Life of Rudolf Steiner
All over the world, but particularly in Western Europe, there are now to be found activities—schools, communities for the handicapped, farms, hospitals and medical practices, artists and architects, banks and businesses—whose work acknowledges a special debt to Rudolf Steiner. Read more
Meetings With Remarkable Men by Gurdjieff
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Frederick Great and Freemasonry in Germany
THE BUILDER AUGUST 1921
TAKEN FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LADY CRAVEN
Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of the fourth earl of Berkeley, was born on December 17, 1750. A sprightly and beautiful girl, she had many love affairs, and was finally married to William, 6th Lord Craven. She was unfaithful to him, having relations with the French ambassador, Count de Guines, but was pardoned by her indulgent husband. After Lord Craven’s death she went to Germany and found a place in the train of the Margrave of Anspach, to whom, after an unseemly friendship, and within three months after the death of his wife, she was married. There is no need to detail her history further, or print the long codicil of her titles, save to say that, after having seen life in many courts, among them Russia, and after having had a most mixed career of love affairs and intrigues, the Lady published her “Autobiographical Memoirs” in 1826, when she was in her seventy-sixth year. From these Memoirs the following chapter, with a few irrelevant paragraphs omitted, has been taken: for what reason, the Masonic reader will immediately discover for himself. Read more
Life of Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher, theologian, chemist, anatomist, and mystic, fluent in eleven languages. Swedenborg devoted the first half of his life to scientific investigations. Thereafter he turned his full attention to theology, metaphysics and started to explore mystical experience. Among Swedenborg’s most popular books are Heaven and Hell and Earths in Universe. His spiritual writing influenced Emerson, Goethe, Henry James Sr., Dostoevsky, and William Blake. During his life, Swedenborg published over 50 works. His books have been translated into some thirty languages. Read more
The Magical World of Dion Fortune
By Gareth Knight
Draw a line from St Alban’s Head on the south coast of England up to the holy island of Lindisfarne in the north east, passing through the great stone circle at Avebury, and another from King Arthur’s legendary birth place at Tintagel in Cornwall, across to St Albans north of London, the old Roman city of Verulamium and place of Britain’s first Christian martyr, and that line too will pass through Avebury. So says Mona Wilton, heroine of Dion Fortune’s novel The Goat-Foot God, to Hugh Paston when he is seeking a suitable site to construct a nature temple dedicated to the great god Pan.Thus the land of Albion (the ancient name for Britain the White Island) is divided up into four quarters of real significance, each having a different approach and response to the legends and traditions, be they Brythonic Celtic, Saxon or Viking.
Complete Works of Nostradamus
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Ebook includes all centuries in original French and English translation and almanacs of Michel de Nostredame.
Saint Herman of Alaska
SAINT HERMAN OF ALASKA, the first “American” saint, was the first to bring Orthodoxy to this continent. He came to America as a young monk in 1794 as part of the original Russian Orthodox mission to Alaska. He lived there until his repose, and for more than four decades taught the natives by word and example. With his own severe asceticism a secret, he ministered to both physical and spiritual needs of the people. And his memory is preserved, fresh and personal, among their descendents to this day. Ironically, however, he is unknown to so many other Americans. By his prayers may we, also, truly receive the Gospel he brought and follow the way that he taught. Read more
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff’s Biography
born 13.1.1866 (?) Alexandropol (Russia), died 29.10.1949 Neuilly, Paris.
Greco-Armenian holistic philosopher, thaumaturge, and teacher of Sacred Dances (whose ancillary personae as musicologist, therapist, hypnotist, raconteur, explorer, polyglot, and entrepreneur exercise the taxonomic mind). G.’s work comprises one ballet, some 250 Sacred Dances, 200 piano pieces composed in collaboration with his pupil Thomas Alexandrovitch de Hartmann (1886-1956), and four books, the magnum opus being Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson. For more than 35 years he privately taught, by example and oral precept, a previously unknown doctrine styled “The Work”, attracting – and often quixotically repulsing – groups of gifted disciples: Russian, English, American, and French. His system integrated a semantic critique, a social critique, an epistemology, a mythopoeic cosmogony and cosmology, a phenomenology of consciousness, and a practical Existenzphilosophie. Read more
Vlad Tepes: The Historical Dracula
Introduction
Most authorities believe the character of Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel was based upon the historical figure Vlad Tepes (pronounced tse-pesh), who intermittently ruled an area of the Balkans called Wallachia in the mid 15th century. He was also called by the names Vlad III, Vlad Dracula and Vlad the Impaler. The word Tepes stands for “impaler” and was so coined because of Vlad’s propensity to punish victims by impaling them on stakes, then displaying them publicly to frighten his enemies and to warn would-be transgressors of his strict moral code. He is credited with killing between 40,000 to 100,000 people in this fashion. Read more
Who was Franz Bardon?
by Tim Scott
©1991 by Tim Scott; tims@crow-caw.com www.crow-caw.com (Tim Scotts homepage)
Franz Bardon is one of the most important but least known occultists and magicians of the Twentieth Century. He is mainly known through four books he wrote which were published in the 1950’s. Many have borrowed his techniques and terminology without giving him proper credit, sometimes unknowingly, but not always. I recommended his book “Initiation Into Hermetics” to a person who had studied occultism for some years. He was stunned to find that a teacher of his in the past had distributed Bardon’s materials pretending he had written them himself. Read more
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