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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage

The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage – Jan van Ruysbroeck

The Blessed Jan van Ruysbroeck was one of the Flemish mystics. This edition contains his most important writings:

The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage
The Sparking Stone
The Book of the Supreme Truth

The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage

The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage

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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage.

ISBN: 9783849674113.

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Van Ruysbroeck’s thought (from Wikipedia):

Of Ruysbroeck’s works, the treatise The Seven Steps of the Ladder of Spiritual Love is the one that is currently most-readily available. Of the various treatises preserved, the best-known and the most characteristic is that entitled The Spiritual Espousals. It is divided into three books, treating respectively of the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Heaven and Hell

Heaven and Hell – Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedenborg here unfolds the laws governing the spiritual world; describes the condition of good and evil spirits; and exhibits the general arrangement and surroundings of the inhabitants of heaven and hell. He treats of the form of heaven, in general and in particular; of its immensity, and of the innumerable societies of which it is composed; of the correspondence between the things of heaven and those of earth; of the sun of heaven, and of the light and heat proceeding therefrom; of representative appearances in heaven and of the changes of state experienced by angels; of their garments and habitations, their language and writings, their innocence and wisdom, their governments and worship; of the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Thrice-Greatest Hermes

Thrice-Greatest Hermes – G. R. S. Mead

This is the edition including all three books. The so-called Hermetic writings have been known to Christian writers for many centuries. The early church Fathers (Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) quote them in defense of Christianity. Stobaeus collected fragments of them. The Humanists knew and valued them. They were studied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in modern times have again been diligently examined by many scholars. G. R. S. Mead has issued a translation of the whole body of extant literature, with extended prolegomena, commentary, etc. There is a wide difference of opinion as to the date at which this literature was produced. Mead believes that some of the extant Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Philosophy Of Natural Magic

The Philosophy Of Natural Magic – Agrippa von Nettesheim

In the last half of 1509 and the first months of 1510, Cornelius Agrippa, known in his day as a Magician, gathered together all the Mystic lore he had obtained by the energy and ardor of youth and compiled it into the elaborate system of Magic, in three books, known as Occult Philosophy, the first book of which–Natural Magic–constitutes the present volume. This is true and sublime Occult Philosophy. To understand the mysterious influences of the intellectual world upon the celestial, and of both upon the terrestrial; and to know how to dispose and fit ourselves so as to be capable of receiving the superior operations of these worlds, whereby we Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Comte De St. Germain

The Comte De St. Germain – Isabell Cooper-Oakley

Among the strange mysterious beings, with which the eighteenth century was so richly dowered, no one has commanded more universal comment and attention than the mystic who was known by the name of the Comte de St. Germain. A hero of romance; a charlatan; a swindler and an adventurer; rich and varied were the names that showered freely upon him. Hated by the many, loved and reverenced by the few, time has not yet lifted the veil which screened his true mission from the vulgar speculators of the period. Then, as now, the occultist was dubbed charlatan by the ignorant; only some men and women here and there realised the power of Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Aradia – Gospel Of The Witches

Aradia – Gospel Of The Witches – Charles Godfrey Leland

Indefatigable in research, Mr. Leland collects from the mouths of Italian peasants all the information still surviving concerning witches and their rites. Much of this he incorporated in his previous writings, and much more-some of it, we are glad to think, on the point of appearance-has yet to see the light. It is difficult to over-estimate the interest of these survivals in Italy of pagan faith and rite, and it is eminently desirable that so much of them as possible should be preserved. They are on the verge of disappearance, and what is not now reclaimed will inevitably perish. On this point Mr. Leland insists. There are still, however, some Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Cloud Of Unknowing

The Cloud Of Unknowing – Evelyn Underhill

The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism originating in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The mystical scripture draws on the tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form.

The Cloud Of Unknowing

The Cloud Of Unknowing

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The Cloud Of Unknowing.

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Biography of Evelyn Underhill (from wikipedia.com)

Underhill was born in Wolverhampton. She was a poet and novelist, as … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Story Of Atlantis

The Story Of Atlantis – W. Scott-Elliot

There is not much in mythology that has drawn so much interest than the lost continent of Atlantis. In this book the author, W. Scott-Elliot, tries to provide a geographical, historical and ethnological sketch of all that was and might have been. He even includes essays on the Lemurian race, their language and life. This is a treasure chest for any person interested in Atlantis

The Story Of Atlantis

The Story Of Atlantis

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The Story Of Atlantis.

ISBN: 9783849677480.

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What is Atlantis?(from wikipedia.com)

Atlantis is a fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato’s works Timaeus and Critias, where it represents the antagonist … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Myths Of The Cherokee

Myths Of The Cherokee – James Mooney

Mooney’s book contains a fine selection of the best-known Cherokee myths and folkloristic tales. The various texts are divided into the following sections:

Cosmogonic Myths
Quadruped Myths
Bird Myths
Snake, Fish & Insect Myths
Wonder Stories
Historical Traditions
Miscellaneous Myths

Myths Of The Cherokee

Myths Of The Cherokee

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Myths Of The Cherokee.

ISBN: 9783849678241

 

Basics on the Cherokees (from wikipedia.com)

The Cherokee are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, and the tips of western South Carolina and northeastern Georgia. The Cherokee language is a Southern Iroquoian language and part of the Iroquoian language family. Today there are three federally … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Ancient Egypt – Light Of The World, Volume 2

Ancient Egypt – Light Of The World, Volume 2 – Gerald Massey

This is part 2 of the Gerald Masseys work about the comparisons between the Judeo-Christian religion and the Egyptian religion. No one ever understood the mythology and ritual of Ancient Egypt so well as Gerald Massey since the time of the Ancient Philosophers of Egypt. This book is one of the best of its kind and a must-have for every student of Egyptian mythology and history.

Ancient Egypt - Light Of The World, Volume 2

Ancient Egypt – Light Of The World, Volume 2

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Ancient Egypt – Light Of The World, Volume 2.

ISBN: 9783849678203

 

Basics on the ancient Egyptian deities (from wikipedia.com)

Ancient Egyptian deities are the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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