Some of the articles featured in this year's Digest include: Intuition, Set It Free; The Symbolism of Salt; The Missile and the Space Age; Mind, the Magnet; Can Machines Think? Horatio Nelson: Seaman and Mystic; Man into Orbit; Dandelion, the Benevolent; Zulu Beliefs; The Wheel of Venus; Rousseau's Response to Life; The Buddhist Law of Karma; Strange Radiations of Plants; Music, Flowers and Self; Islam, the All-Inclusive; Seven Steps to Wisdom; Health Tour in South Africa; The Temples and Cult of Asclepius; Prelude to Space Landings; Amazing Prophecy by a Philosopher; Men and Atoms; Water in Ancient Inca Art; Psychic Effects on Watches; A Children's Village in Switzerland; Our Druid Heritage; The Vision of Guadalupe; Spiritual Highlights Recognized by Indians; Obiageli Sent her Love; The Laughing Philosopher; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Are There Soulmates? Immortality and Belief; Can Opposed Religions Coexist; The Cosmic Versus Human Laws; Is There Awareness After Death?; Intuition Distinguished from Desire; The Development of Mind Power; Does Beauty Lie Within an Object; Our Dream World; Are Persons Possessed of Evil; Hallowed Places on Earth; Illness and Thought; Is Man a Spontaneous Creation?; Multiple Inspiration; The 144-year Cycle and Population Change; Rational Mysticism; Sane or Insane; Should We Risk Life for Animals?; Tibetan Manuscripts; Reversion to Type; What Are Vibrations?; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Accidents and Suicides; Meaning of Advancement; Is Birth Control Mystically Wrong?; Can Life Be Explained by Chance?; Interpreting Cosmic Guidance; Whence Come the Dark Forces?; Why Do Dreams Recur?; Strangely Familiar Places; Sanctifying a New Home; Houdini the Magician; Influence of Masters; The Balance of Life; Pantheism or Monotheism-Which?; The Nature of Things; Measuring Yourself by Others; Consider Real Values; Self and Selflessness; Is Smoking Harmful?; Prayer Its Use and Misuse; The Use of Inspiration; Measuring Yourself by Others; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Amahl and the Night Visitors; Are You a Thinker?; Awakening Cosmic Experience; Purpose of Being; The Christmas Theme; Are Consciousness and Mind Synonymous?; The Interpretive Cortex; Is Gambling A Vice?; Have Our Names Hidden Power?; Human Souls and World Destruction; I Am That I Am; Is Psychic Power Spontaneous?; Learning While Sleeping; A Mystic Knowing; The Cost of Peace; Does Prominence Signify Evolvement?; Willing Oneself to Relax; What is Sacred?; Sexual Activity and Spiritual Development; Social Service and Karma; Faith and Superstition; The Psychological Effect of Music; Combating Negative Thoughts; What is Sacred?; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: The Normal and Abnormal; Abraham Lincoln; Are Diseases Transferred to Healers; Babylon, earliest recorded vowels; Annie Besant; Body-soul relationship; Buddha; Color Therapy; The Rebirth Cycle; Do Elementals Exist?; Edison; Experiments to restore life; Hagiography; Human Souls and World Destruction; Intermarriage of races; Martinists; Metaphysics; Naturalism; Necrophobia; Neoplatonists; Nirvana; Rami; Sanskrit; Silver cord; Speaking in Strange Tongues; Trance; Vowels; Why Do Dreams Recur?; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Must We Accept Reincarnation?; Should We Ask for Things?; Is There a Birth for a Death?; Nourishment of Body and Soul; Contacting the Cathedral of the Soul; Hypnosis and Cosmic Attunement; Dark Night of the Soul; Deep Breathing for Health; Does Charm Represent Inner Development; Does Use of Subconscious Powers Disrupt a Cosmic Plan?; Psychic Effects of Space Exploration; Forbidden Foods; Karma and the Individual; Should Killing Be a Sport; Should Mystics Seek Material Success?; Is Polygamy Justifiable? Psychic Hitchhikers; Our Cosmic Relationship; Who Was Count St. Germain?; Self-Consciousness After Transition; Sensitivity to Vibrations; What Is Wrong with Civilization?; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Art of Absent Healing; Asceticism; Atomic Power; Auras; Between Good and Evil; Birthmarks; Buddhism; Can Happiness be Universal; Characteristics of a Mystic; Confucius; Leonardo da Vinci; Dark Forces; Did the Aztecs Fly?; Does Luck Exist?; Hades; Eidetic Images; Imhotep; Henry James; Karma; Optical illusions; Polynesian god; Proper Posture for Mystical Exercises; Pythagoras; Satan; Shall We Disturb Old Things?; Mark Twain; Value of Prayer; Whence Came the Dark Forces?; Zoroastrianism; and many more.

Some of the articles featured in this year's Digest include: Spatial Exploration; The Evils and Karma of Society; The Anatomy of Mirth; Know your Illusions; Raphael's Great Secret; The Chemistry of Life; The Architect of the New Age; Physical Weakness No Aid to Spirituality; Dietetics for the Body and Mind; Cosmic Rays; Symbolism of the Foursquare; The Influence of the Moon; Legalized Murder; The Vibrating Universe; Illusions of the Senses; The Life of a Mystic; Swedenborg, the Mystic; What is Psychic Power; When Psychic Evolution Fails; Star of the Magi; The Mystic Path of Alchemy; The Unknown Philosopher; On the Nature of Beauty; Mysticism in Business; and many more.

Some of the articles featured in this year's Digest include: Some Practical and Theoretical Features of Numerology; Seven Metaphysical Laws; Success-A Mental Conception; The Evolutionary Force; Must We Suffer to Grow? Concentration and Attunement; An Indisputable Cosmic Law; Cagliostro the Mystery Mystic; Helping You to Help Yourself; Man-A Creator!; The Miracle of Mental Healing-An Explanation of How the Law Operates; Is Knowledge Power?; Marie Corelli, the Illuminated Mystic; Self-Healing; Cosmic Compensation and Karma; Developing Psychic Centers; The Healing Art; Whence Comes This Power?; The Christ Spirit; Attracting Cosmic Help; Creating Opportunities; Attracting the Blessings of Life; The Lost Tribes of Mystics; and many more.

Some of the articles featured in this year's Digest include: Francis Bacon Today; Cosmic Unity and Science; Evolution's First Hundred Years; The Fire of Prometheus; Prisoner of the White Dwarf; Why Art?; Bird Migration; Horace Mann, A True Disciple; The Lost Art of Getting Lost; Apollonius, Man or Myth?; The Forsaken Temple; Supermen and Superwomen; Inner Space Travel; In the Babylonian Beginning; The Escape of Marshal Ney; The Esthetic Emotion; Dollmaking Today in Japan; Dr. Kinnerman: Digger for Facts; Our World of Color; The Day Washington Cried; Sunrise at Abu Simbel; The Island Nobody Knows; Columbus Liked Gallego Names; Salute to Ottawa; The Bible in Modern Dress; The Ghost of Albert Ryder On Art; A Man on the Moon; Demosthenes Was Right; Akhnaton and the Space Age; The Rays of Luna; George Copeland Recalls Debussy; Space Travel and Earthbound Man; Manna Is Not a Myth; and many more.

After twenty years of meditation and studying, Robert Blumetti has complied a modern perspective on the Norse myths for anyone of European ancestry who seeks a personal connection with the Gods of their ancestors. He has discovered a new understanding of the death and resurrection legend of Balder and its meaning for all people of European ancestry in the twenty-first century. "The Book of Balder Rising" is a religious guide on how the old myths can be a path to a new spirituality in the present modern age. Blumetti's new understanding of the old myths is presented as a guide for personal and spiritual transformation.

Discover the meaning and role that the Gods can play in leading you to the dawning of the New Age of Gimli. Blumetti explains how the old Gods still live on within us, and how we can once again make them a living part of our lives. This book is a must read for all who are interested in the old pagan religions of Europe and its a message of hope and joy for the future that will change your life in ways that will amaze you.

This work presents the Rosicrucians and their teachings; how they are misunderstood, misquoted, their writings grossly misrepresented and they themselves defamed; imitated by pretenders, frauds and pseudo- initiates, they, the true Rosicrucians remain as ever the Masters of the Ages. It is based on facts such as may be readily verified by anyone sufficiently interested to search through copyrighted books and magazines in the Library of Congress.

Foreword by Mary Ann Meyers

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the doctrine of panentheism -- the belief that the world is contained within the Divine, although God is also more than the world. Here for the first time leading scientists and theologians meet to debate the merits of this compelling new understanding of the God-world relation.

Atheist and theist, Eastern and Western, conservative and liberal, modern and postmodern, physicist and biologist, Orthodox and Protestant -- the authors explore the tensions between traditional views of God and contemporary science and ask whether panentheism provides a more credible account of divine action for our age. Their responses, which vary from deeply appreciative to sharply critical, are preceded by an overview of the history and key tenets of panentheism and followed by a concluding evaluation and synthesis.

Contributors: Joseph A. Bracken
Michael W. Brierley
Philip Clayton
Paul Davies
Celia E. Deane-Drummond
Denis Edwards
Niels Henrik Gregersen
David Ray Griffin
Robert L. Herrmann
Christopher C. Knight
Andrew Louth
Harold J. Morowitz
Alexei V. Nesteruk
Ruth Page
Arthur Peacocke
Russell Stannard
Keith Ward
Kallistos Ware

In Living Spirit, Living Practice, the well-known cultural studies scholar Ruth Frankenberg turns her attention to the remarkably diverse nature of religious practice within the United States today. Frankenberg provides a nuanced consideration of the making and living of religious lives as well as the mystery and poetry of spiritual practice. She undertakes a subtle sociocultural analysis of compelling in-depth interviews with fifty women and men, diverse in race, ethnicity, national origin, class, age, and sexuality. Tracing the complex interweaving of sacred and secular languages in the way interviewees make sense of the everyday and the extraordinary, Frankenberg explores modes of communication with the Divine, the role of the body, the importance of geography, work for progressive social change, and the relation of sex to spirituality.Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and other practitioners come together here, speaking in terms both familiar and surprising. Whether discussing an Episcopalian deacon, a former Zen Buddhist who is now a rabbi, a Chicano monastic, an immigrant Muslim woman, a Japanese American Tibetan Buddhist, or a gay African American practicing in the Hindu tradition, Frankenberg illuminates the most intimate, local, and singular aspects of individual lives while situating them within the broad, dynamic canvas of the U.S. religious landscape.

With letters written from December 1910 to January 1919, inclusive. Being the authorized messenger for the Brothers of the Rosicrucian Order and consequently in close touch with them, Mr. Heindel was continuously receiving and giving out occult information to his students relative to the past, present and future evolution of life and form, which on account of his tutelage under the Brothers of the Order, he was able to verify for himself and to which he was able to add many details. The letters in this book give many side lights on the Rosicrucian philosophy and many practical, helpful hints for living the life of the Christian mystic.

This work is a collection of intriguing short stories by Temple Thurston. Found in this volume are the following stories: The Rosicrucian; Back to Burmah; The Archbishop; Dance, Little Lady; The Bigamist; Mr. Simmonds' Bit O Business; Virgin; Dementia; The Cherry Tree; Elizabeth; Skeleton in the Cupboard; Grey Quakers.

In this volume, the author presents the web of destiny, how made and unmade, also the occult effect of our emotions; prayer, a magic invocation; and practical methods of achieving success. Found within is a series of lessons upon the hidden side of life, showing the occult forces which shape our destiny.

Our author lays before the reader a summary of all the historic evidence available, together with a detailed record of his own experiments with this medium, conducted in Naples in November and December 1908. A complete resume of every theory that has been advanced to date, with a provisional hypothesis of his own. He then discusses at some length the biological and psychological peculiarities of the case, from the point of view of one who assumes, on the strength of the existing testimony, that the facts are established.

Volume 9 of 14. The 16th Century: Intellectual Conditions and Characteristics of the 16th Century through Thomas Erastus. The aim of this set is to treat the history of magic and experimental science and their relations to Christian thought during the first thirteen centuries of our era, with special emphasis upon the 12th and 13th centuries. Magic is understood under the broadest sense of the work, as including all occult arts and sciences, superstitions and folklore. The author believes that magic and experimental science have been connected in their development, and within these pages will attempt to prove the same.

With chapters on apparitions and phantasms. The author presents his belief that spiritual beings can and do communicate with us and produce material effects in the world around us. Those who believe as he does must see in the steady advance of inquiry and of interest in questions of this nature, the assurance that those beliefs will not be accepted by all truth seeking inquirers. The author includes a section as an answer to the arguments of Hume, Lecky and others against miracles.

Ren Gunon (1886-1951) is undoubtedly one of the luminaries of the twentieth century, whose critique of the modern world has stood fast against the shifting sands of recent philosophies. His oeuvre of 26 volumes is providential for the modern seeker: pointing ceaselessly to the perennial wisdom found in past cultures ranging from the Shamanistic to the Indian and Chinese, the Hellenic and Judaic, the Christian and Islamic, and including also Alchemy, Hermeticism, and other esoteric currents, at the same time it directs the reader to the deepest level of religious praxis, emphasizing the need for affiliation with a revealed tradition even while acknowledging the final identity of all spiritual paths as they approach the summit of spiritual realization. Miscellanea gathers together for Anglophone readers various articles by Ren Gunon and by 'Palingenius', his pseudonym during the time of La Gnose, a journal he founded in 1909. These articles have been divided into three categories: 'Metaphysics and Cosmology', 'Traditional Arts and Sciences', and 'Some Modern Errors'. A sampling of chapters: 'Monotheism and Angelology'; 'Spirit and Intellect'; 'Silence and Solitude'; 'The Empiricism of the Ancients'; 'Gnosis and the Spiritist Schools'; 'The Origins of Mormonism', 'On the Production of Numbers', 'On Mathematical Notation'; 'Initiation and the Crafts'; and 'The Arts & their Traditional Conception'. In the latter two chapters the author explains why initiation became necessary in the measure that humanity receded from the 'primordial state', explaining the reasons for the degeneration of the arts and crafts due to the 'fall' or descending trajectory of the present cycle. He nonetheless points out the possibility of an initiation into the 'lesser mysteries' based upon the craft of building which still exists validly in the West.

Ren Gunon (1886-1951) is undoubtedly one of the luminaries of the twentieth century, whose critique of the modern world has stood fast against the shifting sands of recent philosophies. His oeuvre of 26 volumes is providential for the modern seeker: pointing ceaselessly to the perennial wisdom found in past cultures ranging from the Shamanistic to the Indian and Chinese, the Hellenic and Judaic, the Christian and Islamic, and including also Alchemy, Hermeticism, and other esoteric currents, at the same time it directs the reader to the deepest level of religious praxis, emphasizing the need for affiliation with a revealed tradition even while acknowledging the final identity of all spiritual paths as they approach the summit of spiritual realization. Many readers of Gunon's doctrinal works have hoped for translations of his detailed exposs of Theosophy and Spiritism. Sophia Perennis is pleased now to make available both these important titles as part of the Collected Works of Ren Gunon. Whereas Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion centers primarily on historical details, The Spiritist Fallacy, though also packed with arcane facts, is unique in revealing how one of the greatest metaphysicians of our age interprets the phenomena, real or alleged, of Spiritism. The doctrinal expositions that accompany his astonishing account of Spiritism offer extraordinarily prescient insight into many deviations and 'psychological' afflictions of the modern mind, and should be as valuable to psychiatrists and spiritual counselors as to historians of esoteric history. And it also offers a profound corrective to the many brands of New Age 'therapy' that all too unwittingly invoke many of the same elements whose nefarious origins Gunon so clearly pointed out many years ago.

Many readers of Guenon's later doctrinal works have longed to hear the tale of his earlier entanglement, and disentanglement, from the luxuriant undergrowth of so-called esoteric societies in late nineteenth-century Paris and elsewhere. The present work documents in excoriating detail Guenon's findings on what did, and did not, lie behind the Theosophical Society founded by Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott in 1875. Much further information has of course come to light during the 80 years since this book was written, but it has never been superseded as a fascinating record of the path of a master metaphysician through this maze. A sampling of chapter titles will convey a sense of the depth of this remarkable work: 'Madame Blavatsky's Antecedents', 'The Theosophical Society and Rosicrucianism', 'The Question of the Mahatmas', 'The Society for Psychical Research', 'Esoteric Buddhism', 'Esoteric Christianity', 'The Future Messiah', 'The Trials of Alcyone', 'The Anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner', 'The Order of the Star of the East', 'Theosophy and Freemasonry', 'The Political Role of the Theosophical Society'. Brotherhood of Luxor, which has recently attracted the attention of scholars of the occult. The Collected Works of Rene Guenon brings together the writings of one of the greatest prophets of our time, whose voice is even more important today than when he was alive. Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions, etc.