The Hidden Tradition in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden Tradition in Europe write by Yuri Stoyanov. This book was released on 1994. The Hidden Tradition in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Christianity has always defined itself through fierce opposition to powerful 'heresies'; yet it is only recently that we have begun to retrieve these remarkable, underground traditions, buried beneath the contempt of the Church." "Of these 'heresies' the greatest challenge to the medieval Church was posed by the 'Great Heresy' of the Cathars, who saw themselves as inheritors of a true and long-concealed Christian tradition, but who were also heirs to the age-long teachings of Dualism - the doctrine that cosmos and man are constant battlegrounds between the two principal and irreconcilably opposed forces of good and evil. The Cathars, who were savagely suppressed in the thirteenth century, are the best-known medieval adherents and martyrs of Dualism, but yet behind them we can still glimpse 'one of the most elusive and tenacious heretical sects of the Middle Ages' - the Balkan Bogomils." "In this superb piece of scholarly detective work Yuri Stoyanov charts the descent and evolution of Dualism, from the revelations of Zoroaster and the Orphics, via the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mithraic Mysteries and the great Gnostic teachers, to reconstruct its medieval revival in Europe. His book casts fresh light on some of the most obscure aspects of the history and the teachings of the Bogomils and the Cathars and illuminates unsuspected religious and political undercurrents that lie beneath the surface of official history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
A Complete Guide to the Soul
A Complete Guide to the Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Complete Guide to the Soul write by Patrick Harpur. This book was released on 2010-06-03. A Complete Guide to the Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who am I? What's my life's purpose? Where am I going when I die? These questions lie at the heart of all our lives, yet clear answers seem hard to come by. A Complete Guide to the Soul explains that answers can in fact be found in a secret history that runs like quicksilver through Western culture, from philosophy and alchemy, to poetry and modern psychology. This hidden tradition places our soul at the centre of the universe and shows us how to recover a sense of meaning that so many of us have lost today. In this important book, Patrick Harpur explores the nature of our soul, as well as its destiny. He unpacks the myths that surround it and shows how it may actually be the very fabric of reality. And he explains that, not until we have a clear understanding of this invisible part of ourselves, can we discover the answers to many of our questions about existence and human nature. Ultimately, this knowledge could help us find our true place within the world in which we live.
The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of God
The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of God write by Margaret Barker. This book was released on 2007. The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Kingdom of God has been a major concern of New Testament scholars for many years. What did it mean to Jesus? What does it mean for Christian belief and practice today? To understand what was meant by the Kingdom of God' writes Margaret Barker in the Introduction, it is necessary to recover what remains of that hidden tradition of the holy of holies and the high priesthood... Recovering the original Kingdom . . . enables us to glimpse again the original vision. We see . . . the complexities of the Kingdom that explain what it became in later Christian teaching. The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of God shows how the variety of beliefs about the Kingdom, and the related problems of eshatology, all derive from Temple traditions about the holy of holies. This inner sanctum was the Kingdom in the midst, the Unity beyond all change and decay. It was the state whence the Lord came forth, and where the faithful would go, to see him in his glory. We live in a time when politics, and also geopolitics, are enormously affected by passionate arguements over ehat it would mean to establish the "Kingdom of God" on earth. Anybody with an interest in the outcome of those arguements should pay close attention to Margaret Barker's insightful and thought-provoking investigation of the background and context in which the first Christians spoke of the Kingdom. Bruce Clark, Religious Affairs Correspondent, The Economist.
The Hidden Tradition
The Hidden Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden Tradition write by Lavinia Byrne. This book was released on 1991. The Hidden Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Secret Tradition in Alchemy
The Secret Tradition in Alchemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret Tradition in Alchemy write by Arthur Edward Waite. This book was released on 2013-02-11. The Secret Tradition in Alchemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A complete history of alchemy revealing the subject as much more than the attempts in early science of turning base metals into gold or silver, this book goes about intimating the mystical experience underlying hermetic symbolism. It outlines some of the ‘secret’ inner meanings to alchemy - symbolism, metaphysics, and spirituality. This book contains a universe of information and is worthwhile reading for anyone wanting to know more on this engaging subject. Originally published in 1926.
