With "Opus Magnum" Althar succeeds in concluding his series of books on enlightenment and embodied ascension with no less than a thunderbolt! In his humorous and direct way, he takes the reader on a journey that finally brings to fruition his highest human potential: The realization of his true nature beyond all separation. Althar pays special attention to how the connection of an incarnated consciousness with matter comes about at the level of DNA, in order for a human to absolutely assume the belief of "being a body." It is precisely this belief that repeatedly pulls one back into the dream of separation, and thus makes a continual existence in enlightenment while embodied almost impossible. Overcoming this identification as a "body" is very delicate, and becomes all the more complicated by inner resistance and all sorts of interferences stemming from the macro and micro level of consciousness. Althar illuminates these in detail and sensitizes the reader to the challenges he may face along his journey. In retrospect, Aouwa explains how difficult it was to connect consciousness and matter in order to overcome the standstill of the Second Round of Creation. This required extremely drastic measures carried out by a group called Uru, a branch of the Uriel family. Uru accompanies all the messages as a profound guest and is joined by Ila, the Unborn Goddess of Feminine Beingness. Due to Uru's measures, significant side effects came about - namely the paralyzing feelings of fear, guilt, and shame. Accompanied by the compassionate, radiant presence of Ila, Althar and Aouwa prepare the reader for the enormity of facing these intensive feelings, and repeatedly expose the illusionary nature of all obstacles. Deepening and expanding upon the previously presented light body exercise, Althar advises the reader how this practice of "not-doing" eliminates all feelings of lack. In addition, he introduces an extension of the exercise that gently releases the consciousness hypnotically interwoven with DNA, and dissolves the identification with the body. As his grand finale, Althar discusses the potentially overwhelming consequences of completely letting go of the belief in separation. This naturally leads to the "Opus Magnum," the Great Work - the inner transformation of the human self into divine beingness, which is also known as embodied ascension. Contents: Liberating Illusions; The Eye of Suchness; The Creation of Scene Spheres; The Unborn Goddess of Female Beingness; The Lord of Death; Micro Level Bindings of Consciousness; Let's Talk Blood; Blueprints and DNA; The Revelation of True Power; The Bearer of the Light; The Spectrum of Consciousness; The Light Body Exercise; Opus Magnum; The Big Picture; The Transmission of the Light; The Althar series consists of: Volume 1: "Althar - The Crystal Dragon" Volume 2: "Althar - The New Magi" Volume 3: "Althar - Towards Utopia" Volume 4: "Althar - The Final Letting Go" Volume 5: "Althar - Opus Magnum"

Althar introduces himself as a crystal dragon and sheds light on the role of dragons in the greater reality. He explains in detail why the last steps of going beyond the human limitations are so challenging and offers his insights on how to master them. Thereby, Althar talks about the light body and emphasizes particularly the necessity to let go of the emotional body. Althar also gives explanations concerning the essence of energy and characterizes the angelic family of Uriel. He finally speaks about the "Third round of Creation," which he calls the dream underlying the dream of ascension, and invites the reader to feel into that grander vision of existence. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The Dragon of Compassion; 3. An Ambassador of Creation; 4. I am Althar; 5. Seeing through the Dragon's Eyes; 6. About the Light Body; 7. More about the Light Body; 8. Dissolving the Emotional Body; 9. The Mind and the Emotional Body; 10. The End of Being a Limited Human; 11. The Essence of Energy; 12. The Family of Uriel; 13. The Principle of Ascension; 14. More on Dragons and Crystal Dragons; 15. The Third Round of Creation; 16. A Note from True Self Reviews of the English Edition: ***** "A Masterpiece" ***** "I love this book and highly recommend it" ***** "Amazing and Enlightening" ***** "Such a great message, this book brought me so much clarity" ***** "Incredibly clear book" ***** "The Final Step"

Discover your true identity in Christ. Many of us live for approval of others. The problem is that living for what people think of you is the quickest way to forget what God thinks of you. In this 5-session video study guide (DVD/digital video sold separately), pastor and author of Winning the War in Your Mind Craig Groeschel shows individuals and small groups how to abandon self-worth based on accomplishments and possessions, turning instead to God to find out who we are. You'll learn to expose false labels and selfish motives, sacrificing them on the altar of God's truth. As you discover your true identity in Christ, your altar ego will drive your actions, empowering you to live according to God's higher values with a deep confidence in His calling. Rather than living a timid, halfhearted, shallow cultural Christianity, you'll boldly live in the confidence of the God who believes in you. Are you willing to lay it all on the altar? The Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God's divine plan, and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old, unhealthy, untrue, and unbiblical thoughts about yourself and introduce you to your altar-ego—who you are in Christ. Sessions include: Overcoming the Labels that Bind You You Are God's Masterpiece Trading the Immediate for the Ultimate Living with Integrity Developing Spiritual Boldness Designed for use with Altar Ego Video Study 9780310894933 (sold separately).

In "The Final Letting Go," Althar states that all the explanations he has given so far were essentially a preparation for the final letting go. By that he means the release of the belief that separation is real. In Althar's words, this belief is the root cause of all existence within polarity. No matter which spiritual path someone has chosen, in the end he is confronted with the final letting go. Althar describes an alternative view of the world of polarity and explains why a being is choosing rather than creating its reality. Furthermore, this worldview opens up a completely different view of the seemingly omnipresent energy. He describes the nature of True Creation and why there cannot be True Creation within polarity. Only with letting go of the belief in separation will True Creation become the natural expression of an enlightened being. As in the previous volumes, Althar emphasizes that enlightenment is not created, but is exposed by letting go. With respect to embodied ascension, he describes in detail the general conditions for the realization of the light body and suggests in this regard an extremely effective exercise. As in the previous volumes, Althar succeeds in expressing his timeless wisdom in a very clear and humorous way. In doing so, he very personally incorporates the reader into his remarks and reminds him time and again of his own inner wisdom. Contents: About the Final Letting Go; The Root Cause of Polarity; The Ambassador of Yourself; Jumping Off the Cliff - Or How it All Began; The Name of Your True Self; The Song of True Creation; Existence in Expanding Perfection; Peter and the Dark Lady; The Magic of Your Light Body; The Myth of Creation; The Myth of Creating Your Reality; The Myth of Energy; The Myth of Beauty; The Myth of Companionship; The Melancholy of the Final Death; The Final Letting Go; In a Quite Moment; The Althar series consists of: Volume 1: "Althar - The Crystal Dragon" Volume 2: "Althar - The New Magi" Volume 3: "Althar - Towards Utopia" Volume 4: "Althar - The Final Letting Go"

Milan, 1497: Leonardo da Vinci is completing his masterpiece, The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling -- and blasphemous -- message, which he is determined to decode. The Holy Grail and the Eucharistic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table and, shockingly, the apostles are portraits of well-known heretics -- none of them depicted with halos. And why has the artist painted himself into the scene with his back turned toward Jesus? The clues to Leonardo's greatest puzzle are right before your eyes....

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Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental literature, Claudia Stokes counters the long-standing characterization of sentimental piety as blandly nondescript and demonstrates that these works were in fact groundbreaking, assertive, and highly specific in their theological recommendations and endorsements. The Altar at Home explores the many religious contexts and contents of sentimental literature of the American nineteenth century, from the growth of Methodism in the Second Great Awakening and popular millennialism to the developing theologies of Mormonism and Christian Science. Through analysis of numerous contemporary religious debates, Stokes demonstrates how sentimental writers, rather than offering simple depictions of domesticity, instead manipulated these scenes to advocate for divergent new beliefs and bolster their own religious authority. On the one hand, the comforting rhetoric of domesticity provided a subtle cover for sentimental writers to advance controversial new beliefs, practices, and causes such as Methodism, revivalism, feminist theology, and even the legitimacy of female clergy. On the other hand, sentimentality enabled women writers to bolster and affirm their own suitability for positions of public religious leadership, thereby violating the same domestic enclosure lauded by the texts. The Altar at Home offers a fascinating new historical perspective on the dynamic role sentimental literature played in the development of innumerable new religious movements and practices, many of which remain popular today.

Prominently located on the Arx, the northern summit of the Capitoline hill, S. Maria in Aracoeli is the most significant medieval church of Rome to survive to the present day. Second major church of the Lesser Brothers or fratres minores in the Italian peninsula, and Roman headquarters of the Order, the Aracoeli played a vital role in the interaction between the Franciscans and the papacy, the friars and the laity, and the religious and civic authorities, as reflected in its art and architecture. On the basis of an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological analysis with the finding of new archival evidence, reinterpretation of documents and literary and epigraphic sources, this book offers a reconstruction of the original church, its monuments and its Benedictine as well as eighth/ninth-century predecessors, which differs radically from earlier hypotheses. This reassessment in turn allows the author to revisit a number of major questions, including the Franciscans’ physical and theoretical appropriation of the past, the adaptation of an ancient site by a ‘modern’ religious order, the use and functions of space, the interaction between friars, laity and artists, and the contribution of the Roman Franciscans to the development of Marian devotion, thus shedding new light on the social, political and religious history of late-medieval Italy and its impact beyond the peninsula, from England to Bohemia and the Holy Land.

‘The objective of the 9th Avatar’s descent was to reverse the direction spirituality had taken with its almost exclusive emphasis on an otherworldly realisation, leaving the Earth to her own devices; and to establish a life divine on this very planet, to bring heaven upon Earth, as the Scriptures state. How can this best be achieved, is the question the sincere seeker must ask. Yogic realisations of the old schools, even if they could be extended beyond the single realiser to many others, would still not have the power to bring about any universal transformation, the signature of the Aquarian Age. Sri Aurobindo made this clear: it is not merely the goal of his mission that is different from the old Yogas: it is the process as well… This means that the supramental Truth-Consciousness must arrange its manifestation in such a manner that in the becoming of its being, or its innermost essence, that divine life is manifested for all to see on Earth… there has to be a revelation with great precision in keeping with the character of Supermind, of exactly how the transformation can be accomplished. That revelation is the Mother’s chamber. It is the seed of all that is to follow.’ (Part 11, page 87)