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When a Stone Begins to Roll - Notes of an Adventurer, Diplomat & Mystic: Extracts from Episodes in a Life of Adventure (Paperback)
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When a Stone Begins to Roll - Notes of an Adventurer, Diplomat & Mystic: Extracts from Episodes in a Life of Adventure (Paperback)
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Laurence Oliphant is one of the great unknown personalities of the
nineteenth century, and indeed of recent cultural history at large.
He was born at Cape Town in 1829 and died near London in 1888. He
left behind some twenty books, including novels, travel accounts,
and mystical spiritual writings. He was diplomat, traveler,
adventurer, writer, and mystic. At the beginning of the 1860s, the
period of Oliphant's great spiritual transition began when he met
the Swedenborgian Thomas Lake Harris. It was Oliphant's last works,
Sympneumata and Scientific Religion, that prompted Rudolf Steiner
to pursue karmic research on Oliphant. As a result, Steiner
revealed the karmic relationship between the lives of Oliphant and
the Roman poet Ovid. In an August 24, 1924, lecture in London,
Steiner commented that Oliphant's individuality is significant not
only because of the previous Ovid incarnation, but also because of
its activity in the interval between the two incarnations. Looked
at in the light of spiritual research on the subject, Oliphant's
life assumes dimensions of world-historical interest. When a Stone
Begins to Roll contains extensive selections from Oliphants
autobiographical book, Episodes in a Life of Adventure; or, Moss
from a Rolling Stone (1887). In addition to the insightful
commentary of T.H. Meyer, the book also offers a generous sampling
of Oliphant's complex and compelling work, as well as hitherto
unpublished material and the satire "The Sisters of Tibet."
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