Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria
Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria provides a general survey of magical practices in late antique Syria and Palestine, blending classical, Christian and Jewish traditions. It offers...
View ArticleBeelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson (All and Everything/First)
The teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) has come to be recognized as one of the most original, enduring, and penetrating of our century. While Gurdjieff used many different means to transmit his...
View ArticleMystics
Mystics are path-breaking religious practitioners who claim to have experience the infinite, word-defying Mystery that is God. Many have been gifted writers with an uncanny ability to communicate the...
View ArticleThe Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys
Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology. Andrew Louth aims to redress the balance....
View ArticleThe Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul
Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard shows that...
View ArticleThe Essential St. John of the Cross: Ascent of Mount Carmel, Dark Night of...
Collected here in this omnibus edition are all three of St. John of the Cross’ major works as well as twenty of his magnificent poems. The Ascent of Mount Carmel is the third major work of St. John of...
View ArticleThe Essential St. John of the Cross: Ascent of Mount Carmel, Dark Night of...
Collected here in this omnibus edition are all three of St. John of the Cross’ major works as well as twenty of his magnificent poems. The Ascent of Mount Carmel is the third major work of St. John of...
View ArticleTaboo, Magic, Spirits: Primitive Elements in Roman Religion
1. Mana, Magic and Animism The Mind of Primitive Man. Positive and Negative Mana. Magic. Animism. II. Positive and Negative Mana (Taboo) Blood, Women, Children, Death and Corpses, Leather, Days. III....
View ArticlePractical Mysticism
Underhill was a leading authority on modern mysticism. Written just before World War 1, Practical Mysticism reviews the works of the greatest Western mystics, including Teresa of Avila, Julian of...
View ArticleThe Mystics of Islam
The Mystics of Islam by Reynold A. Nicholson. The title of this book sufficiently explains why it is included in a Series ‘exemplifying the adventures and labours of individual seekers or groups of...
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