Bøger af G. C. Smith

"A theosophical adventure story... The story of Hasnun treats the topic of God within a fictional story in an intellectually exciting manner without a reversion toward the polemical arena within which all religions throughout history have arranged their dogmatic uncertainties. Without preconceptions and with a powerfully imaginative insight, the saga of a spiritual transformation of an entire country and the disarming of the wicked devices that hindered the enlightenment of its inhabitants is portrayed through the eyes of a neo-mystical society on a distant planet. With a moderately seasoned endowment of immortality, the thaumaturgic abilities of this superior culture lead to the adventure of a lifetime full of surprising events." Book The 1st acquaints the reader with a neo-mystical society on a distant planet, the people of which experienced in their distant past a localized apocalypse. Absent of any gloomy prognostications overshadowing its approach, this surprisingly unexpected event led to their moderately seasoned endowment of an evolving immortality. The story opens with a catastrophic geological event, the resultant impact of which challenges this superior culture with a drastic change in the spiritual and terrestrial environment of unbroken peace and tranquility they have cultivated for a thousand years. Graced with a strong spirit of serendipity and the somewhat bizarre manifestations of a shared vision, a precarious journey is undertaken (Book The 2nd) with the intention of retrieving that which was taken from them by the wicked ruler of a neighboring country and the hope of understanding and correcting the anomalous nature of the breach in their enlightened state of equilibrium. Somewhat aligned with C. S. Lewis' portrayal of animals with linguistic ability, and with the author's clear vision of the superior consciousness soon to replace the present collective consciousness here on planet Earth, the story unfolds with the strong influence of dreams and visions and the benevolence of Nature rendered to purity.

This two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath'. The articles cover a wide spectrum of modern group theory. Proceedings of earlier 'Groups St Andrews' conferences have had a major impact on the development of group theory and these volumes should be equally important.