Audiobooks narrated by Matthew Schmitz

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. As a Man Thinketh by James Allen is a concise philosophical work arguing that a person’s thoughts shape their character, circumstances, actions, and ultimate destiny. Allen presents the mind as a kind of inner garden: when cultivated with discipline, purpose, and noble ideals, it produces strength, serenity, and meaningful success; when neglected or filled with fear, resentment, or aimlessness, it leads to suffering and limitation. The book emphasizes personal responsibility, self-mastery, and the quiet power of sustained thought, suggesting that outer life gradually reflects the quality of one’s inner life."

James Allen (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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PLANT LORE, LEGENDS, and LYRICS: Embracing The Myths, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore of the Plant Kingdom

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media (altrusiangrace.com) and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz.Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics by Richard Folkard is an expansive compendium of the myths, customs, superstitions, symbolism, medicinal beliefs, religious associations, and traditional stories connected with plants across many cultures. Moving from flowers, trees, herbs, and fruits to sacred, magical, and ominous vegetation, Folkard traces how the plant kingdom has shaped folklore, poetry, ritual, healing, divination, and everyday life. The result is both a botanical reference and a cultural history, revealing how deeply human imagination has invested plants with spiritual meaning, moral symbolism, protective power, and legendary significance."

Richard Folkard (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, translated and interpreted by Charles Johnston, presents one of the foundational texts of classical yoga philosophy: a concise guide to disciplining the mind, overcoming distraction, and realizing the true Self beyond ordinary thought and sensation. Organized as brief aphorisms, the work describes yoga as the stilling of the fluctuations of consciousness, then outlines the obstacles, practices, ethical restraints, meditative stages, and spiritual powers that arise on the path toward liberation. Johnston’s version frames Patanjali’s teaching as both a practical psychology and a mystical science, emphasizing concentration, detachment, moral purity, and inward contemplation as the means by which the seeker passes from restless mental activity into clarity, insight, and final freedom."

Charles Johnston (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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The Black Pullet

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. The Black Pullet is a mysterious nineteenth-century grimoire framed as the memoir of a French officer who, after becoming separated from Napoleon's army during the Egyptian campaign, is rescued by an enigmatic old sage living in a hidden retreat. In gratitude, the sage initiates him into a system of occult wisdom centered on a legendary black hen capable of producing inexhaustible wealth and a series of magical rings and talismans that grant powers such as protection, healing, invisibility, commanding spirits, discovering hidden treasures, influencing others, and acquiring knowledge. Blending adventure, Hermetic symbolism, ceremonial magic, and esoteric philosophy, the narrative serves as an introduction to the grimoire's collection of magical seals and operations, presenting them as practical instruments through which the worthy practitioner may attain mastery over both the visible and invisible worlds."

Anonymous (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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Tales of Three Hemispheres

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. Tales from Three Hemispheres by Lord Dunsany is a collection of brief, dreamlike fantasy tales that move between myth, satire, exotic imagined lands, and strange philosophical visions. The stories often feel like fragments of ancient legend or half-remembered dreams, where gods, kings, travelers, prophets, cities, and impossible landscapes appear in a style that is elegant, ironic, and otherworldly. Rather than building one continuous plot, the collection presents a series of symbolic episodes about fate, beauty, ambition, mystery, and the limits of human understanding, all marked by Dunsany’s ornate prose and his talent for making imaginary worlds feel ancient, melancholy, and enchanted."

Lord Dunsany (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. *The Forerunner* by **Kahlil Gibran** is a poetic and philosophical collection of parables, brief reflections, and symbolic prose pieces that explores the inner life of the soul and the spiritual struggles of humanity. More enigmatic and fragmentary than *The Prophet*, the book presents meditations on love, solitude, beauty, wisdom, suffering, pride, compassion, and the search for truth, often through allegory and paradox. Each short piece invites contemplation rather than straightforward interpretation, revealing Gibran’s mystical vision of human nature and the divine. The result is a luminous and introspective work that speaks to readers seeking spiritual insight, poetic wisdom, and timeless reflections on the mysteries of existence."

Khalil Gibran (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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Twenty Drawings

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. Twenty Drawings is a brief but evocative art volume first published in 1919 that gathers twenty of Kahlil Gibran’s drawings, presented with an introductory essay by Alice Raphael. Rather than telling a conventional story, the book offers a visual meditation on beauty, the human form, spirituality, longing, and the dreamlike union of Eastern and Western artistic sensibilities that shaped Gibran’s work. Raphael’s introduction frames the images as expressions of Gibran’s inner philosophy, while the drawings themselves create a contemplative, symbolic experience that will appeal to readers interested in mysticism, poetic art, and the spiritual imagination behind the author of The Prophet. Includes a PDF of all 20 drawings."

Alice Raphael, Khalil Gibran (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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THE MYSTERIES OF MITHRAS

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media (altrusiangrace.com) and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. This brief outline of the comparatively meagre information we possess on what at one time was the most widely spread mystery-institution in the Roman empire, is introductory to the following small volume which will deal with the only Mithriac Ritual known to us. In dealing with this exceedingly instructive Ritual I found that the limits of one booklet would not suffice for an adequate introduction; and without this, I fear, many readers will not be in a position to appreciate the Ritual at its just value. For, in spite of the wealth of epigraphic and monumentary material now in our hands, the texts of the ancient writers which treat of the religion of Mithra, are, with rare exceptions, provokingly deficient in information on the doctrines and inner meanings of these famous Mysteries; and, therefore, a Ritual that unfolds to us the nature of the chief secret to which the lower grades of the mystery-rites conducted the brethren, is of the utmost value. It articulates, clothes with flesh, and puts life into what have been hitherto for the most part the dry bones of a skeleton.'"

G.R.S. Mead (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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A Mithriac Ritual

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. In A Mithriac Ritual, G.R.S. Mead presents and comments on a text he treats as an unusually revealing witness to the inner religious life of the Mithraic mysteries, moving beyond general history to examine a ritual of ascent, invocation, visionary transformation, and cosmic symbolism. Published in 1907 as volume VI of Echoes from the Gnosis, the book frames the ritual as a rare glimpse into the secret liturgical and initiatory dimension of Mithraism, while Mead’s notes connect its prayers, sacred formulas, heavenly imagery, and ecstatic theurgic elements to the broader world of late antique mystery religion, Hermeticism, and esoteric spirituality."

G.R.S. Mead (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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The Gnostic Crucifixion

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. The Gnostic Crucifixion by G.R.S. Mead explores the idea that the crucifixion was understood in certain mystical and gnostic traditions not only as a literal historical event, but also as a profound spiritual symbol representing the soul’s descent into matter, suffering within the material world, and eventual awakening to divine reality. Drawing on early Christian, gnostic, and esoteric sources, Mead examines how the figure of the Christ and the image of the cross were interpreted as cosmic and initiatory truths, pointing beyond orthodox doctrine toward inner transformation, redemption through knowledge, and the union of the human and the divine."

G.R.S. Mead (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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The Buddhist Catechism

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz The Buddhist Catechism by Henry S. Olcott is a concise instructional guide to the core teachings of Buddhism, presented in a question-and-answer format meant to clarify the religion for both beginners and students. First published in the late 19th century, it outlines fundamental Buddhist ideas such as the life and example of the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths, karma, rebirth, ethical conduct, meditation, and the goal of nirvana, while emphasizing reason, self-discipline, compassion, and the non-theistic nature of Buddhist thought. Olcott’s work was especially influential in modern Buddhist revival movements, as it sought to organize Buddhist doctrine in a clear, accessible, and systematic way for a broad audience."

Henry S. Olcott (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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The Nameless City

"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media (altrusiangrace.com) and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft follows a lone traveler who ventures into an ancient, half-buried ruin deep in the Arabian desert, a place older than human history and shunned by legend. Drawn by curiosity, he explores its strange low-built corridors and underground passages, where he discovers carvings and relics revealing a forgotten reptilian civilization that flourished long before mankind. As he descends further, the city’s buried past becomes increasingly vivid and terrifying, culminating in a brush with an inhuman presence that suggests the dead civilization may not be entirely gone. The story is a classic Lovecraftian descent into forbidden antiquity, blending archaeological wonder, cosmic dread, and the revelation of humanity’s insignificance before immeasurably ancient powers."

H.P. Lovecraft (Author), Matthew Schmitz (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Matthew Schmitz

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