The book is an introduction to oriental philosophy via individual consideration of the ideas of thirty-five major figures drawn from six traditions. Commentaries on each philosopher are accompanied by overviews…

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This work exposes the eschatological timetable which propted the petition for the Antwerp Polyglot and the Christian kabbalistic motivation of the scholars who worked on the text. This tradition is…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

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Anyone involved in communications can attest to short periods of time several times a year in which even the simplest message goes awry–the result, some claim, of Mercury retrograde. Written…

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…

This study explores the life and cultural milieu of the 19th-century Swedenborgian James John Garth Wilkinson (1812-99), covering his influence on homoeopathy, mesmerism, spiritualism, utopian socialism, environmentalism, mythology, women’s suffrage…