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Nancy Allison “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body/Mind Disciplines"
Rosen Publishing Group | 1999-03 | ISBN: 0823925463 | 448 pages | PDF | 7,3 MB

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines, a comprehensive new reference covering over 120 disciplines, has been published by The Rosen Publishing.
As alternative medicine is gaining recognition in traditional health care, this timely volume is a welcome and essential resource. The 500-page, one-volume encyclopedia features practical details as well as historical and theoretical information about body-mind practices within all of the major disciplines, from the familiar martial arts, meditation and massage to lesser-known therapies and techniques. While the approaches of the different practices often vary widely, their purpose of incorporating the body with the thinking and feeling processes of the mind is universal -- to enable a person to live a long, meaningful, and healthy life.
Written by over 125 experts in their respective fields, the lavishly-illustrated encyclopedia includes boxed insets highlighting important facts about each discipline, annotated resource lists, and sources for further reading.
Editor Nancy Allison, CMA, currently teaches Laban movement analysis and Bartenief Fundamentals at New York University School of Education. She is also on the faculty at the Lincoln Center Institute and the Laban-Bartenief Institute of Movement Studies.



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Annemarie Schimmel: As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam
Oneworld Publisher | 2001 | ISBN 0231052464 | Pages: 384 | PDF | 83 MB

This collection of five lectures by an eminent Islamic scholar covers religious poetry in Arabic, the development of mystical Persian poetry, the life and work of Rumi, folk poetry, and poetry in honor of the prophet.


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George H. Steinmetz - Freemasonry Its Hidden Meaning

A spiritual interpretation of the esoteric work of the Masonic lodge, analyzes the lectures and symbols of the three degrees. (1948)

Contents:

Preface
Foreword
Chapter 1 - By Way of Introduction
Chapter 2 - Masonry - Religion
Chapter 3 - Mental Science
Chapter 4 - Evolution
Chapter 5 - The Secret Doctrine
Chapter 6 - Entered Apprentice
Chapter 7 - Entered Apprentice Lecture
Chapter 8 - Fellow-Craft
Chapter 9 - Middle Chamber Lecture
Chapter 10 - Master Mason
Chapter 11 - The Great Moral Lesson
Chapter 12 - Master Mason Lecture

57 pages, 384 KB, PDF.

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Albert G. Mackey - The Symbolism of Freemasonry (1882)

ILLUSTRATING AND EXPLAINING

Its Science and Philosophy, its Legends, Myths, and Symbols.

Contents:

Preface
I. Preliminary. The Origin and Progress of Freemasonry
II. The Noachidæ
III. The Primitive Freemasonry of Antiquity
IV. The Spurious Freemasonry of Antiquity
V. The Ancient Mysteries
VI. The Dionysiac Artificers
VII. The Union of Speculative and Operative Masonry at the Temple of Solomon
VIII. The Travelling Freemasons of the Middle Ages
IX. Disseverance of the Operative Element
X. The System of Symbolic Instuction
XI. The Speculative Science and the Operative Art
XII. The Symbolism of Solomon's Temple
XIII. The Form of the Lodge
XIV. The Officers of a Lodge
XV. The Point Within a Circle
XVI. The Covering of the Lodge
XVII. Ritualistic Symbolism
XVIII. The Rite of Discalceation
XIX. The Rite of Investiture
XX. The Symbolism of the Gloves
XXI. The Rite of Circumambulation
XXII. The Rite of Intrusting, and the Symbolism of Light
XXIII. Symbolism of the Corner-Stone
XXIV. The Ineffable Name
XXV. The Legends of Freemasonry
XXVI. The Legend of the Winding Stairs
XXVII. The Legend of the Third Degree
XXVIII. The Sprig of Acacia
XXIX. The Symbolism of Labor
XXX. The Stone of Foundation
XXXI. The Lost Word

177 pages, 1.08 MB, PDF.

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The Irrational Augustine




Catherine Conybeare, "The Irrational Augustine" (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
Oxford University Press (2006) | English | ISBN 019926208X | 245 pages | PDF | 1.22 MB

The Irrational Augustine takes the notion of St Augustine as rigid and dogmatic Father of the Church and turns it on its head. Catherine Conybeare reads Augustine's earliest works to discover the anti-dogmatic Augustine, who values changeability and human interconnectedness and deplores social exclusion. The novelty of her book lies in taking seriously the nature of these early works as performances, through which multiple questions can be raised and multiple options explored, both in words and through their dramatic framework. The theological consequences are considerable. A very human Augustine emerges, talking and playing with friends and family, including his mother - and a very sympathetic set of ideas is the result.


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