...e earth an ark of testimony; and to that end will turn his Holy Spirit unto his ancient people the Jews, and bring unto them those days of refreshin... ...and real character upon the other; both centering in and radiating out from the Jewish people.’ And this appeared to me to be written in these the ... ...ersecuting the true and faithful servants and witnesses of the Lord, and both kings and people shall be confederates against the Lord and his anoint... ... noviciates, in which situation, he showed his zeal for the spiritual good of the young people under his care. But this employment having proved bur... ...eive the clue which has led our author into his interpretation, that the Babylonian and Persian do together compose but one of the kingdoms, and tha... ... faith. For the rest, what our author says concerning the oneness of the Babylonian and Persian kingdom may be true politically considered but is not... ...t. This is further manifest from the vision of the eighth chapter of Daniel, where the Persian power comes upon the prophetic stage with its proper ... ...r count; so that they called the first the empire of the Babylonians, the second of the Persians. Now let us see how unfounded is this division, whi... ...- represented in the statue, by the breast and arms of silver, they say, was that of the Persians, who united with the Medes, under the two heads of ...

...r universal, because, being essentially one, it comprehendeth within itself all peoples, tribes, and languages, which have sought and may henceforth ... ..., to Zion, to Jerusalem, to Judah, to Israel, and to the relics of that unhappy people. This reasoning, in appearance just, has been as it were a do... ...rding to the spirit; that is, to all believers, of every tribe and language and people and nation, without excluding the Jews who may desire to ente... ...he children of Abraham according to the spirit; of all true believers, of every people, tribe, and language of the whole world. All these may say wi... ...tion of his vineyard according to those sentences fulminated against the Jewish people: “the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a p... ...ace upon the throne of Nebuchadnezzar, Darius the Mede, and afterward Cyrus the Persian. Babylon after that epoch remained the principal court of th... ...spoken of ancient Babylon, and the times in which it was taken by the Medes and Persians, it is certain that in those days and in that time, nothing ... ...d in that time, nothing of this kind was accomplished. After that the Medes and Persians had made themselves masters of Babylon, certain of the chil...

...they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are not the people whom we kill, killed by the orders of KALI... ...fe without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you brave that long sea journey and all those strange people to be with your Helen?’ Audrey Blankenhag... ...f which was still unexplored. Her glimpses of the flora and fauna of the coastal regions and the people of every shade of colour, from pale brown to... ... Nabobs. Helen leaned on the ship’s rail as the vessel docked and she saw another world - India. People of all shades of colour from the fair-skinne... ...re than eighteen foot long by fourteen foot wide with two small barred windows, only twenty-three people survived, including Mary Carey,’ said their... ...ing softly. Then the figure vanished and Helen climbed out of the high bed and padded across the Persian rugs in her bare feet. She stood for a mome... ... door opened to reveal an octagonal room in the centre of which stood a marble tomb inscribed in Persian script. There was a stone bench at one end,... ...vin had mentioned, was all too evident in this vast rectangular room - marble floors covered with Persian carpets, rich tapestries adorning the wall... ... weak, she gave me this book as a gift to you, Dr. Helen. She said it is her translation from the Persian of the love poems written by her ancestor,...

...ides reading it individually you discuss it in groups, together with other people who are enthusiastic about the ideas it proposes. Even though the... ...r own lives and of the life of the universe can give rise to a new kind of people: people who have a soul, a soul made up of the energy of love and ... .... 2) – Sophia-Analysis is a method of individual and group work that helps people become Persons, people who have their own identity, are internally... ...ot just an elite, even though I am fully aware that only a small number of people will be capable, historically speaking, of making what is impossib... ...and what you want to hold on to. It is not the first time that courageous people who actually changed history were initially judged and rejected as... ...ope’s shroud, nor have I invented the art of counterpoint. I am making my Persian carpet and I have before me a great mess of threads and patterns; ...

...umes comprise translations of the 1 I viii PREFACE sacred books of the Persians. Two volumes represent Islam, and six the two main indigenous sys... ...b, 9, 30, 120; flees with Lot, 9, 120; the Book and wisdom given to A.'s people, 6, 80; the revelation given in the books of A. and Moses, 9, 329;... ..., 9, 253; the sayings of the A. of the Christians, 18, 107, 107 n.; the people of A. called him liar, 9, 61 ; and Isaac and Jacob were of the ele... ... and Isaac and Jacob were of the elect, 9, 179 sq.; God has chosen A.'s people, 6, 50. Abrahat el AJTam, invades Mecca with elephants, his army d... ...le to 'A., 6: 145 sq. j and Thamud, 6, xlviii, 1.45 n., 183; 9, 121; the people of 'A. called their prophet liar, 9, 61, 95, 17 6 , 24 2 j punishe...

...e decibels! Israel’s typical noise level must be illegal in most civilized locales. People are very animated and amiable but there is something neur... ...ddy” – I said slowly, trying to convey the gravity of the occasion – “Who are these people? I came here by sheer chance. We wouldn’t be talking now ... ...ou see” – I patronized him – “I don’t have an appointment with anyone or any three people.” Eddy was on his feet, gun drawn, long before I ended ... ...e’s something on this disk that’s worth breaking the law for. Something on it makes people risk life and limb and assault perfect strangers. This di... ... “I gave him the documents.” “That’s better” – sighs Himmler – “I hate it when people force us to behave in manifestly un-Germanic and uncivili... ...ly gashes …” – Dan’s hand froze in mid-motion, the towel dripping all over his only Persian carpet. He gazed into far space and his eyes kept expand...

...eautiful things,” he whispered. “Of course,” I responded in surprise. “Most people do.” “Then how can you bear to look on me,” he responded, still wh... ... my words, mademoiselle; when the twenty years for this permit is gone, the people of Paris will demand that this eyesore be razed to the ground.” We... ...sume you have been successful in your quest?” “Yes, Erik, I have,” said the Persian, of whom I now knew something from Erik’s conversation. “Madame... ...ht admit any guests you’d wish to see.” I caught the hint of humor in the Persian’s tone; he knew there was only one guest I’d want to see. “Come ... ...I want to thank you for your kindness to us ... to him.” “Mademoiselle,” the Persian replied, turning his jade-green gaze to meet mine full-on, “I hav... ... chose to buy nothing, walking around looking at the goods and watching the people was very entertaining for me. The nights that Erik did not come t... ... the house. “My dear wife, this is not Paris. I am not known here. Perhaps people will presume I’ve an injury. A burn or something of that sort. I... ...in winter. Claire, fortunately, is a hale and hearty soul, for I know that people die of la grippe. If my travels brought me nothing else, I have ... ...en she came in from her afternoon ride, I met Claire at the door wearing my Persian trousers and loose shirt, but no mask. “Come upstairs with me, Cl...

... "I would not. I only read—" "My thoughts." "Not at all. I merely read ... people." Something told her he wasn't being completely honest with her, but... ...t devices called telephones and radios that emitted the faceless voices of people he would never meet or see, and ... Just a whole wonderful array of ... ... saints, madmen and geniuses. Nothing had changed, just horrible and great people doing better and worse things on a bigger, more global scale than he... ... and sat up against the sofa's camel back, feet firmly planted against the Persian rug. "You passed out." He only confirmed what she had known, but he... ... of the room, then looked at her again. "Kane, you can't go around turning people into ... into dromedaries." "Why not?" "Why not?" She stared at his ... ...ou're a guest..." Therese raised her voice for Justice. "Unlike some other people around here." Justice simply chuckled from his spot at the dining ro... ...s confines, visually and tactually luxuriating in the colorful pile of his Persian carpet, eager to begin the next phase of the contest and engage his...

...ms Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Increase Sacred Knowledge The Present Concl... ... us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture ... ...o list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose nearly all meaning except to identify ... ... “Do you believe in God?” I cannot claim to stand out from the majority of people in this. Like everyone else I have had my own personal experiences w... ...w system in Palestine and elsewhere in the Babylonian, Egyptian, and later Persian, and eventually Macedonian empires. The first influence was a relig... ...al promulgation as the official religious system of Persia and then of the Persian empire. 14 This system today is continued by a very small group pri... ...ized religious systems incorporating many influences from Indian Buddhism, Persian Zoroastrianism, and Greco-Roman philosophy. They gained prominence ... ...tem of Zoroastrianism which had quickly gained the official support of the Persian empire. For reasons not quite clear, this prevented the establishme... ...nized religion Zoroastrianism was largely confined to the CHRISTIANITY 93 Persian Empire, it survived the collapse of the Empire and its teachings we...

...r weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been only in the past two or three centuries that religious questioning has occupied the m...

...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...hey will nearly always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when peo... ...y family rate high. ―Some countries are beginning to study what people value—what are their beliefs and what really makes them happy.‖ 1... ...heistic elements in its beliefs. It was probably influenced by Indian and Persian pantheism. 76 ―Uniting with God is called a ‗mystical e... ...dence for them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss... ... by the Assyrians in the 8 th century BCE. A few hundred years later the Persians ruled the area. Then we have the Roman conquest, then the Jews ag... ...ch. ―While the Donatists were Christians, the Manichaeans were a Persian religion that was religiously eclectic. They included Jesus as one... ...phet, Muhammad, Joseph Smith, Bahá‘u‘lláh. Where will it end? —―The Persian Manichaean idea is that the universe is dualistic between light and...

... 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 for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...age -- His sudden death -- The ceremonials of courts -- Grief displayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three large ships excite ... ... of the King of Calecut is excited -- A great story teller -- Traffic with the people -- Commerce of the Moors in India -- Offerings of presents to hi... ... Magnificence of Cortez's palace -- A rebellion in Paluco -- Conversion of the people -- Suspicious death of Cortez's wife -- The white wings of peace... ... extending his trade to the nations of the east. Ormus, at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, was the city to which was directed the commerce of the e... ...he Emperor to conduct to Tabreez a bride, chosen from among the Mongols, for a Persian Khan who was an ally of the Tartan Emperor. Under this commissi...

...ed christian 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 span...

...table for underground cities. But there is no place in our solar system as ‘people friendly’ as our own Earth.” —“What made you volunteer for the... ... in the cities. Here in California our population will double to 60 million people in the first half of this century. Most of this growth occurs bec... ...ulation, but of eliminating misery and increasing the ‘the good life.’ Some people ask why some should be so poor while others are so rich. Did you ... ...be so poor while others are so rich. Did you know that the thousand richest people have more money than the two and a half billion poorest people? ... ... the Indian per capita income. “Still there are more than a billion people living on less than $300 per year. With over a billion people bei... ...ath from his religion than did Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, the thirteenth century Persian Shi’ite when he proposed his theory of planetary motion. Of cou...

... 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 for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

...ery difficult. When Kino fails in an experiment it doesn‟t affect a billion people, as it did in China under the communist dictators. Kino can move f... ...ritage, but a population crisis out of control. It had more than a billion people when I left Earth but it halved its yearly population increase. He... .... As the guest of honor I was seated by the President, the Minister of the People, and her husband. There must have been five hundred guests seated a... ...addies on the hillsides and in the valleys. In less than four decades these people had risen from a backward farming economy to perhaps the greatest ... ... known. How did this happen? Madam Ching, as the Minister of the People, was the perfect person of whom to inquire about the control of po... ...een Tomyris, taking over from her dead husband, led the battle against the Persians, defeated them and killed King Cyrus in 529 BC. And Joan of Arc ...

... 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 for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

...d by no meanes be appeased, nor by the wailefull out-cries ofall sorts of people (as of men, women, and children) be moved to any pittty, they prost... ...ts atchieved by him, and with a fierce and arrogant manner upbraiding the people with them, had not the heart so much as to take their lots into his... ...utly defending themselves, covenanted to receive them as friends unto the people of Rome, and to enter their Citie as a place confederate, removing ... ...ight on foot who in the battell of Plateæ, to open and to put to rowt the Persian Phalanx, advised themselves to scatter and put themselves backe, t... ...hat a Duke of Brittanie should have beene stifled to death in a throng of people, as whilome was a neighbour of mine at Lyons, when Pope Clement mad... ...wered those of Delphos, in the Median warre, fearing the invasions of the Persians. They demanded of that God what they should doe with the treasure... ... Schoole of Zeno. In that excellent institution which Zenophon giveth the Persians, wee find, that as other nations teach their children Letters, so... ... unto his health; sometimes exceeding the sumptuousnesse and pompe of the Persians, and now and then surpassing the austeritie and frugalitie of the... ... Emperor Severus. In the battles that past betweene the Ægyptians and the Persians, Herodotus saith, that both himselfe and divers others tooke spec...

...ocrates maketh his soule to moove, with a naturall and common motion. Thus saith a plaine Country-man, and thus a seely Woman: Hee never hath other people in his mouth than Coach-makers, Joyners, Coblers, and Masons....

...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...s a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ...n. For the most part, little is known about the inward realities of these people, about their personal thoughts, reflections, and the quality and nat... ...Alcaeus is dead, I will take poison—and I saw myself going to Xerxes, our Persian chemist, and asking for the powder. We had agreed, years back, dur... ...ow does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered about the newly retur... ...aside his doll and tell me fables. He had learned many from his father, a Persian, and he was constantly visiting orientals to pick up their stories... ...ent makes it a “check” from which I can’t escape...as they say in the new Persian game. P My girls sense that I am troubled and try to distract me.... ......” “Wild boar, to help you get strong.” We recounted the fables, their Persian origin, the circumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved traveler...

...ett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by t...

...ptain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;                     But O heart! heart! heart!                          O the bleeding drops of red,                               Where ...

...n-Set Breeze Old Chants A Christmas Greeting Sounds of the Winter. A Twilight Song When the Full-Grown Poet Came Osceola A Voice from Death A Persian Lesson The Commonplace "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" Mirages L. of G.'s Purport The Unexpress'd Grand Is the Seen Unseen Buds Good-Bye My Fancy! A BACKWARD GLANCE O'ER TRAVEL'D ROADS About the Ed...

...s in the domain of LITERATURE and SCIENCE. Ever since a young and impressionable student attending a country school in a community of a few hundred people, began to be introduced to the world of knowledge over 65 years ago, the sciences became to me what water is to fish, air is to birds and earth is to humanity. The introduction to the mathematical, physical, chemical...

... Iron and Steel. GEBER (721-815) Arabian Alchemist 38 One of the first scholars and alchemists of the Islamic world. OMAR KHAYYAM (12th Century). Persian Scientist and Astronomer 38 Brilliant astronomer and alchemist of the 12th Century. BERNARDO TREVISAN (1406 -1490) Italian Alchemist 39 One of the most famous alchemists of the middle ages. PHILIPPUS A. PARACELS...

...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ...t books. Fad theories and models are being constantly introduced to distract people from the fact that the basis of Scientific knowledge has been s... ...ly equal to each other is; envy, arrogance, hatred, violence, and bloodshed. People may seek to gain a higher Equality, or they may be forced The ... ...ion of Greek civilization. Greek civilization was a recreated permutation of Persian civilization. Persian civilization was a recreated permutation... .... What was the advantage of Western agriculture practiced by the Greeks and Persians? They grew grapes: but not to eat them. They grew them in o... ...s and legends. Try to find it in the Myths of the Greeks, and Romans, or the Persians. You will not find it. The closest thing to fun or humor is ... ...rs: the Greek Golden Age would never have happened. If all the slaves of the Persian Empire had refused to work for their masters: the Persian Empi... ...sane. Just look at the practice of crucifixion. For almost 2,000 years: the Persian and Roman Empires crucified millions of the poorest people on...

...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...4% Sunni Muslim, 25% Shi'a Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% th... ...- prove permanent constitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad ... ...1) Suffrage: universal from age 18 Political parties and leaders: the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) has two factions the Parc... ...cal year ending 31 December 1985 $12.7 million, about 3% of the total budget Persian Gulf Al Muharra MANAMA S regional map VI Geography Total area: 62... ...proximity to primary Middle East crude oil sources and strategic location in Persian Gulf through which much of western world's crude oil must transit... ...lusive fishing zone: 50 nm in the Sea of Oman; median-line boundaries in the Persian Gulf Territorial sea: 12 nm Boundary disputes: none; on 17 Septem... ...Nationality: noun Iranian(s); adjective Iranian Ethnic divisions: 63% ethnic Persian, 18% Turkic, 13% other Iranian, 3% Kurdish, 3% Arab and other Sem...

... be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions); • Requires excessive admiration, adulation, att... ... (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted by people he or she considers inferior to him or her and unworthy. Prevalen... ...ne after a while. Living in the same country or apartment, meeting the same people, doing essentially the same things (though with changing content... ...g, kaleidoscopic life. I feel entitled to force life itself, or, at least, people around me – to yield to my wishes and needs, supreme among them t... ... the truth. This is where the narcissist differs from others (from "normal" people). His very self is a piece of fiction concocted to fend off hurt ... ...is loyal staff, and betrayed his countrymen by hiring the former enemy, the Persians, to supplant his Macedonian infantry. Alexander the Great was ... ...and united all the Greeks against him. Even his famed campaign against the Persians owed its success to the latter's precipitous decline rather tha... ...ne, other Greeks (the Ten Thousand, Agesilaus of Sparta) have defeated the Persians decisively. His bloodlust never abated: when his army mutinied ... ...to such ridicule that he reversed his decision. But, he kept on wearing the Persian royal garb and he did execute Calisthenes, an hitherto obsequiou...