Ancient Philosophy Mystery And Magic

Author : Peter Kingsley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic written by Peter Kingsley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More specifically, he traces for the first time a line of transmission from Empedocles and the early Pythagoreans down to southern Egypt, and from there into the world of Islam. "Highly polemical new book ... The thesis is argued with immense learning." "Times Higher Education Supplement".

Author : Madame Alexandra David-Neel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486119440
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic and Mystery in Tibet written by Madame Alexandra David-Neel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.

Author : Dan Burton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253216564
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic, Mystery, and Science written by Dan Burton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[P.D. Ouspensky's] yearning for a transcendent, timeless reality—one that cancels out physical disintegration and death—figures into science at some fundamental level. Einstein found solace in his theory of relativity, which suggested to him that events are ever-present in the space-time continuum. When his friend Michele Besso passed on shortly before his own death, he wrote: 'For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.'" —from Magic, Mystery, and Science The triumph of science would appear to have routed all other explanations of reality. No longer does astrology or alchemy or magic have the power to explain the world to us. Yet at one time each of these systems of belief, like religion, helped shed light on what was dark to our understanding. Nor have the occult arts disappeared. We humans have a need for mystery and a sense of the infinite. Magic, Mystery, and Science presents the occult as a "third stream" of belief, as important to the shaping of Western civilization as Greek rationalism or Judeo-Christianity. The occult seeks explanations in a world that is living and intelligent—quite unlike the one supposed by science. By taking these beliefs seriously, while keeping an eye on science, this book aims to capture some of the power of the occult. Readers will discover that the occult has a long history that reaches back to Babylonia and ancient Egypt. It proceeds alongside, and frequently mingles with, religion and science. From the Egyptian Book of the Dead to New Age beliefs, from Plato to Adolf Hitler, occult ways of knowing have been used—and hideously abused—to explain a world that still tempts us with the knowledge of its dark secrets.

Author : Peter Kingsley
Publisher : Duckworth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780715631195
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Dark Places of Wisdom written by Peter Kingsley and published by Duckworth Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the key evidence together and presents a new picture of Parmenides, the ancient Greek poet, as priest, initiate and healer.

Author : Peter Kingsley
Publisher : Catafalque Press
ISBN 13 : 9781999638429
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book REALITY (New 2020 Edition) written by Peter Kingsley and published by Catafalque Press. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REALITY introduces us to the extraordinary mystical tradition that lies right at the roots of western philosophy, science and civilization.

Author : Carl Huffman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139444071
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archytas of Tarentum written by Carl Huffman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archytas of Tarentum is one of the three most important philosophers in the Pythagorean tradition, a prominent mathematician, who gave the first solution to the famous problem of doubling the cube, an important music theorist, and the leader of a powerful Greek city-state. He is famous for sending a trireme to rescue Plato from the clutches of the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius II, in 361 BC. This 2005 study was the first extensive enquiry into Archytas' work in any language. It contains original texts, English translations and a commentary for all the fragments of his writings and for all testimonia concerning his life and work. In addition there are introductory essays on Archytas' life and writings, his philosophy, and the question of authenticity. Carl A. Huffman presents an interpretation of Archytas' significance both for the Pythagorean tradition and also for fourth-century Greek thought, including the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.

Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674539181
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism written by Walter Burkert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this first English edition of his distinguished study of Pythagoreanism, Weisheit und Wissenschajt: Studien zu Pythagoras, Philolaos, und Platon, Walter Burkert has carefully revised text and notes, taking account of additional literature on the subject which appeared between 1962 and 1969. By a thorough critical sifting of all the available evidence, the author lays a new foundation for the understanding of ancient Pythagoreanism and in particular of the relationship within it of "lore" and "science." He shows that in the twilight zone when the Greeks were discovering the rational interpretation of the world and quantitative natural science, Pythagoras represented not the origin of the new, but the survival or revival of ancient, pre-scientific lore or wisdom, based on superhuman authority and expressed in ritual obligation.

Author : Manly P. Hall
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1585424323
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Ancient Philosophy written by Manly P. Hall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete in itself, this volume originated as a commentary and expansion of Manly P. Hall's masterpiece of symbolic philosophy, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. In Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, Manly P. Hall expands on the philosophical, metaphysical, and cosmological themes introduced in his classic work, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Hall wrote this volume as a reader's companion to his earlier work, intending it for those wishing to delve more deeply into the esoteric philosophies and ideas that undergird the Secret Teachings. Particular attention is paid to Neoplatonism, ancient Christianity, Rosicrucian and Freemasonic traditions, ancient mysteries, pagan rites and symbols, and Pythagorean mathematics. First published in 1929-the year after the publication of Hall's magnum opus-this edition includes the author's original subject index, twenty diagrams prepared under his supervision for the volume, and his 1984 preface, which puts the book in context for the contemporary reader.

Author : John H. Fritz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498512054
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato and the Elements of Dialogue written by John H. Fritz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato and the Elements of Dialogue focuses on the structural features of Plato’s writings and tries to show how he uses these features in provocative and interesting ways. Instead of focusing merely on why Plato wrote dialogues, this book tries to discover and disclose what the dialogues are, positioning it as a complement to the already large concerns about Plato’s use of the dialogue form.

Author : Eusèbe Salverte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Occult Sciences written by Eusèbe Salverte and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: