Michael Drosnin
For 3000 years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer - and it may reveal our future. The code, broken by an Israeli mathematician, foretells events that happened thousands of years after the Bible was written. It foresaw both Kennedy assassinations, the Oklahoma bombing - everything from World War II to Watergate, from the Holocaust to the Moon landing. "On September 1, 1994, I flew to Isreal and met in Jerusalem with a close friend of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the poet Chaim Guri. I gave him a letter which he immediately gave to the Prime Minister. "An Israeli mathematician has discovered a hidden code in the bible that appears to reveal the details of events that took place thousands of years after the bible was written," my letter to Rabin stated. "The reason I'm telling you about this is that the only time your full name-Yitzhak Rabin-is encoded in the bible, the words 'assassin that will assassinate' cross your name." On November 4, 1995, came the awful confirmation, a shot in the back from a man who believed he was on a mission from God, the murder that was encoded in the bible three thousand years ago." -from the Bible Code. Remainder mark.
Bible Code II: The Countdown starts with 9/11 and counts down to Armageddon. For 3000 years a code in the Bible remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer, and it reveals events that will happened thousands of years after the Bible was written. Often world-shaking events are predicted in advance - and then happen exactly as foretold. Do we really have only years to survive? Or can the Bible code help save our world? Can we use it to change our future? This is the thrilling sequel to the #1 bestseller that shook the world.
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Gerard Bodson
The Book of Revelation is the most mysterious, troubling and complex of all the books that make up the Bible. It is believed to contain the secrets of the very end of human existence. In 1994, Gerard Bodson was in Greece defending his candidacy for the European Parliament when he met Father Alexander during a retreat on Mount Athos. The monk shared his own fascination with the Book of Revelation and agreed with him that numbers - in particular 666, the number of the Beast - could hold the key to the prophetic secrets of this last book in The Bible. Inspired, Bodson returned to France, where he brought together a team of researchers including Catholic theologians, Jewish Kabbalists and computer scientists. Their mission was to decipher Saint John's mysterious text. In a book that reads like a great detective story, Bodson shows how he, along with Father Alexander and the team of researchers, cracked the code to reveal the first revelations of the Beast - a detailed prophecy of World War II. But Revelation refers to two Beasts, not one, and the meaning of the second Beast is in the foretelling of World War III, which will be sooner than we might think. Originally, the team had not intended to publish their findings, but recent world events have provoked them to do so, for the prophecies that they have unearthed are already in the process of unfolding around us.
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Jeffrey Satinover
The discovery that precise, descriptions of earth-shaking events seem to be encoded into the first five books of the Bible has captured the world's attention. No one in ancient times could have had such knowledge, but if no individual put the codes there, who did? If the codes are proven to be genuine, they would be tantamount to scientific proof of the existence of God. Cracking the Bible Code is the first accurate account of the codes-a story far more stunning than has yet been told. Dr. Satinover traces the fascinating tradition of the codes, counters sensational and inaccurate representations, explains the controversy over their authenticity, and clarifies their implications for our view of God, faith, and fate. Sweeping from ancient history to cutting-edge science, this is must reading for anyone who seeks to make sense of the codes and their meaning for humankind.
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Gregg Braden
What would it mean to discover an ancient language - a literal message - hidden within the DNA of life itself? What we once believed of our past is about to change... A coded message has been found within the molecules of life, deep within the DNA in each cell of our bodies. Through a remarkable discovery linking Biblical alphabets to our genetic code, the “language of life” may now be read as the ancient letters of a timeless message. Regardless of race, religion, heritage, or lifestyle, the message is the same in each cell of every woman, child, and man, past and present. Sharing all-new, fascinating research, Gregg Braden discusses the life-changing discovery that led him from a successful career in the aerospace and defense industries to an extensive 12-year study of the most sacred and honored traditions of humankind.
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Hildegard of Bingen was widely consulted as an oracle and prophet and wrote prolifically on doctrinal matters, as well as on secular matters like medicine. Scivias, her major religious work, consists of twenty-six visions, which are first set down literally as she saw them, and are then explained exegetically. As a group the visions form a theological summa of Christian doctrine and are famous for their feminine and creative imagery of the divine. EMAINDER MARK.
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Burton L. Mack
"If its premise is accepted by a preponderance of theologians, this debatable study could bring about a rethinking of the origins of Christianity. Mack presents an analysis of the so-called Book of Q , a supposed collection of Jesus's sayings that was compiled by his followers during his lifetime. Certain scholars, deducing the existence of the book, have reconstructed the putative text of this "lost gospel" during the last 20 years through a comparison of the gospels of Matthew and Luke, who, it is contended, used Q as a common basis (Q stands for Quelle , German for "source"). Mack, a professor of New Testament at the School of Theology at Claremont College in Los Angeles, concludes that "the people of Q" - Jesus's contemporaries - thought of him as a teacher, not as a messiah, and that they did not regard his death as a divine or saving event. Mack offers an earthy, colloquial translation of the Book of Q with its wisdom sayings, exhortations, parables and apocalyptic pronouncements. His portrayal of the early Jesus movement reveals a community based on fictive kinship without regard to class, gender or ethnicity. The discovery of Q , Mack argues, compels us to see the New Testament gospels as imaginative creations rather than historical accounts." - Publishers Weekly. REMAINDER MARK.
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Annie Kirkwood
In 1987, an extraordinary thing happened to Annie Kirkwood, a nurse living quietly near Dallas. She began to feel the presence of the Virgin Mary, entrusting to her messages of love and hope for the world. Mary's message to the world is eloquent, enlightening, and profoundly hopeful. In these pages are predictions of how the earth will be transformed in the coming years, and guidance on coping with such changes. More important, Mary pleads for universal acceptance, urging all people to love one another, and to seek spiritual understanding by prayer and meditation - through whatever religious tradition they find most comfortable. Mary's uplifting words about love, energy, truth, and prayer - and her special message to families - reveal the heart of a compassionate Mother who yearns to bring peace and meaning to our time here on Earth. Remainder mark.
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Albertus Magnus
One of the classics of Christian mysticism, this spiritual guide was written during the 12th century by Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus), commonly known as the Universal Doctor. An expression of his personal mysticism, it describes how God must be worshipped in spirit, the mind cleared of images and free from the distractions of mortal senses.
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Thomas Merton
"In this volume of previously unpublished writings (the fifth installment of his journals), Merton speaks of his new life as a hermit and his reactions to contemporary upheavals in the Catholic Church and American society. Having spent over 20 years in the strictly communal life of the Trappist Cistercian Order, Merton finally obtained permission to live in solitude. Although this move was clearly a way for him to follow his bohemian and intellectual bent, it gave expression to his deep desire to seek God absolutely, free from the trivia that often complicated life in the Abbey. These journal entries illustrate both modes of Merton's existence. He discusses his omnivorous (and apparently random) reading of such writers as Rilke, Nietzsche, Neruda, Flannery O'Connor, and Simone Weil. He corresponds with contemporary intellectuals, including the Buddhist scholar Marco Pallis and Zen master D.T. Suzuki, even visiting the latter in New York. We see Merton's exasperation with US policy in Vietnam and with the South's racial practices, his excitement at developments in the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council, and his misgivings at the Church's liturgical changes (e.g., the Passion Gospel read in English instead of sung in Latin strikes him as ``liturgical vaudeville'' and devoid of imagination). Merton supports the peace movement and distrusts the optimistic cliches of contemporary American culture, lamenting an increasingly Americanized world without cultural roots. Vignettes of daily life in the Abbey and in the hermitage form a background for each of these pages. We see Merton struggling with the mediocrity of his abbot and his own inconsistencies. His relentless introspection makes challenging reading, while his copious allusions to spiritual writings down the centuries open to us the sources of his own rich inner life. Merton at his best: sophisticated, honest, humorous, and mystical." - Kirkus Reviews.
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Andrew Harvey
Son of Man is a celebration of the mystical Christ and a practical guidebook to contacting Christ and experiencing what St. Paul called "the glorious liberty of the children of God." Andrew Harvey has been called one of the true prophets and mystics of our time. In Son of Man, Harvey's long-awaited and stunning new book, he begins by explaining that Christ came to help release humanity from all bonds of false authority and to reveal to people their own divine identity, thereby awakening all to the freedom, dignity, and joy that were within them. Harvey then presents an anthology of texts that have shaped his radical vision of Christ-consciousness: the Gospels, recently discovered Gnostic gospels, and the writings of Macarius the Great, St. John of the Cross, Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Emily Dickinson, and others. In the final section, Harvey offers transformative ways of realizing the power of Christ. These practices are drawn from early Christian traditions of mantra, medieval mystic devotions, the vision of prayer of Teresa of Avila, and from the author's own experiences of the meditation and visualization practices of Hinduism, Sufism, and Tibetan Buddhism. Remainder mark.
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Norman Golb
N orman Golb has produced a compelling new interpretation of the origin and meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The subject of unending fascination and controversy since their discovery in the Qumran caves in 1947, Professor Golb intensifies the debate. Ground-breaking work. Remainder mark.
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