The Sea Priest
The Sea Priest

Author: Alan Richardson

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9781671521636

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In the beginning, I planned to sail this book toward Brittany and track down Morgana le Fay, even peering through her witch-mists to the peculiar heart of Atlantis, where I thought she might be lurking. I was determined to summon, stir and call her up. In the event, at the very start of my literary voyage I was boarded by a very real Celtic Christian named Moluag, and was driven by strange inner currents toward an island in the Hebrides that wouldn't let me go. The original title of this book was to be Raasay - an Inner Route to Everywhere. Somehow, I touched on that island as a living entity rather than just the barren lump of rock and soil, as I had assumed it was. Raasay and Moluag, with the unlikely help of William Wordsworth, have taught me that we can all make voyages that are tied in with the fertile magick of the Earth, its Seas, and our own daily experience. It was written as I went along, never seeing beyond the horizon as to what the next paragraph would reveal. As such it's more a casual journal and an inner travelogue than an attempt at a text-book. It also includes FPD's superb manual of self-initiation into the Faery Realms that was written in the late 1930s when the old mage was at the height of his considerable powers and was Dion Fortune's very own Moon Priest. The Sea Priest, I hope, offers help in navigating your own inner voyages. It is as much a set of simple inner techniques that we can ALL adapt and make use of, as it is about a historical person and geographical destination.

Jesus the Wicked Priest
Jesus the Wicked Priest

Author: Marvin Vining

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-03-27

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1591439094

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Decodes the Dead Sea Scrolls to reveal Christianity’s hidden Essene origins • Reveals the Essenes as key figures behind Jesus’s trial, torture, and crucifixion • Shows how Jesus, a former Essene himself, was deemed “the Wicked Priest” for his liberationist politics and humanist bent • Examines the lost Christian doctrine of reincarnation and the secret role of Gabriel in the Virgin Birth The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947 at Qumran, are generally believed to have been written by a Jewish sect known as the Essenes between 350 BCE and 70 CE--but until now no convincing methodology has linked the Scrolls to the actual life and teachings of Jesus. Marvin Vining builds from the controversial work of Barbara Thiering to demonstrate that the Scrolls do speak directly to the origins of Christianity and even reflect a mirror image of the Gospels from the perspective of Jesus’s enemies. Christianity arose out of a schism between the exclusivist, rigid, and militant views of the Essenes and the inclusivist, tolerant, and nonviolent views of Jesus. Jesus was raised an Essene, but he refused to follow their orthodoxy. Vining shows that the Dead Sea Scrolls are written in a secret coded language called pesher in which Jesus emerges as the Wicked Priest, the antagonist to the Teacher of Righteousness who was the leader of the Essenes. Jesus the Wicked Priest revitalizes the Gospel message by revealing Jesus’s true role as a tireless social reformer and revolutionary teacher. Vining’s study reopens Christian doctrinal questions supposedly long settled, such as reincarnation and the Virgin birth--even demonstrating that these two issues are related. He discloses that the angel Gabriel was incarnate in a living human being and transmitted the seed of a holy bloodline to the Virgin Mary.

The Pharaoh and the Priest
The Pharaoh and the Priest

Author: Bolesław Prus

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Pharaoh and the Priest" (An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt) by Bolesław Prus. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Priest's Madonna
The Priest's Madonna

Author: Amy Hassinger

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-04-03

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1101156953

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“A provocative page-turner, full of Da Vinci Code-esque intrigue.”—Marie Claire From the author of Nina: Adolescence, comes a factually based, lyrically enthralling novel about the forbidden love between a woman and a holy man—and the terrible secret that poses an even greater threat to their faith. In 1896, a priest in southern France suddenly gained immense wealth. This much is historically true—but no one knows where the money came from. At his death, the priest’s secret was buried with him. But there was a young woman—his housekeeper and lover, Marie Dénarnaud—who may have known the truth. Marie Dénarnaud was only a girl when the charismatic priest Bérenger first captivated her. As a woman, she became his housekeeper and struggled with guilt over their illicit relationship. But as their affection deepened, Bérenger grew secretive, and Marie had to learn why. What she discovers is a shocking secret that she becomes responsible for concealing. “Impressively researched and deftly written . . . a suspenseful story of love and religion.”—Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of Prep “Vivid and affecting.”—Booklist

The Franciscan Priest
The Franciscan Priest

Author: Ron Wood

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2023-08-08

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13:

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About the Book This is Ron Wood’s second book. It is the story of his four-times Great Grandfather, who came to the Americas in 1806. He was a Franciscan Priest assigned to the Alta California mission system owned by the Catholic Church. This book was developed through family stories passed down through many generations. Fr. Blas Ordaz was born in 1792 and passed away in 1850, in the same year that California became the 31st state of The United States. Blas is buried underneath the floor of the San Gabriel Mission, located in San Gabriel, California.

Luke the Priest
Luke the Priest

Author: Rick Strelan

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780754662594

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This book focuses on the authority and status of the author of Luke-Acts. What authority did he have to write a Gospel, to interpret the Jewish Scriptures and traditions of Israel, to interpret the Jesus traditions, and to update the narrative with a second volume with its interpretation of Paul and the other apostles who appear in the Acts narrative? Rick Strelan constructs the author as a Jewish Priest, examining such issues as writing and orality, authority and tradition, and the status and role of priests. The analysis is set within the context of scholarly opinion about the author, the intended audience and other related issues.

Beyond Betrayal
Beyond Betrayal

Author: Patricia Ewick

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-08-21

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 022664443X

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In 2002, the national spotlight fell on Boston’s archdiocese, where decades of rampant sexual misconduct from priests—and the church’s systematic cover-ups—were exposed by reporters from the Boston Globe. The sordid and tragic stories of abuse and secrecy led many to leave the church outright and others to rekindle their faith and deny any suggestions of institutional wrongdoing. But a number of Catholics vowed to find a middle ground between these two extremes: keeping their faith while simultaneously working to change the church for the better. Beyond Betrayal charts a nationwide identity shift through the story of one chapter of Voice of the Faithful (VOTF), an organization founded in the scandal’s aftermath. VOTF had three goals: helping survivors of abuse; supporting priests who were either innocent or took risky public stands against the wrongdoers; and pursuing a broad set of structural changes in the church. Patricia Ewick and Marc W. Steinberg follow two years in the life of one of the longest-lived and most active chapters of VOTF, whose thwarted early efforts at ecclesiastical reform led them to realize that before they could change the Catholic Church, they had to change themselves. The shaping of their collective identity is at the heart of Beyond Betrayal, an ethnographic portrait of how one group reimagined their place within an institutional order and forged new ideas of faith in the wake of widespread distrust.