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... Through the study of Kabbalah, you too can learn to direct your heart--and consequently your life--toward success, tranquility, peace, and happiness.In this distinctive, personal, and awe-filled introduction to an ancient wisdom tradition, Rav Laitman--a disciple of the great Kabbalist Rabbi Baruch Ashlag (son of Yehuda Ashlag)--provides you with a deeper understanding of...

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...l rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or trans- mitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, includ- ing photocop... ...ng, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information regarding permission to repr... ...ission to reprint material from this book, please mail or fax your request in writing to Jewish Lights Publishing, Permissions Department, at the addr... ... astonish us with their inconceiv- able contradictions. For example, young animals mature in a matter of weeks or months, while humans need many years... ... the hidden too. —Rabbi Simha Bonim of Pshisha, The Torah of Joy, 57 (1767–1827) We must know it, for we are commanded to it: “Know this day, and lay ... ...taneously are called Kabbalists. The first man sensed those two worlds and described them in his book. That book is now available to us, containing in... ...l laws that he discovered about that world. However, Abraham the Patriarch described the various interconnections between our world and the spiritual ... ... ours. Instead of flesh and blood fig- ures, such as Moses and Pharaoh, or animals and nations, we will see spiritual forces. If we remove the outer s... ...list to describe the reactions that we get from above for our thoughts. He described how they operate in the upper world and thus affect the unfolding...

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of...

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...OMENON IV...305 THE END OF ANTICHRIST...305 PHENOMENON V....325 THE JEWS...325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS...328 ARTICLE I....333 ARTICLE II.....350 ARTICLE III....357 ARTICLE IV....377 CONSULTING INDEX OF VOLUME I....383...

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...................325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS........................................ ... -1- DEDICATION. To the C HURCH OF C HRIST of all denominations who Worship God in the English tongue, and believe that Jesus Christ, who ca... ...believe that Jesus Christ, who came heretofore in suffering flesh, shall come hereafter in glory. DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD. My soul is greatl... ...f trial and persecution, which Messiah endured for them, ending in that agony of sorrow described in the twelfth chapter of Zechariah, and in their ... ... ecclesiastical event, is merely mentioned as the subject of the f ifth seal, but fully described under the beast from the sea with ten crowned horn... ...ition of the church concerning a personal Antichrist. That the falling away or apostacy described in Scripture properly answers to a Spirit, and that... ...ious damps and exhalations? Are not the elements possessed with Satan’s malice, and the animals, and the dust of the ground, and every thing within t... ...of two ways; either by creating these skins out of nothing, or by taking them from some animals: not the first; for God had ceased from all his work:... ...als: not the first; for God had ceased from all his work: as little the second, for the animals just created, had not had time to multiply, and it is...

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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ..................................... 304 From a self centered point of view animals have rights. .................................................... 3... ...s. .................................................... 308 Self centered—animals should not have rights ............................................... ........................................................... 311 GOD YES animals have rights .......................................................... ... on Godfrey and the people flew their minds to the hospital and correctly described Godfrey in the hospital. So then I volunteered. But I cheated. I... ...ted on another friend who looked nothing like the first. The magic people described the one I was thinking about, not the one they were supposed to ... ... belief is from the Bible in Genesis 3 verses17 through 19, where Adam is described as having disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit of the tre...

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...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

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... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...ing funeral ceremonies at the burial of a King -- A terrible slaughter -- Musk animals of Tartary -- How the musk is obtained -- The magnificent marbl... ...l disfigurements -- Imitativeness of the people -- Wonders increase -- Strange animals of impossible creation -- A fight with Patagonians and burning ... ...tion -- Among the Samoyeds -- An abundance of animal life -- Bodies of men and animals in shallow graves -- A dance with Samoyed girls -- Into an unkn... ...her, and more than one sailor historian has seen the supernatural visitors and described their appearance. The range of superstitious fancy is not con... ... Khan, who was the Emperor of China. The country of China was not at that time described by its present limits, but included the whole of Tartary, of ... ...arried into several chambers of the said palaces, where they saw the things he described; as soon as they awaked, each of them had those damsels to su...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...are that it is traveling through the Medium of water as it travels? No. Are animals aware that they are traveling through the medium of Air as they... ...n also look at this as a Causal Process. The Triality of our Universe can be described not as split segments of scientific information, but as a Pro... ...ame from, as naked apes who stood up and began wondering about things. Human animals were never designed to unravel all of the mysteries of the inf... ...A-c-B): from any Triality. All aspects of our 3-dimensional Universe can be described in these three basic ways. A Totality, a Duality, and a Tri... ... root 12. This is why when life evolved; it evolved into three basic kinds of animals: Sponges, Cnidarians, and Flatworms. This is why animals have ... ...A-c-B): from any Triality. All aspects of our 3-dimensional Universe can be described in these three basic ways. A Totality, a Duality, and a Tri...

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...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from...

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...EWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache e-mail:... ...andasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Deman... ...m ISBN: 1931233-00-4 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 PERIYAR, THE P... ...the various aspects of untouchability. Here, we use the tools that have been described in Chapter One. Fuzzy Directed Graphs and Neutrosophic Direc... ...real plight of the situation. This is just an illustration to show how FCM is described by a directed graph. {If increase (or decrease) in one conce... ...pt decreases (or increases) another, then we give the value –1. Thus FCMs are described in this way. DEFINITION 1.1.2: When the nodes of the FCM a... ...jority of the people are termed as Untouchables, they are degraded worse than animals, they suffer all cruelties without any liberty and so on. [K... ...trust them? Over seven crore people who are very calm are treated worse than animals by the Brahmins. Why should they stay 125 like this? Can we ... ...ins. Why should they stay 125 like this? Can we change the calm people into animals and the dishonest cheats into gods by not giving communal rep...

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... and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an early letter to his sister when as yet he had not ?found his way,? characterize him, I think, better than at least some of the...

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...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...side France. Other countries can show admirable scenery, and they frequently offer greater comfort than that of France, which makes but slow progress in that particular. They sometimes display a bewildering magnificence, grandeur, and luxury; they lack neither grace nor noble manners; but the life of the brain, the talent for conversation, the ?Attic salt? so familiar at P...

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...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were be...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

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...zac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...re to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her ti...

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............................................................................................................. 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING ...................................................................... 61 BON-BON........................................................................................................................................

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........................198 KING PEST .................................................................................................221 THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK...............................................................232...

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...EOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ......................................................................

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... inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty mill...

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...shed by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....

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...nslation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the following poem may be t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford , the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...people who live pre eminently close to nature, and are at home amongst the animals of the wilderness, beasts and birds, winds, and woods, and waters, ... ...e emerged from the wilderness and attempted to slay the Finnish Taurus, as described in the runes that follow. The agricultural deities, however, rec... ...n her shoes. 15 The Kalevala But if the game bag came back empty, she was described as a hateful, hideous thing, robed in untidy rags, and shod with ... ...sought for by all the weary hunters of Suomi. These deities are invariably described as gracious and tender hearted, probably because they are all fem... ...al productions. Dr. Lonnrot had already published a scholarly treatise, in 1827, on the chief hero of the Kalevala, before he went to Sava and Karjala...