Description: A mystical account of the odyssey of the human soul.
Description: How-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. With all of Bukowski's trademark humor an...
Description: Caption title.From the American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. XVI, Dec., 1878.J. Willard Gibbs. Scientific papers. With some manuscript corrections by the author.
Description: A critique of the key global issues confronting us today, which challenges a number of contemporary myths about human nature and presents an argument for a new, spiritual approach.
Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...in his behalf, because I am earne
Description: The Apocrypha refer to texts which are left out of officially sanctioned versions ('canon') of the Bible. The term means 'things hidden away,' which implies secret or esoteric literature. However, none of these texts were ever considered secr
Description: I: LAUDED AND GLORIFIED ART THOU, O LORD, MY... Lauded and glorified art Thou, O Lord, my God! How can I make mention of Thee, assured as I am that no tongue, however deep its wisdom, can befittingly magnify Thy name, nor can the bird of the human heart, however great its longing, ever hope to ascend into the heaven of Thy majesty and knowledge..
Description: Although The Secret of Divine Civilization was written in the nineteenth century regarding the question of the modernization of Irán, it offers a novel perspective for social and economic development based upon the vision of a new world order. This article locates 'Abdu'l-Bahá's treatise in the context of both the Iranian social and political situation and the overall message of the Bahá'í Faith. It explicates the organization of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's text and diff...
Description: Olive Fleming Liefeld, widow of the missionary Peter Fleming, relates her version of the events already familiar to readers of Elisabeth Elliot's Through the Gates of Splendor. Olive describes details of the fateful trip in 1956 during which
Description: CONTENTS: Excerpts from Will and Testament of 'Adbu'l-Baha; and Letters from Shoghi Effendi. PARTIAL list of keywords: death; holy will; cause made manifest; believers; love; kindness; martyrdom; tablet of Haha'u'llah; Khurasan; Persia; Holy Leaf; Adrianople; Akka; Mashriqu'l-Adkar; assembly; Bab; Exalted One; Bahdadi; Baghdad; Baghdad House; destiny; enemy; redemption of the world; russia; turkey; Baha'i World; Guard Cause of God; loyalty; recantation; renu...
Description: Know thou of a certainty that Love is the secret of God’s holy Dispensation, the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual outpourings. Love is heaven’s kindly light, the Holy Spirit’s eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul. Love is the cause of God’s revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things. Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world an...
Description: The Baha'i Children's Workbook is designed to assist children to learn about essential Baha'i teachings and community life. The workbook supports children's growing understanding and love of the Baha'i Faith through child-oriented learning ac