VSLs (Volumes of the Sacred Law)
Books held Holy by one or more religions
or
Books (other than VSL’s) that are placed on the altar in some Masonic Lodges
| Volume # and Title Religion of this VSL or other Book placed on the Altar in some Lodges |
Link(s) to this VSL or other book on the Internet |
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| Ahiman Rezon Anderson’s Constitutions |
http://www.2be1ask1.com/library/anderson.html http://bessel.org/andconst.htm |
| The Book of Certitude Bahai’ism |
http://metalab.unc.edu/Bahai/Texts/English/AQD/index.html |
| The Tripitaka Buddhism – Hinayana |
http://cambodianbuddhist.org/english/website/canon/ http://jbe.la.psu.edu/ibric.html |
| The Pure Land Sutras Buddhism – Mahayana, Pure Land, all sects |
http://www.amitabha.com/sutras/sutras-commentaries.htm http://bessel.org/pureland.pdf |
| Koans & Mondos collection Buddhism – Dhyana/Chan/Zen |
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| The Lotus Sutra Buddhism – Tien-Tai/Tendai |
http://pusoksa.buddhism.org/eng/sutras/mind.htm http://www.drba.org/universal_door_e.htm http://bessel.org/lotsutra.htm |
| The Shingon Sutras Buddhism – Chen Yen/Shingon/Nichiren, Soka Gakkai |
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| The Kanjur Buddhism – Vajrayana |
http://www.vajrayana.org/ http://www.vajraBC.org/ |
| Roman Canon Christianity – Roman Catholic |
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/index.htm (permission required to reproduce) |
| The King James Bible Christianity – Protestant |
http://www.genesis.net.au/~bible/ http://www.hti.umich.edu/relig/kjv/ http://www.ChristianAnswers.Net/bible/home.html http://etext.virginia.edu/rsv.browse.html |
| Orthodox Canon Christianity – Eastern Orthodox, Coptic |
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| Ethiopic Canon Christianity – Ethiopian |
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| Nestorian Canon Christianity – Nestorian |
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| The Book of Mormon Christianity – Latter Day Saints |
http://www.hti.umich.edu/relig/mormon/browse.html http://www.primenet.com/~heuvelc/bom1830/bom_main.htm http://www.lds1.com/book_of_mormon.html http://www.mormonstudies.com/ |
| The Analects Confucianism |
http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/contao/analects.htm http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/conf/Analects.html http://bessel.org/analects.htm |
| Unspecified Gnostic Text | |
| The Vedas Hinduism – Sad-Darshana, Shaiva, Shakti, Arya Samaj |
http://www.san.beck.org/EC7-Vedas.html |
| The Upanishads Hinduism – Vedanta, all sects |
http://www.san.beck.org/EC7-Vedas.html |
| The Bhagavad Gita Hinduism – Rama Krishna Mission, Hare Krishna International |
http://www.krsna.com/gita/ http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5294/ |
| The Qur’an Islam |
http://www.al-bukhari.org/ http://info.uah.edu/msa/quran.html http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/islam/Quran.html |
| The Shatkhand Agam Jainism – Digambara |
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/ |
| The Upang Agam Jainism – Shvetambara |
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/ |
| The Tanakh Judaism |
http://www.shamash.org/tanach/tanach.html |
| The Pentateuch Judaism – Samaritan Judaism |
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| The Kojiki Shinto |
http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/ http://bessel.org/kojiki.htm |
| The Granth Sikhism |
http://www.sikhnet.com/s/GuruGranthSahib http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/islam/Quran.html |
| Tao-te-Ching Taoism |
http://www.chinapage.com/laotze.html http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/tao/TaoTeChing.html |
| The Zend-Avesta NAVZAR Zoroastrianism |
http://www.avesta.org/avesta.html |