'Spiritual Revelations via Canto, ' the first book in the 'Chronicles of a Sage series, ' exemplifies astounding, yet common deliberations. Each selection of identifiable and interpretable verse captivates the mind. Each chapter includes poetic renderings of philosophical ponderings, spiritual musing, consideration of pain, envisages of love and visualizations of the supernatural that will awaken the senses. Concluding each chapter of verse is the personal voice of the author, wherein she provides her own profound insight affording encouragement, fortification, and the wisdom for self-enhancement

'Spiritual Revelations via Canto, ' the first book in the 'Chronicles of a Sage series, ' exemplifies astounding, yet common deliberations. Each selection of identifiable and interpretable verse captivates the mind. Each chapter includes poetic renderings of philosophical ponderings, spiritual musing, consideration of pain, envisages of love and visualizations of the supernatural that will awaken the senses. Concluding each chapter of verse is the personal voice of the author, wherein she provides her own profound insight affording encouragement, fortification, and the wisdom for self-enhancement.

Chronicles of a Sage: Simple Complexities is a profound venture into the inner workings of the human psyche. Hexing free-verse explores the complexities that foster such extreme emotions as depression, angst, internal numbness and defiance. Every chapter offers endowed delineations of the ancient world, mystical prophecies and resurfaces the fundamental truths buried within modern-day belief. Completing every chapter of absorbing verse you will read through discerning accounts simplifying the complexities of the undecipherable. Have you ever wondered why you feel depressed? Have you ever tried to translate your deepest feelings and came up blank? Deborah Simpson exposes her innermost deliberations based on real life experiences in this unprecedented volume of Chronicles of a Sage. Prepare for a rousing journey of realization.

For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won general acceptance and the structure of Narnia's symbolism has remained a mystery. Michael Ward has finally solved the enigma. In Planet Narnia he demonstrates that medieval cosmology, a subject which fascinated Lewis throughout his life, provides the imaginative key to the seven novels. Drawing on the whole range of Lewis's writings (including previously unpublished drafts of the Chronicles), Ward reveals how the Narnia stories were designed to express the characteristics of the seven medieval planets - - Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Luna, Mercury, Venus, and Saturn - - planets which Lewis described as "spiritual symbols of permanent value" and "especially worthwhile in our own generation". Using these seven symbols, Lewis secretly constructed the Chronicles so that in each book the plot-line, the ornamental details, and, most important, the portrayal of the Christ-figure of Aslan, all serve to communicate the governing planetary personality. The cosmological theme of each Chronicle is what Lewis called 'the kappa element in romance', the atmospheric essence of a story, everywhere present but nowhere explicit. The reader inhabits this atmosphere and thus imaginatively gains connaître knowledge of the spiritual character which the tale was created to embody. Planet Narnia is a ground-breaking study that will provoke a major revaluation not only of the Chronicles, but of Lewis's whole literary and theological outlook. Ward uncovers a much subtler writer and thinker than has previously been recognized, whose central interests were hiddenness, immanence, and knowledge by acquaintance.

The idea of a heavenly double—an angelic twin of an earthbound human—can be found in Christian, Manichaean, Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars have long traced the lineage of these ideas to Greco-Roman and Iranian sources. In The Greatest Mirror, Andrei A. Orlov shows that heavenly twin imagery drew in large part from early Jewish writings. The Jewish pseudepigrapha—books from the Second Temple period that were attributed to biblical figures but excluded from the Hebrew Bible—contain accounts of heavenly twins in the form of spirits, images, faces, children, mirrors, and angels of the Presence. Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity. He focuses on heavenly alter egos of Enoch, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and Aseneth in often neglected books, including Animal Apocalypse, Book of the Watchers, 2 Enoch, Ladder of Jacob, and Joseph and Aseneth, some of which are preserved solely in the Slavonic language.

Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

This book discusses the depictions of the cult and its personnel in the twelve prophetic books commonly referred to as "The Book of the Twelve" or "The Minor Prophets." The articles in the volume explore the following questions: How did these prophetic writers envision the priests and the Levites? What did they think about the ritual aspects of ancient Israelite faith, including not only the official temple cult in Jerusalem but also cultic expressions outside the capital? What, in their views, characterized a faithful priest and what should the relationship be between his cultic performance and the ways in which he lived his life? How does the message of each individual author fit in with the wider Israelite traditions? Finally, who were these prophetic authors, in which historical contexts did they live and work, and what stylistic tools did they use to communicate their message?

The object of this work is to define Dante's attitude or, if need be, his successive attitudes towards philosophy. It is therefore a question of ascertaining the character, function and place which Dante assigned to this branch of learning among the activities of man. My purpose has not been to single out, classify and list Dante's numerous philosophical ideas, still less to look for their sources or to decide what doctrinal influences determined the evolution of his thought.