Astromantra

A depth-selectable learning library

Teaching the things
people already forgot.

Veda, tantra, alchemy, astrology, mysticism — thirty-one subjects of the world's forgotten knowledge, distilled from 5,934 public-domain texts and taught at the depth you choose.

subjects
31
subjects
teachings
93
teachings
source texts
5,934
source texts
words
450k
words

You choose how deep

One subject, three depths

Every subject is written three times — never truncated, never padded. Pick the depth that fits your time and your hunger.

The map

Small

~5 minutes · Free, forever

The whole subject on one page — the core ideas, the key figures, the essential vocabulary. Enough to know exactly what you're looking at.

Most chosen

The journey

Deep

~30 minutes · One-time payment

The full teaching: doctrines, practices, lineages, and the debates that shaped them — with citations at every step so you can follow each claim home.

The treatise

Ultra-deep

~60 minutes · One-time payment

Everything we could responsibly teach: the complete exposition, primary-text passages, scholarly context, and the tradition's inner logic — the closest thing to studying under a teacher.

The library

Thirty-one subjects

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Why you can trust it

How the teachings are made

5,934 source texts

Every teaching is distilled from a corpus of public-domain books — scriptures, treatises, and commentaries. No pirated books, no scraped modern authors.

Learn-and-write

We read everything the corpus holds on a subject, then write the teaching fresh, in our own words — like a patient teacher explaining what they've spent years studying.

Cited at every step

Every substantive claim carries a citation to the exact source text it came from. Tap any citation to see the title, author, and year behind it.

Two honest voices

The traditional voice teaches the knowledge as the tradition understands it; the scholarly voice adds history and context. Always labeled, never blurred.

Pricing

Start free. Go deep once.

Every subject's Small teaching is free, forever — no account needed. When a subject pulls you in, unlock its Deep and Ultra-deep teachings with a single one-time payment. No subscriptions. No renewals. Nothing billed twice, ever.

Questions

Before you begin

What is Astromantra, exactly?

A learning library for forgotten knowledge — Veda, tantra, alchemy, astrology, numerology, mysticism, and more. Instead of handing you a pile of books, we distill each subject into a finished teaching you can read at the depth you choose: a five-minute map, a thirty-minute journey, or a full treatise.

Is this a religious site?

No. Astromantra is a teaching platform, not a preaching one. We present what traditions have taught and what scholars have written, clearly sourced, so you can learn and decide for yourself. The traditional voice and the scholarly voice are kept clearly separate.

Do I need any background to start?

None. Every subject's Small teaching assumes you've never met the topic before — it gives you the map first. Go deeper only when you're ready, in any order you like.

How do payments work?

Small is free for every subject, forever. Deep and Ultra-deep are unlocked with one-time payments — per subject or all-access. There are no subscriptions, no renewals, and nothing is ever billed twice. What you buy is yours.

Where does the content come from?

From 5,934 public-domain texts — works whose copyrights have expired, plus the occasional India-public-domain edition. Modern copyrighted books are never scraped or copied. Every claim in every teaching carries a citation back to the specific source it came from.

Is this AI-generated content?

The teachings are produced by a learn-and-write process: the corpus is read, reasoned across, and then written fresh in our own words — never copy-pasted, never hallucinated from thin air. Citations are baked into every teaching so you can verify each claim against its source.

The library is open.

Five minutes with any Small teaching will tell you whether this library is for you. The map is free — the journey is yours.

Choose your first subject