This is an exposition of the internal or spiritual sense of the books of Genesis and Exodus, according to the law of correspondences. It unfolds the spiritual significance of the creation; of the stories of Adam and Eve, and of the deluge; of the lives of the patriarchs; of the captivity of the chosen people in Egypt and of their deliverance therefrom, and of their subsequent history; of the ritual of the Jewish religion, its sacrifices and observances:—and in general, traces the foreshadowing through both books of the incarnation and glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many passages from other parts of the Word are also fully explained. Relations of things heard and seen in the spiritual world are interspersed, explaining the process of dying, and of man's resuscitation and conscious entrance into the interior life; the nature of the soul; of heaven and heavenly joy;and of hell, its nature and its miseries. It also treats of the Grand Man, or the whole angelic heaven, and the correspondence of the societies therein with the different organs and senses of the body; the origin and correspondence of diseases; the spirits and inhabitants of the various planets, and of other earths in the starry heavens. All of which are related to a true understanding of the Divine Word. This is book #4 out of 12 and covers Genesis 23 - 27.
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Lloyds historical sketches of the evolution of Buddhism in Japan provide a wealth of knowledge. Contents: PREFACE CHAPTER I - Mahyna CHAPTER II - The Stage on which S'akyamuni made his Appearance CHAPTER III - The Buddha and his Greatest Disciple CHAPTER IV - The Pre-Christian Expansion of Buddhism CHAPTER V - Pusityamitra CHAPTER VI - The New Testament in Touch with the East CHAPTER VII - Alexandria and Antioch at the Time of Christ CHAPTER VIII - The Legend of St. Thomas CHAPTER IX - The Call from China CHAPTER X - Buddhism just before the Coming of Christianity CHAPTER XI - As'vaghosha CHAPTER XII - Ngrjuna CHAPTER XIII - The Missionaries of the Han CHAPTER XIV - Dharmagupta CHAPTER XV - Manichaeism CHAPTER XVI -China in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Centuries CHAPTER XVII - Buddhism reaches Japan CHAPTER XVIII - The Crown Prince ShMtoku Taishi CHAPTER XIX - Buddhism during the Nara Period from A.D. 621-782 CHAPTER XX - Heian Buddhism CHAPTER XXI - "Namudaishi" CHAPTER XXII - The Buddhism of the Gempei Period CHAPTER XXIII - The Buddhism of Kamakura CHAPTER XXIV - Nichiren and the Earlier Sects CHAPTER XXV - "RisshM Ankoku Ron" CHAPTER XXVI - The Mongols CHAPTER XXVII - The Buddhism of the Muromachi Age CHAPTER XXVIII - The Period of the Catholic Missions CHAPTER XXIX - The Buddhism of the Tokugawa Period CHAPTER XXX - Recapitulation
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As far back as history goes, at all times, in all lands, and among all peoples materializations of spirits have occurred. The spirit manifestations to-day are but a repetition of those which took place in pre-Christian times. The war and the publications of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge, W. J. Crawford, and Emile Boirac have given to Spiritism a popular vogue and impetus. By a singular coincidence books on Spiritism, published in Germany, France, and Italy have appeared almost simultaneously with English and American publications on this weird subject. Many of these have given a quasi-scientific endorsation to Spiritism, and have contributed official support to the current belief in the reality of Spiritistic phenomena. Catholic students of these phenomena have never doubted their reality. While admitting and conceding the impositions, frauds, trickery and deceptions of many professional mediums. Catholic psychologists and theologians, who for nearly two thousand years have investigated the subject, hold that materializations have always taken place and are occurring to-day, and that no theory of fraud or delusion can account for them. Contents: Preface I - Preliminary Discourse Ii - The Sixth Sense Iii - The Sense Of Orientation Iv - Wonders Of Bilocation V - Bicorporeity Vi - Dual Personality Vii - Spiritism, Ancient And Modern Viii - Spiritism- What Is It? Ix - Apparitions X - Demoniacal Possession Xi - What Of The Dead? Xii - Spirits Of Another World
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in twelve books, in English heroic verse without rhyme, by John Milton (C. P. P.) and was published in 1667. The subject is the fall of man, and the expulsion from Paradise. Book I. Satan arouses his legions, still suffering from their expulsion from heaven, tells them of an ancient prophecy of a new world and a new race to be created, and summons a general council, to meet at Pandemonium, his capital, to confer on the subject. Book II. At the council it is resolved not to hazard another battle for the recovery of heaven but to search for the prophesied new world. Satan undertakes to find it alone. Book III. The Almighty sees Satan flying through space, confers with the Son, foretells the fall, and arranges the scheme of redemption. Meanwhile Satan alights on the world. Book IV. Satan enters Eden and overhears Adam and Eve talking about the tree of knowledge, of the fruit of which they are forbidden to eat under penalty of death, and determines to make them transgress. Book V. The Almighty sends Raphael to warn Adam against Satan. Book VI. Raphael tells of the war in heaven and of the defeat and expulsion of the rebel angels. Book VII. Raphael relates how and why the world was created. Book VIII. Adam tells Raphael what he knows of his own creation and of his nuptials with Eve. Book IX. After Raphael's departure Satan takes the form of a serpent, and finding Eve alone tells her that he has acquired both the power of speech and wisdom by eating the fruit of the forbidden tree. Eve, whose curiosity is aroused, tastes the fruit and at last takes some to Adam and persuades him also to eat. The eyes of both are opened, and they accuse each other. Book X. Satan returns to Pandemonium and relates the success of his mission. Book XI.
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This is an exposition of the internal or spiritual sense of the books of Genesis and Exodus, according to the law of correspondences. It unfolds the spiritual significance of the creation; of the stories of Adam and Eve, and of the deluge; of the lives of the patriarchs; of the captivity of the chosen people in Egypt and of their deliverance therefrom, and of their subsequent history; of the ritual of the Jewish religion, its sacrifices and observances:—and in general, traces the foreshadowing through both books of the incarnation and glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many passages from other parts of the Word are also fully explained. Relations of things heard and seen in the spiritual world are interspersed, explaining the process of dying, and of man's resuscitation and conscious entrance into the interior life; the nature of the soul; of heaven and heavenly joy;and of hell, its nature and its miseries. It also treats of the Grand Man, or the whole angelic heaven, and the correspondence of the societies therein with the different organs and senses of the body; the origin and correspondence of diseases; the spirits and inhabitants of the various planets, and of other earths in the starry heavens. All of which are related to a true understanding of the Divine Word. This is book #3 out of 12 and covers Genesis 18 - 22
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"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 - c. 395) (also known as Gregory Nyssen) was bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 376, and from 378 until his death. He is venerated as a saint in Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Lutheranism and Anglicanism. Gregory, his brother Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus are collectively known as the Cappadocian Fathers Gregory lacked the administrative ability of his brother Basil, or the contemporary influence of Gregory of Nazianzus, but was an erudite theologian who made significant contributions to the doctrine of the Trinity and the Nicene creed. Gregory's philosophical writings were influenced by Origen, and he is generally considered to have believed in universal salvation. Since the mid-twentieth century, there has been a significant increase in interest in Gregory's works from the academic community, which has resulted in challenges to many traditional interpretations of his theology. (courtesy of wikipedia.com) Excerpt from Contents: - Gregory of Nyssa Against Eunomius Letter I. Letter II. Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V Book VI Book VII Book VIII Book IX Book X Book XI Book XII Introduction on Epinoia Answer to Eunomius' Second Book On the Holy Spirit, Against the Followers of Macedonius On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit On "Not Three Gods" On the Faith Ascetic and Moral Treatises. On Virginity On Infants' Early Deaths On Pilgrimages - Philosophical Works Note on the Treatise "On the Making of Man.
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This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids This book contains the most important passages selected from the Buddhist Sacred Books. The aim of the present work is to take different ideas and conceptions found in Pâli writings, and present them to the reader in English. Translation has been the means employed as being the most effectual, and the order pursued is in the main that of the Buddhist "Three Jewels" (in Pâli, Ti-Ratana), to wit, The Buddha, the Doctrine, and the Order. The selections of the first chapter are on The Buddha; next follow those which deal chiefly with the Doctrine; while others concerning the Order and secular life constitute the closing chapter of the book. Contents: Chapter I. The Buddha. Introductory Discourse. § 1. The Story Of Sumedha. § 2. A List Of Former Buddhas. § 3. The Characteristics Of A Future Buddha. § 4. The Birth Of The Buddha. § 5. The Young Gotamid Prince. § 6. The Great Retirement. § 7. The Great Struggle. § 8. The Attainment Of Buddhaship. § 9. First Events After The Attainment Of Buddhaship. § 10. The Conversion Of Sâriputta And Moggallâna. § 11. The Buddha's Daily Habits. § 12. The Death Of The Buddha. Chapter Ii. Sentient Existence. § 13. Questions Which Tend Not To Edification. § 14. King Milinda And Nâgasena Come To An Understanding. § 15. There Is No Ego. § 16. All Signs Of An Ego Are Absent. § 17. No Continuous Personal Identity. § 18. The Mind Less Permanent Than The Body. § 19. What Is Unity Or One? § 20. Analysis Of The Human Being. § 21. The Composition Of The Body. § 23. The Origin And Cessation Of The Human Being. § 24. Inanimate Nature. § 25. The Middle Doctrine. § 26. Ignorance. § 27. Karma. § 28. Consciousness. § 29. Name And Form. § 31. Contact. § 33. Desire. § 34.
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Most of Emerson's essays emerged as lectures first and were later edited for printing. There are two main collections, Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, that include the quintessence of his work. This is the extended annotated edition containing a rare biological essay about Emerson an his life. Contents: Essays, First Series I. History. Ii. Self-Reliance. Iii. Compensation. Iv. Spiritual Laws. V. Love. Vi. Friendship. Vii. Prudence. Viii. Heroism. Ix. The Over-Soul. X. Circles. Xi. Intellect. Xii. Art. Essays, Second Series I. The Poet. Ii. Experience. Iii. Character. Iv. Manners. V. Gifts. Vi. Nature. Vii. Politics. Viii. Nonimalist And Realist. New England Reformers.
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