Humankind has pondered many mysteries, but few more enticing than the existence of a divine creator who is said to have set the universe in motion. Imitating the well-known style of Platonic dialogues, the relentless inquirer and empiricist David Hume assembles a group to discuss the existence of God, his divine nature, his attributes, and the ...
An important text in the history of Western occultism, the errors in the original translation have been corrected here and the more obscure material has been clarified.
First published in 1801, this book mirrored the era's fascination with the supernatural, containing medieval and occult knowledge. Notable in the text are the author's illustrations, derived from ancient and medieval magical texts, and rare translations of cabalistic and occult lore.
David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers and for his sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief, expressed ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV CULTURE Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await ? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky, And ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Personality, Or What A Man Is. We Have already seen, in general, that what a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he Has, or how he is ...
'The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.' A bestseller immediately after its publication in 1859, Self-Help propelled its author to fame and rapidly became one of Victorian Britain's most important statements on ...
Containing the substance of all that has been written on this subject by Theo of Smyrna, Nicomachus, Iamblichus, and Boetius. Together with some remarkable particulars respecting perfect, amicable, and other number, which are not to be found in the writings of any ancient or modern mathematicians. Likewise, a specimen of the manner in which the ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ILLUSION OF SPECTRES. " More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables."?Midsummer Night't Dream. Ev. Your holy thoughts, fair Ida, are but an echo ...
This work presents the author's thoughts upon three questions. Is there really any such thing as natural religion, properly and truly so called? If there is, what is it? How may a man qualify himself, so as to be able to judge, for himself, of the other religious professed in the world; to settle his own opinions in disputable matters; and then to ...
Published in 1721 by the prominent Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather (1663-1728), The Christian Philosopher was the first comprehensive book on science to be written by an American. Building on natural theology, Mather demonstrated the harmony between religion and the new science associated with Sir Isaac Newton. His survey of all the known sciences ...
'Published in 1721 by the prominent Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather, "The Christian Philosopher" was the first comprehensive book on science to be written by an American. Building on natural theology, Mather demonstrated the harmony between religion and the new science associated with Sir Isaac Newton. His survey of all the known sciences from ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. HAUNTED HOUSES. Everybody has heard of haunted houses; and there is no country, and scarcely any place, in which something of the sort is not known or ...
From the acknowledged master of the arcane - an indispensable book for students of magic - Levi's most important and final treatise on the occult sciences, and a summation of his esoteric philosopy - Contains two main works: The Royal Mystery or Art of Subduing the Powers, and The Sacerdotal Mystery of the Art of Being Served by Spirits - ...
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A complete work on Natural Magic, White Magic, Black Magic, Divination, Occult Binding, Sorceries, and their power; Unctions, Love Medicines and their Virtues; The Occult virtue of things which are in them only in their life time, and such as remain in them even after their death; The Occult or Magical Virtue of all things, etc.
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he lived most of his life and died. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses. Philosophy, he taught, is a ...
These four treatises illustrate four different aspects of Paracelsus' work. The first gives a passionate justification of his character, activities, and views, and gives a picture of the man and his basic character. The second treatise is a study of the disease of miners, with whom Paracelsus had spent a great deal of time. Then follows a treatise ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III CAUSATION OF INSANITY Mental Afalformities? Varieties of Insane Temperaments Most striking perhaps is an acute and extreme suspicious- ness of nature ...
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