The Ladder To Heaven

Author : Mike Shanahan
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781783522378

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Ladders to Heaven by Mike Shanahan Pdf

"Irresistible" - Literary Review Fig trees have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways: they are wish-fulfillers, rainforest royalty, more precious than gold. Ladders to Heaven tells their incredible story. They fed our pre-human ancestors, influenced diverse cultures and played a key role in the birth of civilisation. More recently, they helped restore life after Krakatoa's catastrophic eruption and proved instrumental in Kenya's struggle for independence. Figs now sustain more species of bird and mammal than any other fruit – in a time of falling trees and rising temperatures, they offer hope. Theirs is a story about humanity's relationship with nature, as relevant to our past as it is to our future.

Author : Vassilios Papavassiliou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 1936270897

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Thirty Steps to Heaven by Vassilios Papavassiliou Pdf

Many laypeople have attempted to read the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, but have been frustrated in attempting to apply the lessons of this monastic text to their everyday lives in the world. Archimandrite Vassilios interprets the Ladder for the ordinary Christian without sacrificing any of its beauty and power. Now you too can accept the challenge offered by St. John Climacus to ascend closer to God with each passing day.--

Author : Peter Levenda
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826428509

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Stairway to Heaven by Peter Levenda Pdf

The idea of heavenly ascent, while popularized in Jewish mysticism, is neither a unique nor recent one. Expertly tracing its origins back to the ancient Middle East, Levenda unearths ascent literature in Africa, India, and China, discerns a common connection in the heavens themselves, and determines that this connection has been sorely neglected in contemporary scholarship. Because scholars treat the "heavens" as metaphorical, it is necessary to recreate the physical context of the culture under discussion in order to better understand it. For the benefit of the reader, Levenda offers two useful concepts for his investigative journey: a "map," whereby he means the cosmological system to better understand the mystical technologies of each culture investigated, and a "vehicle," the method by which the individual equipped with special knowledge is able to navigate the culture's particular cosmology. With these two tools, Levenda travels from the worlds of ancient Egypt and Babylon to the Hebrew Bible, to Jewish and Christian kabbalists, to Daoists in ancient China, to Hindu Tantra and Haitian Vodoun, and, finally, to nineteenth and twentieth century European occult societies.

Author : Peter Levenda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441117045

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Stairway to Heaven by Peter Levenda Pdf

Stairway to Heaven is an incredibly broad ranging new study that stretches from ancient Egypt and Babylon to Jewish and Christian Kabbalists, Chinese Daoists, Hindu Tantra and Haitian Vodun and finally to 19th and 20th century European occult societies, uncovering a hitherto unrecognized common myth that has been employed the world over in roughly the same form since the earliest recorded texts. Beginning with the oldest form of Jewish mysticism and extending this search through the dead sea scrolls, Levenda reveals a consistent emphasis on the number seven and its association with heavenly themes, including those of a chariot, a Throne, a Temple and a divine Being. The author then examines the myths and rituals of egypt, sumer and Babylon to locate the origin of this myth and comes up with some surprising results in the ascent rituals of the middle east. Shifting to the far east, Levenda demonstrates how the mystical practices of China and India display important similarities to these rituals, most notably in the practices of the Chinese alchemists who used a map of seven stars as their ladder to heaven. Reinforced by visits to the Buddhist shrine of Borobudur in indonesia, Levenda concludes that there was a myth common to peoples across the ancient world that an ascent to the heavens was possible using a ladder of seven stars, a process running parallel to the alchemical idea of the perfection of metals and the perfectibility of the soul. This concept was enshrined in the rituals of the Western secret societies of the 19th and 20th centuries such as the golden dawn and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, and influenced the development of new age occultism. exhaustive in scope and revealing in its scholarship, Stairway to Heaven casts a fascinating new multidisciplinary perspective on the mystical practices of heavenly ascent.

Author : Saint John (Climacus)
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809123304

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The Ladder of Divine Ascent by Saint John (Climacus) Pdf

John Climacus (c. 579-649) was abbot of the monastery of Catherine on Mount Sinai. His Ladder was the most widely used handbook of the ascetical life in the ancient Greek Church.

Author : MK Fields
Publisher : Rosarius Publishing House
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0974607401

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A Ladder from Earth to Heaven by MK Fields Pdf

This guide presents the Protestant rosary--giving you a valuable tool to honor and praise our Lord's life in daily meditative prayer.

Author : Avraham Gileadi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0910511063

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Isaiah Decoded by Avraham Gileadi Pdf

The author reveals a new dimension to Isaiah's prophecies that uses Israel's ancient history as an allegory of an end-time scenario, preempting the New Testament by teaching the path through which God empowers his children to ascend to the highest heaven.

Author : Jim Forest,James H. Forest
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608330829

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The Ladder of the Beatitudes by Jim Forest,James H. Forest Pdf

Drawing on stories from the lives of the saints, scripture, and everyday life, Jim Forest opens up the mysteries of the Beatitudes. These ancient blessings, with which Christ began his Sermon on the Mount, are all aspects of communion with God. As Forest shows, they are like rungs on a ladder, each one leading to the next. They appear at the doorway of the New Testament to provide an easily memorized summary of everything that follows, right down to the crucifixion ("Blessed are you who are persecuted") and the resurrection ("Rejoice and be glad").

Author : Mike Shanahan
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Ficus (Plants)
ISBN : 9781603587143

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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers by Mike Shanahan Pdf

They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers rainforest royalty more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers tells their amazing story.

Author : Heaven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101051382172

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A Ladder of Heaven by Heaven Pdf

Author : Ellen Gould Harmon White
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Devotional calendars
ISBN : 0828015015

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Our High Calling by Ellen Gould Harmon White Pdf

Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385692922

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A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne Pdf

The new novel from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Heart's Invisible Furies, a seductive Highsmithian psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of fame. If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don't even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very early on in his career. A chance encounter in a West Berlin hotel with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann gives him an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone more powerful. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell. Whether or not he should do so is another matter. Once Maurice has made his name, he sets off in pursuit of other people's stories. He doesn't care where he finds them--or to whom they belong--as long as they help him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse. A psychological drama of cat and mouse, A Ladder to the Sky shows how easy it is to achieve the world if you are prepared to sacrifice your soul.

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780736306263

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The Building of God by Witness Lee Pdf

Author : Claudiu Gilian
Publisher : Claudiu-Gilian Chircu
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Secrets of the Gods by Claudiu Gilian Pdf

What would it be like to realize one day that everything you believed to be true was nothing but a lie? That you lived in an illusion constantly fed by those around you? That reality is often diametrically opposed to the chimera that was inoculated to you? That to learn the truth you need to forget everything you know? - What is God? - Are aliens real? - Is the material universe just an illusion? - Why are we here, where do we come from and where do we go after death? - Is Earth a prison? - Are humans the descendants of the gods of the past? - Is the Bible just a collection of plagiarized myths? - Was Christianity invented by Philo of Alexandria? - Was the Garden of Eden located on the territory of today's Romania? - Are Lucifer and Adam the same character? - Is Noah's Ark one of the Giza pyramids? - Is the Great Pyramid an interdimensional travel device? - Was the prophet Abraham a descendant of the Akkadian emperor Sargon the Great? - Was Moses really Pharaoh Akhenaton? - Is there an unseen war between the Aryan and Semitic races? - Did Alexander the Great discover the source of life in Dacia? - Did Pharaoh Tutankhamun's family practice black magic? - Does the Asteroid Belt come from the Mariana Trench? - Are the fallen angels at the top of the Masonic pyramid? - Is time travel possible? - Is the Apocalypse an event of the past? - Was Jesus possessed? All these questions (and many more) can be answered by "The Secrets of the Gods", a secret history of the world, based on the decoding of ancient myths, as well as on the results of modern scientific research. A unique and controversial interpretation of universal history, which brings to the general public the secrets of the gods, until now reserved only for the initiated.

Author : Fannie Flagg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588366191

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Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg Pdf

Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elner’s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch–and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, “What is life all about, anyway?” Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Tot’s Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security. In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep. Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven is proof once more that Fannie Flagg “was put on this earth to write” (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.