First Women's Rights Convention and Its Meaning for Men and Women Today
In 1848 the first Women's Rights convention occurred in Seneca Falls, New York, led by the suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The only man to support her was a black man, Frederick Douglass. This book looks at the story of Stanton and Douglass, and argues for a new kind of humanity in the future.
Moral teaching and moral preaching cannot establish morality. It is only by delving into the hidden secrets of life that we can advance not just to moral doctrines but to the moral sources of life, true moral impulses. At different times, humanity has manifested moral life in different ways. To understand these differences, the evolution of ......
In these poems, language comes to life; it lifts you and takes you to deeper, more dynamic dimensions of human experience. Here we find healing, harmony, and a mood of fresh, life-engendering wonder. Titles include Wound and Waking Praise Seasons In the Shadow of the Machine Age Poetry Infancy to Old Age For Those Who Live in ......
Keats stands as a prophetic precursor behind much in today's radical attempts at cultural and self-transformation. But this side of him has been forgotten, or at least was never taken very seriously. He is remembered, if at all, mostly as a Romantic poet whose value and standing was magnified by his early death. Eclipsed by the lushly sensuous ......
Six Lectures on Occult Science, Theosophy, and the Catholic Faith : Deli
Most spiritual impulses today can be traced back to the nineteenth-century explosion of esotericism. In The Transcendental Universe, one of the most enigmatic and thought-provoking works of the period, a mysterious and unknown figure--C.G. Harrison--examines theosophy from an esoteric Christian perspective. He identifies true gnosis and, with ......
Meditations on the Construction of Gothic Cathedrals
Ever since they were first built, the great medieval cathedrals of Europe have inspired successive generations of pilgrims, worshippers, and casual visitors. Art historians and mystics alike have always read them as texts--as metaphysics and cosmologies in stone. Gothic High goes the other way, creating a text that is a cathedral. In this ......
E. L. Grant Watson, an English field naturalist, zoologist, and one of England's best-loved nature writers, spent a lifetime trying to bring nature and consciousness into a unified, holistic vision that would establish meaning in the world without losing wonder. The questions raised by facts of nature inexplicable in terms of conventional ......
In this powerful, moving book, first published in 1946, Berdyaev is not so interested in the empirical details of Russian history as he is in "the thought of the Creator about Russia." The "Russian idea" is thus a mystical notion. Religion and philosophy--not economics or politics--determine history and society. Berdyaev begins his story in ......
