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Unlocking the Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ncepts of Kabbalah, and without correcting themselves developed different theories out of them. Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), a german humanist, po... ...t theories out of them. Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), a german humanist, political counselor to the chancellor, and an expert in ancient languages ... ...i Baruch is not supported, funded, or otherwise tied to any government or political organization. About Bnei Baruch 431 Since the bulk of its activ...

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The Point in the Heart

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...housands of years, providing fertile ground for the springing of diverse theories as to its essence. all of them were incor- rect. today, the study ... ...d study it scientifically. the different belief systems and religions are theories re- garding the hidden world (God) and the things this world comp... ... the hidden world (God) and the things this world compels us to do. these theories are diverse, often contra- dictory, and exist precisely because th... ... 1 0 6 1. Globalization has turned into a factor that affects finan- cial, political, and cultural development. it encompasses the international mark... ...s, and the lives of each and every one of us. however, it does not solve political, financial, social, cultural, or religious problems. 2. to help p... ... Baruch is not supported, funded, or otherwise tied to any government or political organization. 1 2 0 Since the bulk of its activity is provided f...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... lating suicide rates, violence, terror, eco-tragedies, social, economic, and political instability. We are at a crossroads. We are beginning to sobe... ...s where only the fittest survive. This led researchers to cul- tivate various theories explaining the direct or indirect motives of animals to act a... ... will occur, as it did on Yom Kippur, 1973, and 70% do not trust the present political and military leaderships.” Moreover, we are not only failing ... ...t the expense of the creature’s own ability to survive and mul- tiply. Several theories have been constructed to explain why animals behave in this m...

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Secret of the Sands

By: Aren, Rai and E., Tavius

...l we have some answers.” “Guess you guys may finally have something to back up your crazy theories,” Jack said smiling. “You mean about the age of ... ...fluence only to the Royal Family itself. For generations, the Draxens had exerted strong political influence over Kierani affairs and had been invol... ...mself, that he does not need or want our help, and in effect he will have severed certain political ties with us. Then, the next thing we know, the ... ...oot on the mysterious sands of Egypt. They had known of Mitch and Alex, their work, their theories, long before they landed in Cairo. “Father, are y...

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ledge of earlier books that dealt with this topic. Such writers fabricate theories of their own empty shells, and relate their words to the most exa... ...sions based on theory, but even prohibited us from being assisted by such theories, even by way of negotiations. 6 2 K a b b a l ... ...ot received. After all, we have no economic independence, and there is no political independence without economic independence. Moreover, there is n... ...none else besides Him.” It is clear to the members of Bnei Baruch that the political, economic, and global situation depends solely upon teaching thi... ...many have already said that even the intelligence in craftsmanship and in political conducts is present, with great wisdom, in many elements in the ... ...i Baruch is not supported, funded, or otherwise tied to any government or political organization. Since the bulk of its activity is provided free of...

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Neutrosophic Dialogues

By: Florentin Smarandache

...aped from Romania in September of 1988 and waited almost two years in the political refugee camps of Turkey, where he performed unskilled jobs such a... ...n that society we lived a double life, an official one propagated by the political system, and another real one. In mass-media it was promulgated th... ...s a catastrophe?) P) Neutrosophic Studies and Interpretations of Known Theories, Modes, Views, Processes of Reason, Acts, Concepts in Philosophy.... ... If someone points to the truth, can we reach it by holding fast his theories? Because in this way, we are merely holding fast such pointers... ... reality with one’s own imaginations), and although there are millions of theories, ideas or thoughts: I know what I cannot. Therefore, I would rathe...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...absorbed in the spectacle of a world travailing for lack of the gospel of “Political Justice”, the study of orthographical niceties must have seemed a... ... to it every power of his mind, every pulsation of his heart. He looked on political freedom as the direct agent to effect the happiness of mankind; a... ... fast aug- menting; and, in the ameliorations that have taken place in the political state of his country, we may trace in part the operation of his a... ...e public mind, as to how far a thirst for a happier condition of moral and political society survives, among the enlightened and refined, the tem- pes... ...virtue, and be incited to those inquir- ies which have led to my moral and political creed, and that of some of the sublimest intellects in the world.... ...ild talk will show _200 How vain are such aspiring theories.’ ‘I hope to prove the induction otherwise, And that a want of tha... ...ore particularly in the lyrics of this drama, his abstruse and imaginative theories with regard to the Creation. It requires a mind as subtle and pene...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...dical changes in our thought patterns. At the time, researchers believed that theories must be tested against experiments and observations. They als... ...s able to describe several phenomena that could not be explained by preceding theories. The most fa- mous of these was wave-particle duality, showing... ...t years, many scientists have become interested in various religions, new age theories, and mysticism. They are try- ing to find new tools and new wa... ... of the velocity, the stick will remain as it is. Thus, we have two competing theories. Some will say that Newton’s theory is completely false and t... ...ter is that this statement is false. The precise way to decide between the two theories is to say that Newton’s theory is a boundary case of Einstein... ...roblems in every field of contemporary life. In ecology, psychology, social or political science, in every field of science we are faced with the abs... ...U T K A B B A L A H Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522) Reuchlin, a German humanist, political counselor to the Chan- cellor, a classics scholar and an expe...

...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden parts of reality which scientists are now discovering. While other sciences research the definable world around us, Kabbal...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

... Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1973. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 2 claims are theories rather than established facts. I would like to invite you to accom... ...such separation of religious and secular life, and also wield considerable political clout. At the time of writing these words, military conflicts bas... ... on how the regulations of Islam should be implemented in daily social and political life. These religious conflicts have fairly firm foundations. For... ...riginates or flourishes in a social vacuum. The degree to which social and political involvement determines its shape and development should not be un... ...governments appointed by Rome, matters of overall policy, trade, and major political deci- sions were administered by the Roman occupying forces. Gene... ...ouraged, except when they infringed on what were regarded by the Romans as political issues or social activity which might threaten the stability of t... ...lly been pointed out that Sigmund Freud’s formulation of his psychological theories, in particular his “trini- ty” of ego/superego/id might be brought... ...tionize our view of the reli- gious dimension as much as Albert Einstein’s theories of relativ- ity did physics? Strangely enough, the answer is yes. ... ...with large eyes but no mouth, and robed and haloed. (This dress has raised theories of shipwrecked Arabic or Asian sailors.) It was the Wandjinas who ...

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God the Invisible King

By: H. G. Wells

...hat it has any more bearing upon the essentials of religion, than have the theories we may hold about the relation of God and the moral law to the sta... ... the muddle was at its very worst, the church was con- fronted by enormous political opportunities. In order that it should seize these one chief thin... ...e Sabellian or the Trinity of the Arian, any more than one thinks of those theories made stone, those gods with three heads and seven hands, who sit o... ...MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RE... ... RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION T HE CONCEPTION of a young and energetic God, an Invisib... ... dead as the lore of the Druids. The emancipation of mankind from obsolete theories and formularies may be accompanied by great tides of moral and emo... ...for promot- ing and watching education; associations for the discussion of political problems and the determination of right policies. In all these wa...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

... applied to pro- cesses current and in movement, or as taking the shape of theories applied to processes past and accomplished. The Mosaic cosmogony, ... ...l, by embarking his small capital of talent on the springtide of a furious political collision, brought back an ampler return for his little invest- m... ... decorous nation, and closely connected, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own d... ...f the public, not admitted to the secret—and equally exaggerated as to its political power by the government in the hush-money for its future suppres-... ...t the ‘master of sentences’ had become long since, in competition with the political economist. Yet, be assured, reader, that all the ‘ologies’ hither... ...here there was an affinity to do, but no means of doing it. The last great political act of Lord Wellesley, was the smashing of the Peel ministry in 1...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...his world at all, if quackery so grew and were sanctioned here. Alas, such theories are very lamentable. If we would attain to knowledge of anything i... ...f Job was written in that region of the world. I call that, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen. One fe... ...ssacks and cannons; and does a great feat in keeping such a tract of Earth politically together; but he cannot yet speak. Something great in him, but ... ...s, building up Religions, heroic Forms of human Exist- ence in this world, Theories of Life worthy to be sung by a Dante, Practices of Life by a Shaks... ...t it forever! We will say nothing at all, I think, of that sorrowfulest of theories, of its being some mean shop- keeper grudge, of the Augustine Monk... ...nay Ludlow, Hutchinson, Vane himself, are admitted to be a kind of Heroes; political Conscript Fathers, to whom in no small degree we owe what makes u... ...” says Lord Clarendon himself: “heats and jealousies,” mere crabbed whims, theories and crotchets; these induced slow sober quiet Englishmen to lay do...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...hor A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existen... ... the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics, in all its forms, has failed. Th... ...ully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians ... ...t closer to the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism... ...o the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism (postulat... ...n), and communitarian anarchism (Daniel Guerin). The narrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communiti... ...diment of said subversion. The logical outcome is to call for the overthrow of all political systems, as Michael Bakunin suggested. Governments sho... ...involvement in the economy in his influential and exquisitely-timed "Principles of Political Economy", published in 1848. Undaunted by mounting evi... ...fellow humans (the only ones possessed of moral significance). These are called the theories of indirect moral obligations. Thus, it is wrong to tor...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...d with ideal love, the construction of brilliant, revolutionary scientific theories, the composition or authoring or painting of the greatest work ... ...f narcissism"? Human collectives – states, firms, households, institutions, political parties, cliques, bands – acquire a life and a character all t... ... pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Social experiments end in mayhem. As their end... ...: a massive post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). APPENDIX: Strong Men and Political Theatres - The "Being There" Syndrome "I came here to see a co... ...on, intimidation, and collusion with Western interests, both commercial and political. The new "democracies" are thinly-disguised and criminalized p... ..., nepotism, and cronyism; self-censoring media; socially, economically, and politically excluded minorities; and so on. But while this malaise does ... ...ese worldly and intangible goods (popularity of the leadership which yields political stability; prosperity; security; prestige abroad; authority a... ... pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Social experiments end in mayhem. It is import... ...enomena associated with the Nazi regime - from industrial murder to racial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territory. Ger...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...ties to surrounding nature, the habitat, but to 'reality', those economic, political and social conditions that the natural environment also impacts u... ...ntrol National developmental ideology - national developmental ritualism - political sociodramas - state, national cultural hierarchy - ethics interna... ...ion and identity - language of technosystems, official national language - political world views - national utopias National media lore - national art... ... Farmers are able to cope by recourse to their own organizations and their political collective power, no longer to their neighbours or other villager... ...of Thailand is massive education and production of an urban workforce. (15 Theories of cultural ecology consider the choices made by individual people... ... and postlocal organizations, through history in e.g. military, religious, political or today in scientific-technological and economic technosystems;...

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The Kaluza Concept

By: Keith Young

...beings like ourselves. The greatest human minds have woven elaborate theories explaining, to the best of our ability, the laws of gravity, the... ...re covered in a very brief and understated way, usually subsidiary to the political events of the day, in the spirit of a curiosity. Documenta...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...IANITY Y Y Y Y, AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GA... ...ICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT VEMENT VEMENT VEMENT VEMENT................................ ...S AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN ORGAN OF GAN OF GAN OF GAN OF GAN OF POLITICAL MO POLITICAL MO POLITICAL MO POLITICAL MO POLITICAL MOVEMENT VEME... ...than the growth of a forest, are the footsteps of Christianity amongst the political workings of man. Nothing, that the heart of man values, is so sec... ... some one or two of its differential elements, could have been an organ of political movement. Most divines who anywhere glance at this question, are ... ...e for what purpose was the religion? This I pronounce error. All the moral theories of antiquity were utterly disjoined from religion. But this fallac... ...losophy, all the primary facts of history become liable continually to new theories, to new combinations, and to new valuations of their moral relatio... ... the local circumstances in each separate case. Now, amongst the political theories of the Bible is this— that pauperism is not an accident in the con...

...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FOR E...

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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

...................................................................... 60 THE POLITICAL AND BIOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS TO INEQUALITY ............................ ... and the specific doctrine of Jesus has not in all that time been put into political or general social practice. I am no more a Christian than Pilate ... ...ht be, by people with no knowledge of government and no power to construct political machin- ery to carry out their views, acting on the very dangerou... ...at Jesus died, as some are in the habit of declar- ing, for his social and political opinions. There have been many martyrs to those opinions; but he ... ...ention which cost them dear when the Christians got the upper hand of them politically. The Jew as Jesus, himself a Jew, knew him, never dreamt of suc... ...agmati- cally true: it worked. But the weakness of Pragmatism is that most theories will work if you put your back into making them work, provided the...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...at the mortality of these streets is double that of others! To sum up such theories by a single example: is not the rue Fromentin both murderous and p... ...ducation of the bourgeoisie; between religion and fancy-balls; between two political faiths, between Louis XVIII., who saw only the present, and Charl...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

... this is only suspicion, rumor, nothing more. The source is attributed to his political opponent.” Alfredo shrugged his shoulders. “You know politici... ...here ever since.” “What were your studies, aside from what was required?” “Political Science, Holy Father.” Again things started to take shape. ... ... “Political Science, Holy Father.” Again things started to take shape. “Why Political Science?” “You know the Jesuits, they’re into everything.” ... ...een his Campaign Manager, and whom he considered to be one of the most astute political observers he had ever known. Maybe, that’s why he married her... ...rvices Committee. I guess he was looking for some answers. You know he’s very political,” he said trying to make some sense. “Alex, you’re not tell... ...ieve his theory is correct." "And what is your theory?" "Before we advance theories, let us look at the facts. Some of which have just come to my...

...f the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of the future against the backdrop of political power struggle. ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... able to read the works of the great, and not so great, intellectuals of our race. It now gives me cause to consider some of the psychological theori... ...izing that, let‘s see what I can do to help you. I‘ll have to warn you that I try to go back to the basics as much as I can. There are so many theori... ...re, like sex, our basic drive or are we driven to find higher meanings in life? Serious students of human nature have expressed each of these theori... ...ife? Serious students of human nature have expressed each of these theories. ―Perhaps by understanding some of the various psychological theori... ...or being the toughest inmate, the power gained from being in the best school or on the best team—the examples are endless. Then there are the politi... ... in our children and young adults the abilities to have power to do some things well. This can be in the vocational, avocational, familial or politi... ...is often valued by the newsmen. But is press freedom more valuable to a Muslim whose prophet has been defiled? It is religious values versus politi... ...r over men. Granting sexual favors is even a better means of gaining power over them. Men tend to get their sexual attraction from economic or politi... ...cles for the drive for power. It had forced them to achieve in business, to become the money winners, and to work at the highest academic and politi...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...; and that the peculiar philo- sophic temperament, as well as the peculiar political temperament, that goes with our English speech may more and more ... ... or morbid, that has not some organic process as its condition. Scientific theories are organi- cally conditioned just as much as religious emotions a... ... him as the camper. If now he should never go back, and never again suffer political interests to gain dominion over him, he would be for practical in... ...olation; as a supreme love may turn minor sac- [197] J. J. Chapman, in the Political Nursery, vol. iv. p. 4, April, 1900, abridged. 318 The V arietie... ...like all other human phenomena, are subject to the law of the golden mean. Political reformers accomplish their successive tasks in the history of nat... ...become hypercritical towards others; they grow care- less of their social, political, and financial obligations. As an instance of this type may be me... ...ought: that he has known the oldest truth, and that he has done with human theories as to the origin, meaning, or destiny of the race. He is beyond in... ...ferent as to what purpose may be shown forth by them, and con- structs her theories quite careless of their bearing on human anxieties and fates. Thou... ...m James dhist saints are practically indistinguishable in their lives. The theories which Religion generates, being thus variable, are secondary; and ...

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