Описание: This is the Black & White issue, a full color issue is available under the same title on createspace.comThe Mysteries of our spiritual evolution concealed in the Tarot has taken a considerable amount of time to come to light for the masses. Most people tend to think that Tarot cards first appeared in the Middle Ages, however, many believe the basic images of the Major Arcana may have existed for thousands of years. In general, the Tarot was treated as a tool for divination. Then in the early 20th century Arthur Edward Waite commissioned Pamela Coleman Smith to create a new deck using the mystical teachings of the Golden Dawn. Known as the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, it was published in 1910, and began a revival of interest in understanding the deeper messages in the Tarot images. One such investigator was a Jewish rabbi, who studied the images from the Kabbalistic perspective. Taking his investigation as far as he could, the rabbi sought out a Jesuit priest who became so intrigued that he left the priesthood and devoted the next 40 years to its study. My involvement began when after meeting the ex-priest in the mid-70s, he became my mentor and close confidant. One day he handed me a box full of papers with the instructions that I was to collate the information and after adding my interpretation of the symbols, arrange it into a manuscript for publishing. This proved to be no easy task and required me establishing my own publishing company to bring the book to print in 1987. Following my publication of the book, Llewellyn Publishers became interested and published two printings of the book in the early 90s. In 2007, I decided to revise the manuscript and as owner of the copyright, publish this new version through my publishing company. Looking for endorsements for the back cover, I contacted Craig and Suzzan Babcock asking them if I could use excerpts of the letter they sent me endorsing the book. Not surprisingly they agreed, which started our long association together. Suzzan confided that she had experienced an extremely detailed a powerful vision connecting the 22 Major Arcana with the Tree of Life. It seemed to me that she was being motivated to add another level to the work, but it was not until she contacted me in 2014 suggesting that we republish The Rabbi's Tarot that I saw what her contribution would be. First, she has recolored all the cards according to my symbolism, bringing them to life in a very real way. Still, this was not her most important role. That has come from her inspired commentary, which brings in many other aspects and takes the messages of the cards to another level.In this book resides the following sentence. "The teaching of Tarot and the esoteric teaching of Scripture narrative is that the self-conscious, by assiduous endeavor, may bring into your body (and your body is your self-conscious) more and more of the superconscious in the form of Cosmic Mind-Stuff." It is this Cosmic Mind-Stuff, an energetic manifestation of sorts, which finds its way into our world when allowed. I believe it found not only the Rabbi and the Priest before me, but also Suzzan in its effort of coming forth for all humanity.
The phrase "and so they went out" is often used to describe the departure of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Yet it also aptly describes the many versions of the stories of Adam and Eve as they began to circulate about the turn of the Common Era: they too "went out", and the appearance of these stories in multiple versions and languages attests both to their widespread popularity and to their ongoing appeal in the ancient world. Nor is their appeal confined to antiquity-these stories continue to fascinate, and the various versions of the apocryphal "Books of Adam and Eve" have begun to command considerable attention in the academic world.
Thus far, the scholarly community has concentrated principally on the complex tradition-history of these texts, their date, provenance and language. But the process of the reshaping and transformation of the stories within the "Books of Adam and Eve" has not yet been thoroughly studied. This book sets out to redress this imbalance by focusing primarily upon conceptual, literary, and thematic issues. By making use contemporary critical methods such as literary-critical analysis, ritual theory, and social-scientific taxonomy, the book explores how these stories represent a profound transformation and reshaping of ancient attitudes to gender, body, sexuality, sin, social hierarchies, and human aspirations.
Автор: Joel Daphna Название: Gender Mosaic ISBN: 1913068021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913068028 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Influential neuroscientist explains why there is no such thing as a male or female brain and no neural basis for differentiating people based on sex.
Описание: While the conflicts and national aspirations in British mandatory Palestine in particular and the Middle East in general were evident before the outbreak of the Second World War, the war itself accelerated and enhanced national expectations and presented continuing tactical and strategic dilemmas to British, Arab and Jewish leaders. British strategic policy during the war failed to provide answers to the political issues of the growing national demands in Palestine, and led to severe distrust of British policy among Arabs and Jews, as the two communities were framing mostly opposing reactions to wartime developments, and to conflicting expectations and policies towards post-war solutions for Palestine. The aim of this work is to analyse the continual development of strategic plans and political dilemmas that arose during the war period, which led to the subsequent post-war circumstance where American and Soviet involvement impacted on the strategic thinking of all involved parties, notwithstanding the British military victory. Analysis includes: the pre-war British strategic situation in Palestine, and the war events in Palestine and its Middle East neighbour countries (at the military-strategic level and the repercussions of the outcome of the war for the local Palestinian population). At the heart of the discussion lies British interests and policies framed towards Jews and Arabs; analysis of the two communities conflicting interests and policies; and the resultant sea-change in the establishment of the Jewish state which brought in its wake the emergence of a New Middle East.
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