Luco Library — the source books

The source books behind The Alphabet from the Sky: every complete primary text that grounded a claim in the paper — the Hebrew letter-tradition sources and the cross-cultural scriptures (Avesta, Ṛg Veda, Qur’an, Nag Hammadi, Book of the Dead, I Ching, Popol Vuh). Each is hosted complete on this site and downloadable as a ZIP from its ficha. Complete primary texts, not third-party commentaries or fragments.

35 of 35 books
Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation)
Anonymous (Hebrew base + Ramban commentary; trans. W. W. Westcott 1893) · ~200–900 CE
Sefer Yetzirah ("Book of Formation") is the earliest surviving Hebrew cosmological treatise, composed anonymously between roughly the 2nd and 9th centuries CE. In fewer than two thousand words it describes the creation of the universe through 22 Hebrew letters — 3 mother letters (air, water, fire), 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters — which it maps onto the 7 planets and the 12 zodiac signs, and arranges into the 231 two-letter gates. It is the foundational text of Jewish letter-mysticism and the direct ancestor of the later Kabbalah. The folder holds the Hebrew base text (Sefaria), the Nachmanides/Ramban commentary (Warsaw 1884), and the Westcott 1893 English translation (with the "Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom" supplement).
Hebrew + English
1 Enoch (the Book of Enoch)
Anonymous (trans. R. H. Charles) · ~3rd c. BCE – 1st c. CE
1 Enoch (the Ethiopic Book of Enoch) is a Jewish apocalyptic work composed from the 3rd century BCE onward and preserved in Ge‘ez in the Ethiopian Orthodox canon. It collects the Book of the Watchers, the Book of the Luminaries (chs 72–82, the Astronomical Book), the Similitudes, the Animal Apocalypse, and the Apocalypse of Weeks. The Charles 1917 SPCK translation (all 108 chapters) is the complete public-domain English edition hosted here.
English (from Ge‘ez)
2 Enoch (Slavonic Enoch / Book of the Secrets of Enoch)
Anonymous (trans. W. R. S. Morfill) · ~1st c. CE
2 Enoch (the Slavonic Book of the Secrets of Enoch) is a late-antique Jewish apocalyptic text preserved in Old Church Slavonic. It describes Enoch’s ascension through the seven heavens, the creation account, and the angelology, and gives his 365 years (echoing the solar-year 365 motif alongside the 364-day calendar of 1 Enoch). The Morfill 1896 English translation is the complete edition hosted here.
English (from Slavonic)
3 Enoch (the Hebrew Book of Enoch)
Anonymous (trans. Hugo Odeberg) · ~5th–10th c. CE
3 Enoch (the Hebrew Book of Enoch, Sefer Hekhalot) is a merkabah-mysticism text of the late-antique to early-medieval Heikhalot literature. It narrates Rabbi Ishmael’s ascent to the divine chariot and his encounter with Metatron, "the lesser YHWH," and describes creation by letters, including "the planets and the constellations." The Odeberg 1928 edition (English + Hebrew + commentary) is the complete edition hosted here.
English (from Hebrew)
The Nag Hammadi Library in English
James M. Robinson (ed., various translators) · 1977
The Nag Hammadi Library is the cache of 45 Gnostic Christian texts in 4th-century Coptic, discovered in 1945 buried in a sealed jar near Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Robinson’s standard complete English edition of the corpus is hosted here — the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, the Apocryphon of John, the Thunder: Perfect Mind, and the Apocalypse of Adam (NHC V,5) among the 45+ tractates (multiple translations).
English (from Coptic)
The Avesta (Zend-Avesta)
tr. James Darmesteter, L. H. Mills & A. V. W. Jackson (Sacred Books of the East) · 1898
The Zoroastrian scriptures — the Vendidad (22 Fargards), the Yashts (hymns to the yazatas), and the Yasna (the sacred liturgy, 72 chapters). The complete Sacred Books of the East translation (Darmesteter, Mills, Jackson) is hosted here.
English (from Avestan)
The Qur’ān (The Meaning of the Glorious Qur’an)
tr. M. M. Pickthall · 1930
The Qur’an — Pickthall’s English translation of all 114 surahs. The complete public-domain text is hosted here.
English (from Arabic)
The Hymns of the Ṛg Veda
tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith · 1896
The complete Ṛg Veda Saṃhitā — all 10 maṇḍalas, 1028 hymns — in Griffith’s English translation (2nd edition, 1896). The sanskritweb.net proofread 7-bit-ASCII edition is hosted here, hymns tagged [BB-HHH] (book–hymn).
English (from Sanskrit)
Thrice Greatest Hermes (the Hermetic Fragments)
tr. G. R. S. Mead · 1906
Thrice Greatest Hermes — Mead’s three-volume 1906 translation of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Stobaeus Hermetic fragments, and the Perfect Sermon (Asclepius), with introduction and commentary. The complete three volumes are hosted here.
English (from Greek/Latin)
The Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani)
tr. E. A. Wallis Budge · 1895
The Egyptian Book of the Dead — the complete English translation of the Papyrus of Ani by Budge: the Hymn to Osiris, the Negative Confession, and all the chapters, spells and rubrics. The clean e-text (ed. Ali B. Ali-Dinar, University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center) is hosted here.
English (from Egyptian)
The I Ching (Yi Jing / Book of Changes)
tr. James Legge (Sacred Books of the East, vol. XVI) · 1882
The I Ching — the Book of Changes: the 64 hexagrams, the Ten Wings, and the commentary. Legge’s complete 1882 translation (Sacred Books of the East, vol. XVI) is hosted here.
English (from Chinese)
The Popol Vuh
tr. Lewis Spence · 1908
The Popol Vuh — the K’iche’ Maya creation myth: the genesis of the world, the Hero Twins, and the genealogies of the Quiché lords. Spence’s 1908 English translation is hosted here.
English (from K’iche’)
The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus
tr. William Whiston · 1905
The Complete Works of Josephus — the Antiquities of the Jews, the Jewish War, the Life, and Against Apion. Whiston’s complete English translation is hosted here.
English (from Greek)
Unheard-of Curiosities
Jacques Gaffarel (Eng. trans. Edmund Chilmead) · 1650
Unheard-of Curiosities concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians, the horoscope of the patriarchs, and the reading of the stars — Gaffarel’s Curiositez inouyes (Paris 1629) in the 1650 Chilmead English translation. The complete EEBO-TCP transcription (CC0, Text Creation Partnership) is hosted here; the folder also holds a curated extract of Part IV (the reading of the stars) and the table of contents.
English (from French)
Sefer ha-Shem (the Book of the Name)
Abraham ibn Ezra · 1148 / 1834 ed.
Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1167), the Andalusian-Jewish exegete, mathematician and astrologer, wrote on the Hebrew letters, the divine names, gematria, the mazzalot, the 28 lunar mansions and the theory of precession. Sefer ha-Shem ("Book of the Name," 1148) is his treatise on the divine Name and the properties of the Hebrew letters; the complete Furth 1834 edition (PDF scan, 83 pp.) is hosted here. (His astronomical Reshit Hokhmah is not available as a complete free edition and is cited in the paper Sec.12.2 rather than hosted.)
Hebrew
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim · 1651
Three Books of Occult Philosophy — Agrippa’s encyclopaedia of Renaissance magic: the elemental, celestial and intellectual worlds, the planetary sigils, the magic squares (kameot), and the Hebrew/Aramaic divine names. The complete 1651 "J.F." (John French) English translation, all three books, is hosted here.
English (from Latin)
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
James Strong · 1890
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890) — the first exhaustive concordance of the King James Version, with a complete Hebrew & Chaldee dictionary and a complete Greek dictionary keyed to the Strong numbering system (the 8674 Hebrew + 5624 Greek entries) still in universal use. The complete 1890 first edition (1832 pages) is hosted here.
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Report of the Calendar Reform Committee (the Lahiri ayanāṃśa)
Calendar Reform Committee, CSIR (Government of India) · 1955
The Report of the Calendar Reform Committee (CSIR, Government of India, 1955) — the basis of the Indian National Calendar and the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanāṃśa, the sidereal zero-point convention that fixes the offset (~24.18° today) between the tropical and sidereal zodiacs. The complete 1955 report is hosted here.
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Sefer Raziel ha-Malakh (Book of Raziel the Angel)
Anonymous · c. 13th c. CE
Sefer Raziel ha-Malakh ("Book of the Angel Raziel") is a medieval Jewish angelological and cosmological compendium, circulating from the 13th century. It gives the 22-letter gematria (aleph=1 ... tav=400), the triangular numbers, the 12 letters mapped to the 12 zodiac signs, the 72 names drawn from Genesis 1:1, the 73 divine names, and the 28 Malachim of the lunar month. The folder holds the Hebrew edition and a Spanish edition (both image-scan PDFs).
Hebrew (+ Spanish ed.)
Sefer ha-Bahir (Book of Brightness)
Anonymous · c. 1174 / 1651 ed.
Sefer ha-Bahir ("Book of Brightness") is the earliest surviving kabbalistic text, composed in 12th-century Provence. It introduces the sefirotic theology and the letter-mysticism that descends from Sefer Yetzirah, reading the Hebrew letters as the instruments of creation. The Amsterdam 1651 edition (PDF scan, 23 pp.) is hosted here.
Hebrew
Commentaries on Sefer Yetzirah (incl. Saadia Gaon)
Saadia Gaon et al. · 1806 ed.
Saadia Gaon (882-942), the foremost Gaon of the early medieval period, wrote the earliest surviving Jewish commentary on Sefer Yetzirah, defending and expounding its 3-mothers / 7-doubles / 12-simples letter-cosmology and its letter-planet-zodiac correspondence. The Grodno 1806 edition collects five commentaries on Sefer Yetzirah including Saadia’s (PDF scan, 170 pp.) and is hosted here.
Hebrew
Shams al-Maʿārif al-Kubrā (The Sun of the Familiar Spirits)
Sharaf al-Dīn al-Būnī · c. 1225
Shams al-Maʿārif al-Kubrā by Sharaf al-Dīn al-Būnī (d. 1225) is the classical Arabic grimoire of letter-magic - the 28-letter Arabic abjad mapped to the 7 planets, the 12 signs and the 28 lunar mansions, with the divine-name talismans and the jafr divination. The complete Arabic facsimile (604 pp.) is hosted as four page-range PDF parts (under the repo file-size limit).
Arabic
The Kabbalah Unveiled (selected portions of the Zohar)
tr. S. L. MacGregor Mathers · 1887
The Zohar ("Splendor") is the central text of medieval Kabbalah, composed in late-13th-century Castile (Moses de Leon). Mathers’ 1887 The Kabbalah Unveiled presents his English translation of the project’s core selections - the Book of Concealed Mystery, the Greater Holy Assembly and the Lesser Holy Assembly (the Idra texts) - complete with index. Caveat: this is Mathers’ SELECTIONS (the three Idra books), not the complete Zohar; the complete modern translations (Soncino, Pritzker) are copyrighted and excluded.
English (from Aramaic/Hebrew)
De Mysteriis (On the Mysteries of the Egyptians)
Iamblichus (tr. Thomas Taylor) · ~300 CE / 1821 ed.
De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum by the Neoplatonist Iamblichus (c. 245-325 CE) is the foundational theurgic treatise - the doctrine of the divine names, the invocation of the planetary archangels, the rites of ascent through the seven spheres, and the theological defence of ritual as the soul’s return to the One. Thomas Taylor’s complete 1821 English translation is hosted here.
English (from Greek)
De Magnis Coniunctionibus (On the Great Conjunctions)
Abu Maʿshar (Latin tr. Johannes Hispalensis) · 1489
De Magnis Coniunctionibus by Abu Maʿshar al-Balkhī (787-886) is the classical treatise on planetary great conjunctions - the Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions that frame world-history, the triplicity shifts, and the precessional world-periods. The Latin translation by Johannes Hispalensis (John of Seville), printed by Erhard Ratdolt at Augsburg in 1489 (incunabulum, all eight tractatus + colophon), is hosted here.
Latin
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
Paracelsus (tr. A. E. Waite) · c. 1530 / 1894 ed.
Theophrastus von Hohenheim, "Paracelsus" (1493-1541), reformed Renaissance medicine on the hermetic macrocosm-microcosm correspondence: the 7 planets mapped to 7 metals and 7 body-organs, the astral body (the sidereal corpus), and the signature doctrine. Waite’s complete two-volume 1894 English edition is hosted here.
English (from German/Latin)
Monas Hieroglyphica + A True and Faithful Relation
John Dee (Meric Casaubon, ed.) · 1564 / 1659
John Dee (1527-1608), the Elizabethan mathematician and magus, sought the celestial language of the angels. The Monas Hieroglyphica (1564) is his own Latin treatise on a single glyph synthesising the seven planets; A True and Faithful Relation (ed. Casaubon, 1659) records his Enochian angel-conversations. Both are hosted here (the Monas as Latin text + scan; the Relation as text).
Latin / English
Ars Magna (Ars Generalis Ultima)
Ramon Llull · c. 1305 / 1517 ed.
The Ars Magna of Ramon Llull (1232-1316) is the medieval combinatorial art - rotating letter-wheels whose letters (B-K standing for the divine attributes) generate every possible true proposition by mechanical combination. The 1517 print of the Ars Generalis Ultima (the final form, composed c. 1305) is hosted here.
Latin
The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis)
tr. S. L. MacGregor Mathers · 1888
The Key of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis) is the medieval grimoire of Solomonic operative magic - the planetary pentacles, the consecrated magic circles, the divine-name sigils, and the invocations by hour and planet. Mathers’ complete 1888 edition (Book I + Book II + the mystical alphabets appendix) is hosted here.
English (from Hebrew/Latin MSS)
Transcendental Magic (Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie)
Eliphas Lévi (tr. A. E. Waite) · 1854-56 / 1896 ed.
Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Lévi (Alphonse-Louis Constant, 1810-1875) is the 19th-century re-synthesis of the Western magical tradition - the Sefer Yetzirah letter-astrology, the Tarot-astronomy correspondence, the Astral Light and the Baphomet sigil. Waite’s complete 1896 English translation (Dogme + Rituel, both parts) is hosted here.
English (from French)
Liber AL vel Legis + Magick in Theory and Practice
Aleister Crowley · 1904 / 1929
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is the modern endpoint of the ceremonial-magic lineage (Lévi to Mathers to Crowley). Two works are hosted here: (a) Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law, 1904) - its three chapters (Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit) and the Thelema current; (b) Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), the complete systematic exposition of his system.
English
Oedipus Aegyptiacus
Athanasius Kircher · 1652-1654
Oedipus Aegyptiacus by the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) is the 17th-century encyclopaedia of Egyptian hieroglyphics - Kircher’s vast attempt to read the hieroglyphs as a sacred symbolic alphabet encoding all ancient wisdom. The complete three folio volumes (Tomus I 1652, II 1653, III 1654, Rome: Mascardi) are hosted as three image-scan PDFs.
Latin
al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Revelations)
Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʿArabī · c. 1230
al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya by Ibn ʿArabī (1165-1240) is the Sufi master’s encyclopaedia of mystical cosmology. Among its approximately 1,500 chapters, chapter 198 sets out the 28-letter Arabic alphabet mapped onto the 12 zodiac signs and the 7 planets, the letters as the substance of creation. The complete nine-volume edition (Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya) is hosted as nine image-scan PDFs.
Arabic
The Masoretic Text (Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible / WLC)
Anonymous (Masoretes) · c. 1008 CE / WLC
The Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) - the machine-readable Masoretic Text from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: the complete consonantal text with vowels and cantillation marks, one OSIS XML file per book (39 books + VerseMap), with lemma and morphology. This is the exact pointed text the Aleppo and Leningrad codexes preserve, rendered as data.
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The Aleppo Codex (Keter Aram Tzova) - Facsimile
Scribe: Shlomo ben Buyaʿa; vocalizer: Aaron ben Asher · c. 920 CE
The Aleppo Codex (Keter Aram Tzova), c. 920-930 CE, scribed by Shlomo ben Buyaʿa and vocalized by Aaron ben Asher - the most authoritative Masoretic codex, the text Maimonides trusted as the standard. The complete facsimile of all surviving leaves (the Torah was lost in the 1947 fire; Nevi’im, most of Ketuvim and the Masoretic notes survive) is hosted as four 150-pp image-scan PDF parts (598 pp., 150 dpi).
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