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Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral
"The purpose of the present work is to evoke as authentically as possible the spiritual climate in which the Gothic cathedral was born, and to do so by allowing contemporary witnesses to speak for themselves...to show how the Gothic cathedral was the…
Art of Islam: language and meaning
Masterpieces of Islamic architecture, ornamentation, mosaics, and decorative arts illustrate a study of the spiritual significance of art in the Islamic religion and the link between liturgy and iconography.
Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult
The occult has been a source of both ideas and images for modern poets from W.B. Yeats to James Merrill. Poets as diverse as Ezra Pound, H.D., Sylvia Plath, Robert Duncan, and Ted Hughes were both fascinated by, and skeptical of, such phenomena as…
Jesus and the lost goddess: the secret teachings of the original Christians
Publisher Fact Sheet In Jesus and the Lost Goddess, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy take their ideas about the pagan origins of Christianity in a startling new direction. Did the original Christians revere a goddess with the same fervor they bestowed…
The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?
Two scholars explore the role of ancient pagan mystery cults in the early Christian Church, concluding that the early Christians may have hailed from a Jewish version of a very ancient pagan sect.
Secret Origins of the Bible
Callahan strictly interprets the Bible through the lens of comparative mythology, where the mythic content of Biblical stories is illustrated as a way to understand the purpose the stories served for the people who wrote them. Biblical history is…