Monatsarchive: Januar 2018

Egyptian Ideas Of The Future Life

Publiziert am 26. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Egyptian Ideas Of The Future Life – E. A. Wallis Budge

This book is intended to give the reader an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works. The literature of Egypt which deals with these subjects is large and, as was to be expected, the product of different periods which, taken together, cover several thousands of years; and it is exceedingly difficult at times to reconcile the statements and beliefs of a writer of one period with those of a writer of another. Up to the present no systematic account of the doctrine of the resurrection and of the future … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Arcane Schools

Publiziert am 26. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Arcane Schools – John Yarker

A Review of their Origin and Antiquity ; with a General History of Freemasonry, and its Relation to the Theosophic, Scientific, and Philosophic Mysteries. The object of the work is to give a broad, but condensed view, of the various traces that are to be found amongst the ancients, in their religion, in their art, and in their buildings, civil, sacred and military, of a Speculative System such as is now embodied in Freemasonry. The work is necessarily a compilation of suitable information to be found in ancient and modern writers upon history, mystery, mysticism, and Freemasonry; but it also embraces the most recent views on these subjects which have been evolved by close … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts

Publiziert am 25. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts – Müller/Cowell

The Buddha-karita is an early Sanskrit poem written in India on the legendary history of Buddha, and therefore contains much that is of interest for the history of Buddhism, beside its special importance as illustrating the early history of classical Sanskrit literature. It is ascribed to Asvaghosha; and, although there were several writers who bore that name, it seems most probable that our author was the contemporary and spiritual adviser of Kanishka in the first century of our era. This poem and many more Buddhist writings are included in this compilation.

Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts

Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts

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Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts.

ISBN: 9783849673673.

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What is the Mahayana? (from wikipedia.com)

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The Writings of Thomas Paine

Publiziert am 25. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Writings of Thomas Paine – Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. Paine is the only English writer who expresses with uncompromising sharpness the abstract doctrine of political rights held by the French revolutionists. His relation to the American struggle, and afterwards to the revolution of 1789, gave him a unique position, and his writings became the sacred books of the extreme radical party in England. This edition contains all four original volumes with his most famous works from 1774 through 1796. Included are “The American … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Plato’s Republic

Publiziert am 25. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Plato’s Republic – Plato

What is justice? Is the life upheld by Socrates sufficiently definite for practical guidance? The views of Callicles have been overborne; but have they been thoroughly examined? Socrates claims to be the only politician. But how can that deserve the name of policy which results in doing nothing? These and cognate questions may well have haunted Plato when he planned the Republic, the greatest of his works. The great principle of the political supremacy of mind, though thus held back through half the dialogue, really dominates the whole. It may be read between the lines all through, even in the institution of gymnastic and the appraisement of the cardinal virtues. It is a genuine development of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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American Slavery As It Was – The Background Of Twelve Years A Slave

Publiziert am 24. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

American Slavery As It Was – The Background Of Twelve Years A Slave – Theodore Dwight Weld

With the recent success of the movie and book “Twelve Years A Slave” in mind, this title, as the name imports, gives a true picture of the state of slavery in the United States in the first half of the 19th century. It had an important bearing on the great controversy upon this subject at the time it was published. The evidence which it contains is minutely circumstantial. A considerable portion of the book consists of the narratives of persons who have resided at the south, and witnessed the treatment of the slaves on the plantation with which they were conversant. With very … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The General Ahiman Rezon & Freemason’s Guide

Publiziert am 24. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The General Ahiman Rezon & Freemason’s Guide – Daniel Sickels

Containing Monitorial Instructions in the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master Masons, with Explanatory Notes, Emendations, and Lectures; together with the Ceremonies of Consecration and Dedication of New Lodges, Installation of Grand and Suborninate Officers, Laying of Foundation Stones, Dedication of Masonic Halls, etc.

The General Ahiman Rezon & Freemason's Guide

The General Ahiman Rezon & Freemason’s Guide

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The General Ahiman Rezon & Freemason’s Guide.

ISBN: 9783849673635.

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About the origins of Freemasonry (from wikipedia.com)

Since the middle of the 19th century, Masonic historians have sought the origins of the movement in a series of similar documents known as the Old Charges, dating from the Regius Poem in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Steps To Christ

Publiziert am 24. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Steps To Christ – Ellen Gould White

This is just the book for a gift to your friend or members of your Sunday-school class. It contains fifteen chapters written from an intimate knowledge of the human soul’s longing for greater nearness to the Saviour, by one who has long walked with the Master and knows his ways. It is a book which should have a wide circulation for the marvelous good that it can do.

Steps To Christ

Steps To Christ

Format: Paperback.

Steps To Christ.

ISBN: 9783849673628.

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Biography of Ellen Gould White (from wikipedia.com)

Ellen Gould White (née Harmon; November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915) was a prolific author and an American Christian pioneer.

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Sketches By Boz

Publiziert am 23. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Sketches By Boz – Charles Dickens

“Sketches By Boz” is a collection of 56 sketches concerning London scenes and inhabitants. Most of the stories, that are divided into four sections, are portraits, but there are also some purely fictional ones.

Sketches By Boz

Sketches By Boz

Sketches By Boz.

ISBN: 9783849673611.

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Instalment contens of Sketches by Boz (from Wikipedia):

The majority of the 56 sketches that appeared together in 1839 were originally published individually in popular newspapers and periodicals, including The Morning Chronicle, The Evening Chronicle, The Monthly Magazine, The Carlton Chronicle and Bell’s Life in London, between 1833 and 1836:

“Mr. Minns and his Cousin” (SB 46), originally, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” in The … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland

Publiziert am 23. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland – Francesca S. Wilde

Many of the Irish legends, superstitions, and ancient charms now collected were obtained chiefly from oral communications made by the peasantry themselves, either in Irish or in the Irish-English which preserves so much of the expressive idiom of the antique tongue. These narrations were taken down by competent persons skilled in both languages, and as far as possible in the very words of the narrator; so that much of the primitive simplicity of the style has been retained, while the legends have a peculiar and special value as coming direct from the national heart.

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland

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