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... every moment in his or her life, anyone who wishes to find a happy, fulfilling life, will find the answers in this book. Since the days of The Zohar and the Tree of Life, the language of Kabbalah has never been as clear as it is in this moving piece. It is worthwhile contemplating the answers in the text, experiencing them in the simplest meaning of the word. Any student ...

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...to receive it), until the current generation; it was this generation for which this method was specifically developed. That is why the Zohar, the Ari and Baal HaSulam (Rav Yehuda Ashlag, the author of HaSulam (The Ladder), a commentary on the Zohar) reveal that from this time forward, the Kabbalah will become a simple and genuine way of life, open to all, with no restricti...

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.... 85 Chapter 4. Spiritual Work ...................................................................141 Chapter 5. The Desire for Pleasure: Discovery and Correction ........ 204 Chapter 6. Soul, Body and Reincarnation ......................................... 239 Chapter 7. Beliefs, Mysticism and The Supernatural ........................ 279 Chapter 8. Prayer, Request a...

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................ Spiritual Work 141 Chapter 5. The Desire for Pleasure: Discovery and Correction ........ 204 Chapter 6. Soul, Body and Reincarnation ...... ...ion .........................................239 Chapter 7. Beliefs, Mysticism and The Supernatural ........................ 279 Chapter 8. Prayer, Re... ...eliefs, Mysticism and The Supernatural ........................ 279 Chapter 8. Prayer, Request and Aim ................................................. ... Man’s goal is simply to arrive at the desire to be corrected – to send out a prayer, a plea for correction – and the Upper Degree (the Creator) wil... ... L U T I O N O F H U M A N I T Y Q: Why did the Kabbalah remain, much like all Jewish thought, in the margins of the development of the cultural worl... ...age of legends (Agada the language of legends ( ), the language of the Talmud (Jewish re- ligious laws), and the language of the Kabbalah (Sefirot), w... ...nt of the Up- per World. R I T UA L Q: How does Kabbalah relate to customs and rituals of Judaism? A: Before the soul is revealed, man doesn’t feel an... ...ator. When that yearning first appears, the technical acts that belong to the ritual and moral part become less important, and we establish a person... ...ere buried along with him. It was not until three genera- tions later that new texts were dug out of his grave and handed over for print. T H E K A ...

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...The Book of Zohar (The Book of Radiance) is an ageless source of wisdom and the basis for all Kabbalistic literature. Since its appearance nearly 2,000 years ago, it has been the primary, and often only, source used by Kabbalists. For centuries, Kabbalah was hidden from the public, which was c...

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.............................................8 The Idra Raba (Great Assembly) and The Book of Zohar ....................... 9 The Reincarnation of a Uniq... .....................................................15 List of Abbreviations and Explanations ............................................................. ............................................................355 The Torah and Prayer ....................................................................... .....................................................453 The Intention in the Prayer ....................................................................... ... mentioned constantly in the Talmud and in the Midrash, the sacred Hebrew texts of his time. He lived in Sidon and in Meron, and established a semin... ...not direct translations, but rather reflect the Kabbalistic meaning of the texts. 15 INTRODUCTION The Book of Zohar narrates that Rabbi Shimon Bar-... ...ing of the word as well). The Huppah is a wedding canopy, under which the ritual of union between a bride and a bridegroom (their merging in a Zivug... ...he introduction to Attaining the Worlds Beyond: “…Not feeling well on the Jewish New Year in September 1991, my teacher called me to his bedside and... ...any other works on Kabbalah. 51 3 FURTHER READING Not feeling well on the Jewish New Year in September 1991, the Rabash summoned me to his bedside a...

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...One evening in September 1991, Kabbalist Rabash summoned his prime student, Michael Laitman, to his bedside and handed him a notebook, whose cover contained one word-Shamati (I Heard), containing transcripts of Rabash's conversations with his father, Yehuda Ashlag, author of a complete commentary on The Zohar. The following morning...

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...Brosh Printing: Doron Goldin Post Production: Uri Laitman Executive Editor and Translator: Chaim Ratz FIRST EDITION: FEBRUARY 2009 First printing TAB... ...the Work? ........................26 5. Lishma Is an Awakening from Above, and Why Do We Need an Awakening from Below? .................................. ...g MAN .........................................................199 82. The Prayer One Should Always Pray ......................................... 201... ........................................................260 113. The Eighteen Prayer .................................................................269... ...ork is built. The heaviness in the work is primarily because they are two texts that deny one another. On the one had, one should try that all his w... ...w show—by receiving the Hassadim—that the right rules the left. Thus, the Jewish decree is the important one, and Haman claimed the opposite, that t... ...anah, 1942, Jerusalem The reason for not eating nuts on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) is that Egoz (nut), in Gematria, is Het (sin). And he as... ... Kuznitz as evidence to their words. He would always make Aliya la Torah (ritual reading of the Torah during service) on Parashat Tochachot (a speci... ... holds within it the content of that notebook, as well as other inspiring texts. This book reaches out to all those seekers who want to find a logic...

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...In the words of Michael Laitman, "It is beyond human comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritual qualities as total altruism and love. This is for the simple reason that human beings cannot comprehend how such feelings can exist at all, as everyone seemingly requires an incentive to perform any act; without some personal gain, people are not prepar...

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...It is beyond human comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritual qualities as total altruism and love. Even the existence of such feelings is beyond our comprehension; we seem to require an incentive to perform any act that does not promise us some form of personal gain. That is why a quality such as altruism can onl...

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...CONTENTS11. Inner Motion and Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Advancing toward Altruistic Pleasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 12. Eradicating Egoism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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...unteracting the Desire for Self - Gratification ......... 91 11. Inner Motion and Development ......................... 98 Advancing toward Altruisti... ...The Desire To Receive Pleasure ............................ 146 14. Revelation and Concealment .......................... 154 Transforming Egoism to A... ...life?" Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, Introduction to Talmud Esser Sefirot Among all the texts and notes that were used by my Rabbi, Baruch Shalom Halevi Ashlag... ...taryonthebookof Zohar, as well as the author of a six-volume commentary on the texts of the Kabbalist, Ari, and of many other works on Kabbalah. Not f... ...e Kabbalist, Ari, and of many other works on Kabbalah. Not feeling well on the Jewish New Year in September 1991, my Rabbi called me to his bedside an... ...e only Sourceofallthatexists,theonlyOnewhocanreallyhelpyou, and He awaits your prayers for help. When you seek help in yoursearchforfreedomfromthebond... ... with nothing, just as they had come into it. Why did the Creator ignore their prayers? Why did He turn away from them and scorn their suffering? All ... ...ents for his Kabbalistic group, Baal Shem-Tov instituted Admorut—a division of Jewish society into sections, with each section having a Kabbalistasits... ...n these factors, then what is the relation between our observance of religious rituals and the goal of creation? Since all the commandments of the Bib...

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...The Kabbalist Rabbi Laitman, who was the student and personal assistant to Rabbi Baruch Ashlag from 1979-1991, follows in the footsteps of his rabbi in passing on the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world. This book is based on sources that were passed down by Rabbi Baruch's fath...

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...ichard Aquan graphics: Baruch Khovov Copy Editor: Claire gerus Printing and Post Production: Uri Laitman Executive Editor: Chaim Ratz FoURTH EDITI... ...................................................... 37 A Man of Mystery and Legend ........................................................ 37 P... ...ld disperse or kill each other off. As the Bible and other ancient Hebrew texts teach us, the Babylonians rejected and scorned Abraham’s of- - fer. ... ...dent cannot achieve spiri- - tuality. These great Kabbalists adapted their texts to their generations. Hence, the language varies to suit their con- ... ...s been in use, but in the past they were used primarily for medicine and rituals, while today they are being used at a much earlier age, primarily ... ...pt what I cannot change, and the wisdom to discern between them. --An old Prayer In our own eyes, we are unique and independently acting individuals... ...e studied. It has nothing to do with charms, blessings, or other items or rituals done in its name. The misconceptions regarding Kabbalah originate ... ...ee) means that you perceive every single element in that state. what is a prayer? The feelings in our hearts are prayers. But the most pow- - erful p... ...he introduction to Attaining the Worlds Beyond: “…Not feeling well on the Jewish New Year in September 1991, my teacher called me to his bedside and...

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...Kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called His Essence, the Upper Force, and this is what we perceive as our world. As uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. The structure and the perception ...

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... Four: Proper Study Part Four: Proper Study 253 Part Five: Religion, Prejudice and Kabbalah ...................................... 306 Part Six: Genes... ...ven image, nor any manner of likeness (Exodus 20:3). J udaism forbids idolatry and any kind of fetishism. This prohibition envelops the most fundamen... ...” In order to attain spirituality one must turn to the Creator with a special prayer to discover spirituality, not for self-gain, but for the will to... ...nstance, it is known that Rabbi Yosef Karo, who wrote the Shulchan Aruch (the Jewish code of laws), a priceless piece of work, slept during his Kabb... ... one can already feel the Creator to a certain extent through reading special texts that awaken the Surround- ing Light, that sensation produces the ... ... Jew by birth, and a ‘spiritual Jew’? The answer is: In someone who was born Jewish, there is a tendency to become a Jew in the spiritual sense. The... ...ather, his great teacher. However, time passes and the demand for Kabbalistic texts changes. Today’s students can no longer absorb the material the ... ...impossible for us to picture a perfect state. We do not get the answers to our prayers and requests from Above at the time we make them, or even near... ...ah? Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah does not require practicing any customs or rituals. Drawings or pictures of the worlds, Sefirot, or Gima- tria, ar...

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of...

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....1 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE BY THE TRANSLATOR.....3 PART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....137 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.....143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...151 CHAPTER I.....151 CHAPTER II....160 CHAPTER III....163 ...

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... THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW ... ...HE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.M. Volume I PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON FLEET STREET, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION ... ...th been the depository of the oracles and the sacraments, and the ordinances, since the Jewish state was dissolved, I mean the mixed multitude who a... ... they have already had a foretaste in several of the Protestant churches abroad; in the Jewish church accomplishing that refining and passing throug... ... his last discourse with his disciples, (John xiv. xv. xvi.) and especially in his last prayer for them, (xvii.) when he will not so much as pray for... ..., as the author of Basilicus and Palingenesia, but in the interpretation of the various texts and contexts of the prophetic Scriptures, (and to him a... ...whereof we have such a striking proof and illustration in the Scottish peasantry, whose prayers are beyond comparison the most copious and worthy of... ...e spiritual dispensation under which we live is but the unfolding and completing of the ritual and prophetic dispensation, and can no more be separat... ...e inhabitants of the earth shall worship this beast like a God, with formal service and ritual of worship; it only says simply, that they shall bow ...

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... THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRA... ...NG, A.M. Volume II PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON FLEET STREET, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHE... ...inistration of his vineyard according to those sentences fulminated against the Jewish people: “the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given... ... you will not fail to recollect, that this same thing anciently happened to the Jewish doctors, when they came to the explanation of those passages ... ... the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. This shall be... ...udence and circumspection which the ancient fathers observed, interpreting t he texts of scripture in favour of the present church? I have two reaso... ...signification he could not be ignorant of who taught us to pray t his admirable prayer. But, if by these words I understand the kingdom which is to ... ... of sound, pious, and religious criticism, to be explained by hundreds of clear texts in the Holy Scriptures, and not hundreds of clear texts by one... ...n with the ministering priests and Levites, offering sacrifice according to the ritual of his country: but in the upper part there shone forth from t...

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... went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been only in the past two or three centuries that religious questioning has occupied the minds and hearts of a large share of the population. Religious questioningis now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary proliferation of new religiouscreeds and organizations. It s...

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...ELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Austra... ... Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the p... ...quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CONTENTS ... ...stian Belief Before The Nicaean Council The Centrality Of Beliefs The Holy Rituals Exclusive Allegiance The Social Bases Of Religious Divergence Uncon... ...Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose nearly all meanin... ...people as much as things. This is more or less what Martin Buber, a modern Jewish writer, meant when he spoke of changing one’s perception of the worl... ...distinguishable from each other, daily activities are governed not only by rituals, but particularly by a special type of relationship with other peop... ...r worldly affairs. How we are to relate to them, as well as the conduct of prayers, rituals and festivals, form the center of religious faith. THE EST... ...or granted as necessary for an acceptable life, but the Jewish rituals and prayers were not. The Jewish system of morality along with belief and faith...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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... And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The ... ...t ought to send a frisson of repulsion down the spines of civilized men. The Serbs, Jewish scholars and many international scholars claim the numbe... ...halles" were self-sufficient affairs with the gamut of services - from hot baths to prayer services - available "in- quarter". Gradually, the major c... ... areas of Croatia and Bosnia. But everyone, throughout the Balkan, shared the same rituals, the way of life, the superstitions, the magic, the folk... ...fused syncretically. Some Sufi sects (mainly among the Janiccary) adopted Catholic rituals, made the sign of the cross, drank alcohol and ate pork.... ...and Christians, as well as Moslems. Everybody shared miraculous sites, icons, even prayers. Orthodox Slavs pilgrims to the holy places in Palestine... ... between: Michael Galak and Sam Vaknin Introduction by Michael Galak In traditional Jewish fashion the original idea for this dialog came to me when... ...were perfectly in accord with a literal interpretation of certain divinely-inspired texts, millennial scriptures, apocalyptic thought systems, and ...

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... What is the source of our personal suffering and the suffering of humanity? The vicious circle of human suffering has been idly turning for thousands of years as if without cause, and with no escape. Is this really so? Today we are learning that the wisdom of Kabbalah o...

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...ence to Understand Reality // 1. A Hidden World // 2. Gravity // 3. The Power of a Directed desire // 4. Proper Development // 5. The sin of Creation and the Correction // A. The Sin // B. The Laws of Correction // 6. In the End of Days // 7. The Spiritual Gene and the Reshimot ......

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... Power of a Directed desire 4. Proper Development 5. The sin of Creation and the Correction A. The Sin B. The Laws of Correction 6. In the End of... ...n B. The Laws of Correction 6. In the End of Days 7. The Spiritual Gene and the Reshimot Part 2: Realizing the Choice 1. The Freedom to Choose ... ...with our vessels, to actually elevate in our emotions. If you study the texts of the Ari and the books of Baal HaSulam, you will find that they sa... ... conditions for equivalence through our own will, through our intent, our prayers, which comes from our desire. This process of directing our desire... ...my relationship with Him, breaking through these screens. When the first Jewish farmers began to populate the Negev desert in the south of Israel, ... ...er will they get water? He answered that the water would come through the prayer of the settlers. He was then told that they were secular, and even ... ... who takes upon himself this mission is called a Jew. But a concept of a Jewish nation doesn’t exist, because there were never such a people to beg... ...? Answer: I propose reading books, listening to cassettes, reading the texts on the Internet site that concern this issue and commence studying t... ...clearly not of our world. Searching for supernatural phenomena, religious rituals and Far East techniques for the improvement of the body and the m...

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...   Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Narcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's... ...        Celebrity Narcissists The Narcissist's Addiction to Fame and Celebrity Mistreating Celebrities – An Interview Granted ... ...e him of his overwhelming anxiety. This is very reminiscent of a compulsive-ritualistic behaviour. The narcissist feels guilty. It could be an "anc... ...ult with all the hallmarks of an institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. The leader is this reli... ... about Russia in the mid-19th century) Four decades ago, the Polish-American-Jewish author, Jerzy Kosinski, wrote the book "Being There". It describ... ...re from the Gospel of Saint Matthew, I was careful to compare them with the texts of the other three canonical gospels. Where the gospels disagree, ... ..., And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." (Matthew 21:12-13) Narc... ...mple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I re...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Hum...

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...09 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the titl... ...’ is used to describe two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this,... ...dead evil Pg 1766 How the Undead Fool the Living Pg 1767 The Undead and the Jewish Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice ... ... 1767 The Undead and the Jewish Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg... ...ositions of power, and preserving untouched and unchanged its sacred obsolete texts. Hiding the fact that the basic principles it preserves have bee... ...the herd or pack. This dynamic of strength vs. weakness exists only in mating rituals. And even there, it is only a fitness test: not a fight to th... ...to be practiced, their cultures were poisoned, twisted, etc. One reason why Jewish Culture has survived intact for so long is that it has had more ... ...though you did not spend one second of your life in reflection, meditation or prayer. Instead of having the Catholic Church tell you in detail, ... ...of the idea of penance, to replacing all forms of punishment and penance with prayer, to the idea of the forgiveness of all sins, to the church gran...

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...of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human... ............................................... 14 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- T... ...also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to which the wr... ...en add the belief that Jesus is God, and that the Bible is true--both the Jewish scriptures and the New Testament scriptures, then my religious belie... ...d you believe that it starts at birth we both hold only opinions. The old Jewish concept was that life started when the child 49 was born. The C... ...Allegiance to the Flag, ‗in God we trust‘ off of the currency, and school prayers out of public schools. But it occurs to me that based on the Baylo... ...ay. It‘s just that he hasn‘t sent any messengers lately. But he listens to prayers, approves of wars, and allows natural disasters. ―How we de... ...ny people go to confession any more. It‘s generally not the Saturday night ritual it once was. But let‘s look at sinning. The Ten Commandments give u... ... witches worshipped Satan and did a number of anti-social things in their rituals. It probably was most effectively conjured in the Malleus Malefica...

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...o write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is...

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Excerpt: Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey.

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...I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the P... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ch he is to preach before the congregation. This sermon, together with the prayers by which it is accompa- nied, constitute the probationary act accor... ...if she should say to communicants —We have no sacramental vessels, or even ritual; but you may borrow both from Papal Rome.’ Not only, however, is the... ...mise—except that the sleeves are want- ing; and during the first period of Jewish history, it was prob- ably worn as the sole under-garment by women o... ...worn by the Hebrew women in all ages; and in the flourishing period of the Jewish kingdom, probably by men: and so essential an ornament were they dee... ...thought or a sincere emotion. Nothing that ever he uttered, were it even a prayer to God, but he had a fancy for reading it backwards. And he was ever... ...s to assert. For it is no easy matter to do that where a man dodges behind texts and notes, and shuffles between verse and prose, mystifying the reade...

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Excerpt: Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith.

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... Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... to respect Jews, for there was a boy named Abner, he protected, who smelt Jewish; he said they ran us Gentiles hard, and carried big guns. Only a rep... ... her absent; for she diverted his thoughts from piety to the selections of texts applicable in the case of a woman 123 George Meredith who sat with a... ...nd threatened to do habitually, to the chapel herself; but to denounce the ritual of the Orthodox Church under the de- nomination of ‘barbarous,’ to s... ...other’s hand and kissed it, and knelt, clasping it. Fear of disturbing his prayer kept Aminta seated. Death was a stranger to him. The still warm, hal... ...alf-cold, nerveless hand smote the fact of things as they were through the prayer for things as we would have them. The vitality of his prayer was the...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kans...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...and studious, some- times bulbous-browed and pop-eyed maidens who at class prayer-meetings requested God to “guide their feet along the paths of great... ...stic poem regarding the value of smiles. There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks’s parody of Mark Antony’s fu... ...ing impersonation seven times, “An Old Sweetheart of Mine” nine times, the Jewish story and the funeral oration twice; but now she was ardent and, bec... ...by two. In twenty minutes the party was again elevated to the decorum of a prayer-meeting. “We’re going to do something exciting,” Carol exclaimed to ... ...herself to the judgment of the town only when she went shopping and on the ritualistic occa- sions of formal afternoon calls, when Mrs. Lyman Cass or ... ... Girls, she obeyed, and had definite pleasure out of the Indian dances and ritual and costumes. She went more regularly to the Thanatopsis. With Vida ... ... The streaky brown wallpaper was broken in its dismal sweep only by framed texts, “Come unto Me” and “The Lord is My Shepherd,” by a list of hymns, an...

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.................................................................................................................................. 9 Lecture I: RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC .............................................................

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...igion—Contrast of Catholicism and Protestantism— Sacrifice and Confession— Prayer— Religion holds that spiritual work is really effected in prayer— Th... ...egree— Third degree— Automatisms, their frequency among religious leaders— Jewish cases— Mohammed— Joseph Smith— Religion and the subconscious region ... ...rein, yet the acts to which this sort of religion prompts are personal not ritual acts, the individual transacts the business by himself alone, and th... ... consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it... ...things, there is a frosty chill about his words which you rarely find in a Jewish, and never in a Christian piece of religious writing. The universe i... ...nknowable of Spencer’s philoso- phy, for although I had ceased my childish prayers to God, and never prayed to it in a formal manner, yet my more rece... ...victim of verbal automatisms, both motor and sen- sory. These were usually texts of Scripture which, [80] My extracts are from the French translation ...

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Excerpt: Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey.

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...I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the P... ...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ld have been a doctrinal part. There might have been interwo- ven with the ritual or worship, a system of economics, or a code of civil prudence, or a... ... then, as to the CULTUS, or form of the national worship:—In our Christian ritual I recognise these separate acts; viz. A, an act of Praise; B, an act... ...f Praise; B, an act of Thanksgiving; C, an act of Confession; D, an act of Prayer. In A, we commemo- rate with adoration the general perfections of th... ...yed; and it may be doubted whether D approaches so near to what we mean by prayer, as even by a mockery. You read of preces, of [Greek text], &c. and ... ... did our homely ancestors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, cite texts of Scrip- ture as themes for senatorial commentary or exegesis; but t... ...r doctrinal religions. The Koran having pi- rated many sentiments from the Jewish and the Christian systems, could not but offer some rudiments of mor... ...he same line of argument applies to all the compliances of Christ with the Jewish prejudices (partly imported from the Euphrates) as to demonology , w...

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............................................................................................................................... 7 HOMER?S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX .................................................................................................. 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE MOON ..........................................................................................

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...emblingly _10 Call on the T wins of Jove with prayer and vow, Gathered in fear upon the lofty prow, And sacrifice with sn... ...thou mother of the world! Unlike the God of human error, thou Requir’st no prayers or praises; the caprice _200 Of man’s weak ... ... Spirit that pervades this infinite machine begat a son upon the body of a Jewish woman; or is angered at the consequences of that necessity, which is... ...lares that they shall be subjected to these curses for disobedience to his ritual: ‘And it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice... ... 1. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. Conducts, O Sleep, to thy, etc. (line 219.) The Shelley texts, 1816, 1824, 1839, have Conduct here, which Forman and Dowden retain.... ...this, notwithstanding the preserva- tion of the true reading, clog, in the texts of Talfourd and Carew Hazlitt. Here then is the case of a palpable mi...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by... ...SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ..., of the one ad- dressed to the President Amaury Bouchard of the two legal texts which he believed antique, there is still the evidence of his other a... ...creed that they should make a fair procession, stuffed with good lectures, prayers, and litanies contra hostium insidias, and jolly responses pro pace... ...solute, tall, lean, wide-mouthed, long-nosed, a fair despatcher of morning prayers, unbridler of masses, and runner over of vigils; and, to conclude s... ... and combing his head with a comb, which was nine hundred foot long of the Jewish cane measure, and whereof the teeth were great tusks of elephants, w... ...dpiece. Panurge, the day thereafter, caused pierce his right ear after the Jewish fashion, and thereto clasped a little gold ring, of a ferny-like kin... ...ations all the while in the T uscan tongue, and ever and anon reading in a ritual or book of ceremonies, carried after her by one of her mystagogues. ... ...ave to beg of you is that you leave us here your names in writing, in this ritual. She then opened a fine large book, and as we gave our names one of ...

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...itch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place. For the present I will only say that this ?landowner?--for so we used to c...

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...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...im the sick “possessed with devils.” The elder spoke to them, read a brief prayer over them, blessed them, and dismissed them. Of late he had become s... ...es. Though I believe I am not the father of lies. I am getting mixed in my texts. Say, the son of lies, and that will be enough. Only… my angel… may s... ...the pains of childbirth. Laying the stole on her forehead, he read a short prayer over her, and she was at once soothed and quieted. I do not know how... ...s from their position began to lay out the corpse according to the ancient ritual, and all the monks gathered together in the church. And before dawn ... ...Y OF FATHER ZOSSIMA was prepared for burial accord- ing to the established Ritual. As is well known, the bodies of dead monks and hermits are not wash... ...r watch which had long ceased to go. He snatched it up and carried it to a Jewish watch maker who had a shop in the market-place. The Jew gave him six... ... had made merry there. All the girls who had come had been there then; the Jewish band with fiddles and zithers had come, too, and at last the long ex...