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Author | : Peter Kingsley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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More specifically, he traces for the first time a line of transmission from Empedocles and the early Pythagoreans down to southern Egypt, and from there into the world of Islam. "Highly polemical new book ... The thesis is argued with immense learning." "Times Higher Education Supplement".
Author | : Peter Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Pythagoras and Pythagorean school |
ISBN | : 9781383005592 |
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This study brings to light new evidence about ancient Pythagoreanism and its influence on Plato, as it reconstructs the esoteric transmission of Pythagorean ideas from ancient Greece, to the alchemists and magicians of Egypt, to the world of Islam.
Author | : Madame Alexandra David-Neel |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2012-04-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0486119440 |
Download Magic and Mystery in Tibet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.
Author | : Steven Berg |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2010-02-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438430191 |
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Provocative reinterpretation of Plato's Symposium.
Author | : Peter Kingsley |
Publisher | : Catafalque Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781999638436 |
Download REALITY (New 2020 Edition) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
REALITY introduces us to the extraordinary mystical tradition that lies right at the roots of western philosophy, science and civilization.
Author | : Manly P. Hall |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2005-09-08 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1585424323 |
Download Lectures on Ancient Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Complete in itself, this volume originated as a commentary and expansion of Manly P. Hall's masterpiece of symbolic philosophy, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. In Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, Manly P. Hall expands on the philosophical, metaphysical, and cosmological themes introduced in his classic work, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Hall wrote this volume as a reader's companion to his earlier work, intending it for those wishing to delve more deeply into the esoteric philosophies and ideas that undergird the Secret Teachings. Particular attention is paid to Neoplatonism, ancient Christianity, Rosicrucian and Freemasonic traditions, ancient mysteries, pagan rites and symbols, and Pythagorean mathematics. First published in 1929-the year after the publication of Hall's magnum opus-this edition includes the author's original subject index, twenty diagrams prepared under his supervision for the volume, and his 1984 preface, which puts the book in context for the contemporary reader.
Author | : Dan Burton |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780253216564 |
Download Magic, Mystery, and Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"[P.D. Ouspensky's] yearning for a transcendent, timeless reality—one that cancels out physical disintegration and death—figures into science at some fundamental level. Einstein found solace in his theory of relativity, which suggested to him that events are ever-present in the space-time continuum. When his friend Michele Besso passed on shortly before his own death, he wrote: 'For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.'" —from Magic, Mystery, and Science The triumph of science would appear to have routed all other explanations of reality. No longer does astrology or alchemy or magic have the power to explain the world to us. Yet at one time each of these systems of belief, like religion, helped shed light on what was dark to our understanding. Nor have the occult arts disappeared. We humans have a need for mystery and a sense of the infinite. Magic, Mystery, and Science presents the occult as a "third stream" of belief, as important to the shaping of Western civilization as Greek rationalism or Judeo-Christianity. The occult seeks explanations in a world that is living and intelligent—quite unlike the one supposed by science. By taking these beliefs seriously, while keeping an eye on science, this book aims to capture some of the power of the occult. Readers will discover that the occult has a long history that reaches back to Babylonia and ancient Egypt. It proceeds alongside, and frequently mingles with, religion and science. From the Egyptian Book of the Dead to New Age beliefs, from Plato to Adolf Hitler, occult ways of knowing have been used—and hideously abused—to explain a world that still tempts us with the knowledge of its dark secrets.
Author | : George G. M. James |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1627930159 |
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For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences. It is indeed surprising how, for centuries, the Greeks have been praised by the Western World for intellectual accomplishments which belong without a doubt to the Egyptians or the peoples of North Africa.
Author | : John Dee |
Publisher | : Weiser Books |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781578631780 |
Download John Dee's Five Books of Mystery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discovered in a hidden compartment of an old chest long after his death, the secret writings of John Dee, one of the leading scientists and occultists of Elizabethan England, record in minute detail his research into the occult. Dee concealed his treatises on the nature of humankind's contact with angelic realms and languages throughout his life, and they were nearly lost forever. In his brief biography of John Dee, Joseph Peterson calls him a "true Renaissance man"? detailing his work in astronomy, mathematics, navigation, the arts, astrology, and the occult sciences. He was even thought to be the model for Shakespeare's Prospero. All this was preparation for Dee's main achievement: five books, revealed and transcribed between March 1582 and May 1583, bringing to light mysteries and truths that scholars and adepts have been struggling to understand and use ever since. These books detail his system for communicating with the angels, and reveal that the angels were interested in and involved with the exploration and colonization of the New World, and in heralding in a new age or new world order. While Dee's influence was certainly felt in his lifetime, his popularity has grown tremendously since. His system was used and adapted by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and subsequently by Aleister Crowley. This new edition of John Dee's Five Books of Mystery is by far the most accessible and complete published to date. Peterson has translated Latin terms and added copious footnotes, putting the instructions and references into context for the modern reader.
Author | : Peter Kingsley |
Publisher | : Duckworth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780715631195 |
Download In the Dark Places of Wisdom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book brings the key evidence together and presents a new picture of Parmenides, the ancient Greek poet, as priest, initiate and healer.