Some of the articles featured in this year's Digest include: The Magic of the American Indians; The Universal Law of Triunity; Moral Influence of Symbols, Signs and Mysteries; The Relationship of Color to Sound; The Secret of Numbers; Going into the Divine; Ancient Symbolism; The Religion of the American Indian; Imhotep-The Mummy; The Character of the Initiation into the Egyptian Mysteries; The Cruelty of False Teachings; Mind Power is Electrical; I Am That I Am; Innocence and Heaven; Passed to Higher Initiation; Numbers, Their Symbology; The Two Selfs of the Body; Aum Mani Padme Hum!; The Book of the Dead; I Found God Through the Microscope; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Anthropomorphism; Auras; Celibacy and Spirituality; Duality of Consciousness; Control of Habits; Dangers of fortunetelling; Descartes; Desire and Reincarnation; Eliminating Ego; Value of Eugenics; Cosmic Hierarchy; Mrs. Houdini; Identical Twins; Receiving Impressions; Karma; Mental Telepathy; Objective Consciousness; Paranoia; Photographs as Fetishes; Power of Suggestion; Projection and Time; Religion and instantaneous healing; Sacredness of Places; Suicide; Training Children; Twins and Telepathy; Vernal Equinox; Weather Conditions and War; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Adam and Eve; Air Pressure in Nostrils; Killing Animals; Bible Reading; Capital Punishment; Intuition of Children; Colors and Unconscious Bodies; Cosmic Revelations; Crime Detection; Cycles of Incarnation; Psychological Diseases; Predicting Earthquakes; Giving One's Body to Science; Growing Younger; Hypnosis; Karma; Krishnamurti; Mystical Money; Mystics and Marriage; Transfer of Personality; Plant Auras; Psychological Diseases; Scientific Discoveries; Warning of Transition; Interpreting Visions; Drinking Water; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Adoption of Children; Aura; Choosing the Next Life; Cremation; Charles Darwin; Ancient Druids; Environment; Experiments and Exercises; Fourth Dimension; Attainment of Happiness; Healing; Intuition; Karma; Mayans; Transmitting Mental Messages; How to Study Monographs; Arabic, Semitic Persecution; Power; Psychiatrists and Psychologists; Suppression of Reasoning; Seeing Souls; Spirit and Gravity; The Art of Play; Vestigial organs; Werewolf; and many more.

Some of the articles featured in this year's Digest include: Race and Civilization; Creative Karma; Zodiacal Epochs; Myths and Legends; Nicholas Roerich; Primitive Theories of Disease; Messenger of the Magi; King Lear's Madness Is Modern; Interplanetary Travel; Mountains and Monasteries; Reincarnation and Old Age; Egyptian Psychotherapy; The 50,000-Year Memory; Life on Other Worlds; It Began in Egypt; White Miracle Food; When the Moon was Shattered; Life on Other Worlds; Art of Mental Creating; Does Fear Enslave You?; Behavior Depends Upon Women; Modern Alchemy; Attaining Spirituality; The Mystical Way of Life; Medicine in the Talmud; On Less Strenuous Living; The Phoenix and Turtle; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Achievement of the Mystical Viewpoint; Is Deep Breathing Harmful; Can Projection be Wrongly Used?; Can the Psychic Self Be Retarded?; Is Painless Death Advisable?; Do Stars Influence Us?; Experience of the Mystic; Facts You Ought to Know; Many Gods; Mysticism as Human Experience; False Idealism; Is Sterilization Proper?; The Meaning of Religion; Achievement of the Mystical Viewpoint; Are Projected Personalities Masters?; World Population and New Souls; Prejudice Against Bigness; The Discovery of Self; Is There Absolute Truth; What is the Aquarian Age?; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Adhesion, Cohesion, Magnetism; A Glance at Fundamentals; Immortality and Belief; Cosmic Theft; Delusion of Black Magic; Does the Soul Enter at Birth; Does the Universe Expand; Exemption from Responsibility; The Age of Frustration; The Evolution of God; Handwriting Analysis; Human Freedom and Evil; Is Intuition Always Helpful; Attracting What We Lack; Is Morality Declining?; Will Man Control Nature?; Our Destiny is Near; Were There Women Philosophers?; What Are Psychic States?; Television Versus Reading; What is the True Sabbath; Transference of the Physical Self; Subliminal Suggestions in Advertising; Nuclear Tests; Value of Confession; Why People Fear; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Ascension of Our Bodies; Hunches and Other Things; The Mystical Life of Jesus; Death, Where Is Thy Sting?; The Soul's Evolution; Alchemy Again; Astrology; Burdened Souls; About Healing; Good Luck Charms and Prayers; The Fear of Death; Developing Your Healing Power; Influence of Color; Forgetting Cosmic Promises; The Temptation to Resign; Soul Mates and Affinities; Visualizing; Healing Treatments; Conscious Transition; Ghosts; You and the Universe; The Curing of Cancer; Mystical Chain-Letters; Cosmic Illumination; The Cause of Disease; Causes of Psychic Inharmony; Our Healing Methods in the Hands of Physicians; Our Shaking Faiths; Female Masonry; Psychic Photographs; Reincarnation and Marriage; More Cosmic Money; Are Wars Inevitable?; Cosmic Ethics and Laws; Past Incarnations; Occult Predictions; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Akashic Records; Ancient Civilizations; Aquarian Age; Poison Fumes of Automobiles; Born with a Caul; Burial while alive; Transition of Cheiro; Divine Consciousness; Cosmic Channels; Methods of Eating; Divining Rods; Eye Exercises; Floods; Choosing Type of Funeral; Heartbeats and Crime; Increase of Insanity; Invisible Playmates; Knowledge vs. Belief; American Indian Mysticism; Nationality: Influence in reincarnation; Planting by lunar periods; American Indian Prayer; Prenatal influence; Psychological Effect of Music; Reality in sleeping or waking state?; Reincarnation of Francis Bacon; Self hypnosis; Unusual children; Vegetarianism; Importance of water; and many more.

If ever a city had a soul, a place, a heart and a locality, a mind, it is Toulouse. Toulouse has been associated in the minds of occultists with mysticism to such an extent that in the Masonic Scottish Rites there is a mystical, mythical character know as the Knight of Toulouse.

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.

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.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Jewels, gems, stones, superstitions and astrological lore are all so interwoven in history that to treat of either of them alone would mean to break the chain of association linking them one with the other. Contents: magic stones and electric gems; on meteorites or celestial stones; stones of healing; on the virtues of fabulous stones, concretions and fossils; snake stones and bezoars; angels and ministers of grace; on the religious use of various stones; amulets, ancient, medieval, Oriental; amulets of primitive peoples and of modern times; facts and fancies about precious stones. Extensively illustrated.

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

This volume contains four smaller works by various authors. Rosicrucian Thoughts by W. Wynn Westcott presents thoughts on the ever-burning lamps of the ancients. Harold Bayley pens The Hidden Symbols of the Rosicrucians wherein facts are presented as to the variety of hidden symbols used by the Rosicrucians. De Mysteriis Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis, wherein under the form of an admonition to an Adeptus Minor of the R.R. et A.C. is disclosed the true symbolism of the Rosy Cross for the enlightenment of those who are worthy of the same is written by Frater Achad. The final essay is Rosicrucian Symbols by Franz Hartmann.

This is the third volume of Luzac's Oriental Religions Series. The theories discussed in this book are based on a study of that intricate demonology which has gradually developed throughout the lands of Western Asia. The study of tabu from the Assyrian side had been comparatively neglected and the evidence gleaned from the cuneiform writings shows that it existed in practically the same form in Mesopotamia as in other countries. The material the author could gather was imperfect and the relative scientific value of what was actually known on the subject is proportionate to the amount of evidence which may be afforded at some later date by documents in the British Museum that were not released for this book.

Halloween may be the most misunderstood holiday on the calendar, because many people don't realize the depth of its history. It has tremendous power and purpose, which benefit all of mankind--those who are with us now, and those who have moved into the hereafter.

Among the dark shadows and foggy mist, the living have long searched the night on Halloween. Some catch a fleeting glimpse or vision of a loved one. Others are touched by the gift of a telepathic message. In some mysterious way, the spirits feel your every thought and hear your every word on this mystical, magical night.

"The Power of Halloween" draws on author Diana Millay's heritage: witches and witchcraft. It does not come from history books but from stories passed on by generations of a family of mystics who have made magic since the beginning of time.

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.

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.

In this little book, the author attempts to tell as clearly as possible the story of the development of magical and religious thought and practice. As the result of work on the historical aspect of the growth of civilization, the general principles of development of various forms of human culture have become clear and the author believed it was time to give the general reader some account of the progress made up to the present.