The kybalion book5/13/2023 ![]() Paperback (September 25th, 2015): $9.99 The Kybalion: Centenary Edition Hardcover Januby Three Initiates (Author) 3,998 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 19.80 26 Used from 10.00 31 New from 15.37 1 Collectible from 49.04 Paperback 9.00 1 New from 9.This work on 'The Hermetic Philosophy' outlines seven universal principles: Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, and Gender. The Kybalion (full title: The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece) is a book originally published in 1908 by Three. ![]() An Unabridged Edition of the 1908 printing: A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy and the world-old Hermetic Teachings of Ancient Egypt and Greece. In this little book, of which this is the First Lesson, we invite our students to examine into the Hermetic Teachings, as set. ![]()
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Made to Forget... by Sam Goodno5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() When at a hotel, the clerk tells Sam and Dean that they have a buffet with the best pie in the tri-state. In a later episode, Dean relives a memory with his mom, and she offers to make him pie. As he eats he looks around the room and notices all the pie. The next day, she invites Dean in for lunch, specifically pie. ![]() In Season 5, when Bobby's wife, Karen, comes back from the dead she makes Sam and Dean pie. Dean calls when he goes to get the pie, and Sam sarcastically replies that he's never forgotten the pie. The next episode, as Bobby shows Dean how much lore they have to comb through on angels, he tells Sam that he better get him some pie. As they leave, he lays a bill on the table for the pie. ![]() He is about to eat it, but the staff is revealed to be demons and decides against it. In season 2, he asks Sam to get him some pie when he goes into a diner, but Sam is kidnapped before he can get the pie.Īfter Dean is pulled out of hell in season 4, he and Sam go to a restaurant where Dean orders some pie. When Dean is tied to a tree for a sacrifice, he yells that he hopes the pie was worth it. He notices a couple getting some apple pie at the diner and orders some himself, saying that he " love's some pie". Dean's love of pie, was first shown in the season 1 episode, Scarecrow. ![]() Kristin hannah the four winds5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa-like so many of her neighbors-must make an agonizing fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable marriage to a man she barely knows.īy 1934, the world has changed millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. ![]() ![]() The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras-the Great Depression.Texas, 1921. ![]() Love Me Do! by Michael Braun5/12/2023 ![]() There's a point where John and Paul are in their hotel room, talking yet again with a reporter, and John says, "Baby, I need a drink" (but too lazy to do anything about it) and Paul immediately jumps up to order drinks for everyone from room service (first he orders singles, then changes it to doubles!). It captures the Beatles' comfort with each other. They're drinking and smoking and swearing throughout - not something Brian Epstein probably wanted conveyed to the young fans and their parents. Love Me Do is a fun read because it captures them on tour in the moment - and captures how they interacted and how they spoke to each other, and to the press. So the Salon writer is clearly an idiot - by definition. ![]() (But then, that Salon piece praises both Peter Brown's heavily fictionalized book and Philip Norman's wildly inaccurate Shout and harshly criticizes Mark Lewisohn's careful, well-written Tune In. They just sound like young and unpolished men. ![]() ![]() ![]() He makes it sound like it's a negative portrait or something. That Salon writer mischaracterizes the book. I ordered it secondhand off Amazon in 2012 for, according to Amazon's records of my purchases (a bit scary to peruse) a grand total of $18.48. ![]() The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Beautifully illustrated by Diana Mayo, Molly on the Moon is the tale of two siblings adjusting to their new home. Publisher’s Weekly said, “Kowal expertly weaves in red herrings and twists right up to the unmasking of the killer, and punctuates the suspense with moments of sparkling wit… this is a page-turner.”Īward-winning science fiction author Mary Robinette Kowal consulted with a NASA astronaut to craft her first picture book story, accurately describing how living on the moon differs from life on Earth. Mary Robinette Kowal is a modern master of the genre.” John Scalzi said, “Rarely is science fiction as entertaining and fun as ‘The Spare Man’ is from start to finish. Armed with banter, martinis and her small service dog, Tesla is determined to solve the crime so that the newlyweds can get back to canoodling-and keep the real killer from striking again. Then someone is murdered and the festering chowderheads who run security have the audacity to arrest her spouse. ![]() She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between the Moon and Mars. Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His 2015 follow-up, Between the World and Me, made him an international celebrity. ![]() The anecdote is found at the beginning of Coates's 2009 memoir, The Beautiful Struggle, and it typifies an attitude that hardened throughout the author's youth and young adulthood, prepared him for immersion into the arena of racial politics, and has since made him one of the most prominent intellectual figures of the progressive left. It is found in his account of attending a professional wrestling show at six years old and seeing "white people everywhere," remembering that "they looked dirty,"1people "who wore caps and jeans sliced into shorts herded kids, hot dogs, and popcorn." The descriptor from which the title of this article is taken reveals the moment in which racial strife became the animating feature of Ta-Nehisi Coates's burgeoning intellectual life. ![]() Archangel shinn novel5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() It is revealed that he had murdered the husband-and-wife KGB agents who had raised him from infancy when he decided they were untrustworthy. Raised in a log cabin filled with Stalin's personal effects, writings and recorded speeches, the son is a physical and ideological copy of his father. Following the trail to the remote northern city of Arkhangelsk, Kelso comes face to face with Stalin's son. It proves to be the memoirs of a young girl chosen by Stalin to be the mother of his secret heir. Kelso eventually locates the notebook, which Rapava had left to his daughter just before he was recaptured and tortured to death. Rapava spent years in Kolyma after the authorities tried to extract the book's location from him, but he has never revealed it though he knows that shadowy agents are still watching him in case he goes near the mysterious thing. ![]() Immediately after Stalin's death, Lavrenty Beria supposedly took measures to secure a black notebook, which is believed to be Stalin's secret diary. ![]() While attending a conference in Moscow, the historian Christopher "Fluke" Kelso is met by an old man named Papu Rapava, who claims to have been present at the death of Joseph Stalin. It was published in 1998 and adapted for television by the BBC in 2005. ![]() Archangel is a novel by Robert Harris set in modern Russia. ![]() Geisha books5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() To Mineko, thank you for everything," Arthur Golden wrote in the acknowledgments of the English version of the book, a stunningly popular novel that stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 58 weeks. "I am indebted to one individual above all others. She was the source of much of the rich texture in the descriptions of "Memoirs of a Geisha," its author says. Mineko Iwasaki was a famous geisha in Kyoto's most prestigious geisha district until her retirement in 1980. She knows the years have left her beauty and elegance intact. That was her 28 years ago, she says, feigning embarrassment. The woman in the picture smiles wistfully as she closes the magazine. Her dress would be coveted in any age it falls in mesmerizing folds of gold-woven brocade, a finely embroidered silk belt wrapped around her tiny waist. Today? A century ago? Her painted white face gives no clue. The woman in the photograph peers over her shoulder with dark, somber eyes. ![]() KYOTO, JapanThe old magazine falls open to a page of timeless beauty. ![]() Gipsy moth circles the world5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Only nine yachts had previously circumnavigated by way of Cape Horn, and of them six had been capsized or somersaulted at least once. Francis Chichester, at age 65, set out alone from Plymouth in his 53-foot ketch Gypsy Moth IV in August 1966 and sailed eastward around the world through the wild Southern Ocean, stopping only once (the first to accomplish this), in Sydney. The voyages might circle the world or circle Long Island Sound, but each one alters its narrator and, thanks to the power of its telling, the reader. ![]() However fascinating those stories are - and however much in vogue - The Sailor's Classics plow a different furrow, retracing the birth and development of small-boat voyaging over the past century-plus, as experienced and related by small crews or lone sailors. ![]() or government-sponsored voyages of exploration to Antarctica or the Northwest Passage. The Sailor's Classics are not books about the old sailing navies, or whaling voyages. This is Volume 1 in The Sailor's Classics series which is the sailing canon with Raban as arbiter: books that altered the shape of small-boat voyaging and exert a telling influence to this day. ![]() Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() But is Timothy's text really Hacker-proof? And how will he deal with the truth about Jesus' eating disorder? Above all, will he get the anchor slot for the Big Show at Golgotha without representation by a major agency, like CAA 1,896 years in the future? Tune in. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, whe. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to. Read 85 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Meanwhile, thanks to a breakthrough in computer software, an NBC crew is racing into the past to capture - live from the suburb of Golgotha - the Crucifixion, for a TV special guaranteed to boost the network's ratings in the fall sweeps.Īs a stream of visitors from 20th-century America channel in to the first-century Holy Land - Mary Baker Eddy, Shirley MacLaine, Oral Roberts and family - Timothy struggles to complete his story. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus. ![]() Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. ![]() |