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A modern translation of The Yoga Sutra a third-century text distills the physical and spiritual discipline of Yoga into approximately two hundred brief aphorisms and includes explanatory comments and a glossary of key terms. Reprint.... Lees meer.

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The Hermetica is the name given to an extraordinary collection of writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus the Greek name for the legendary teacher prophet and scribe deified by the Egyptians as the god Thoth and known to the Hebrews as Enoch. When in about 1460 AD a... Lees meer.

This trilogy establishes a provenance for the Holy Grail and through the figure of Merlin links Joseph of Arimathea with mythical British history and with the knightly adventures of Perceval s Grail quest. It is hard to overstate the importance of this trilogy of pros... Lees meer.

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Ali ibn Abi Talib was an acknowledged master of Arabic eloquence and a renowned sage of Islamic wisdom. This is a collection of sayings sermons and teachings attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib d 40H 661AD cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad first Shi a Imam... Lees meer.

The Sepher Yetzirah or Book of Formation although very short is probably the most important of the Kabalistic texts. Its secrets were passed on in the Hebrew oral tradition until it was written down in the 2nd century b.c.e. It lays out the principles of Kabalistic c... Lees meer.

Western drama having all but disappeared during the Dark Ages reemerged spontaneously in the liturgy and life of the medieval church. Vernacular miracle plays of England s Middle Ages were performed by lay people many by trade guilds unschooled in church Latin bu... Lees meer.

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The Book of Baruch is a Bible pseudepigrapha a deuterocanonical work attributed to Baruch ben Neriah the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah. The Assumption of Moses is a Jewish apocryphal work concerning hidden prophecies that Moses revealed to Joshua prior to the latter... Lees meer.

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There were two Bernards of Clairvaux. The first was the genuine Bernard who lived from 1090 to 1153 and wrote letters sermons and treatises that are of major consequence in the history of the twelfth century. The second is a host of writers most of whom have not bee... Lees meer.

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.The Kitab al-Kashf is one of the earliest Ismaili texts to have reached the present day. Transmitted by the Tayybi Ismaili tradition it is composed of six treatises most of which as this open access stu... Lees meer.