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In this practical guide to attaining your true Divine Identity,
Denmark's leading spiritual teacher Lars Muhl reveals exactly how
to connect with your magnificent inner power and attain your
highest possible potential. Muhl invites us to join him on a
journey to the Qumran Caves in the Judean desert to discover The
Book of Asaph. The journey and the sacred text itself offer a
breath-taking metaphor for the process of spiritual Enlightenment.
Lars Muhl considers The Light Within a Human Heart his most
profound and powerful work. It is for all who wish to embrace their
endless magic and enter Heaven on earth, remaining beautifully
Present despite the inevitable difficulties of life. When we move,
breathe and live in our Inner Light, we have returned home.
Most people who have a sense of reverence for life also have a
sense of there being a strong feminine principle at the heart of
life and not just the familiar male God. White Eagle, a spiritual
teacher of enormous influence, speaks of a divine Feminine who
neither supplants the masculine God nor is dominated by him. Most
books on this subject are either academic or polemical. White Eagle
On Divine Mother, The Feminine, And The Mysteries is neither.
Rather, it will inspire. Included in this book is a substantial
amount of teaching about ancient worship, Mary, the myth of Isis
and Osiris and the stone monuments that are to be found all around
the world. It is, also, a book about initiation on a path that is
rich with understanding of all that life brings.
Selected lectures and writings on the return of this solar being to
the direction of earthly evolution.
A clear, concise explanation of human nature; the worlds of body,
soul, and spirit; the laws of reincarnation; and the workings of
karma.
What is the principal secret of the universe? The ancient mystery
saying called on the human being to 'Know Yourself ' Rudolf Steiner
explains that this maxim is not asking us to study subjectively our
own personal character, but rather to come to a knowledge of our
true, archetypal human nature-and with it the position we occupy in
the universe. In these eloquent lectures - formerly published as
Man, Hieroglyph of the Universe - Rudolf Steiner speaks of the
human being as the model of creation, the primary focus of the
cosmos. In an extensive exposition he talks of the constellation of
cosmic forces, zodiac and planets amongst which we find ourselves
situated. Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the
spiritual forces which surround us - the microcosm within the
greater macrocosm - can enable humanity to progress, he says. This
book is an important contribution to that goal: the development of
a contemporary spiritual science of the human being.
Here is the flagship edition of the most popular occult work of the
past century, now published with a groundbreaking historical
introduction that establishes its authentic authorship and a "lost"
bonus work by the original author.
It is one of the most mysterious and hotly debated occult works
ever written-and without question the most popular and widely
influential book of arcane philosophy of the twentieth century:
"The Kybalion" has been credited only to the cryptic "Three
Initiates" since its first appearance in 1908. Debate rages over
the identity of the Three Initiates, the origin of the book's
mysterious title and insights, and the nature of the Hermetic
teachings on which it is thought to be based.
Now the veil is parted.
"The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition" presents the first full-
scale analysis of this work of practical occult wisdom. It features
the complete text of "The Kybalion" and the first-ever publication
of Atkinson's previously unknown post-"Kybalion" work: "The Seven
Cosmic Laws."
In an engaging introduction to this unique volume, religious
scholar Philip Deslippe surveys the work's context, history, and
impact (including as a source of spiritual insight to communities
ranging from New Thought to Black Nationalism), and provides a
biographical sketch of its elusive author, the New Thought pioneer
William Walker Atkinson.
As valuable to new fans as it is to longtime readers who crave
more knowledge about Atkinson and his work, "The Kybalion: The
Definitive Edition" illuminates the remarkable history of this
long-cherished text.
'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came
to be remotely curious' Observer 'Enthralling' Spectator What is
human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions
fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists,
psychologists, and philosophers. This is Daniel C. Dennett's
brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in
surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of
evolution, brains and human culture. Part philosophical whodunnit,
part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes
that have sustained Dennett's career at the forefront of
philosophical thought. In his inimitable style, laced with wit and
thought experiments, Dennett shows how culture enables reflection
by installing a profusion of thinking tools, or memes, in our
brains, and how language turbocharges this process. The result: a
mind that can comprehend the questions it poses, has emerged from a
process of cultural evolution. An agenda-setting book for a new
generation of philosophers and thinkers, From Bacteria to Bach and
Back is essential for anyone who hopes to understand human
creativity in all its applications.
The idea of maintaining, continuing, and enhancing our
relationships with those who have died was a fundamental part of
Rudolf Steiner's work. This volume collects a rich harvest of
Steiner's thoughts on this subject gathered over many years.
Steiner speaks from his own experiences, providing some of the
meditation practices and verses that worked for him. We learn of
the value of reading to the dead; of using verbs (rather than
nouns) when talking with them; of the importance of the sacred
moments while falling asleep and awaking for asking questions and
receiving answers; of the way our memories of the dead are like
"art" to them; and of key moods we must develop -- community with
the world, gratitude, confidence in the current of life.
This beautifully illustrated book presents a history of our
relationship with nature, beginning with the civilisations of
ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, when gardens served as 'the dwelling
place of the gods'. Tracing this history through subsequent epochs,
the author shows how human awareness of the divine presence in
nature was gradually eclipsed. As nature came to be viewed
primarily as a physical resource to be controlled and exploited by
us, this was reflected in the ordered, rational designs imposed on
such gardens as Versailles. More recently, gardening has come to be
seen less as an instrument of control than as an art in its own
right, enhancing nature's inherent beauty. Jeremy Naydler suggests
that the future of gardening lies not simply in its being regarded
as an art but as a sacred art, which once again honours and works
with the spiritual dimension intrinsic to nature.
Theosophy is a key work for anyone seeking a solid grounding in
spiritual reality as described by Rudolf Steiner. The book is
organized in four parts. First, Steiner builds up a comprehensive
understanding of human nature, beginning with the physical bodily
nature and moving up through the soul nature to our spiritual
being: the I and the higher spiritual aspects of our being.This
then leads to the experience of the human being as a sevenfold
interpenetrated being of body, soul, and spirit. In the next
section Steiner gives an extraordinary overview of the laws of
reincarnation and the workings of karma as we pass from one life to
the next. This prepares us for the third section where Steiner
shows the different ways in which we live, during this life on
earth and after death, in the three worlds of body, soul, and
spirit, as well as the ways in which these worlds in turn live into
us.Finally, a succinct description is given of the path of
knowledge by which each one of us can begin to understand the
marvelous and harmonious complexity of the psycho-spiritual worlds
in their fullness.
`Be a person of initiative, and take care that the hindrances of
your own body, or hindrances that otherwise confront you, do not
prevent you from finding the centre of your being, where the source
of your initiative lies. Likewise, you will find that all joy and
sorrow, all happiness and pain, depend on finding or not finding
your own individual initiative. - Rudolf Steiner, Dornach, 4 August
1924 Rudolf Steiner urges those who feel the calling of the
Archangel Michael to become people of initiative. The
anthroposophist should be aware that, `... initiative lies in his
karma, and much of what meets him in this life will depend on the
extent to which he can become willingly, actively conscious of it.'
In the second half of this inspiring lecture, Steiner describes how
the being of Ahriman is able to work through the personal intellect
of human beings today. As a consequence, we are called upon to be
inwardly awake and vigilant at all times.
There is a mental malaise creeping through the collective human
mindset. Mass psychosis is becoming normalized. It is time to break
free... One of the key problems facing human beings today is that
we do not look after our minds. As a consequence, we are unaware of
the malicious impacts that infiltrate and influence us on a daily
basis. This lack of awareness leaves people open and vulnerable.
Many of us have actually become alienated from our own minds,
argues Kingsley L. Dennis. This is how manipulations occur that
result in phenomena such as crowd behaviour and susceptibility to
political propaganda, consumerist advertising and social
management. Mass psychosis is only possible because humanity has
become alienated from its transcendental source. In this state, we
are prisoners to the impulses that steer our unconscious. We may
believe we have freedom, but we don't. Healing the Wounded Mind
discusses these external influences in terms of a collective mental
disease - the wetiko virus (Forbes), ahrimanic forces (Steiner),
the alien mind (Castaneda), and the collective unconscious shadow
(Jung). The human mind has been targeted by corrupt forces that
seek to exploit our thinking on a grand scale. This is the
`magician's trick' that has kept us captive within the social
systems that both distract and subdue us. In the first part of this
transformative book, the author outlines how the Wounded Mind
manifests in cultural conditioning, from childhood onwards. In the
second part, he examines how `hypermodern' cultures are being
formed by this mental psychosis and shaping our brave new world. In
an inspiring conclusion, we are shown the gnostic path to freedom
through connecting with the transcendental source of life.
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