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Noah Daniels
The Ultimate Dog Care Kit
Caring for your dog has never been so simple
- Pets
- English
- 11510 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 253
Many dog owners are unaware that, according to the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention, close to half the dogs in the USA are considered overweight and 6.7 million of those dogs are designated as clinically obese. And research has shown that overweight dogs can often die up to two years earlier than normal because of that excess weight. Some of the most common risk factors include osteoarthritis and poor joint health, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, cranial cruciate ligament injury, heart and respiratory disease, kidney disease, and cancer. And most of these dogs dying early deaths are not doing so because of deliberate neglect or lack of care, but simply because most dog owners simply do not know the important facts of proper dog care and treatment.
Those who learn all the critical information about proper dog care and apply it when taking care of their dog, often get extra years with their loving pet. This includes understanding food, diet, parasites, medical treatment, grooming, and many other necessary tasks in owning and loving a pet dog. Unfortunately, most of the books out there do not go into all the specifics that result in a healthy, happy dog that will live out his of her life to its fullness.
We want to teach you the proper care techniques for taking care of your pet dog with our valuable eBook The Ultimate Dog Care Kit. It will provide you with everything you need to know to treat your dog in a way that will enable him or her to live a long life with you. This eBook is packed full of all the data that is crucial to make sure your dog stays healthy and happy. You will be taught exactly what your must do and the right way to go about it.
However, The Ultimate Dog Care Kit is much more than just a book of simple basics about dog care. It also focuses on specific aspects of care that are necessary for a healthy pet, including a proper diet, eliminating parasites like fleas and worms, coordinating veterinary care, grooming and bathing, and other important dog care needs. We are going to tell you precisely how you can maximize the longevity of your dog's life and make sure that he lives a happy one by your side!
The Ultimate Dog Care Kit will provide you with the following information to help you provide the best care possible for your pet dog:
- The basics of health, food and diet for your dog
- Preventing and eliminating heart worm, fleas and other parasites
- Handling veterinary care, vaccinations, and dental treatments
- Spaying and neutering your male or female dog
- Grooming, clipping and bathing your dog the right way
- The benefits of pet health insurance
- Other common concerns and questions about your dog
And much, much more ... [more]
Keywords: dog, pet health insurance, food and diet for your dog, heart worm, parasites, veterinary care, vaccinations, dental treatments, bathing your dog
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Mattie Phipps Todd
Hand-Loom Weaving
A Manual for School and Home
- Fiction
- English
- 30754 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
AN INTRODUCTION
For many years we, the teachers of the United States assembled in
village, city, State, and national conventions, have recited our creed
and chanted it in all keys.
[Sidenote: _Our creed_]
We believe that man is a trinity, three in one--head, heart, and hand,
one soul made manifest; we believe that this union is vital and
indissoluble, since "what God hath joined together" may not be rent
asunder; we believe that this three-fold man, being "put to school" on
earth to grow, may devise and bring to successful issue no scheme of
education that is out of harmony with the plan of the Creator.
Congratulating ourselves upon our ready and distinct utterance of this
lofty thought, we have calmly returned to our man-devised book-schools
for the acquisition of knowledge, in order to forward some plan for the
accumulation of more knowledge.
[Sidenote: _Deeds, not words, are now necessary_]
But "wisdom lingered"! Here and there voices were raised that would not
be silenced: "You sang your beautiful song; what are you going to _do_
about it?" In the words of John Stuart Mill, "It is now time to assert
in deeds, since the power of words is well-nigh exhausted."
Investigators, studying this union of head and hand from the
physiological side, hurled truths at us that startled us from our
lethargy.
[Sidenote: _Physiological truths_]
Every stimulus poured into nerve cells through the avenues of the senses
tends to pass out in motor action, which causes muscular movement. In
every idea are vitally united the impression and the tendency to
expression in action. The nervous system consists of the fibres which
carry currents inward, the organs of central redirection, and the fibres
which carry them outward--sensation, direction, action. Since control
means mental direction of this involuntary discharge of energy (directed
muscular movement), control of the muscles means development of will as
well as of skill. To prevent or cut off the natural outflow of nervous
energy results in fatigue and diseased nerves. Unrestrained and
uncontrolled expenditure of nervous energy results in lawlessness and
weakened will.
Men of science said: "These are facts about man. What account have you
made of them in your elaborate system for educating him?"
Students of sociological and economic problems called out to us as the
teachers of men:
[Sidenote: _Labor must be respected_]
These great problems concerning the relation of labor and capital (the
brotherhood of man) will never be solved until there is greater respect
for labor; greater appreciation of the value of the products of labor;
until there is more joy to the worker in his labor, which should be the
expression through his hand, of the thought of his head, and the feeling
of his heart; until labor is seen in its true light, as service; until
the man with money as well as the man without learns through experience
to respect and appreciate labor and its products. "We _absorb_ only so
much as we can inte [more]
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Marc Asanov Archibald
OF DOGS AND MEN - A myth therapy
- Drama
- English
- 74399 Words
- Ages 18 and up
A group of pseudo scientists assemble to devise a revolutionary experiment that could change the concept of creation and evolution of species. The experiment would create the bases of a sudden transformation of a dog into a man. The scientists discuss issues that may concern such transformation from a dog into a man such as feeding, sex habits, and bathroom routines. Freud, Darwin and God are cited copiously to support such a sudden metamorphosis. At the end of the convention the scientists are preparing manuals to be used by people that would like to transform their dog into a man. Bruce and Estelle, the owners of a German shepherd dog, named Rex are some of the dog masters that receive those manuals by mail. They find out that Rex’s dream is in fact to become a superman. Bruce and Estelle transform their backyard into a classroom; the table is full of books ready for reading and two posters depicting a dog male and a dog female anatomy on the back wall. They begin teaching Rex elementary things such as vocabulary, numbers, sexual behavior and manly attitude towards women. Estelle especially spends time showing Rex her body, letting him touch her breasts, and all. Bruce and Estelle also discuss other topics such as the history of humanity, time, religion, sins, and facts of life. What started as a routine class following the “scientific” manuals becomes slowly a hodge-podge of useful teaching coupled with “information waste”. Estelle talks of a possibility to see one day her mom pass by and find out that Rex is not anymore a dog. At that stage Rex has enough knowledge to stop listening to his two tutors and become involved in expressing original ideas and also declare openly his love for Estelle, which infuriates Bruce. During the lessons Rex’s appearance changes slowly into a man. Almost at the end of this transformation process a woman wearing circus like huge prosthetic legs approaches the three protagonists. She tells them that their attempt to transform a dog into a man is illegal and threatens to report them to the police. Bruce and Estelle ignore her. Only Rex becomes apprehensive that police may end his dream to become a full-fledged man. As physical transformation of Rex into a man becomes obvious, Estelle asks him to change his “fur coat” with a cardigan she knitted meanwhile. As expected, Estelle’s mom comes by one day and is pleasantly surprised by Rex’s transformation into a gentleman though she finds Rex’s declared passion for Estelle very disturbing. She runs out of the courtyard into the house with the pretext of taking a nap. Not long after that a group made out of four policemen and a priest and exhibiting a sturm-und-drang behavior push through the door and demand explanations about “the metamorphosis situation”. The priest is the one that reads the bible paragraphs that describe the human-dog coitus as being a forbidden sin. A “Scientific” policeman inquires about Bruce’s qualification to transform dogs into men. [more]
Keywords: satire, sex, humor, poetry, psychology, expletives, lust, sycophant
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Anwer Ghani
Mosaicked Disclosure
long poems
- Poetry
- English
- 9378 Words
- Ages 3 and up
- 54
In our deep internal areas there are areas of interchange where everything means everything and when we talk about something we talk about other thing. At this area and at this level what is happened is the mutuality of feelings, meanings and impression. Writing sometime becomes a big interchange process and when you use some generalized unite, you fetch its semantic aureole with a constant circle of meanings. So that words of general use always has a constant semantic action in addition to the contextual meaning and the complementary part in the sentence which is related to this general word will talk in a way or another on a same deep core. So when we use a generalized word like (I, his, our) we always talking about multiple subjects one of them the textual contextual rational meaning but beside this we also talk about other things which they are deep in our internal.
The language in our internal (the consciousness and the sub-consciousness) has many level, and every word has many semantic radiation and many circle in every level. The text and the words in it are always talk about many things, and summon many meaningful circle not just the contextual meaning or its circle but in every level of meaning and every level of language in the conscious and subconscious area the text and the words fetch multiple circles of meaning and multiple semantic aureoles.
Because of these facts we can make one interrelated text from multiple texts by special lines of meaning or a specific unite of writing. In volume one of "MUTUALITY" we will find the universal text of the generalized words have been used in multiple text, so it is a text formed from quotes from multiple text but you will see the strong correlation between its sentences and its parts.
Although every word and every text has mutuality circles but there are specific words in the writing of every author has a big transfiguration from the interchange view. He uses them widely and deeply with vast symbolic actions. In these deep interchange areas, the writer is not the author mind but it is the author souls. We should emphasize that the soul have a wider experience more the mind, and the mind and its knowledge is a part of the souls.
The most important feature in the mutual meanings are out of time and place, so they can take any shape smoothly and this is reflect the timeless nature of soul in comparison with timed mind.
This expressive phenomenon appears in texts as a mirrored sentences and forming a mosaic system so I named this collection; “MOSAICKED DISCLOSURE”. [more]
Keywords: Anwer Ghani
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Anwer Ghani
The Styles of Poetry
Quantitative Stylistic
- Essay
- English
- 34047 Words
- Ages 3 and up
- 78
We are now in front of many facts about the beautiful artistic writing:
First: In the last twenty years, the writing beautifulness and artistry in our awareness have been transmitted from the aesthetic view into the expressive view. Now the creative people concern with feeling expression more than the aesthetic applications.
Second: We can differentiate three eras of stylistic approaches about the beautifulness and artistry in the writing, the pre-modernism which concerns with power of the meaning connection, the modernism which concerns with aesthetic of the writing and the post modernism, the present era, which concerns with powerful feeling expression.
Third: In our globalisation and post-globalisation era, there is a powerful feeling and practice of free writing which doesn’t or shouldn’t observe the rules, the laws or the traditions in the beautiful writing, the literature, even the genre.
Fourth: Now, we are in front of new literary writing which doesn’t fit or doesn’t want to follow any genre classification, it is a non-genric or trans-generic writing.
Five: In this very free seeking era, why we need to study the stylistic elements of the present artistic writing and its law?
I will answer the last question first and the other points I will deal with through the chapters of the book. In fact the human is a very selective creature and always seeking the better, and appreciate the best and imitate it, this is a point. In other aspect the deep humanistic instinctual recognition or experience, despite its truthfulness, it is vague and can’t exit from the primary view for the world things while the soul is a very complex and a highly knowing creature and can’t satisfied by the primary instinctual experience, so it needs the intellectual experience and analysis to reach its goals in everything, not just in aesthetic and beauty. In the process of the analysis, the intellectual recognition and the systematic differentiation of our experiences about the beautiful writing, we don’t add or invent something, not present in the text or in the writing or we put some elements which they are strange to the instinctual experience, but in fact, the intellectual analysis of the beautiful writing is a thorough analysis of the instinctual experience. Yes, our intellectual experience is always an analysis of our instinctual experience. So this book is a collection of intellectual analysis of the instinctual experiences in different aspects of the beautiful writing. So, I won’t find a new thing, but I will try to show what is present. I believe absolutely that the mind can’t find anything but just a tool to explain what the instinct knows and experiences. The mind knows nothing new but shows us what we know. [more]
Keywords: stylistic. poetry. quantitative. Anwer. Ghani
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Deviana sharon seelam
Feng shui Magic
- House & Home
- English
- 10972 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 45
Feng Shui is beginning to alter individuals in manners never considered. This old Chinese mystery can change the manner in which you get things done and give you the entirety of riches and wealth that you've been looking for!More individuals are keen on learning this strategy, however don't have the foggiest idea how to go about it. In this report, Feng Shui — Tips To Enhance And Harmonize Any Home Or Business, you will find the insider facts and procedures used to change as long as you can remember.The guide starts by clarifying the meaning of this Chinese practice and how it appeared. It additionally list five strategies for Feng Shui, including the Ba-Gua technique. Notwithstanding that, there are five components that have a significant impact in the Feng Shui practice and how they work.In this report, you will find the accompanying:•What is "Chi" and how can it work according to Feng Shui•What are Productive and Destructive Cycles and how they work related to the Feng Shui practice•What is the one thing that is the equivalent about themIt is essential to understand what the tones utilized in Feng Shui represent. There are 11 tones recorded in this guide and every one of them clarifies what they speak to in the Feng Shui world.You can't be glad except if you have an upbeat home, isn't that so? On the off chance that you don't have tranquility, you can't have positive stream in your life. It's significant that you make an association and discover amicability. At the point when you join Feng Shui, your circumstance can change from negative to positive. Besides...•Why have that association with your home•What you can do to get that going•What to do if the air isn't reacting the manner in which you need it to•What not to do if the environment isn't reacting the manner in which you need it toThe Complete Guide to Finally Understanding Feng ShuiDid you realize that having a ton of messiness is a block to pushing ahead? It likewise speaks to confusion. Mess can leave you speechless and cause you not to get energy from Feng Shui. You must have a mentality that you should be liberated regarding wreck. This guide notice two different things what mess speaks to and what you can never really freed of it.Did you realize that having an upbeat home can influence your associations with others? Simply consider everything, on the off chance that you're disturbed, at that point you move that feeling to others in their quality. Who needs to be around an individual that is consistently troubled everytime you're with them?Find...• Changing your furniture can assist you with having a superior relationship with others• What to introduce outside of your home to achieve change• What to do when you locate the positive energy in your home• What You can do to build energy in the kitchen• Why you should utilize the tones from the Feng Shui strategy in your room• Why you ought to have air-sanitizing plants in your home office• How to upgrade the presence of ChiHere is the thing that you will learn inside this guide....The amount Is That Worth To You?You can have all the data in one slick bundle for just $25.00. This comprehensive guide will clarify in rearranged terms all the inquiries that have escaped you in your web searches or course readings regarding the matter [more]
Keywords: feng shui fortunes, good luck, feng shui bracelet, feng shui black obsidian bracelet, riches, abundance, feng shui turtle, decoration
$8.99
Rittik Chandra
The Great Mystery of Truth
- Self-Help
- English
- 39302 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 242
- 2
There is a golden thread that runs through every religion in the world. There is a golden thread that runs through the lives and the teachings of all the prophets, seers, sages, and saviours in the world's history, through the lives of all men and women of truly great and lasting power. All that they have ever done or attained to has been done in full accordance with law. What one has done, all may do.
This same golden thread must enter into the lives of all who today, in this busy work-a-day world of ours, would exchange impotence for power, weakness and suffering for abounding health and strength, pain and unrest for perfect peace, poverty of whatever nature for fullness and plenty.
Each is building his own world. We both build from within and we attract from without. Thought is the force with which we build, for thoughts are forces. Like builds like and like attracts like. In the degree that thought is spiritualized does it become more subtle and powerful in its workings. This spiritualizing is in accordance with law and is within the power of all.
Everything is first worked out in the unseen before it is manifested in the seen, in the ideal before it is realized in the real, in the spiritual before it shows forth in the material. The realm of the unseen is the realm of cause. The realm of the seen is the realm of effect. The nature of effect is always determined and conditioned by the nature of its cause.
To point out the great facts in connection with, and the great laws underlying the workings of the interior, spiritual, thought forces, to point them out so simply and so clearly that even a child can understand, is the author's aim. To point them out so simply and so clearly that all can grasp them, that all can take them and infuse them into every-day life, so as to mould it in all its details in accordance with what they would have it, is his purpose. That life can be thus moulded by them is not a matter of mere speculation or theory with him, but a matter of positive knowledge.
There is a divine sequence running throughout the universe. Within and above and below the human will incessantly works the Divine will. To come into harmony with it and thereby with all the higher laws and forces, to come then into league and to work in conjunction with them, in order that they can work in league and in conjunction with us, is to come into the chain of this wonderful sequence. This is the secret of all success. This is to come into the possession of unknown riches, into the realization of undreamed-of powers. [more]
Keywords: truth, god, religion, science, philosophy, life, love, mystery, steve, Mystery of Truth, reality
$7.99
Derrick King
Love for a Deaf Rebel
Schizophrenia on Bowen Island
- Romance
- English
- 76114 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 54
Love for a Deaf Rebel introduces readers to a vivacious Canadian woman who was born into a silent world and with the foundation for schizophrenia. With pathos and nostalgia, the author recounts his roller-coaster ride with Pearl, a vivacious deaf maverick, who, unknown to him, had paranoid schizophrenia. We follow their encounters through actual notes written before Derrick learns sign language; we go on their motorcycle ride to Mexico and Guatemala; we watch as the happy couple moves to Bowen Island, a British Columbia community with just three paved roads. Pearl and the author marry and build their dream home and hobby farm. They encounter one obstacle after another while building their life together as Pearl’s perception of reality—and, crucially, their perception of each other—begins to change.
PRESS REVIEWS:
The bond that grows between strangers living in two worlds is compellingly described, bringing revelations about prejudice, acceptance, handicaps, and equality. Deafness and schizophrenia are seen through intense love and personal growth that brings a “you are here” feel in a way few memoirs achieve. The role of friends and family is examined as King stands by her while her mental health collapses. Anyone interested in mental illness or in the interactions between deaf and hearing lovers will find the book infused with a passion that makes it a riveting adventure through life and psyche that proves hard to put down.—Midwest Book Review Bookwatch http://donovansliteraryservices.com/june-2021-issue.html#lft
King’s powerful memoir is about the difficulty of dealing with a loved one’s mental illness and disability, and how falling in love with a deaf woman changed his life. His love for Pearl is well conveyed in concise, accessible terms that capture the challenges of falling in love with a person who sees the world in a different way. The coverage of the sexual, physical, and psychological abuse that she experienced is sobering. King’s narration strives to authentically capture his feelings in the moment. Rating: 4 out of 5.—Clarion Reviews Foreword https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/love-for-a-deaf-rebel/
This candid account of the author’s marriage to a deaf person vividly details their motorcycle adventure to Guatemala and life on Bowen Island. This poignant love story is well written and becomes a platform for facts about the life of deaf people, also delving into issues such as schizophrenia, blindness, and diabetes. Those interested in the stress that disabilities can place on relationships may wish to read this. Rating: Recommended.—The US Review of Books www.theusreview.com/reviews-1/Love-for-a-Deaf-Rebel-by-Derrick-King.html
King’s love story and memoir opens when he is approached by Pearl, a charismatic deaf woman. Their chat, scribbled on napkins, flows easily, and friendship blossoms. He learns sign language. They move together to isolated Bowen Island, sharing a life of livestock and ferry rides, where her behavior becomes increasingly erratic. King tells this honest and emotional story in crisp, quick prose, with insights and slight suspense, respecting Pearl’s story right up to its bittersweet finish.—Publisher’s Weekly Booklife booklife.com/project/love-for-a-deaf-rebel-schizophrenia-on-bowen-island-55735
READER COMMENTS:
I have been moved in so many ways by your story. You have made me laugh, and you have made me cry. I am in awe and want you to know your story has taken me to places inside of me to remember that nothing lasts and we must cherish things as they are. The light and the dark, the good and the bad, are intertwined. Looking back at our adventures and experiences, we see the truths in our life.—J.P.
This book is powerful! I loved it! I read the book three times, and it has been in my thoughts since my first reading. The author put his heart and soul into this book. His telling of the journey taken by Pearl and him is brilliant, heart-wrenching, and insightful. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed all the characters; I feel like I know them. Thank you so much for writing it and sharing it.—D.G.
I couldn’t put this book down. What crazy shit the author went through—he lived the lives of a thousand men!—D.B.
This book is fascinating and moving, an exotic love story however contorted the love. New Pearl was there all along, the alter-ego lying in wait to be discovered after the honeymoon. The author truly loved Pearl and was heartbroken by her ultimate failure to recognize his true love; how sad for her indeed! I hope this book goes viral.—P.W.
The author has done a masterful job of documenting Pearl’s journey. Schizophrenia is very complicated and not easily understood.—G.G.
This book is fascinating. The author is a good writer and my goodness but he has had an eventful life. We have all had our sagas of love lost, and it is unfortunate that each generation has to learn the lessons again with all the heartache.—I.V. [more]
Keywords: Bowen Island, Clozapine, Cochlear, Deaf, Deafness, Delusion, Dialectical, Disability, Hearing, Hidden Valley Road, Children of a Lesser God, Mental health, Mental illness, Psychotic, Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Thorazine, Vancouver, Marriage, Love, Man-woman relationships, Deaf-Marriage, Mentally ill-Marriage, Deaf-Family relationships, Schizophrenics-Family relationships, School for the Deaf, Nonfiction Love Story, Romance Non-Fiction, True Romance [more]
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Chandan Sengupta
Ethics of Shri Madbhagvadgita
Analysing Relevance of Shri Madbhagvadgita in Present day context
- Philosophy
- English
- 30190 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 22
Absolute knowledge cannot wait for any material set up to make it evident. It is more confluent than compared to the flow of water, faster than the speed of light and more luminous than the strong lumens like those of stars. It can make people understand things with clear apprehension of putting forth the segment of acts and conducts for the purpose of offering an understanding of facts, figures, events, mechanisms and confluence of information.
Due to lack of such absolute knowledge people often fail to understand the exact reasons behind the manifestation of the supreme power through different living forms. This supreme power resides with identical potential in all the individuals starting from tiny bacteria up to a giant whale. They all combine their own creations with the help of materials present in the real world in an absolute combination of certain format to give a prominent existence. Such individuals can move through the world with certain objectives of leading an assigned life until and unless a band of disintegration of such organic coordination breaks down due to death. In other words, energy is the only super natural power which regulates different components of nature on their way towards creation or destruction of any living form. Absolute knowledge only can make us understand the aspects related to creation and destruction. In Indian philosophy, natural components got the name Prakriti and the super natural component got the name Purush. Communion of Prakriti and Purush makes the creation possible. If such principle is true then it must be evident even at the atomic level of creation; at that level nuclear energy binds the positively charged protons along with some other uncharged particles to make the creation of nucleus possible. Electrons are bound to remain restricted around that empowered core. This mystery of creation signifies the claim of Veda regarding existence of Super Natural Power (BRAHMA)[1] in all the naturally occurring articles, “Brahma is at all places, within all particles and inside all the beings.”
It is the knowledge which becomes visible through various actions of a person. It is that knowledge which differentiates a sage from a beggar; it integrates individual apprehensions to materialize each minute actions of that individual for the purpose of defining the final destiny of that person amidst the turmoil of social interactions. That knowledge becomes the guiding force behind senses and guides those senses to assimilate the signals of desired types. Desire is the state of mind which makes the individual apprehension secure within the realm of human actions. It also ensures proper coordination of all the impulses of senses to materialize the desired action. Those guiding force even acts during the process of inter –personal communication. It enables a person to go for accepting or rejecting any communication bands duly offered by some other individual. Differences of such bands of sensual communications can define the enemy and friends from amongst the group of people came in contact. Distinction of friend and enemy creates a varying matrix of inter-personal communication inflicted with protecting or smashing any individual.
Knowledge increases with corresponding increase in the experiences and mind power. In due course of time mind becomes the store house of all the information and avails them to be used by the analytical segment of the brain as per need. Here lies the mystery of success and failure of coordinated senses. It can even define the proper culmination of both the components of the intellect for making the materialization of senses possible. Person with such kind of balanced mind and intellect can speak perfectly, can listen properly, can go for smelling and tasting right things and even can feel the presence of some wealthy impulses in the surrounding.
Any sort of imbalance of mind and intellect can make the senses unfit for materializing any perfect action. The Gita points out the essence of attainment of such kind of balances of mind and intellect for regulating senses and making them fit for right and timely actions.
[1] Section 14, Chapter 3, Upanishad:
Sarvam khalvidam brahma, tajjalaniti santa upasita, atha khalu kratumayah puruso yatha-kratur-asmin-loke puruso bhavati tathetah pretya bhavati, sa kratum kurvita.
Meaning: Brahma is the only supreme power. Everything comes from that, sustain in that and finally returns to that, is the only power which empowers us all. People study all the aspects related to what dissolves in that, comes from that and works due to that. [more]
Keywords: Gita, Philosophy, Humanity, Nonviolence, Religion, Yoga, Meditation, Peace
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Max Heindel
An Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution,Present Constitution And Future Development
- Esotericism
- English
- 161313 Words
- Ages 18 and up
This book is written by Max Heindel, the founder, and Messenger of The Rosicrucian Fellowship. This is a reference book of the Fellowship students and Probationers. This book is also referred as Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity.
The founder of the Christian Religion stated an occult maxim when He said: “Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter therein” (Mark 10:15). All occultists recognize the far-reaching importance of this teaching of Christ and endeavor to “live” it day by day.
When a new philosophy is presented to the world it is met in different ways by different people.
One person will grasp with avidity any new philosophical effort in an endeavor to ascertain how far it supports his own ideas. To such an one the philosophy itself is of minor importance. Its prime value will be its vindication of HIS ideas. If the work comes up to expectation in that respect, he will enthusiastically adopt it and cling to it with a most unreasoning partisanship; if not, he will probably lay the book down in disgust and disappointment, feeling as if the author had done him an injury.
Another adopts an attitude of skepticism as soon as he discovers that it contains something which HE has not previously read, heard, or originated in his own thought. He would probably resent as extremely unjustified the accusation that his mental attitude is the acme of self- satisfaction and intolerance; such is nevertheless the case; and thus he shuts his mind to any truth which may possibly be hidden in that which he off-hand rejects.
Both these classes stand in their own light. “Set” ideas render them impervious to rays of truth. “A little child” is the very opposite of its elders in that respect. It is not imbued with an overwhelming sense of superior knowledge, nor does it feel compelled to look wise or to hide its
nescience of any subject by a smile or a sneer. It is frankly ignorant, unfettered by preconceived opinions and therefore eminently teachable. It takes everything with that beautiful attitude of trust which we have designated “child-like faith,” wherein there is not the shadow of a doubt. There the child holds the teaching it receives until proven or disproven.
In all occult schools the pupil is first taught to forget all else when a new teaching is being given, to allow neither preference nor prejudice to govern, but to keep the mind in a state of calm, dignified waiting. As skepticism will blind us to truth in the most effective manner, so this calm, trustful attitude of the mind will allow the intuition, or “teaching from within,” to become aware of the truth contained in the proposition. That is the only way to cultivate an absolutely certain perception of truth.
The pupil is not required to believe off-hand that a given object which he has observed to be white, is really black, when such a statement is made to him; but he must cultivate an attitude of mind which “believeth all things” as possible. That will allow him to put by for the time being even what are generally considered “established facts,” and investigate if perchance there be another viewpoint hitherto unobserved by him whence the object referred to would appear black. Indeed, he would not allow himself to look upon anything as “an established fact,” for he realizes thoroughly the importance of keeping his mind in the fluidal state of adaptability which characterizes the little child. He realizes in every fiber of his being that “now we see through a glass, darkly,” and Ajax-like he is ever on the alert, yearning for “Light, more Light.”
The enormous advantage of such an attitude of mind when investigating any given subject, object or idea must be apparent. Statements which appear positively and
unequivocally contradictory, which have caused an immense amount of feeling among the advocates of opposite sides, may nevertheless be capable of perfect reconciliation, as shown in one such instance mentioned in the present work. The bond of concord is only discovered by the open mind, however, and though the present work may be found to differ from others, the writer would bespeak an impartial hearing as the basis of subsequent judgment. If the book is “weighed and found wanting,” the writer will have no complaint. He only fears a hasty judgment based upon lack of knowledge of the system he advocates—a hearing wherein the judgment is “wanting” in consequence of having been denied an impartial “weighing.” He would further submit, that the only opinion worthy of the one who expresses it must be based upon knowledge.
As a further reason for care in judgment we suggest that to many it is exceedingly difficult to retract a hastily expressed opinion. Therefore it is urged that the reader withhold all expressions of either praise or blame until study of the work has reasonably satisfied him of its merit or demerit.
The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception is not dogmatic, neither does it appeal to any other authority than the reason of the student. It is not controversial, but is sent forth in the hope that it may help to clear some of the difficulties which have beset the minds of students of the deeper philosophies in the past. In order to avoid serious misunderstanding, it should be firmly impressed upon the mind of the student, however, that there is no infallible revelation of this complicated subject, which includes everything under the sun and above it also.
An infallible exposition would predicate omniscience upon the part of the writer, and even the Elder Brothers tell
us that they are sometimes at fault in their judgment, so a book which shall say the last word on the World-Mystery is out of the question, and the writer of the present work does not pretend to give aught but the most elementary teachings of the Rosicrucians.
The Rosicrucian Brotherhood has the most far-reaching, the most logical conception of the World-Mystery of which the writer has gained any knowledge during the many years he has devoted exclusively to the study of this subject. So far as he has been able to investigate, their teachings have been found in accordance with facts as he knows them. Yet he is convinced that The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception is far from being the last word on the subject; that as we advance greater vistas of truth will open to us and make clear many things which we now “see through a glass, darkly.” At the same time he firmly believes that all other philosophies of the future will follow the same main lines, for they appear to be absolutely true.
In view of the foregoing it will be plain that this book is not considered by the writer as the Alpha and Omega, the ultimate of occult knowledge, and even though it is entitled The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, the writer desires to strongly emphasize that is not to be understood as a “faith once for all delivered” to the Rosicrucians by the founder of the Order or by any other individual. It is emphatically stated that this work embodies only the writer's understanding of the Rosicrucian teachings concerning the World-Mystery, strengthened by his personal investigations of the inner Worlds, the antenatal and postmortem states of man, etc. The responsibility which devolves upon one who wittingly or unwittingly leads others astray is clearly realized by the writer, and he wishes to guard himself as far as possible against that contingency, and also to guard others
against the possibility of going wrong inadvertently.
What is said in this work is to be accepted or rejected by the reader according to his own discretion. All diligence has been used in trying to understand the teaching; great pains have been taken to put it into words that shall be easily understood. For that reason only one term has been used throughout the work to convey each idea. The same word will have the same meaning wherever used. When any word descriptive of an idea is first used, the clearest definition possible to the writer is given. None but English terms and the simplest language have been employed. The writer has constantly endeavored to give as exact and definite descriptions of the subject under consideration as possible; to eliminate all ambiguity and to make everything clear. How far he has succeeded must be left to the student to judge; but having diligently used every possible endeavor to convey the teaching, he feels compelled to guard also against the possibility of this work being taken as an authoritative statement of the Rosicrucian teachings. Neglect of this precaution might give undue weight to this work in the minds of some students. That would not be fair to the Brotherhood nor to the reader. It would have a tendency to throw the responsibility upon the Brotherhood for the mistakes which must occur in this as in all other human works. Hence the above warning.
During the four years which have elapsed since the foregoing paragraphs were written, the writer has continued his investigations of the invisible worlds, and experienced the expansion of consciousness relative to these realms of nature which comes by practice of the precepts taught in the Western Mystery School. Others also who have followed the method of soul-unfoldment herein described as particularly suited to the Western peoples, have likewise been enabled to
verify for themselves many things here taught. Thus the writer's understanding of what was given by the Elder Brothers has received some corroboration and seems to have been substantially correct, therefore he feels it a duty to state this for the encouragement of those who are still unable to see for themselves.
If we had said that the vital body is built of prisms instead of points, it would have been better, for it is by refraction through these minute prisms that the colorless solar fluid changes to a rosy hue as observed by other writers beside the author.
Other new and important discoveries have also been made; for instance, we know now that the Silver Cord is grown anew in each life, that one part sprouts from the seed atom of the desire body in the great vortex of the liver, that the other part grows out of the seed atom of the dense body in the heart, that both parts meet in the seed atom of the vital body in the solar plexus, and that this union of the higher and lower vehicles causes the quickening. Further development of the cord between the heart and solar plexus during the first seven years has an important bearing on the mystery of childlife, likewise its fuller growth from the liver to the solar plexus, which takes place during the second septenary period, is a contributory cause of adolescence. Completion of the Silver Cord marks the end of childlife, and from that time the solar energy which enters through the spleen and is tinted by refraction through the prismatic seed atom of the vital body located in the solar plexus, commences to give a distinctive and individual coloring to the aura which we observe in adults. [more]
Keywords: rosicrucian fellowship, max heindel, cosmo
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