Veeky Forums Library of Alexandria

When the download finished, did it prompt you with a popup to "activate download"? If not, try it again and click on it. Should save to your default download path.

Holy shit.

>memebrary of Alexandria occult crap + Mesoamerican devil worship
Get my matches. Deus vult.

Anyone has something about geographical or scientific expeditions and general manly things like that? Conventional ebook sites don't have a very large collection of such books.

I think it tried to put it on my desktop - it says it's been downloaded, but when I go to open containing folder (the desktop), it's just not there. Probably means my linux can't handle some aspect of MEGA's download process, so I'll just switch to Windows. Thanks anyway

I'm using Linux too and it worked just fine for me. Try checking your desktop through your file manager, not the actual desktop itself.

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>Library of Alexandria

Can I pass a motion to have the threads from here on called 'House of Wisdom'?

I only feel it more appropriate to the content when we know that the Library of Alexandria's content was more trivial and banal with records on farmers crop growth or trade records whereas the House of Wisdom's was more focused on the scientific, philosophical, and technological interests and knowledge of the day.

>House of Wisdom
Cringy as fuck.

"Library of Alexandria" is cool and Veeky Forums related.

Well, they're both Veeky Forums related. The House of Wisdom was the name of Baghdad's great library. Alexandria is still more Western-related, though.

Do as you like, I only called it that when I made this thread cause that's what other people were calling it. As long as people share stuff is all that matters to me.

Longshot, but does anyone have any maritime history? Preferably from the age of steam?

Politically Incorrect, for those more inclined. Big collection picked up off of 8/pol/ some time ago.

mega.nz/#F!BkkAhCwS!I4oUFjfFiuwnOxRhJKRFZQ

I like that the threads are called Library of Alexandria

The Real Roosevelts is very promising. Especially since it's recent so it got to review that awful Ken Burns documentary.

The rest is a mixed bag. There's a lot of material to get through so it's hard to say which books are stormfront-originated political treaties and theories and which are simply valid academic works on white or European identity or occidentalism. Not Ouf of Africa for example seems like the former but it's actually the latter. There are also some realisitic books about communism and other leftist ideas.

I haven't even been through them yet, desu. All I know is that it's a big ass assortment of political and historical works.

I gave Real Roosevelts a read and it's written like a youtube post from a /pol/ster. The content may be right for the most part but I'd rather die than be caught citing it as a source.

This is all wonderful but I'm worried about the inevitable lostboy.pdf

Gud on u m8

Anyone tried to thumb through the collection to rate, review, and curate them?

Do we have to rely on ebook sites for digital copies or are there ways to get the access to more books? I heard that all books written after 1999 (or so) need to exist in digital version. For anti-plagarist reasons perhaps? If someone here gained the access to more books that can't be found on standard ebook websites we could make requests and such. Bottomless pitt of literature. Or something like that. I don't necessarily mean that it has to be every book. But some people have premium accounts or have the VPN connection to university libraries (I had it once too). Perhaps this could help.

The occult library is in twice.

The Mega could definitely use some curating and reorganization, separating primary sources from secondary, separating those between research publications and pop-history books, formatting titles, and maybe a pastebin to give a general overview for newbies so they don't get overwhelmed trying to download everything and reading a few pages to decide if they're into the subject.

I've got about 300+ pdfs of history books and academic journal articles that I'm about half way through organizing. Maybe I should put them up in a mega and free up some space.

bump of the night

Veeky Forums has some stuff from their Historical Wargaming General, sorted by general time period. Usually war focused, they also cover a wide amount of topics and wars, because wargaming is study intensive
mediafire.com/folder/lu95l5mgg06d5/Ancient
mediafire.com/folder/81ck8x600cas4/Medieval
mediafire.com/folder/w6m41ma3co51e/Horse_and_Musket
mediafire.com/folder/vh1uqv8gipzo1/Napoleonic
mediafire.com/folder/bbpscr0dam7iy/ACW
mediafire.com/folder/bvdtt01gh105d/Victorian
mediafire.com/folder/b35x147vmc6sg/World_War_One
mediafire.com/folder/z8a13ampzzs88/World_War_Two
mediafire.com/folder/z8i8t83bysdwz/Vietnam_War
mediafire.com/folder/7n3mcn9hlgl1t/Modern

How do you guys read ebooks?
What app do you use and which device?
I find it very difficult to read ebooks from computer using some kindle-like app

I'm getting a Kindle Voyager tomorrow to remedy this exact problem. I need something in my hands to focus on actually reading. Computer screen just can't do it for me.

I just use google play books on my android running phone, works wonders for epubs and pdfs of books

>Veeky Forums Occult thread library
>Ape of Thoth's Occult Library
>mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ

They're both the same. I-it's called "Temple of Solomon the King", named after Crowley's public exegesis of the Golden Dawn materials.

And yeah, beginner's is alright if you don't already know what you want.

SumatraPDF + command line edit for night mode on my laptop.

Document Viewer/Xodo night mode with text reflow or cropped zoom on a big AMOLED phablet like the note or Nexus 6.

Calibre on my desktop
Google Play Books on my phone and tablet

y e s

Cool shit OP. I wish so much of it was not PDFs but nonetheless thankyou.

Do it, user. Do it for the good of the project.

Word. Im glad to see the last thread turned into this.

I want to download all of this, but I don't have enough space on my HDD.

Get multiple mega drives

Anyone got an epub/mobi collection?

I bought a cheap tablet that i use solely (except for some light internet browsing) for reading pdfs. Infinitely better than reading on PC or phone or trying to convert to mobi).

I bought a ten inch one for around £100 but when this breaks ill probably buy one around 7-8 as 10 gets a bit heavy on longer reading sessions.

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Is this thread the book recommendation station? I'm really interested in the collapse of the Bronze Age and was wondering if any of you beautiful people had a good book or two on it.

Drews, Robert. The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
>A scholarly yet readable study about the period of transition between the Bronze and Iron ages. After surveying the process of the collapse and the many different explanations given for it, Drews concludes that it was changes in the technology of warfare that allowed the “barbarians” to overcome their traditional masters.

libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=507CC6721ECC0A2AA8EEC18BDEEB5407

I got that from this list of books on philistines and sea people if you want to take a look. I posted this in another thread on the bronze age collapse

academia.edu/11793870/Philistines_Oxford_Bibliographies_Online_2013_

you da man

Thanks again, OP.

No more links?

Guess people are still sleeping off Christmas.

I was counting on something that would allow us to simply request books. Maybe I'm too optimistic but anyone can go look on libgen and such sites. But perhaps some of us have the access to books that are unaviable with such conventional measures.

I got another library update on deck, mostly Tibetan and Vajrayana materials.

Should I make a new thread over here or link it here from an OP in /x/?

why not both?

I don't want to be accused of spamming but I can certainly run two threads.

Great, I'd been looking for this.

Is occultism worth reading or is it just a waste of time?

Define your terms:
"Occult", "worth", and "waste of time".

There's plenty of history and anthropology of religion as opposed to source texts. If this is valuable to you, then you want to read it. If not, pass.

Yes, after some thinking and reading your post, I now want to learn about it. Which books do I start with? I've read about the Golden Dawn, Ordo templis orientis, Israel regardie, Aleister Crowley and many other Occultists on wikipedia.

Depends, do you want to bend reality to suit your needs or do you wanna keep being a fuckin pleb? You decide.

What are you interested in of those?
Israel Regardie's "Complete Golden Dawn" is the standard, if deviant from the core rites by way of Stella Matutina.

I've got Francis King's "Secret Rituals" and Koenig's "OTO Rituals and Sex Magick".

If you're into Crowley I present the vast majority of the Yorke Microfilms of the Warburg Collection (unpublished notes, diaries, commentaries, manuscripts, typescripts, etc.).

If you want the basics of philosophy and mechanics, Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice is great. If you want something less practical and more poetic, The Book of Lies. If you want 'babby's first Neoplatonic Hermetica', The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster lay the foundations of much of the GD/Thelemic approach to both systems (Chaldean Oracles is neither Chaldean nor Zoroastrian, but is a nice recompilation of the old Hermetic and Neoplatonic materials, stripped down and re-packaged as coherent doctrines out of meandering texts).

I will start with Complete Golden Dawn. Just downloaded the pdfs from Ape of Thoths Library. I want to learn about mysticism and kabbalah

If you want to learn about KABBALAH as in the Jewish mysticism, the GD isn't the best place. Too synchretized with Hermetics.

David Chaim Smith does great work on Kabbalah; Kabbalistic Mirror of Genesis. Awakening Ground. The Blazing Dew of Stars (advanced af tho). Kaplan's also nice, particularly "Inner Space", "Jewish Meditation", and his translation of Sefer Yetizrah.

Thanks for the help. Considering jewish mysticism is connected to judaism, is learning hebrew neccesary?

Um, depends.

For entry level stuff you're not going to need to recite the Tanakh by heart or some shit like that. You don't need total fluency.

Get a good concordance (Strong's) and then use the gematria calculators at numberman.net and billheidrick.com/works/hgemat.htm and you should pick up enough words to sorta be able to navigate around.

You don't need to be fluent but you WILL need to apply yourself towards linguistic study.

This will take a long time to learn. It's late for me now, so I will start tommorow. Thanks for all the help.

Any serious study of a subject will take a long time to learn.

I've been at this for like 16ish years or more. I'm only now scratching below the surface of certain mysteries.

I suppose this is the best place to ask. Does anybody know any good titles and/or authors on the subject of ancient Egyptian society? I want trustworthy authors and no meme history pls (no WE WUZ type of stuff, just as objective as possible). Thank

*society* as in a broad anth-analysis? I got fuckall. Got plenty of religious and ritual materials, tho. Coming Forth by Day. Pretty sure I've got some of the Pyramid Texts.

Please do!

pastebin.com/VzezWf3m

Society as in a historical compilation of important figures, events, ceremonies, religion, etc. Stuff like you would find in abundance about on Rome, but for ancient Dynastic Egypt.

This is a start. A little hard to read as everything is scrunched up together, but a start. Thanks.

ctrl f "general overviews" or "societies and cultures"

also use libgen.io to find free books

And bookzz.
And freebookspot if you can navigate the popups and malware.

any apothecary, alchemical books?
P.S: anything from parecelsus?

Yes yes and I THINK.

All in my thing.

Also, do you guys want me to put what I have on deck or start making .pdfs of the whopping 1% of the Kangyur before I get rolling on the update?

Time to get an external hard drive

>'House of Wisdom'
lame af desu

OP thanks for sharing, these kinds of threads = board quality.

Mostly Buddhism:

(also I guess which is a bit more shitposty but home of a few regulars, hence extended commentary on the /x/ thread)

Bump, this is amazing
Any books/colections on Native American history?

>Ape of Thoth's Occult Library: 42 gigs of occultism and magick, source texts of various kinds of mysticism, academic analysis thereon, as well as rare and unpublished materials.
>mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ

>Veeky Forums Occult thread library:
>mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ
>Helpful hint: I'm told the "Beginners" file is the best place to start for this one.

Remember to get these together in the next OP

Nice, thanks. I don't know what to do with all this knowledge; this is incredible.

what kind of native history? North or south america?

We need the King James Version of the Old and New scriptures

Add this, it's the Vatican-sanctioned Latin Vulgate:

vatican.va/latin/latin_bible.html

I have the Geneva Version, the one prior to the KJV and of which the KJV uses much of the translation from, if that interests you.

So is this gonna become a general or are we gonna ask Japanese Moot to turn this into a sticky?

Read it, obviously.

I'm a fa/tg/uy that wants to make a setting based on the Napoleonic era.
What are some essential materials to read?

this reminds me of the /k/ collection, the do/k/ument, should they be linked here too? most of those military books are pretty relevant

do it

can't offer anything personally but these annotated bibliographies are loaded with lists of books on that era
horatio nelson
pastebin.com/1PVTUu2Z
napoleon
pastebin.com/rqnADNEp

there's a magnet link here

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:041b7fb6e81824e4edb1b026c7d6b63ac0cb547c

and this

thepiratebay.org/torrent/13561569/The_Ar_k_

and this anex

mega:///#F!rcVFlaIC!zhrCWGYn84ghOCNZyRkNcQ