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The Book Of Werewolves

The Book Of Werewolves – Sabine Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould’s work on lycanthropy and the legends of the werewolves is probably the most detailed on the market. She goes back deep into the history, tries to share knowledge on the evolution of the legends and expresses her views on modern-day werewolves’ talks.

The Book Of Werewolves

The Book Of Werewolves

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The Book Of Werewolves.

ISBN: 9783849674212.

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What is a werewolf? (from wikipedia.com)

A werewolf is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Legends of Genesis

The Legends of Genesis – Hermann Gunkel

Are the narratives of Genesis history or legend? For the modern historian this is no longer an open question; nevertheless it is important to get a clear notion of the bases of this modern position. This work offers insights regarding the significance, the scope, the varieties and the development of these legends.

The Legends of Genesis

The Legends of Genesis

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The Legends of Genesis.

ISBN: 9783849674205.

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Biography of Hermann Gunkel (from wikipedia.com)

Gunkel was born in Springe, Kingdom of Hanover, where his father and grandfather were Lutheran pastors. He studied at the University of Göttingen and the University of Giessen. He eventually taught at both universities in addition … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Homilies On First And Second Corinthians

The Homilies On First And Second Corinthians – St. John Chrysostrom

The Homilies on the Epistles to the Corinthians have ever been considered by learned and devout men as among the most perfect specimens of his mind and teaching. They are of that mixed form, between exposition and exhortation, which serves perhaps better than any other, first, to secure attention, and then to convey to an attentive hearer the full purport of the holy words as they stand in the Bible, and to communicate to him the very impression which the preacher himself had received from the text. The date of these Homilies is not exactly known: but it is certain that they were delivered at Antioch, were it only … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Book of the Bee

The Book of the Bee – E. A. Wallis Budge

The Book of the Bee is a collection of theological and historical texts compiled by Solomon of Akhlat in the thirteenth century. The book consists of 55 chapters discussing various topics including the creation, heaven and earth, the angels, darkness, paradise, Old Testament patriarchs, New Testament events, lists of kings and patriarchs, and the final day of resurrection.

The Book of the Bee

The Book of the Bee

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The Book of the Bee.

ISBN: 9783849674182.

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From the preface of The Book of the Bee (from Wikipedia):

Of the author of ‘the Book of the Bee,’ the bishop Shelêmôn or Solomon, but very little is known. He … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Hermetic Museum (Volumes 1 & 2)

The Hermetic Museum (Volumes 1 & 2) – Arthur Edward Waite

The Hermetic Museum was published in Latin at Frankfort, in the year 1678, and, as its title implies, it was an enlarged form of an anterior work which, appearing in 1625, is more scarce, but, intrinsically, of less value. Its design was apparently to supply in a compact form a representative collection of the more brief and less ancient alchemical writers; in this respect, it may be regarded as a supplement to those large storehouses of Hermetic learning such as the Theatrum Chemicum, and that scarcely less colossal of Mangetus, the Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa, which are largely concerned with the cream of the archaic literature, with the works of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Wonders of the Human Body

Wonders of the Human Body – George W. Carey

The Bible, the Kaballah, the Vedas, and ancient cuneiform tablets, torn from their hiding places in the heart of Mother Nature, all hold the key to the wisdom of the ages ; and some there are who have turned the key and the door to understanding has opened. The author of this work has found the key and he has turned it. Erect and unafraid for he has nothing to lose or gain he reverently offers you that which you are seeking. He does not claim to be the only one who has discovered the key, but, working along the lines hinted at by some modern and many ancient seekers, he … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Virgin of the World

The Virgin of the World – Hermes Trismegistus

The Virgin of the World is one of the most prominent Hermetic books, one of the last monuments of Paganism. The Fragments comprised in this reprint have been the subject of much learned research. In the early centuries of Christianity they enjoyed a high repute as of undoubted genuineness, the Fathers invoking their testimony on behalf of the Christian mysteries, while Lactantius–the “Christian Cicero”–said of them, “Hermes, I know not how, has discovered well-nigh the whole truth.” He was regarded as an inspired revealer, and the writings which bore his name passed for genuine monuments of that ancient Egyptian theology in which Moses had been instructed. And this opinion was accepted by … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Turba Philosophorum

The Turba Philosophorum – Arthur Edward Waite

The Turba Philosophorum , or Assembly of the Sages. An Ancient Alchemical Treatise, with the chief Readings of the Shorter Codex. Parallels from Greek Alchemists. and Explanations of obscure terms. Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by A.E. Waite. A great symposium or debate of the Adepts assembled in convocation. The work ranks next to Gober as a fountain-head of alchemy in Western Europe. It reects the earliest Byzantine, Syrian and Arabian writers. This famous work is accorded the highest place among the works of Alchemical Philosophy which are available for the students in the English language.

The Turba Philosophorum

The Turba Philosophorum

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The Turba Philosophorum.

ISBN: 9783849674120.

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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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The Sacred Writings of Pope Clement I.

The Sacred Writings of Pope Clement I. – Clement of Rome

Pope Clement I. is considered to be the first Apostolic Father of the Church and is recognized as a saint in many Christian churches and is considered a patron saint of mariners. This book contains his best-known writings.

The Sacred Writings of Pope Clement I.

The Sacred Writings of Pope Clement I.

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The Sacred Writings of Pope Clement I.

ISBN: 9783849674083.

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Biography of Pope Clement I (from wikipedia)

Pope Clement I (Latin: Clemens Romanus; Greek: Κλήμης Ῥώμης; died 99), also known as Saint Clement of Rome, is listed by Irenaeus and Tertullian as Bishop of Rome, holding office from 88 to his death in 99. He is … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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