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The Essential Edgar Cayce

Item code: REL-63244
ISBN: 1585423157
Authors: Edgar Cayce. Mark Thurston, ed.
Pages/Length: 286
Publisher: Tarcher
Publication Date: 2004
Format: Paperback
Primary Subject: Religion
Date Added: 11/3/2006
Price: $14.95
 

Edited by a psychologist whose career has been with the two organizations founded by Edgar Cayce—the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) and Atlantic University—this volume combines commentary with lengthy selections of the Christian mystic's writings on holistic healing, practical spirituality, and the psychology of the soul. It provides an understanding of each major area in which Cayce helped pioneer the modern holistic living movement, as well as the contemporary popular approach to spirituality that weaves together the best of Eastern and Western religious traditions

Consecrated Venom: The Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge

Item code: REL-61733
ISBN: 0863153097
Authors: Caryl Johnston.
Pages/Length: 158
Publisher: Floris
Publication Date: 2000
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: Religion
Date Added: 12/12/2006
Price: $35.00

Arguments about the Bible often dispute whether its account of early history is pure myth or divine revelation. Here Caryl Johnston departs from the normal debate, interpreting the biblical events as figures or motifs of human knowledge. She starts from the dual significance of the serpent as both tempter and as symbol of wisdom and inspiration. When Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge they became aware of themselves as thinking beings. The "venom" of the serpent was to engage humans in the historical process itself, to make them active in their world through paying attention to their own thought. Here arguments move from the Garden of Eden through stories of Cain and Abel, Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac, and the historical reality of humanity's covenant with God.

The Inner West: An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West

Item code: REL- 60863
ISBN: 1585423394
Authors: Jay Kinney, ed.
Pages/Length: 324
Publisher: Tarcher/QPB
Publication Date: 2004
Format: Paperback
Primary Subject: new age
Dimension: x0.76x
Date Added: 12/3/2006
Price:   $14.95
 

The founder of Gnosis magazine here presents a score of essays by some of today's best spiritual writers, exploring the West's magical and esoteric traditions—Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, the Knights Templar, and similar sects that have persisted as aspects of Western esoterica, though few understand their significance today. Gary Lachman writes on the inner worlds of Emanuel Swedenborg and René Schwaller de Lubicz, Kabir Helminski considers Sufism as a path to wholeness, Theodore J. Nottingham looks at Christian mysticism, Chas S. Clifton discusses tarot, and Richard Smoley profiles Hermeticism and alchemy.

Item code: REL-63172
ISBN: 1842122428
Authors: Julio Caro Baroja.
Pages/Length: 313
Publisher: Phoenix
Publication Date: 2001
Format: Paperback
Primary Subject: History
Date Added: 12/11/2006
Price: $19.95
 

Beginning with an analysis of the basic mentality of those who have believed in magic or practiced the magic arts, Julio Caro Baroja's landmark 1961 treatise on witchcraft launches into an original study that upsets many popular theories about the nature and history of the subject. He considers the nature of the witch in ancient Greek and Roman times, and the rise of witchcraft in Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France in the Middle Ages. Here too is an in-depth account of the crisis of witchcraft in the Basque country—where Caro Baroja came from—at the time of the Spanish Inquisition, and the decline of witchcraft since the Renaissance.

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