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.
- 01
Mesopotamian
Sumerian fragments · Atra-ḫasīs · Enūma eliš
- 02
Egyptian
Pyramid Texts · Coffin Texts · Memphite Theology
- 03
Vedic
Ṛgveda 10.129, 10.90, 10.121 · Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad
- 04
Hebrew Bible
Genesis 1–3 · Psalms · Job
- 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.
- CheckedDid Tesla Say “3, 6 and 9” Are the Key to the Universe? What His Own Writings Show
- CheckedIs “The Kybalion” Ancient? The 1908 Book and the Hermetic Sources
- CheckedNibiru and “The Twelfth Planet”: What the Babylonian Sources Say
- Are the Solfeggio Frequencies Ancient?
- Is 432 Hz the Ancient Tuning?
- Is the Golden Ratio Really Everywhere?
Free Account
Reading is free. An account gives you a study.
You never need an account to read the library. A free account adds a place to keep your own work:
- Your Grimoire — a private research journal
- The Sacred Science tools: geometry, the 3D explorer, numerology, gematria
- The Codex and the Compass, as new entries are published
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