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Hügel's The Mystical Element of Religion features a critical but largely appreciative philosophy of mysticism. The author's «three elements of religion» are his most enduring contribution to theological thinking. The human soul, the movements of western civilization, and the phenomena of religion itself he characterized by these three elements: the historical/institutional element, the intellectual/speculative element, and the mystical/experiential element. This typology provided for him an understanding of the balance, tension, and 'friction' that exists in religious thinking and in the complexity of reality and existence. It was an organizing paradigm that remained central to his project. The effort to hold these sometimes disparate dimensions together was structurally and theologically dominant throughout his writing. The main subject of Hügel's study are the life and teaching of Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510), the Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor and remembered because of various writings describing both these actions and her mystical experiences. Contents: The Three Chief Forces of Western Civilization The Three Elements of Religion Catherine Fiesca Adorna's Life, up to her Conversion; and the Chief Peculiarities predominant throughout her Convert Years Catherine's Life from 1473 to 1506, and its Main Changes and Growth Catherine's Last Four Years, 1506-1510 Catherine's Doctrine Catherine's Remains and Cultus Battista Vernazza's Life Psycho-physical and Temperamental Questions The Main Literary Sources of Catherine's Conceptions Catherine's Less Ultimate This-World Doctrines The After-Life Problems and Doctrines The First Three Ultimate Questions The Two Final Problems: Mysticism and Pantheism, the Immanence of God, And Spiritual Personality, Human and Divine Back Through Asceticism, Social Religion, and the Scientific Habit of Mind, to the Mystical Element of Religion
A Decade of Italian Women
This book features the biographical accounts of ten women selected by the author not so much with any intention of bringing together the best, greatest, or most admirable, nor even the most remarkable women Italy has produced, as with a view of securing the greatest amount of variety, in point of social position and character. Each figure of the small gallery was intended to illustrate a distinct phase of Italian social life and civilization: the canonized Saint, that most extraordinary product of the «ages of faith,» highly interesting as a social, and perhaps more so still as a psychological phenomenon; the feudal Châtelaine, one of the most remarkable results of the feudal system, and affording a suggestive study of woman in man's place; the high-born and highly-educated Princess of a somewhat less rude day, whose inmost spiritual nature was so profoundly and injuriously modified by her social position; the brilliant literary denizen of «La Bohème», etc. All these were curiously distinct manifestations of womanhood, and if any measure of success has been attained in the endeavor to represent them duly surrounded by the social environment which produced them, while they helped to fashion it, some contribution will have been made to a right understanding of woman's nature, and of the true road towards her more completely satisfactory social development. Volume 1: St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) Caterina Sforza (1462-1509) Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) Volume 2: Tullia D'Aragona (c. 1510 – c. 1570) Olympia Morata (1526-1555) Isabella Andreini (1562-1604) Bianca Cappello (1548-1587) Olympia Pamfili (1594-1656) Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) La Corilla (1740-1800)
The La Chance Mine Mystery (Musaicum Murder Mysteries)
This eBook edition of «The La Chance Mine Mystery» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "To a stranger there might have seemed to be nothing particular to stare at, out on a lake where the world was all wind and lumpy seas and growing November twilight; but any one who had lived at La Chance knew better. By the map Lac Tremblant should have been our nearest gold route to civilization, but it was a lake that was no lake, as far as transport was concerned, and we never used it. The five-mile crossing I was making was just a fair sample of the forty miles of length Lac Tremblant stretched mockingly past the La Chance mine toward the main road from Caraquet—our nearest settlement—to railhead: and that was forty miles of queer water, sown with rocks that were sometimes visible as tombstones in a cemetery and sometimes hidden like rattlesnakes in a blanket. For the depth of Lac Tremblant, or its fairway, were two things no man might ever count on."
Experiments with Alternating Currents
Nikola Tesla is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. His alternating current (AC) induction motor and related polyphase AC patents became the cornerstone of the polyphase system. This collection provides a remarkable insight into the very beginning of electric engineering. Table of Contents: Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination (Lecture) Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination (Article) My Inventions – Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Gothic Classics: 60+ Books in One Volume
Musaicum Books present to you a collection of the greatest gothic & macabre classics of all time: Content: Frankenstein The Orphan of the Rhine Nightmare Abbey The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Castle of Otranto Vathek The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian The Monk Wieland Northanger Abbey The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Vampyre The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Melmoth the Wanderer The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Phantom Ship St, John's Eve Viy The Mysterious Portrait Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street The House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark The Lifted Veil The Woman in White Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Mystery of Edwin Drood Carmilla Uncle Silas The Hound of the Baskervilles The Picture of Dorian Gray The Horla The Forsaken Inn The Great God Pan Lilith The Lost Stradivarius The Island of Doctor Moreau The Beetle The Turn of the Screw Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars (Original 1903 Edition) The Monkey's Paw The Necromancers The Phantom of the Opera Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot The House on the Borderland The Boats of the Glen Carrig Wolverden Tower The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Call of Cthulhu
The Iron Pirate (Musaicum Adventure Classics)
The Iron Pirate is the tale of a great gas-driven iron-clad, which could outpace the navies of the world and terrorize the Atlantic Ocean. Constructed of a phosphor-bronze alloy with engines in the vessel that burn hydrogen, manufactured by passing steam through hot coal to produce a mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, the nameless ship is captained by the infamous Captain Black and it brings horror to every ship and every sailor that comes in its path.
Barbara Blomberg (Historical Novel)
Barbara Blombergis a historical novel set in medieval Europe, telling the tale of young German singer who managed to caught an eye of the great Emperor Charles V. "Yet many long minutes elapsed ere he noticed the dish, though it was one of his favourite viands. Barbara's song stirred the imperial lover of music at the nocturnal banquet just as it had thrilled the great musicians a few hours before. He thought that he had never heard anything more exquisite, and when the Benedictio Mensa: died away he clasped his sister's hand, raised it two or three times to his lips, and thanked her with such affectionate warmth that she blessed the accomplishment of her happy idea, and willingly forgot the unpleasant moments she had just undergone. Now, as if completely transformed, he wished to be told who had had the lucky thought of summoning his orchestra and her boy choir, and how the plan had been executed; and when he had heard the story, he fervently praised the delicacy of feeling and true sportsmanlike energy of her strong and loving woman's heart. This time it gave the most beautiful portion of Joscluin de Pres's hymn to the Virgin, «Ecce tupulchraes»; and when Barbara's «Quia amore langueo» reached his ear and heart with its love-yearning melody, he nodded to his sister with wondering delight, and then listened, as if rapt from the world, until the last notes of the motet died away."
The Book of Halloween
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Halloween collection Contents: Sun-Worship. The Sources of Hallowe'en The Celts: Their Religion and Festivals Samhain Pomona The Coming of Christianity.All Saints'. All Souls' Origin and Character of Hallowe'en Omens Hallowe'en Beliefs and Customs in Ireland In Scotland and the Hebrides In England and Man In Wales In Brittany and France The Teutonic Religion. Witches Walpurgis Night More Hallowtide Beliefs and Customs Hallowe'en in America
The Life and Legacy of Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent is a two-part biography on the life and achievements of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1492), an Italian administrator, leader of the Florentine Republic and one of the most influential benefactors of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, he is recognized for his patronage of artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. His life spanned concurrently with the stable part of the Italian Renaissance and the Golden Age of Florence.
Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Vol.1&2)
"Defense of the Faith and the Saints" in 2 volumes is a collection of miscellaneous writings by one of the main authorities in Mormon history and theology Brigham Henry Roberts. In this work, the author devoted his energy to doctrinal and historical themes, and one circumstance after another arose which called him to the defense of the Mormon faith and the Mormon people. The second volume features the analysis of the origin and validity of the Book of Mormon, a foundational work of Mormonism. Volume 1: Position and Defense: Mormonism The Relationship of the Church to the Christian Sects: the Doctrine of Two Churches Only Some Recent Literature on Mormonism A Brief Defense of the Mormon People Which of the Sects Has Persecuted Mormonism Most? How! Relation of Church and State, Religious Liberty in America Conditions in Utah – 1905 Book of Mormon Controversial Questions: The Manner of Translating the Book of Mormon A Brief Debate on the Book of Mormon "The Fifth Gospel" Mormon Views of America Historical and Doctrinal Papers: The Lord's Day Anglican Orders – Decision of Leo XIII Considered – The Protestant Dilemma Reformation or Revolution? Revelation and Inspiration Volume 2: Origin of the Book of Mormon: Schroeder-Roberts' Debate The Origin of the Book of Mormon by Theodore Schroeder The Origin of the Book of Mormon by Brigham H. Roberts Recent Discussion of Mormon Affairs: An Address Review of Address to the World Answer to Ministerial Association's Review Joseph Smith's Doctrines Vindicated: The First Message of Mormonism Vindicated Other Doctrines of Joseph Smith Vindicated by the Colleges Miscellaneous Discourses: The Spirit of Mormonism; a Slander Refuted Erroneous Impressions about the Latter-day Saints – Some Things They Do Not Believe The Things of God Greater Than Man's Conception of Them Mormonism as a Body of Doctrine Peace The Mysterious Harmonies of the Great Republic