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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1876 Edition. An Account Of
The Most Eminent Persons In Successive Ages Who Have Claimed For
Themselves Or To Whom Has Been Imputed By Others.
Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address
European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the
twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf
territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy,
and from Croatia to Estonia.
The Devil's Workshop by Joseph Smith; Explain the History of the
Church and the spirit of abomination of desolation that horn with
the eyes of men, spoken of by Daniel the Prophet. He also uncover
some of the world's best kept secrets of these religious orders and
the religious world, while looking at the origin of the oldest
known religion to men.
This book examines the relationship between magic, philosophy and
the investigation of nature in presocratic Greece. Did the
presocratic thinkers, often praised for their rejection of the
supernatural, still believe in gods and the divine and the efficacy
of magical practices? Did they use animism, astrology, numerology
and mysticism in their explanations of the world? This book
analyses the evidence in detail and argues that we need to look at
each of these beliefs in context.
This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations
presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new
light. Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist
engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge.
This book explores the religious foundations, political and social
significance, and aesthetic aspects of the theatre created by the
leaders of the Occult Revival. Lingan shows how theatre contributed
to the fragmentation of Western religious culture and how
contemporary theatre plays a part in the development of
alternative, occult religions.
Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a
rich selection of essays which represent the most important
historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early
modern Europe. Each essay makes a significant contribution to the
history of magic and religion in its own right, while together they
demonstrate how debates over the topic have evolved over time,
providing invaluable intellectual, historical, and socio-political
context for readers approaching the subject for the first time. The
essays are organised around five key themes and areas of
controversy. Part One tackles superstition; Part Two, the tension
between miracles and magic; Part Three, ghosts and apparitions;
Part Four, witchcraft and witch trials; and Part Five, the gradual
disintegration of the 'magical universe' in the face of scientific,
religious and practical opposition. Each part is prefaced by an
introduction that provides an outline of the historiography and
engages with recent scholarship and debate, setting the context for
the essays that follow and providing a foundation for further
study. This collection is an invaluable toolkit for students of
early modern Europe, providing both a focused overview and a
springboard for broader thinking about the underlying continuities
and discontinuities that make the study of magic and superstition a
perennially fascinating topic.
Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a
rich selection of essays which represent the most important
historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early
modern Europe. Each essay makes a significant contribution to the
history of magic and religion in its own right, while together they
demonstrate how debates over the topic have evolved over time,
providing invaluable intellectual, historical, and socio-political
context for readers approaching the subject for the first time. The
essays are organised around five key themes and areas of
controversy. Part One tackles superstition; Part Two, the tension
between miracles and magic; Part Three, ghosts and apparitions;
Part Four, witchcraft and witch trials; and Part Five, the gradual
disintegration of the 'magical universe' in the face of scientific,
religious and practical opposition. Each part is prefaced by an
introduction that provides an outline of the historiography and
engages with recent scholarship and debate, setting the context for
the essays that follow and providing a foundation for further
study. This collection is an invaluable toolkit for students of
early modern Europe, providing both a focused overview and a
springboard for broader thinking about the underlying continuities
and discontinuities that make the study of magic and superstition a
perennially fascinating topic.
This is my second book. My first book, They All Told the Truth,
describes how I developed an advanced physics theory of matter and
energy that unifies all the other mainstream physics theories. It
is truly and correctly the long-sought-after grand unified field
theory. It was calculated mathematically using legitimate and
accepted physics methods. Years later, I was bored one day and just
happened to pick up a tattered Christian Bible and was browsing
through the Book of Revelation. I was so shocked at what I saw that
I fell out of my chair I saw that the essential physical numbers
from my new physics theory were all in there and were repeated over
and over and over. Like a message. There was exact correspondence
as there were no numbers missing, nor were there extra numbers that
didn't belong (with one exception, which was the number 666) I had
stumbled upon the greatest discovery in modern history. The
implications are enormous as they prove scientifically (physics)
that God and Jesus are real because their signatures are in there
No one else during those times that the various Bible books were
written could have possibly known to put those specific numbers in
there. Religion and science will now be unified from this time
forward, starting from here.
The second volume of To Fathom the Gist examines in depth how
Gurdjieff wrote Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson and discusses the
three ways of reading the book in light of how the book was
written. It provides useful perspectives on the book by examining
the 1931 Manuscript (the earliest edition of The Tales) and
comparing it to Gurdjieff's final version. It also analyzes the
1992 revision of The Tales in depth. Finally, this volume
investigates the Arch-absurd-Beelzebub's assertion that our Sun
neither lights nor heats.
Spiritualism and mediumship are often regarded as the product of
lingering superstition in the Victorian era, and as having limited
relevance in modern Anglo-American society. Scholarship to date
which has considered Spiritualism as a distinct religious tradition
has focussed on analysing the phenomenon in terms of spirit
possession only. This volume analyses the development of shamanism
(communication with the spiritual world) as a concept within North
American English-speaking scholarship, with particular focus on
Mircea Eliade's influential cross-cultural presentation of
shamanism. By re-examining the work of Sergei Shirokogoroff, one of
Eliade's principal sources, the traditional Evenki shamanic
apprenticeship is compared and identified with the new Spiritualist
apprenticeship. The author demonstrates that Spiritualism is best
understood as a traditional shamanism, as distinct from
contemporary appropriations or neo-shamanisms. He argues that
shamanism is the outcome of an apprenticeship in the management of
psychic experiences, and which follows the same pattern as that of
the apprentice medium. In doing so, the author offers fresh
insights into the mechanisms that are key to sustaining mediumship
as a social institution.
The Heart is the meeting place of the individual and the divine,
the inner ground of morality, authenticity, and integrity. The
process of coming to the Heart and of realizing the person we were
meant to be is what Carl Jung called 'Individuation'. This path is
full of moral challenges for anyone with the courage to take it.
Using Jung's premise that the main causes of psychological problems
are conflicts of conscience, Christina Becker takes the reader
through the philosophical and spiritual aspects of the ethical
dimensions of this individual journey toward wholeness. This book
is a long overdue and unique contribution to the link between
individuation and ethics. Christina Becker, M.B.A. is a
Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst in private practice in Toronto,
Ontario Canada.
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