Cincinnati: The Pettibone Manufacturing Co., 1890. 2nd Edition Revised and Enlarged. Half Leather Part of the Spine is missing. good only - Part of the backstrip is missing. Needs rebacking. Item #2126
Mexico: Ediciones Euroamericanas, Euram, (1979). Illustrated with many black and white photos and some. First edition. 8vo, 9-5/16" x 6-1/2" Fine / Fine dust jacket.
This study is a preparation to incorporate into scientific knowledge part of that unknown and mysterious land which now shows us only its highest peaks - Clairvoyance, Telepathy, E.S.P., and a few unclassified aspects of the drug experience - floating above the mist and ground fog, their exact dimensions occult in the purple haze. The value of each extension of the frontiers of knowledge is comparable to that of the discovery of a new continent to explore, conquer and cultivate. If we find that the mystery, beauty and romance of the Unknown have vanished, we need not weep for them: We will again find these Gypsies camped beyond the next range of hills . . . if we are young and adventurous enough to follow them. ISBN: 9684140002 Item #1246
Philadelphia: David McKay, (1931). Signed on free front endpaper: "Very Sincerely, Manley P. Hall." Third Edition Revised. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-9/16". Red cloth covered boards. 229 pp. including index. Fine condition. Item #1065
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, (2015). 8vo. Cream paper covered boards with blue cloth spine stamped in gold. 243 pp. including extensive index. Fine / Fine dust jacket.
The legendary Akiva ben Yosef has fascinated Jews for centuries. One of an arguably the most important of the Tannaim, or early Jewish sages, he lived during a crucial era in the development of Judaism as we know it today, and his theology played a major part in the development of Rabbinic Judaism. Reuven Hammer details Akiva's life as it let to a martyr's death and delves into the rich legacy Akiva left us. That legacy played an extraordinarily important role in helping the Jewish people survive difficult challenges and forge a vibrant religious life anew and it continues to influence Jewish law, ethics, and theology even today. Akiva's contribution to the development of Oral Torah cannot be overestimated, and in this first book written in English about the sage since 1936, Hammer reassesses Akiva's role from the period before the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE until the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135 CE. ISBN: 9780827612150 Item #991
Horizon Publishing Company, 1954. soft cover. fine. Item #2007
philosophical research society, 1952. soft cover. very good. Item #2009
The Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1947. Sixth Edition. Green Cloth. fine. Item #2139
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1975). 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-5/16". Red cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in gold. 506 pp. including extensive bibliography and indices. A little bubble at bottom of front cover, otherwise fine.
"To write about Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, is an almost impossible task. At the first step, a wide mountain range appears before the eye - and the longer the seeker pursues the path, the more difficult it seems to reach any goal at all. He may dwell in the rose gardens of Persian mystical poetry or try to reach the icy peaks of theosophic speculations; he may dwell in the lowlands of popular saint worship or drive his camel through the endless deserts of theoretical discourses about the nature of Sufism, of God, and of the world' or he may be content to have an all-around glimpse of the landscape, enjoying the beauty of some of the highest peaks bathed in the sunlight of early morning, or colored by the violet haze of a cool evening. In any case, only the elect few will reach the farthest mountain on which the mythical bird, Simurgh, lives - to understand that they have reached only what was already in themselves." ISBN: 0807812234 Item #1254
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1980). First Edition. 8vo. Brown marbled paper covered boards with Grey cloth spine stamped in gold. 382 pp. including index. Book is fine. / Fine dust jacket.
In 1706 three prophets appeared in London. They were Huguenots from southeastern France, heirs to a prophetic tradition which had taken root among French Protestants during their persecution by Louis XIV. The three men first prophesied to French refugees but soon found support and new prophets in English audiences. English followers, however, brought with them culturally distinct millenarian visions and patterns of religious behavior. As the group grew - and became known collectively as the French Prophets - it was transformed by those it attracted. Later, reaching out to Scotland and the continent, missionaries from the group made enduring contact with quietists and pietists, whose ideas about inspiration affected the outlook of the prophets themselves. By the 1730s, in their waning years, the French Prophets wer akin to the Moravians, Methodists, and Shakers who inaugurated the evangelical revival in eighteenth-century England.
Using archival materials from seven countries, the author reconstructs the internal history of the French Prophets, tracing social, sexual, and cultural tensions. He describes the interplay of four kinds of millenarian ethos in prophecy and ritual, and he follows the process by which the French Prophets lost vitality and coherence. Alert to subtle relationships between prophecy and group dynamics, the author integrates the work of anthropologists, social psychologists, sociologists, and historians of religion. Paying special attention to women's roles, he proposes new approaches to the study of female prophets and leaders within a partriarchal, commercial society. ISBN: 0520038150 Item #1001
London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited, (1987). With full color Illustrations by Helen WIlliams. First edition. Black cloth covered boards, 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-3/4". Spine stamped in gold. 374 PP. Fine / Fine dust jacket.
Song of Raymond, Christopher Tower's sixth book of verse, is an epic poem which explores the Muslim mystical belief system of Sufism. Sufism has as its central tenet the denial of the personality and the transcendence of God. Sufis believe that by quelling the self and concentrating all one's loving ardour on God, it is possible to attain a union with the divine in which the human self melts away. The story, set in the thirteenth century, follows the life of Raymond Lull, Steward of the Household to the King of Aragon. A frivolous, womanizing young man, he is transformed after seeing a vision of Christ into a devout Christian, and resolves to dedicate his life to the cause of converting Muslims to Christianity. He travels the world in pursuit of this aim, visiting the Pope and the King of France to urge them to undertake new crusades against Islam. While preaching Christianity in Tunis, Raymond meets Hadi Gelani, a Sufi mystic. Their discussions reveal much common ground, and it is finally through Sufism, and the martyrdom which he and Hadi share, that Raymond finds the one-ness with God that he has been seeking. Christopher Tower cleverly weaves original Sufi sayings into the dialogue in this fascinating and enlightening poem. ISBN: 0297792261 Item #988