Natural Creation & the Formative Mind
Author: John Davidson
Publisher: Lilian Barber Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Davidson
Publisher: Lilian Barber Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Davidson
Publisher: Clear Press Ltd
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1904555063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An inspiring collection of early Christian mystic poetry - intriguing, lyrical and beautiful.
Author: John Davidson
Publisher: Clear Press Ltd
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1904555101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brings out the spiritual meaning of one of the most intriguing books in the Bible
Author: G.R. Evans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0857723227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Did the universe start with a bang, or has it existed always? Was there a supernatural being behind it all, or just mindless forces? The beginning of things has forever tested the limits of curiosity, and such questions have both challenged atheists and inspired believers. Ancient cultures resorted to myth and symbolism to tell vibrant stories about human origins. Later civilizations added philosophical and scientific explanations: but these are not definitive. The nature and meaning of existence - the 'why' as much as the 'how' questions - are in the end mysterious. In this lively and wide-ranging book, G R Evans explores the world's myriad creation stories against the background of the biggest question there is: what are we doing here? Discussing Swahili legends that resemble the Book of Genesis, Greek tales about the Titans, Native American, Inca and Mesopotamian mythologies, and Vedic creation cycles that begin with a cosmic egg or seed, the author surveys polytheist, monotheist and dualist ideas about supernatural power. Tracing the history of humanity as it has struggled, over many millennia, to make sense of itself, The Creation Myth will attract students of religion, history and philosophy and general readers alike.
Author: Gabriel Altmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 804
ISBN-13: 9783110156195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andreas Langlotz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 902722370X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into idiomatic creativity the complex cognitive processing and representation of these heterogeneous linguistic constructions. Idiomatic creativity therefore raises two challenging questions: What are the cognitive mechanisms that underlie and shape idiom-representation? How do these mechanisms define the scope and limits of systematic idiom-variation in actual discourse? The book approaches these problems by means of a comprehensive cognitive-linguistic architecture of meaning and language and analyses them on the basis of corpus-data from the British National Corpus (BNC). Therefore, Idiomatic Creativity should be of great interest to cognitive linguists, phraseologists, corpus linguists, advanced students of linguistics, and all readers who are interested in the fascinating interplay of language and cognitive processing.This book has a companion website: www.idiomatic-creativity.ch.
Author: Hermes Trismegistus
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Published: 2023-11-14
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hermeticism or Hermetism is a philosophical system based on the purported teachings of Hermes Trismegistus (a legendary Hellenistic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth). These teachings are contained in the various writings attributed to Hermes (the Hermetica), which were produced over a period spanning many centuries (c. 300 BCE — 1200 CE) and may be very different in content and scope. The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of 17 Greek writings whose authorship is traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. The treatises were originally written between c. 100 and c. 300 CE, but the collection as known today was first compiled by medieval Byzantine editors. It was translated into Latin in the 15th century by the Italian humanist scholars Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) and Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447–1500).
Author: Three Initiates
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
Published: 2024-02-06
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1250897858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Book of Hermetica is the definitive collection of the most pivotal texts of hermetic wisdom. It includes the three most critical books in the cannon— Corpus Hermeticum, The Emerald Tablet, and The Kybalion. Corpus Hermeticum and The Emerald Tablet are both attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and were written between 100-300 BCE. These works form the foundation of hermetic wisdom, expounding on philosophy, religion, magic, and alchemy. The Kybalion was written much later, in the 20th century, and explores the seven basic hermetic principles. Faithfully reproduced in The Book of Hermetica, these esoteric writings have inspired great minds throughout the ages—everyone from Newton and Milton to Leonardo da Vinci and Jung—and modern readers will find their pages equally fascinating. The Book of Hermetica is the perfect introduction to the mysteries of hermeticism and essential reading for anyone interested in understanding western mystical thought through the ages.