Myrobalan of the Magi
Author: Alan Jacobs
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2004-07-15
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1462841376
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Magic in Western Culture
Author: Brian P. Copenhaver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-09
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 1316299481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino - whose work on magic was the most influential account written in premodern times - this groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical. Besides Ficino, the premodern story of magic also features Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Aquinas, Agrippa, Pomponazzi, Porta, Bruno, Campanella, Descartes, Boyle, Leibniz, and Newton, to name only a few of the prominent thinkers discussed in this book. Because pictures play a key role in the story of magic, this book is richly illustrated.
Mastering Music Walks the Sunlit Sea
Author: Alan Jacobs
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 190651089X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws inspiration from the philosophies of non-dualism and advaita while also reflecting the author's love for aesthetic poetry.
When Jesus Lived in India
Author: Alan Jacobs
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1780284810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere have been many opinions about what happened during the eighteen 'missing' years of Jesus' life. Alan Jacobs presents and evaluates all the material, rendering it accessible for a modern readership, and weaving it into a compelling narrative.
108 Sonnets for Awakening
Author: Alan Jacobs
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2012-04-16
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1846949483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlan Jacobs is a well known Mystical Poet and the subject of this long sonnet sequence is Awakening From The Dream of Life.This beautiful book also contains a selection from his most important poems. He is President of the Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK. ,
The Essential Gnostic Gospels
Author: Alan Jacobs
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781842932032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Gnostics were early Christians whose beliefs and practices put them at odds with the orthodox Church; indeed, the Church considered Gnostics to be heretics and made a concerted effort to destroy their writings. However, in 1945, a remarkable discovery was made in Nag Hamadi, in the Egyptian desert: a jar containing 13 papyrus documents, dating back to the fourth century ad, with genuine Gnostic texts in the original Greek. In addition, this manuscript included four gospels that offered accounts of Jesus and His times that are strikingly different from the New Testament. Alan Jacobs brings his unrivalled scholarship to bear on these illuminating and eye-opening works, offering inspiring and poetic translations that capture the verses’ uplifting spiritual message and beauty.
The Epistemology of Utopia
Author: Jorge Bastos da Silva
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1443848905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emergence of Utopian Studies as a dynamic field of inquiry situated at the crossroads of several disciplines is a striking development of the past few decades. It is symptomatic of a general trend towards the overcoming of epistemological and institutional boundaries, and has borne fruit in a number of ways. The traditions of utopianism have come to be valued as an important nurturing of possibilities, devoted to the critique and the transformation of the world. By undertaking the critical interrogation of the given, utopia is a figure not only of inversion, but of transcendence and fulfilment. The present volume takes into account the international development of Utopian Studies in recent decades. Its aim is to provide critical revisions (revisitings) of the assumptions and methods of the discipline through a set of theoretically-informed essays that focus on a number of different manifestations of utopianism. The topics covered range from Plato’s Republic and More’s Utopia to modern-day cosmopolitics, “glocalization”, and the intersections of fiction with esotericism and science.
The Spiritual Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius
Author: Alan Jacobs
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama
Author: Diana Lange
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-06-08
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9004416889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiana Lange's patient investigations have, in this wonderful piece of detective work, solved the mysteries of six extraordinary panoramic maps of routes across Tibet and the Himalayas, clearly hand-drawn in the late 1850s by a local artist, known as the British Library's Wise Collection. Diana Lange now reveals not only the previously unknown identity of the Scottish colonial official who commissioned the maps from a Tibetan Buddhist lama, but also the story of how the Wise Collection came to be in the British Library. The result is both a spectacular illustrated ethnographic atlas and a unique compendium of knowledge concerning the mid-19th century Tibetan world, as well as a remarkable account of an academic journey of discovery. It will entertain and inform anyone with an interest in this fascinating region. This large format book is lavishly illustrated in colour and includes four separate large foldout maps.
Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516
Author: Chet Van Duzer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-10-09
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 3030227030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.
