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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale Ed. cm.15x21, pp.58,ill.col.nt. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telesterion. The long history of the European, Mediterranean, and Near Eastern religious experience, since the most remote ages, has been characterized by the presence and diffusion of mystery religions. These were marked by a common order, a general rule, consisting in the fact that all the beliefs of the cult, the foundational myths, the religious practices, and the nature of the teachings and the revelatory message of the Gods, they all had to be reserved, with different ranks, to the initiates, who have become part of an exclusive community of new men. Thus, the initiated were distinguished from the uninitiated, those who could not have access to the Mysteries. The initiated, as such, had to keep a solemn oath and were obliged to make a vow of silence, they could not reveal the secrets, which had to remain unspeakable. Many were the mystery religions, but, historically, the primacy and superiority of Eleusinian Mysteries can be well summarized by a passage offered by Plutarch: «and all the men whose land he visited, how he met with holy writings and was initiated into all the mysteries, it would take more than one day to enumerate as he did, well and carefully in all details.».

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.14,8x21, pp.64, illustrazioni. brossura. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese.

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.14,8x21, pp.56, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese The North American Indian is by nature a symbolist, a mystic, and a philosopher. Like most aboriginal peoples, his soul was en rapport with the cosmic agencies manifesting about him. Not only did his Manidos control creation from their exalted seats above the clouds, but they also descended into the world of men and mingled with their red children. The gray clouds hanging over the horizon were the smoke from the calumets of the Gods, who could build fires of petrified wood and use a comet for a flame. The American Indian peopled the forests, rivers, and sky with myriads of superphysical and invisible beings. There are legends of entire tribes who lived in lake bottoms; of races who were never seen in the daytime but who, coming forth from their hidden caves, roamed the earth at night and waylaid unwary travelers; also of Bat Indians, with human bodies and wings, who lived in gloomy forests and inaccessible cliffs and who slept hanging head downward from outcroppings of rock. The red man's philosophy of elemental creatures is apparently the outcome of his intimate contact with Nature, whose inexplicable wonders become the generating cause of such metaphysical speculations. A cura di Nicola Bizzi.

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.14,8x21, pp.56, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885-1974) was an American philosopher, pacifist and peace activist. He was one of the first Americans to live and work with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and brought Gandhian philosophy to America in the early 20th century. He wrote extensively on peace and simplicity. His two major works wereThe Power of Non-Violence (first published in 1934) and The Value of Voluntary Simplicity (he coined the term), but he also wrote many other short books and pamphlets. Throughout his life Bartlett Gregg corresponded with numerous important figures of the 20th. Century, including Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Aldous Huxley, Martin Luther King, Reinhold Niebuhr, Bertram Russell, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and many others. He visited India several times and lived there for a number of years. The Bartlett Gregg's pamphlet Gandhiism versus Socialism was published in New York in 1932. «Gandhiism - wrote Gregg - is superior to Socialism in providing for every person a common daily form of social service to help directly toward creating a new social and economic order». «Gandhiism never gives to the State the paramount power accorded to it by Socialism. The freedom of the human conscience is a priceless treasure which Gandhiji is not prepared to barter for anything else on earth. If he gives to the State a certain measure of obedience it is never with regard to the fundamentals».

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.15x21,5, pp.60, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was one of the greatest English poets of all time, becoming the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 1848, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt made a list of Immortals, artistic heroes whom they admired, especially from literature, notably including Keats and Tennyson, whose work would form subjects for Pre-Raphaelite's paintings.The Lady of Shalott alone was a subject for Rossetti, Hunt, John William Waterhouse (three versions), and Elizabeth Siddall. The Holy Grail is one of the twelve poems included by Tennison in the collectionIdylls of the King (1885), entirely inspired by the figure of King Arthur and the Breton cycle and based on the fifteenth-century novels by Sir Thomas Malory. This Idyll is told in flashback by Sir Percivale, who had become a monk and died one summer before the account, to his fellow monk Ambrosius.The Holy Grail is symbolic of the Round Table being broken apart, a key reason for the doom of Camelot. «And I was lifted up in heart, and thought of all my late-shown prowess in the lists, how my strong lance had beaten down the knights, so many and famous names; and never yet had heaven appeared so blue, nor earth so green, for all my blood danced in me, and I knew that I should light upon the Holy Grail».

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.15x21,5, pp.54, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori.

Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.15x21,5, pp.60, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Supreme among the wonders of antiquity, unrivaled by the achievements of later architects and builders, the Great Pyramid of Gizeh bears mute witness to an unknown civilization which, having completed its predestined span, passed into oblivion. Eloquent in its silence, inspiring in its majesty, divine in its simplicity, the Great Pyramid is indeed a sermon in stone. Its magnitude overwhelms the puny sensibilities of man. Among the shifting sands of time it stands as a fitting emblem of eternity itself. Who were the illumined mathematicians who planned its parts and dimensions, the master craftsmen who supervised its construction, the skilled artisans who trued its blocks of stone? The essay by Manly Palmer Hall that our publishing house is now proposing to modern readers,The Initiation of the Pyramid, was one of the most interesting chapters of his monumental workThe Secret Teachings of All Ages, published in San Francisco in 1928.

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale Ed. cm.15x21, pp.70, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Symbols & Myths. Tallapragada Subba Row (July 6, 1856 - June 24, 1890) was a mystic and a Theosophist from a Hindu background. In 1882, he invited Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott to Madras (now Chennai), where he convinced them to make Adyar the permanent headquarters for the Theosophical Society. Upon this meeting and thereafter, Subba Row became able to recite whatever passage was so requested of him from the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, and many other sacred texts of India. He had, apparently, never studied these things prior to the fateful meeting, and it is stated that when meeting Blavatsky and Damodar K. Mavalankar, all knowledge from his previous lives came flooding back. Among the many memorable works he left to humanity, they include his commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita, Esoteric Writings, and his Collected Writings in two volumes. The essay The Philosophy of Spirit, that we propose to our readers today, was written in December 1883 and included in the Subba Row's Collection of Esoteric Writings, published for the Bombay Theosophical Publication Fund by Rajaram Tookaram in Bombay in 1910. It intends to be a response, certainly polemical but highly argued, to the studies of the British spiritualist and theosophist William Oxley. Oxley, who joined the Theosophical Society and used the pseudonym Busiris, was the author of several books, among which was The Philosophy of the Spirit (London, 1881), announced as a New Version of the Bhagavat Gita. With an introduction by Nicola Bizzi.

Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.14,8x21, pp.76, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese The exaltation of the base nature in man, by the development of his latent powers; the purification, conversion, and transmutation of man; the achievement of a hypostatic union of man with God. Not only was all this the concealed aim of Alchemy, but the process by which this union was effected, veiled under the symbolism of chemistry, is the process with which the literature is concerned, which process also is alone described by all veritable adepts. The man who by proper study and contemplation, united to an appropriate interior attitude, with a corresponding conduct on the part of the exterior personality, attains a correct interpretation of Hermetic symbolism, will, in doing so, be put in possession of the secret of divine reunion, and will, so far as the requisite knowledge is concerned, be in a position to encompass the great work of the Mystics. The power which operates in the transmutation of metals alchemically is, in the main, a psychic power. That is to say, a man who has passed a certain point in his spiritual development, after the mode of the Mystics, has a knowledge and control of physical forces which are not in the possession of ordinary humanity.

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.14,8x21, pp.160, brossura. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher, an anglican bishop and one of the three great British empiricists along with John Locke and David Hume. Ignored and derided in life, he is now widely re-evaluated and considered as a sort of indirect precursor of Ernst Mach, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr for his thesis on the non-existence of matter and the impossibility of an objectively absolute time and space. His critiques of mathematics and science are among the most controversial, brilliant and revolutionary in the history of philosophy. «I have been a long time distrusting my senses: methought I saw things by a dim light and through false glasses. Now the glasses are removed and a new light breaks in upon my under standing. I am clearly convinced that I see things in their native forms, and am no longer in pain about their unknown nature or absolute existence. This is the state I find myself in at present; though, indeed, the course that brought me to it I do not yet thoroughly comprehend. You set out upon the same principles that Academics, Cartesians, and the like sects usually do; and for a long time it looked as if you were advancing their philosophical Scepticism: but, in the end, your conclusions are directly opposite to theirs».

Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.14,8x21, pp.54, brossura. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese The deepest historical, cultural and spiritual roots of Russian national identity can be found in an ancient kingdom known as Kievan Rus', a state that flourished from the end of the 9th to the middle of the 13th century over a vast geographical area including a large part of today's western Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, from the Baltic and White Seas in the north to the Black Sea coasts in the south. According to the Russian Primary Chronicle, the first ruler to start uniting East Slavic lands into what would become Kievan Rus' was Prince Oleg (879-912). He extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley to protect trade from Khazar incursions from the east, and took control of the city of Kiev. Sviatoslav I (943-972) achieved the first major expansion of Kievan Rus' territorial control, fighting a war of conquest against the Khazars. Vladimir the Great (980-1015) then introduced Christianity with his own baptism and, by decree, extended it to all inhabitants of Kiev and beyond. Kievan Rus' reached its greatest extent under Yaroslav the Wise (1019-1054); his sons assembled and issued its first written legal code, theRusskaya Pravda, shortly after his death.

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.14,8x21, pp.96, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese A cura di Nicola Bizzi.

Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.14,8x21, pp.104, bossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese Hammurabi, the sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon, ruled from 1792 to 1750 BC. He secured Babylonian dominance over the Mesopotamian plain through military prowess, diplomacy, and treachery. This important Babylonian king is now universally known for a fundamental and surprisingly modern legal code that he promulgated for his subjects. The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755-1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in Akkadian, purportedly by Hammurabi of Babylon. The primary copy of the text is inscribed on a basalt stele 2.25 m. tall discovered in 1901 at the site of Susa, today in the Louvre Museum, in Paris. We are glad to offert today to our readers the Code of Hammurabi translated into English by Leonard William King, with commentaries from Charles F. Horne, Ph.D. (1915), and Claude Hermann Walter Johns, M.A. Litt.D. (1910).

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.15x21,5, pp.110, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Samuel Levy Bensusan, born in Dulwich in 1872, was an author, playwright and expert on English history, agriculture and folk traditions. In his essay William Shakespeare: His homes and haunts, published in 1912, Bensusan explored and investigated William Shakespeare's geography, the places where the great English playwright, poet and actor took his first steps and created his extraordinary immortal works in the course of his mysterious life. It is a fundamental work in trying to understand who William Shakespeare really was, what inspired him and pushed him to write his poems and his numerous tragedies.

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.15x21,5, pp.68, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher, an anglican bishop and one of the three great British empiricists along with John Locke and David Hume. Ignored and derided in life, he is now widely re-evaluated and considered as a sort of indirect precursor of Ernst Mach, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr for his thesis on the non-existence of matter and the impossibility of an objectively absolute time and space. His critiques of mathematics and science are among the most controversial, brilliant and revolutionary in the history of philosophy. The Berkley's essay A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics was written and published in 1735 in response to criticisms ofThe Analyst in Geometry no Friend to Infidelity; or a Defence of Sir Isaac Newton and the British Mathematicians, by Philalethes Cantabrigiensis (Dr. James Jurin, a noted Cambridge scientist and physician), andVindication of Sir Isaac Newton's Principles of Fluxions, by Jacob Walton. Berkeley responded to a subsequent pamphlet of Walton withReasons for not replying to Mr. Walton's Full Answer.

Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.15x21,5, pp.64, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. One of the most beautiful and interesting alchemical catechisms of the Renaissance, attributed to the great Swiss physician, alchemist, initiate and philosopher Paracelsus (Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim). We propose it to our readers in the English translation of the American mystic and esotericist Arthur Edward Waite, which he published in 1894. «What is the chief study of a Philosopher?». «It is the investigation of the operations of Nature». «What is the end of Nature?». «God, Who is also its beginning». «What should receive the most careful attention of the Philosopher?». «Assuredly, the end of Nature, and this is by no means to be looked for in the vulgar metals, because, these having issued already from the hands of the fashioner, it is no longer to be found therein».

Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.15x21,5, pp.78, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner (31 March 1858 - 25 August 1935) was a British peace activist, teacher, author, atheist and freethinker, and the daughter of Charles Bradlaugh,a political activist, the first openly atheist member of British Parliament and founder of the National Secular Society in 1866. In her life she wrote important and fundamental books (The gallows and the lash: an enquiry into the necessity for capital and corporal punishments, 1897; Penalties upon opinion: or, some records of the laws of heresy and blasphemy; 1912;The Christian Hell, 1913; Christianity and conduct, or the influence of religious beliefs on morals, 1919) but is most remembered today for being the author of her father's biography,Charles Bradlaugh: His Life and Work. The slave struggle in America, published around 1880, is the text version of four lectures held by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner about the drama of slavery in the New Continent. The lectures refer to the history of slavery in America from the time of George III to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale ed. cm.15x21, pp.98, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telesterion. English text. What exactly is ecstasy (from the Greek ??stas??, literally being outside), that psychic state of suspension and mystical elevation of the mind, which is perceived by those who experience it intensely as estranged from the body? What are its links with Philosophy (to be understood as Sacred Knowledge or as love for Divine Wisdom) and above all with mystical death and the initiatory experience of the ancient Mysteries? What is thought and how to control it to rise to higher levels of consciousness? All the great initiatory schools of the past taught that one must die and be reborn in order to then ascend. But can this ascension be comparable to Philosophical Ecstasy? Great philosophers of antiquity, from Plotinus to Porphyry, spoke to us about the experience of Philosophical Ecstasy as a reunion with the Absolute, with the Supreme End. And what if it also and above all involved a full connection with the Anima Mundi or with the Akashic Records? From Giordano Bruno to Tommaso Campanella, up to Arturo Reghini and Amedeo Rocco Armentano, some authentic Initiates have attempted to answer these questions. Traduzione in inglese di Umberto Visani.

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Condición: NUOVO. Prato, Aurora Boreale cm.14,8x21, pp.62, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collana The House of Wisdom. Testo in Inglese Abu-Muhammad Muslih Al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known by his pen-name Saadi, or Saadi of Shiraz (Saadi Shirazi), was the major Persian poet and prose writer during the Middle Age. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets of the classical literary tradition, earning him the nickname Master or Master of Speech. He has been quoted in the Western traditions as well, sand hisBustanis universally considered one of the houndred greatest books of all time. In addition to theBustanand theGulistan, his masterworks, Saadi also wrote four books of love poems (ghazals), and number of longer mono-rhyme poems (qasidas) in both Persian and Arabic, including thePand Namah, orScroll of Wisdom, the small volume of poetry that we present today in this new edition, faithful to the version edited and published by Arthur Naylor Wollaston in New York in 1906. A cura di Nicola Bizzi.