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" For those intimidated by Madame Blavatsky's massive and complex tome, The Secret Doctrine, Annie Besant presents the basic tenets of Theosophical thought in a concise, easy-to-digest format. Although much easier to read, this book still offers the full spectrum and depth of Theosophical philosophy." "The Ancient Wisdom" by Annie Besant - A Thorough Guide to Theosophical Teachings and Spiritual EnlightenmentDiscover the path to spiritual enlightenment with "The Ancient Wisdom," an insightful work by Annie Besant, a prominent theosophist of the 19th century. This profound exploration into the teachings of Theosophy, rooted in ancient wisdom traditions, offers readers an in-depth understanding of the laws and principles of the Universe, human evolution, and spiritual development.In this significant text, Besant meticulously elucidates the central tenets of Theosophy, including the spiritual hierarchy of beings, the complex structure of the human being, and the process of reincarnation. She delves into the intricate connection between humanity and the cosmos, presenting an interconnected universe where spiritual evolution is an inherent part of the cosmic order.The book further delves into the mysteries of life and death, the spiritual realms, the cycles of reincarnation, and the ultimate purpose of human existence. Besant encourages readers to engage with these profound concepts and to foster a deeper understanding of their own spiritual journey."The Ancient Wisdom" serves as a comprehensive guide to those seeking spiritual growth, offering insight into the fundamental principles of Theosophy and providing practical guidance for spiritual development. Besant's work invites readers to venture into the realms of the metaphysical, to question, to learn, and ultimately to understand the spiritual truths of existence.Keywords: The Ancient Wisdom, Annie Besant, Theosophy, spiritual development, human evolution, reincarnation, spiritual hierarchy, metaphysical truths, spiritual enlightenment, ancient wisdom traditions, cosmic order, spiritual journey.

Pre-Colonial African notion of boundaries were non-restrictive and fluid.Imperialist contacts with the continent in the nineteenth century produced novel regimes of boundary which ranged from spheres of influence to demarcated territories based on the European model. The imposed boundaries balkanised Africa and separated kiths and kin who now live along and astride international boundaries. Attempts to either re-adjust or abrogate these alien boundaries as envisioned by the domiciled Pan African movement were jettisoned for uti possidetis. The adopted boundary regime has been provoking and promoting series of conflicts between African states because of its restrictive and bellicose nature. The Pan African boundary vision of an amalgamated Africa collapsed largely due to fear, suspicion, ultra-nationalism, poor timing, and absence of integrative infrastructures.

" The Compromise of , though welcomed on all sides as a final settlement, failed as completely as the Missouri Compromise had succeeded. It has already been said that the fault was not in any lack of skill in the actual framing of the plan. As a piece of political workmanship it was even superior to Clay's earlier masterpiece, as the rally to it at the moment of all but the extreme factions, North and South, sufficiently proves. That it did not stand the wear of a few years as well as the earlier settlement had stood the wear of twenty was due to a change in conditions, and to understand that change it is necessary to take up again the history of the Slavery Question where the founders of the Republic left it."

" The father of Alexander Pope was a London merchant, a devout Catholic, and not improbably a convert to Catholicism. His mother was one of seventeen children of William Turner, of York; one of her sisters was the wife of Cooper, the wellknown portraitpainter. Mrs. Cooper was the poet's godmother; she died when he was five years old, leaving to her sister, Mrs. Pope, a "grindingstone and muller," and their mother's "picture in limning;" and to her nephew, the little Alexander, all her "books, pictures, and medals set in gold or otherwise."In afterlife the poet made some progress in acquiring the art of painting; and the bequest suggests the possibility that the precocious child had already given some indications of artistic taste. Affectionate eyes were certainly on the watch for any symptoms of developing talent. Pope was born on May, the annus mirabilis which introduced a new political era in England, and was fatal to the hopes of ardent Catholics. About the same time, partly, perhaps, in consequence of the catastrophe, Pope's father retired from business, and settled at Binfielda village two miles from Wokingham and nine from Windsor. It is near Bracknell, one of Shelley's brief perching places, and in such a region as poets might love, if poetic praises of rustic seclusion are to be taken seriously. To the east were the "forests and green retreats" of Windsor, and the wild heaths of Bagshot, Chobham and Aldershot stretched for miles to the South. Some twelve miles off in that direction, one may remark, lay Moor Park, where the sturdy pedestrian, Swift, was living with Sir W. Temple during great part of Pope's childhood; but it does not appear that his walks ever took him to Pope's neighbourhood, nor did he see, till some years later, the lad with whom he was to form one of the most famous of literary friendships. The little household was presumably a very quiet one, and remained fixed at Binfield for twentyseven years, till the son had grown to manhood and celebrity."

" Of course, the eighteenth of March--but it is out of the question to say upon which day of the week it fell. It was half-past seven in the evening. At half-past seven it is dark, the lamps are lighted, the houses huddle together in groups. They have secrets to tell as soon as it is dark. Ah! If you knew the secrets that houses are telling when the shadows draw them so close together! But you never will know. They close their eyes and they whisper. Around the fields of Lincoln's Inn it was as still as the grave. The footsteps of a lawyer's clerk hurrying late away from chambers vibrated through the intense quiet. You heard each step to the very last. So long as you could see him, you heard them plainly; then he vanished behind the curtain of shadows, the sounds became muffled, and at last the silence crept back into the Fields crept all round you, half eager, half reluctant, like sleepy children drawn from their beds to hear the end of a fairy story. There was a fairy story to be told, too. It began that night of the eighteenth of March the Eve of St. Joseph's day.

" Questo libro contiene storie delicate e avventurose insieme che parlano di briganti e di animali, di ricci, di volpi, di cavalli, di passeri, di struzzi e di pappagalli. L'autore, Antonio Gramsci, le scrisse per i propri figli mentre si trovava in carcere dove era stato rinchiuso dal regime fascista: non si voleva - fu detto - che una mente tanto fervida come quella di Gramsci potesse comunicare al popolo i propri pensieri. Sono storie narrate non direttamente, ma lettere, inviate ai figli o alla moglie o alla cognata. Sono in pratica affascinanti racconti che narrano episodi di vita, molti veri, adatti ai ragazzi e ai giovani lettori. Accanto alle lettere dell'autore, troviamo alcune letture che il grande studioso proponeva ai figli: racconti di Puskin, Kipling, Dickens, Tolstoj e altri."

" We propose to consider first the single elements of our subject, then each branch or part, and, last of all, the whole, in all its relations therefore to advance from the simple to the complex. But it is necessary for us to commence with a glance at the nature of the whole, because it is particularly necessary that in the consideration of any of the parts their relation to the whole should be kept constantly in view. We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of War used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale. If we would conceive as a unit the countless number of duels which make up a War, we shall do so best by supposing to ourselves two wrestlers. Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavours to throw his adversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance."

" La quarta guerra del Risorgimento italiano non pare debba avere per il Mezzogiorno conseguenze diverse da quella delle altre tre. Lo ha fatto notare A. Labriola alla Camera durante la discussione della politica economica del gabinetto Salandra, ma l'Agenzia Stefani ha trasmesso delle sue parole un riassunto generico e scolorito.Già nel 1911 in una pubblicazione semiufficiale posta sotto il patronato dell'Accademia dei lincei, Francesco Coletti, un economista serio e poco amante dei paradossi, aveva fatto notare che l'unificazione delle regioni italiane sotto uno stesso regime accentratore aveva avuto per il Mezzogiorno conseguenze disastrose, e che la cecità dei governanti, dimentichi del programma economico cavouriano, aveva incrudito lo stato di cose dal quale originava la annosa e ormai cronica questione meridionale."

"We greet our old students who have returned to us for the Advanced Course. We feel that, hereafter, it will not be necessary to repeat the elementary explanations which formed such an important part of the former class work, and we may be able to go right to the heart of the subject, feeling assured that each student is prepared to receive the same. Many read the former lessons from curiosity some have become so interested that they wish to go on others have failed to find the sensational features for which they had hoped, and have dropped from the ranks. It is ever so. Many come, but only a certain percentage are ready to go on. Out of a thousand seeds sown by the farmer, only a hundred manifest life. But the work is intended for that hundred, and they will re- pay the farmer for his labor. In our seed sowing, it is even more satisfactory, for even the remaining nine hundred will show life at some time in the future. No occult teaching is ever wasted all bears fruit in its own good time. We welcome the students in the Advanced Coursewe con- gratulate ourselves in having such a large number of interested listeners ¿and we congratulate the students in having reached the stage in which they feel such an interest in the work, and in being ready to go on."

" ¿I, CAPTAIN HENRY BELL, do hereby declare, both to the present age, and also to posterity, that being employed beyond the seas in state affairs divers years together, both by King James, and also by the late King Charles, in Germany, I did hear and understand, in all places, great bewailing and lamentation made, by reason of the destroying and burning of above fourscore thousand of Martin Luther¿s books, entitled His Last Divine Discourses.¿For after such time as God stirred up the spirit of Martin Luther to detect the corruptions and abuses of Popery, and to preach Christ, and clearly to set forth the simplicity of the Gospel, many Kings, Princes, and States, Imperial Cities, and Hans-Towns fell from the Popish Religion, and became Protestants, as their posterities still are, and remain to this very day."

" ¿HE who knows me only by my writings does not know me,¿ said Leibniz. These words¿true, indeed, of every writer, but true of Leibniz in a way which gives a peculiar interest and charm to his life¿must be our excuse for prefacing what is to be said of his ¿New Essays concerning the Human Understanding¿ with a brief biographical sketch.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig June 21, 1646. His father, who died when Leibniz was only six years old, was a professor in the university and a notary of considerable practice. From him the future philosopher seems to have derived his extraordinary industry and love of detail. Such accounts as we have of him show no traces of the wonderful intellectual genius of his son, but only a diligent, plodding, faithful, and religious man, a thoroughly conscientious husband, jurist, and professor. Nor in the lines of physical heredity can we account for the unique career of Leibniz by his mother¿s endowments. The fact, however, that she was patient in all trial, living in peace with her neighbors, anxious for unity and concord with all people, even with those not well disposed to her, throws great light upon the fundamental trait of Leibniz¿s ethical nature"

" Il faut une certaine audace pour traiter un pareil sujet à la fin du XIXe siècle.Nous sommes cependant convaincus d¿avance que le lecteur nous pardonnera eu égard à notre sincérité.En effet, nous venons offrir au public non pas les conclusions d¿un mystique enthousiasme non plus que les critiques partiales d¿un esprit prévenu, mais bien le résultat d¿un travail positif digne d¿être pris en considération par tous les gens sérieux.Nous allons d¿abord voir ce qüil faut entendre par le mot de Pierre Philosophale et pour cela nous aurons à résumer l¿opinion des alchimistes les plus instruits. Quand nous saurons la signification scientifique de cette expression, il nous faudra voir si elle est, oui ou non, en contradiction avec les données de la chimie contemporaine. Éclairés sur ces deux points, nous aborderons l¿Histoire, cherchant avec la plus grande impartialité si la Pierre Philosophale a donné de son existence des preuves sérieuses et irréfutables, capables d¿être facilement contrôlées par le lecteur. Ce sera là le point capital de notre travail, la raison d¿être de toute notre étude.C¿est alors que nous pourrons dire quelques mots de la grande famille alchimique, des doctrines de ses membres et des débris de leur science subsistant encore dans l¿architecture de nos vieux monuments et les rites de certains hauts grades de la Franc-Maçonnerie. Enfin une petite liste des livres les plus utiles au débutant terminera nos recherches.Tel est le plan de notre travail ; nous espérons qüil ne fera pas trop regretter au lecteur les quelques minutes que lui prendra sa lecture et nous prions d¿excuser d¿avance les imperfections qui pourraient s¿y trouver uniquement imputables à l¿auteur de l¿étude et non aux doctrines et aux maîtres étudiés."

" Le sujet de ce livre n¿est pas la guerre, bien que la guerre le couvre de son ombre. Le sujet de ce livre est l¿engloutissement de l¿âme individuelle dans le gouffre de l¿âme multitudinaire. C¿est, à mon sens, un événement beaucoup plus gros de conséquences pour l¿avenir humain que la suprématie passagère d¿une nation. Je laisse délibérément au second plan les questions politiques. Il faut les réserver pour des études spéciales. Mais quelques causes qüon assigne aux origines de la guerre, quelles que soient la thèse et les raisons qui l¿étayent, aucune raison au monde n¿excuse l¿abdication de l¿esprit devant l¿opinion.Le développement universel des démocraties, mâtinées d¿une survivance fossile : la monstrueuse raison d¿État, a conduit les esprits d¿Europe à cet article de foi que l¿homme n¿a pas de plus haut idéal que de se faire le serviteur de la communauté. Et cette communauté, on la définit : État."

The religious minorities of post-Soviet Russia remain an understudied phenomenon and this book aims to partially fill this gap. The collective monograph on the example of the Republic of Mordovia in the 1990s - 2010s examines the following confessional minorities: Muslim ummah, Protestant communities, "pagans", neo-Hinduists, Yezidis, and destructive cults. It is recommended for students, undergraduates, postgraduates in the humanities, university professors and lecturers, employees of state institutions and law-enforcement agencies.

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Das Belgieninfo-Wanderbuch enthält 30 Beschreibungen von Rundwanderungen ringsum Brüssel. Ziel ist es, den Leserinnen und Lesern die landschaftliche und kulturelle Vielfalt der Umgebung der belgischen Hauptstadt näherzubringen. Ein Großteil der Routen befindet sich im näheren Umkreis von Brüssel. Daneben wurden auch einige Wanderungen in größerer Entfernung, zum Beispiel in den Ardennen und den Provinzen Antwerpen und Ostflandern, in die Sammlung aufgenommen. Das Wanderbuch bietet neben ausführlichen Wegbeschreibungen auch Hinweise zu Kirchen, Klöstern, Schlössern und anderen Sehenswürdigkeiten sowie den einen oder anderen Hinweis zu Einkehrmöglichkeiten am Wegesrand.

This book is the result of a research with interest in identifying the existing narratives about the city of Goiânia, through literature and periodicals produced in the city in its early years. In contact with these sources, it was possible to find two important typologies of writing, one utopian and the other realistic. Narrative typologies that in turn constructed multiple images of the city. At the end, we present to the reader which unfoldings, implications and consequences these different narratives were able to produce, especially regarding the construction of a historical consciousness.

Ce livre est le résultat d'une recherche visant à identifier les récits existants sur la ville de Goiânia, à travers la littérature et les périodiques produits dans la ville au cours de ses premières années d'existence. Au contact de ces sources, il a été possible de trouver deux typologies importantes d'écriture, l'une utopique et l'autre réaliste. Des typologies narratives qui, à leur tour, ont construit de multiples images de la ville. À la fin, nous présentons au lecteur les développements, les implications et les conséquences que ces différents récits ont pu produire, en particulier en ce qui concerne la construction d'une conscience historique.