Imber. Legends and Traditions of the Jewish Nation

Today's free book is Treasures of Two Worlds: Unpublished Legends and Traditions of the Jewish Nation by Naphtali Herz Imber. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books.


PREFACE, OR HISTORY OF MYSTICISM THE MAHATMAS OF THE ESSENES.
1. Work of the Royal Mahatma, Moses.
2. Reading the Scriptures Between the Lines.
3. Moses as an Electrician.
4. The Two Pillars of Fire.
5. Flashing Electric Light Upon Mt. Sinai.
6. Building the Tabernacle.
7. The Holy of Holies.
8. The Ark.
9. The Mercy Seat.
10. The Cherubim.
11. The Shechinah.
12. Electrocution of Two Priests.
13. Talmudical Narrative.
14. The Urim and Thumim, or the Oracle.
15. The Temple.
16. Solomon's Temple.
17. The Second Temple.
18. Herod, the Great Improver.
19. House of God According to Tradition.
20. The Sects.
21. A Crowned Mahatma. King Solomon's Telephone.
22. Elijah the Grand Mahatma.

THE WONDERS OF THE ORIGINAL MAHATMAS.
1. Rabbi Meir Baal Haness.
2. The Hypnotist Rabbi, Simon Ben Yochai.
3. Driving Out a Demon.
4. His Son a Policeman, or a Mahatma With a Club.
5. Rabbi John.
6. Rabbi Shesheth.
7. What Is Hypnotism?
8. Ben Zaccai, the Clairvoyant.
9. The Siege.
10. Ben Zaecai and Vespasian.
11. Rabbi Joshua Ben Levi - The Immortalized Mahatma.
12. King Solomon's Throne.

III. TALES OF RABBA BAR BARCHANA.
1. The Geese.
2. The Hell Where Korah's Sons Are Being Roasted.
3. Sea Stories and Sailors' Yarns.
4. Leviathan Lore.
5. What Is a Lie?

IV. GHOST STORIES OF AN UNKNOWN MAHATMA

V. TITUS. UNKELOS THE PROSELYTE.
1. The Son of the Star.
2. The Messianic Sign.
3. Recruiting Soldiers.
4. The Fall of the City of Bether.
5. Death of the Son of the Star.
6. The Two Prisoners.
7. The Letters of a Crank.

VI. THE MISERERE.
1. Preface.
2. Midnight, from the Zohar.
3. Midnight Fantasy.
4. Peculiar Letters of Lamentations from the Hidden Book.
5. Reply of the Jews of Babylon to the Hebrews of Palestine.
6. Lamentations of the Lord.
7. Lamentations of the Shechinah (Divine Womanhood).
8. Lamentations of the Almighty.

VII. RABBI ISHMAEL. THE GREAT MAHATMA OF THE ANCIENTS. ISHMAEL 'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

VIII. SPANISH SPOILATION, OR THE GRAND INQUISITION.
1. Introduction.
2. Ave Maria.
3. Chanting the Song of Liberty.
4. The Lovesick Grand Inquisitor, or Evil Thoughts Breed Evil Acts.
5. Expecting Elijah, or the Capture.
6. The Sudden Discovery, or a Lover's Disappointment.
7. The Flight.
8. The Penitent.

IX. FRENCH FRIVOLITY.
1. The Story of Rabbi Solomon, Surnamed Rashi.
2. Loss and Recovery of a Precious Stone.
3. Rabbi Solomon Meeting With Godfrey of Bouillon, King of the Crusaders.
4. The Lamp Without Oil, or the Rabbi Mahatma of Paris.

X. JEWISH TRIALS IN GERMANY.
1. Rabbi Amnon the Martyr, or the History of a Poem.
2. The Two Lamps at Worms.

XI. EDUCATION AND TALMUD.
1. A Culture Historical Sketch of Educational Evolution Among the Ancients.
1st Chapter The Chaldeans.
2nd Chapter The Hebrews.
3rd Chapter The Egyptians.
4th Chapter The Greeks.
5th Chapter The Romans.
6th Chapter The Norsemen.
7th Chapter The Icelander.
3. Mosaic Educational Laws. Moses in the Land of the Chaldeans.
4. Mosaic Jehovah versus Hebraic Elohim.
5. Moses and the Bible.
6. Moses Breaking Patriachial Systems and Traditions.
7. Selecting Teachers.
8. Laws to Teach
9. The School of Prophets.
10. From the Building of the Temple to the Exile.
11. In the School of the Captors.
12. Educational Reforms of the Great Synod Under Ezra the Scribe.
13. Part the Chaldeans Played in the Education of the Hebrews: From the Building of the Temple to
the Exile.
14. The Talmud.
15. The Two Talmuds.