What is enlightenment? What is it not? This book exposes the myths and defines this misused term once and for all. Which teaching methods will get you there? And which will not? This book explains how the traditional methods work and why the modern, Western approaches are most unlikely to. The clearest book that has ever been written on the subject of enlightenment, it provides a detailed examination of the satsang phenomenon (and its more extreme, neo-Advaita variant), contrasting these approaches with the traditional methods passed down from teacher to disciple for over a thousand years. It indicates what is needed in the way of preparation and path in order to gain enlightenment, given some modern teachers' statements to the effect that there is 'no person' and 'nothing to do'. With a Foreword by Dr. Greg Goode, philosophical counsellor and one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on the subject of non-duality.

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Some of the articles featured in this year's Digest include: 400 Years of Mystery; Francis Bacon and the Electronic Computer; Was Francis Bacon Shakespeare; Demonism in Ceylon; Harnessing Your Brain Power; Color Psychology; Mr. Jefferson; A Royal Opera-Bouffe: Tragedy for Cagliostro; Mystical Thought of Two Presidents; The Alchemy of Creative Attunement; Medicine and the Mushroom; Camel Bells in Cairo; Emerson-Time's Clearer Image; My Name is Ozymandias; Erik Satie: Nonconformist Composer; Beyond the Milky Way; Marco Polo Saw This; Shades of Kubla Khan!; Egypt's Past and Our Present; Present-Day Avatars; Magic Carpets; Devil Dancing in Ceylon; Friesland's Astronomical Machinist; Baruch Spinoza: Dutch Freethinker; The Mystery of Columbus' Beard; Volcanoes and Camellias; Two Buddhas-One Lama; The Legends of Prague; Habib Gorgi: Revolutionary in Art; and many more.

Originally published in 1912 and long considered the most important sourcebook on the Count of Saint-Germain, this volume traces the life and activities of this extraordinary mystic and philosopher who influenced much of 18th century Western Europe's history. Overshadowing all is the figure of Christian Rosenkreutz and the work of the Rosicrucians, alchemists, and Masonry during that significant period.

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"From the beginning, the basic element of the story that I have wanted to write about has been the Meaning of Life. But the story I started to pen has been the story of my life. For as long as I can remember, people have been telling me to write that story down." A contemplative blend of memoir and moral science, "Seeing through Closed Eyes: A Memoir with a Social Conscience" is an honest and provocative testament to the power of spiritual relativity and its ability to help attain meaning in life. Along with the subjects of passion, life, and death, author Angelo La Pietra explores the relationship of the uncharted subconscious and the complacent conscious. "Seeing through Closed Eyes" is based on La Pietra's unconventional life and focuses especially on peculiar dreams that have challenged his understanding of spiritual relativity. The unique personalities in La Pietra's dreams come unsought into his life, imposing their own agendas onto his. As you reflect with him on these visions, you will follow his journey through painful memory, impassioned seeking for meaning, and finally, a growing understanding of what life could be.

Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements. Topics covered include alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and many more. Magic and Mysticism is ideal for students of Mysticism and New Religious Movements, as well as for general readers of Metaphysics and Esoterica.

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Originally published in 1929 by the Rosicrucian Press, "Here, for the first time, is a simple system whereby anyone may determine the fortunate and unfortunate daily, monthly and yearly periods of his life, thereby knowing when to do and when not to do anything that has an important bearing upon the progress of his career or the attainment of self-mastery. No other reference books, almanacs, or charts are necessary there are no complicated mathematical problems. Here is a fascinating, intriguing, astonishing book that will be a companion for many years." Contents Include: The Problem of Mastership Man a Free Agent Cosmic Rhythm and the Cycles of Life The Periods of Earthly Cycles The Simple Periods of Human Life The Complex Yearly Cycle of Human Life With Description of Cycle No. 2 Periods of the Business Cycle With Description of Cycle No. 3 How to Use the Periods of the Cycles The Periods of the Health Cycle With Description of Cycle No. 4 The Cycles of Disease and Sex The Daily Cycle of Significant Hours How to use the Daily Cycle of Seven Periods Description of Daily Periods The Soul Cycle How to Determine the Periods of the Soul Cycle Description of the Periods of the Soul Cycle The Cycles of Reincarnation

Although originally a companion volume to Complete History of the Rosicrucian Order, this book works well as an independent reference, answering virtually every question one might have about Rosicrucianism. There is no better work available that outlines exactly what this mystical and sometimes secretive organization is truly all about. Important for members and researchers who want to know both fundamental and advanced information that would otherwise not be available. Originally published through the order itself, with answers supplied by the most respected Rosicrucian of his time, H. Spencer Lewis.

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1929. Rosicrucian Library Volume I. Lewis, a famous Rosicrucian mystic, was the founder and the first Imperator of AMORC, from 1915 until 1939. The story of the Rosicrucian ideals, traditions, activities and accomplishments is told in an interesting and intriguing manner in this book. The scores of questions form a small encyclopedia of knowledge. Contents: Part One. Complete Authentic History of the Rosicrucian Order: The Traditional History of the Order; The Growth of the Order in the Orient; The Work of the Disciples; The 108-Year Cycle and C.R.C.; The Popular Revival in Germany; The Birth of Semi-Rosicrucian Organizations; The First Rosicrucians in America and The Present Rosicrucian Order in America. Part Two. Questions and Answers. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Known only to each other, they have walked among us, invisible and undetected for years. But now, the secret is out Atheists exist in the African American community. In the African American community there is an unspoken rule to never air dirty laundry in public, and for years the inner workings of the black community stayed hidden beneath a veil of dark silence, but with integration came a mingling of the races and now few secrets remain. Now, there is one less. Not only do black nonbelievers exist, they walk unnoticed among the "true-believers" along with a host of other religious skeptics and freethinkers.

Until now, any hints of atheism or freethought in the African American community have remained virtually invisible, camouflaged by indignant denial and indistinct expressions, such as secularist, nontheist, skeptic or humanist among others which help conceal clear atheistic, agnostic or freethought connections which are certainly not conventional and clearly go against black mainstream thinking. Despite more than 90% of African Americans claiming Christianity, "Black and Not Baptist" explores how there is a significant chasm between belief and behavior with a searing look at the statistics for adultery, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, gambling and other social problems in both the white and black communities. In the manner of "Norm Allen's African American Humanism: An Anthology," "Black and Not Baptist" exposes another side of the black religious experience with the individual stories of black atheists and agnostics, including a historical and current listing of black freethinkers and nonbelievers similar to Warren Allen Smith's Who's Who in Hell.

The author, a former high ranking Rosicrucian and prolific author on the subject for many years, reveals the true history of the Rosicrucian order. Many popular accounts put forth the idea that it was started in Germany in the seventeenth century by Christian Rosenkreuz, but Lewis shows how and why the order and its origins goes much further back into the past than this story relates. According to the author, there was simply a revival taking place in the seventeenth century that has continued on until today. Explore some of the world's most ancient mystical secrets, what they really mean, and why they were preserved for centuries by the Rosicrucians.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Overcoming Our Weaknesses; Appendicitis, Tonsillitis and Spinal-itis; Spiritualism, Spiritism, Necromancy; The Illuminati; Creation of Adam and Eve; Bacon vs. Shakespeare; Losing a Loved One; Wrong Cooking and Cancer; Snobbishness; Universal Consciousness; A Brickbat Amid Many Bouquets; Talking with Mars; The Return of Prosperity; The Soul's Selection of a Body; An Oriental Viewpoint That is Wrong; Children's Psychic Playmates; Mystical Numbers; Anti-Vivisection; Sex Again; A Tooth and Teeth; Amputation and Psychic Development; Man, Environment and the Survival of the Fittest; Dieting and Eating; Vibrations; The Cause of Earthquakes; In Harmony with the Cosmic; Spiritualizing Your Sanctums; A Study in Symbolism; Treating Diseases with Music; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Attunement Between Individuals; Auras; Biblical Interpretations; Childless Homes; Colors in Dreams; Interpreting the Commandments; Crystal Gazing; Diet; Dreams and Visions; Jesus; Karma; Kundalini; Magnetic Poles of the Earth; Origin of Man; Mind Power; Mystical Experiences; Occult Deceptions; Psychic Development; Reducing Weight; Subjective Consciousness; Transition; Universal Order; Woman's Place in Life; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Amenhotep IV; Born After Mother's Death; Drugless Healing Methods; Killing and the Taking of Life; Suspension of Law of Gravitation; Left-Handed Persons; Necessity for Moderation; A Real Mystery House; Secret Instructions from Tibet; Jefferson Secret Writings; Julia Seton; Sitting in Silence and Dark; Skins of Fruits and Vegetables; The Source of Good and Evil; Superstitions: Good Luck Charms; Telepathic Communication; Teachings from Tibet; What Mystical Understanding Will Do; Writing Successful Books; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Advertising and Suggestion; Anesthesia and Pain; Astrology in Motion Picture; Aura; Bahai Movement; Black Magic; Holding of Breath; Chemical and Color Effects in Therapy; Christian Doctrine and Reincarnation; Colonics; Congeniality in Marriage; Dreams and Fate; Use of Drugs in Voodoo; Duties of Modern Woman; Earthquakes and Storms; Evils in Civilization; Extroverts and Introverts; Faith Healing; Fanatical Religions; Handwriting and Heredity; Honesty and Wealth; Hypnotism Among Primitives; Instructions in Sex Hygiene; Karma; Bible as Literature; Mourning for the Dead; Nazi Propaganda; Numerology and Names; Obsessed Animals; Psychic Odors; Persecution of Healers; Power of Thought; Recalling Past Incarnations; Rhythm in Voodooism; Telepathy and Premonitions; Theosophical Society; Unconscious Projections; Plight of Unmarried Woman; Violet Treatment Room; Vowel Sounds and Numerology; Youth and Morals; Zombies in Voodooism; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Application of Knowledge; Perception of Aura; Black Magic and Fear; Candle Experiments; Seeing Colors; Cosmic Consciousness; 144-year Cycles; Do Cremated Suffer; Do Souls Evolve; Earthbound Souls; Fetishism; Conceptions of God; Health; Hypocrisy and Mental Reservations; Fulfilling One's Ideals; Our Invisible Guardians; Living a Perfect Life; Ownership of Material Things; Philology and Ethnology; Pioneers and Masses; Power of Affirmations; Pseudo Mysticism; Raising Children; Reincarnation; Relapses and Health; Rituals in Daily Habits; Sanctity of Our Heads; Sleep and Insomnia; Use of Stimulants; Subjective Mind; Telepathy; Theological Doctrines; Visualization; What is a Mystic; What Makes a Lazy Mind; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Arts and Mysticism; Attracting a Highly-evolved Soul; Origin and Meaning of Baptism; Biblical Prophecies; Celibacy; Desire for Concentration; Dogmatism; Earthbound ego; Electronic apparatus of Dr. Abrams; End of the world; Definition of Evil; Eschatology; Great Seal and Benjamin Franklin; Hindu Yoga; Isolationism; William James and Ouija Board; Karma and imbecility; Manes and Manichaeanism; Melchizedekits; Psychic mediums; Significance of Mirror; Nationalism; Nefertiti; Pantheism; Psalms of Amenhotep; Ptah, artifice-go; Reasoning power after transition; Responsibility for War; Soul-Personality Retrogression; Space and Time; Spinoza; Spiritual development and marriage; Vestal virgins and celibacy; Wishing or creating; and many more.

Some of the topics discussed in these issues include: Why Do Mystics Have Afflictions; Are Our Desires Right? Are You Making Progress; Mysticism and Behavior; The Best Method of Healing; Concentration-The Will of the Mind; Conversation Habits; Mental Discipline; What Is an Unusual Experience? Friends of Past Lives; Meaning of Heaven and Hell; Spirituality and Impracticability; Is Knowledge of Reincarnation of Value?; Our Foreign Jurisdictions; The Mystical Meaning of White; The Mystery of Self; The Psychology of Prayer; Psychic Perception; Metaphysics, Mysticism and Religion; The Secret of Psychic Development; The Soul Entering the Body; Spirituality of Women; The Silver Cord; and many more.