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Charles Upton
Can we really know what UFO’s are? The answer is Yes-but only if we study them armed with a kind of knowledge that explains the true and complete structure of…
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Hammering Hot Iron is a rare work that raises important questions, draws vital distinctions, and elevates discourse within the spiritual community on the Men’s Movement, Jungian psychology, archetypal and mythological…
In the last century, authors and psychologists like Robert Graves, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell reminded us that folklore is often full of deep symbolic truths, truths that the ‘folk’…
The Traditionalist or Perennialist School of metaphysics, esoterism, and comparative religion, ‘founded’ by Rene Guenon and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, and carried on by such figures as Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt…
When poet Jack Gilbert, some time in the 1970’s in San Francisco, asked his poetry class, Who here aspires to write a masterpiece? , not one hand was raised. I…
This book tries to answer two questions: 1) Why has the U.S. Government suddenly done an about-face in 2021, from debunking UFOs to officially admitting that they are real…
The first textbook of Sufism is the Qur'an; there is no principle of Tasawwuf that cannot be traced back to the Holy Book. The Sufis read the Qur'an for its…
Ever since the advent of earth-based spiritualities in our time, the call to realize the Divine Immanence, to see God in the forms of the natural world and the particular…
As the poet T.S. Eliot said, ‘Where is the wisdom lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge lost in information?’ Our postmodern ‘information culture’ forces us to be over-cerebral, but…
The spiritual life must obviously take psychology into account; if we want to do good and know truth, we will have to understand what in us supports this intent, and…
From the days of the first shamans, through Homer, Dante, the traditional ballads, Rumi, Blake, Emily Dickinson, and Lew Welch, poetry has been rooted in metaphysics. In What Poets Used…
In the religion of Islam the character of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, is the model of human virtue. Orphan, exile, contemplative, successful businessman, long-time faithful…
Investigates the present religious and cultural scene from the standpoint of traditional metaphysics and critiques the New Age spiritualities. Presents lore relating to the ‘latter days’ and the Antichrist from…
Whether the world ends tomorrow or lasts for centuries, we all exist in a ‘climate’ of the End of Days. As Thomas Merton wrote, ‘We live in an age of…
Sufism is the practice of remaining aware of the real presence of God in every circumstance, until Certainty is reached. The dizzying complexity of Sufi metaphysics, the passionate beauty of…
VectorsBackCover French philosopher Rene Guenon (1886-1951), who spent many years searching for a true esoteric Way, crossed paths with many false and subversive spiritualities before arriving at the threshold of…
Charles Upton,Jennifer Doane Upton
Charles Upton: Human love has fallen on hard times; it has been officially discredited. Even liberal humanitarianism is not what it used to be; how then can romantic love, which…
John a Morrow
The Prophet Muhammad’s treaties with the Christians of his time, which John Andrew Morrow has rediscovered in obscure collections and often newly translated, uniformly state that Muslims are not to…
Charles Elmer Upton
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Charles B Upton
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Charles Barnes Upton
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Dr. Martineau's Philosophy: A Survey, With An Introductory Essay (1905) is a book written by Charles Barnes Upton. The book is a comprehensive overview of the philosophical ideas and teachings…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Lectures on the Bases of religious Belief is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Mulla Nasrudin, called Hodja Nasrudin in India and Turkey, is the major comic figure in Islamic folklore. Both ‘mulla’ and ‘hodja’ mean master, with the connotation teacher; Nasrudin, if he…
Dugin against Duginis the most detailed critique yet published of the theories of Russian political leader and philosopher Aleksandr Dugin. His critics call him mysterious, dangerous –but he is no…
Jennifer Doane Upton
The Ordeal of Mercy is a book of wide erudition and simple style; its goal is to present the Purgatorio, according to the science of spiritual psychology, as a practical…
D G Stern
Fire engines race to a smoky house. Upton and his human father find that the home’s thermostat had been turned way up, despite the summer’s heat. Inside, the priceless collection…
Upton knows his duty. When the snake lady from the carnival disappears, Upton sniffs out the missing reptiles, although he has no idea what a snake smells like. Actually, Upton…
A beautiful sailboat suddenly appears at a local ship yard and Upton, his human father, together with Watson, are asked to find the vessel’s owner.
The Chief of Police asks the Charles family, including Upton, who is a Bichon Frise a little white dog, with excellent detective skills and Watson, his feline assistant, to find…
Upton discovers some unusual old coins while touring the construction site at the twins’ new school. Could they be from a bank robbery?
A family vacation to the small coastal town of Rocky Point, Maine, includes a visit to an old lighthouse on an island, finding an abandoned boat, and a lot of…
A boat disappears and our super sleuth, Upton, wastes no time in sniffing out clues that lead to a surprising discovery.
