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By Frithjof Schuon

During this re-creation of his most vital philosophical paintings, Frithjof Schuon confronts the pitfalls of rationalism and relativism inside of glossy philosophy. This re-creation contains an absolutely revised translation from the French unique and includes an intensive Appendix with formerly unpublished letters and different deepest writings.

By Alain Daniélou

Shiva and Dionysus are the Hindu and Greek gods of magical strength, intoxication, ecstatic sexuality, and transcendence who begin us into communion with the inventive forces of existence. Revealing the earliest resources of the traditions of Shiva and Dionysus, Alain Danielou reconstructs the cloth of our historic dating with construction, vividly pertaining to practices that have been saw from the Indus Valley to the coasts of Portugal at the least six thousand years ago. 

By Lynn McDonald

This 3rd quantity within the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale studies her arguable theological essays (only of that have been formerly released) and a very good array of correspondence, from such Roman Catholics as Cardinal Manning and the Reverend mom of the Sisters of Mercy of Bermondsey to the liberal Protestant Benjamin Jowett, evangelicals and missionaries. Nightingale’s innovations for a revision of the Bible for schoolchildren and excerpts from her devotional examining are given.

at the moment, Volumes 1 to eleven are available book model via subscription or from college and faculty libraries in the course of the following owners: Canadian digital Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.

The Series

within the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale the entire surviving writing of Florence Nightingale might be released, a lot of it for the 1st time. often called the heroine of the Crimean struggle and the most important founding father of the trendy occupation of nursing, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) may be published additionally as a student, theorist and social reformer of huge scope and significance.

unique fabric has been received from over one hundred fifty files and personal collections around the world. This abundance of fabric could be mirrored within the sequence, revealing an important volume of latest fabric on her philosophy, theology and private religious trip, in addition to on her imaginative and prescient of a public well-being care process, her activism to accomplish the tricky early steps of nursing for the unwell bad in workhouse infirmaries and her perspectives on well-being advertising and women’s keep watch over over midwifery. Nightingale’s greater than 40 years of labor for public well-being in India, really in famine prevention and for broader social reform, should be said intimately.

The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale demonstrates Nightingale’s astute use of the political procedure and studies on her large correspondence with royalty, viceroys, cupboard ministers and foreign leaders, together with such notables as Queen Victoria and W.E. Gladstone. a lot new fabric on Nightingale’s kinfolk is suggested, together with a few that may problem her general portrayal within the secondary literature.

16 revealed volumes are scheduled and should list her huge, immense and mostly unpublished correspondence, formerly released books, articles and pamphlets, lots of that have lengthy been out of print.

there'll be complete e-book in digital shape, allowing readers to simply pursue their specific pursuits. vast databases, significantly a chronology and a names index, can also be released in digital shape, back allowing handy entry to individuals not just in Nightingale yet in different figures of the time.

By Tarthang Tulku

Self-imposed barriers and layers of conditioning restrict our wisdom of freedom, of therapeutic, and of awakening.

By Andrew Harvey

This anthology collects the main lyrical, passionate, illuminating writings of the Hindu mystical culture. Andrew Harvey, the preferred religious pupil and author, has chosen excerpts from historical and modern assets, together with extracts from the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and different classical Hindu texts; the phrases of such venerable non secular lecturers as Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi; and the devotional poetry of Mirabai, Ramprasad, and so forth. The scope of this anthology makes it a fabulous creation to Hindu mystical literature, whereas the ability and wonder of the language will motivate these already accustomed to the style.

By Neville Goddard

An anthology of the best writings of recent mystic, Neville Goddard, who has enthralled a brand new iteration of readers together with his easy yet radical precept that your mind's eye is God.

This broad-ranging anthology assembles the best works of Neville Goddard, who, writing below the only identify Neville, grew to become probably the most quietly seismic non secular philosophers of the trendy age.

From the past due Nineteen Thirties till his dying in 1972, Neville promulgated one simple, remarkable concept, which he restated with freshness and verve in additional than ten books and 1000s of lectures: The human mind's eye is the Jesus Christ of Scripture, and the area round you is the out-picturing of your emotionalized thoughts.

this is an remarkable trip into the guidelines and strategies of a profoundly functional religious philosopher whose imaginative and prescient of lifestyles can problem your suggestion of what it ability to be human.

This quantity contains a infrequent own portrait of Neville through journalist and thinker Israel Regardie.

By Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

‘Think for a minute approximately what electrical energy is and the way we use it, and you'll have a few idea, even though approximate, of God. We use electrical energy to warmth and light our homes, and tool all types of machines and home equipment, yet we need to be very cautious of the way we deal with it, for one can reason an twist of fate. Direct touch with an electrical present might be deadly. to be able to harness and use it with out threat, we need to channel it via transformers. a similar should be acknowledged of God: God is sort of a natural present of electrical energy which has to go through transformers sooner than it reaches us. And the transformers that God makes use of are the numerous luminous beings that populate the heavens, identified to culture because the choirs of angels or angelic hierarchies. it really is via them that we obtain divine lifestyles; it truly is via them that we will keep in touch with God.’

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

By Alan Unterman

A complete survey of the Jewish mystical tradition

An critical advisor to hundreds of thousands of years of religious inquiry, The Kabbalistic culture positive factors writings from a number of literary forms-from the earliest biblical resources via twentieth-century studies-as good as functional info and practices for the fashionable reader. those choices pay attention to the 3 major parts of Kabbalistic creativity-the literature of Zohar, the Lurianic corpus, and the Chasidic mystical culture. Alan Unterman's enlightening advent examines the original features of the Kabbalah and locations this quantity in its right old and philosophical context.

By Max Gorman

The publication offers an creation to mystical philosophy and the concept that of internal improvement by way of taking a look at a couple of its nice faculties. Mystics concur in announcing that we're in a roundabout way “asleep”—and needs to realize this to evoke. a substantial try and establish the character of this sleep is made within the previous a part of the ebook, with the actual aid of the educating of Gurdjieff. additionally studied are methods of the prior and current, together with the secret faculties, Gnosticism, Alchemy, Zen, the Fourth manner, and how of the Sufi. it's also made obvious that the way in which of Jesus, till it used to be overlaid via Christianity, was understood as this sort of waves or teachings for the advance of person and awareness. The resonance of this instructing with all different mystical teachings is an important subject matter. the aim of the ebook is to encourage the reader to ascend the Stairway to the celebrities.

By Farid ud-Din Attar, Arthur J. Arberry

Prose translation of components of the 13th-century Persian epic of Attar, giving anecdotes of Islamic saints and mystics.