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29.05.2021

“Essential Gnostic Scriptures” by Willis Barnstone adn Marvin Meyer

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"The people we’ve come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer have created a translation that brings the gnostic voices to us from across the centuries with remarkable power and beauty—beginning with texts from the earliest years of Christianity—including material from the Nag Hammadi library—and continuing all the way up to expressions of gnostic wisdom found within Islam and in the Cathar movement of the Middle Ages. The twenty-one texts included here serve as a...>>

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29.05.2021

“Evolutionary Witchcraft” by T. Thorn Coyle

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"The power of Witchcraft is the power to bend and shape, the power to affect the self and the world. Align your Soul. Dive into the Elements of Life. Move and shape energy. Gaze into the Black and Silver mirrors. Harness the powers Above and Below. Know Yourself. Know the World. Bend the arc of humanity toward evolution with the help of this learned and serious manual to Witchcraft for the mature practitioner by one of the craft's leading teachers. "...>>

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28.05.2021

“Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices” edited by Christian H. Bull, Liv Ingeborg Lied and John D. Turner

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"Mystery and secrecy were central concepts in the ritual, rhetoric, and sociological stratification of antique Mediterranean religions. That the ultimate nature and workings of the divine were secret, and either could not or should not be revealed except as a mystery for the initiated, was widely accepted among Pagans, Jews, and then Christians, both Gnostic and otherwise. The similarities and differences in the language of mystery and secrecy across religious and cultural borders are thus crucial for understanding this important period of the history of religions. The present anthology aims to present and analyze a wide selection of sources elucidating this theme, reflecting the correspondingly wide scholarly interests of Professor Einar Thomassen in honor of...>>

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28.05.2021

“Star’s Reach: A Novel Of The Deindustrial Future” by John Michael Greer

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"More than four centuries have passed since industrial civilization stumbled to its ruin under the self-inflicted blows of climate change and resource depletion. Now, in the ruins of a deserted city, a young man mining metal risks his life to win a priceless clue. That discovery will send him and an unlikely band of seekers on a quest for a place out of legend where human beings might once have communicated with distant worlds — a place called Star's Reach."...>>

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28.05.2021

“The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future” by John Michael Greer

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"To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it's clear that things are going very, very wrong. We no longer have unlimited time and resources to deal with the crises that define our future, and the options are limited to the tools we have on hand right now. This book is about one very powerful option: deliberate technological regression. Technological regression isn't about 'going back,' it's about using the past as a resource to meet the needs of the present. It starts from the recognition that older technologies generally use fewer resources and cost less than modern equivalents, and it embraces the heresy of technological...>>

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