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Magick Matters
"W.E. Butler, founder of The Servants of the Light School of Occult Sciences, was an occult teacher and this compilation brings together his first two works - "Magic: Its Ritual, Power and Purpose" and "The Magician: His Training and Work". The first book explains the ancient uses, ritual and true aims of magic showing how magic is based upon profound psychological laws. The second book conveys every aspect of magical training, including visualization, vestments, Tattvic tides, talismans, the Body of Light and the way to attainment as well as explaining the core of magical philosophy, the Hebrew Qabalah or "tree of life"...>>
"In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis—and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of textbooks and academia, allowing philosophers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madness—Kusters's preferred, non-medicalized term—coexist, one mirroring the other.
Kusters draws on his own experience of madness—two episodes of psychosis, twenty years apart—as well as other first-person narratives of psychosis. Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one...>>
"Far more than a dry hagiographical account of the lives of saints, this entertaining and authoritative dictionary breathes life into its subjects and is as browsable as it is informative.
First published in 1978, the Oxford Dictionary of Saints offers more than 1,700 fascinating and informative entries covering the lives, cults, and artistic associations of saints from around the world, from the famous to the obscure, the rich to the poor, and the academic to the uneducated. From all walks of life and from all periods of history and from around the world, the wide varieties of personalities and achievements of the canonized are reflected. An updated introduction explains the steps towards becoming a saint,...>>
