man, by Ethan Allen (HTML at infidels.org)

• The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, Justification &c, Cleering it from Some Common Errors (reprint with new material, ca. 1931; originally London: Printed for J.M. by George Whittington and James Moxon, 1650), by William Pynchon, ed. by Harry Andrew Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, by John Owen (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Marrow of Modern Divinity (Edinburgh: J. Boyd, 1828), by Edward Fisher, ed. by Thomas Boston (multiple formats at Google)
• An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy, by William Law (HTML at CCEL)

• Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, by Cotton Mather (HTML at ukc.edu)
• Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham for the translator, 1821), by Iamblichus, trans. by Thomas Taylor, contrib. by Porphyry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (second edition; London: B. Dobell, and Reeves and Turner, 1895), by Iamblichus, trans. by Thomas Taylor, contrib. by Porphyry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Satan's Invisible World Discovered (Edinburgh: T. G. Stevenson, 1871), by George Sinclair, ed. by Thomas George Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strange and Wonderful Newes from White-Hall: or, The Mighty Visions Proceeding from Mistris Anna Trapnel (London: Printed for Robert Sele, 1654), by Anna Trapnel (HTML at Emory)

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