By the Marquis De Sade..his most infamous novel. The Bedroom Philosophers is thought by many critics to synthesize most completely the concepts and conclusions of De Sade’s thought. In it, De Sade both explains and gives dramatic form to his theories about human passion. In evil, De Sade sees the fullest, least inhibited flowering...
In the early decades of the twentieth century a young Catholic seminarian so impressed his headmaster with his thesis on the life of St Francis of Asissi that he was offered the chance to study the Vatican archives in order to eventually produce a fuller biographical work on this venerated of saints. Thus began for...
Christianity’s creation of the sex wars in the West. At the Council of Macon in the 6th century the Christian bishops had to vote on the eternal question as to whether or not women had souls. The vote was carried by a majority of only one. The idea of women’s inferiority to men is one...
How to practise the Sacred Heart Devotion. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Fr John Croiset, SJ. is not ‘just another book on the Sacred Heart devotion” but it can be truly said to be the book on this devotion. Written by the spiritual director of St Margaret Mary (1647-1690), the book comes...
In 1563, John Foxe began a memorial of martyrs starting with Stephen, the first to die for the cause of Christ, and ending with the most recent martyrs of his day; those killed during Bloody Mary’s reign. He knew that danger lies in forgetting the martyrs – in being insensitive to their struggles. Martyrdom is...
Spirits of the landscape, ancient alignments and sacred sites, creation and fertility. This book traces the intriguing connections within the broad tradition that perceives the Earth as a resevoir of energy or spiritual power. The scope embraces a vast range of concepts, including dragon pathways, feng shui, the Tree of Life, Gaia, megaliths, sacred rivers...
Volume One; Emmanuel Swedenborg was a scientist, engineer and statesman who served in the Swedish House of Nobles and on the board in charge of mining and smelting. He was a graduate of Uppsala University, and he also studied with many of the leading scientists and engineers of Europe. Swedenborg mastered the known natural sciences...
Familiarity with the Gospel record often blinds peole’s minds to the terrific drama of the events surrounding the life, death and resurrection of our Lord. No less impressive are the events following soon after His ressurrection when Joseph of Arimathea and his fellow-Christians made their journey westward to plant the faith among the people of...
Jean Houston revitalizes the story of Christ by presenting to readers the possibility of ‘being Christs’. Dr Houston draws from philosophy, mythology, Jungian psychology, mysticism, anthropology, new science, and just plain creativity to present the familiar gospel stories in a new light. Focusing on experiencing the Christ life, exercises are presented which can be done...
A survey of mandalas in the Western Esoteric tradition Mandalas, ‘those brightly coloured Buddhist diagrams’ have been recognized as important tools in Eastern spiritual traditions for focusing meditation. Though various Western traditions possess such mandalas for contemplation as spiritual exercises, they have not often been recognized as such, except by those deeply schooled in Western...
The life of Neils Bohr spanned times of revolutionary change in science itself as well as its impact on society. Along with Albert Einstein, Bohr can be considered to be this century’s major driving force behind new philosophical and mathematical descriptions of the structure of the atom and the nucleus. Abraham Pais, the acclaimed biographer...
..The search for the source of a lost civilization. Over 2,000 years ago, a Greek poet and philosopher named Plato wrote of a fabulous island empire set in the Far West. He called it Atlantis. Ever since, philosophers, historians and explorers have debated its reality and searched in vain for its whereabouts. The academics view...
