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Malleus Maleficarum – The Witch Hammer
Malleus Maleficarum – The Witch Hammer – Sprenger/Kramer Jacob Sprenger, German theologian of the 15th century, and Heinrich Kramer are the authors of the ‚Malleus Maleficarum‘ or ‚Witch Hammer’ (1489), which first formulated in detail the doctrine of witchcraft, and formed a textbook of procedure for witch trials. They were appointed inquisitors under the bull […]
The Sacred Writings of St. Francis of Assisi
The Sacred Writings of St. Francis of Assisi Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher, as well as founder of the men’s Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. He is also one of the […]
The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali – Charles Johnston The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and detail. The theme, if the present interpreter be right, is the great regeneration, the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man: the […]
The Lotus Sutra (Saddharma-Pundarika)
The Lotus Sutra (Saddharma-Pundarika) – Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern The Lotus Sutra is considered the greatest of all Buddhist scriptures. It interprets the person of Buddha as a manifestation of metaphysical entity and synthesizes the two aspect of his being: his incarnation in human life and his real ontological identity. It teaches salvation for all […]
The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth
The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth – John Calvin The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in Latin “Institutio Christianae religionis”, is Calvin’s most known work on Protestant theology. It was first published in 1536. The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some previous […]
The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second
The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second – John Calvin The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in Latin “Institutio Christianae religionis”, is Calvin’s most known work on Protestant theology. It was first published in 1536. The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some previous […]
The Political Aspects of St. Augustine’s City of God
The Political Aspects of St. Augustine’s City of God – John Neville Figgis When one civilization has fallen and another is in its birth throes, people are apt to be seduced by the rushlights of a false leadership. The mind and mood of such a time of transition are intensely puzzling and those who would […]
Corpus Hermeticum
Corpus Hermeticum – G.R.S. Mead 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 […]
The Jefferson Bible – Life And Morals Of Jesus Of Nazareth
The Jefferson Bible – Life And Morals Of Jesus Of Nazareth – Thomas Jefferson The book is Jefferson’s notions as to the life and doctrines of Jesus, and it is significant that he ends the Life with the laying of Jesus in the sepulchre. The resurrection formed no part of Jefferson’s belief. The doctrines selected […]
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
The Symbolism of Freemasonry – Albert G. Mackey Of the various modes of communicating instruction to the uninformed, the masonic student is particularly interested in two; namely, the instruction by legends and that by symbols. It is to these two, almost exclusively, that he is indebted for all that he knows, and for all that […]