Althar - The Crystal Dragon

Althar - The Crystal Dragon
Author: Joachim Wolffram
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2016-07-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781535231565

Althar introduces himself as a crystal dragon and sheds light on the role of dragons in the greater reality. He explains in detail why the last steps of going beyond the human limitations are so challenging and offers his insights on how to master them. Thereby, Althar talks about the light body and emphasizes particularly the necessity to let go of the emotional body. Althar also gives explanations concerning the essence of energy and characterizes the angelic family of Uriel. He finally speaks about the "Third round of Creation," which he calls the dream underlying the dream of ascension, and invites the reader to feel into that grander vision of existence. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The Dragon of Compassion; 3. An Ambassador of Creation; 4. I am Althar; 5. Seeing through the Dragon's Eyes; 6. About the Light Body; 7. More about the Light Body; 8. Dissolving the Emotional Body; 9. The Mind and the Emotional Body; 10. The End of Being a Limited Human; 11. The Essence of Energy; 12. The Family of Uriel; 13. The Principle of Ascension; 14. More on Dragons and Crystal Dragons; 15. The Third Round of Creation; 16. A Note from True Self Reviews of the English Edition: ***** "A Masterpiece" ***** "I love this book and highly recommend it" ***** "Amazing and Enlightening" ***** "Such a great message, this book brought me so much clarity" ***** "Incredibly clear book" ***** "The Final Step"

The Secret Supper

The Secret Supper
Author: Javier Sierra
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0743287657

Milan, 1497: Leonardo da Vinci is completing his masterpiece, The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling -- and blasphemous -- message, which he is determined to decode. The Holy Grail and the Eucharistic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table and, shockingly, the apostles are portraits of well-known heretics -- none of them depicted with halos. And why has the artist painted himself into the scene with his back turned toward Jesus? The clues to Leonardo's greatest puzzle are right before your eyes....

Altar Ego Bible Study Guide

Altar Ego Bible Study Guide
Author: Craig Groeschel
Publisher: HarperChristian Resources
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310693020

Discover your true identity in Christ. Many of us live for approval of others. The problem is that living for what people think of you is the quickest way to forget what God thinks of you. In this 5-session video study guide (DVD/digital video sold separately), pastor and author of Winning the War in Your Mind Craig Groeschel shows individuals and small groups how to abandon self-worth based on accomplishments and possessions, turning instead to God to find out who we are. You'll learn to expose false labels and selfish motives, sacrificing them on the altar of God's truth. As you discover your true identity in Christ, your altar ego will drive your actions, empowering you to live according to God's higher values with a deep confidence in His calling. Rather than living a timid, halfhearted, shallow cultural Christianity, you'll boldly live in the confidence of the God who believes in you. Are you willing to lay it all on the altar? The Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God's divine plan, and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old, unhealthy, untrue, and unbiblical thoughts about yourself and introduce you to your altar-ego—who you are in Christ. Sessions include: Overcoming the Labels that Bind You You Are God's Masterpiece Trading the Immediate for the Ultimate Living with Integrity Developing Spiritual Boldness Designed for use with Altar Ego Video Study 9780310894933 (sold separately).

The Vedic Altar Updated

The Vedic Altar Updated
Author: Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea)
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2023-07-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

‘The objective of the 9th Avatar’s descent was to reverse the direction spirituality had taken with its almost exclusive emphasis on an otherworldly realisation, leaving the Earth to her own devices; and to establish a life divine on this very planet, to bring heaven upon Earth, as the Scriptures state. How can this best be achieved, is the question the sincere seeker must ask. Yogic realisations of the old schools, even if they could be extended beyond the single realiser to many others, would still not have the power to bring about any universal transformation, the signature of the Aquarian Age. Sri Aurobindo made this clear: it is not merely the goal of his mission that is different from the old Yogas: it is the process as well… This means that the supramental Truth-Consciousness must arrange its manifestation in such a manner that in the becoming of its being, or its innermost essence, that divine life is manifested for all to see on Earth… there has to be a revelation with great precision in keeping with the character of Supermind, of exactly how the transformation can be accomplished. That revelation is the Mother’s chamber. It is the seed of all that is to follow.’ (Part 11, page 87)

The Altar at Home

The Altar at Home
Author: Claudia Stokes
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0812246373

Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental literature, Claudia Stokes counters the long-standing characterization of sentimental piety as blandly nondescript and demonstrates that these works were in fact groundbreaking, assertive, and highly specific in their theological recommendations and endorsements. The Altar at Home explores the many religious contexts and contents of sentimental literature of the American nineteenth century, from the growth of Methodism in the Second Great Awakening and popular millennialism to the developing theologies of Mormonism and Christian Science. Through analysis of numerous contemporary religious debates, Stokes demonstrates how sentimental writers, rather than offering simple depictions of domesticity, instead manipulated these scenes to advocate for divergent new beliefs and bolster their own religious authority. On the one hand, the comforting rhetoric of domesticity provided a subtle cover for sentimental writers to advance controversial new beliefs, practices, and causes such as Methodism, revivalism, feminist theology, and even the legitimacy of female clergy. On the other hand, sentimentality enabled women writers to bolster and affirm their own suitability for positions of public religious leadership, thereby violating the same domestic enclosure lauded by the texts. The Altar at Home offers a fascinating new historical perspective on the dynamic role sentimental literature played in the development of innumerable new religious movements and practices, many of which remain popular today.

The Head Beneath the Altar

The Head Beneath the Altar
Author: Brian Collins
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1628950129

In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was man. And from man’s sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The Head Beneath the Altar is the first book to present a wide-ranging study of Hindu texts read through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory of the sacrificial origin of religion and culture. For those interested in Girard and comparative religion, the book also performs a careful reading of Girard’s work, drawing connections between his thought and the work of theorists like Georges Dumézil and Giorgio Agamben. Brian Collins examines the idea of sacrifice from the earliest recorded rituals through the flowering of classical mythology and the ancient Indian institutions of the duel, the oath, and the secret warrior society. He also uncovers implicit and explicit critiques in the tradition, confirming Girard’s intuition that Hinduism offers an alternative anti-sacrificial worldview to the one contained in the gospels.

The Soul Always Thinks

The Soul Always Thinks
Author: Wolfgang Giegerich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000176444

C. G. Jung regarded the soul to be a reality in its own right which reflects itself in all manner of images and events. symbols and traditions. In this fourth volume of his Collected English Papers, Giegerich recalls the soul to the inwardness of its own home territory by bringing out the thought-character of the self-creating, self-unfolding logical life that it is. In addition to clarifying what thought means for psychology and analyzing certain misconceptions surrounding the topic of "soul and thought" a challenging thesis concerning the limitation of an imaginal, "anima-only" approach in psychology (given the essential historicity of the soul) is carefully argued, while examining at the same time such topics as "the end of meaning and the birth of man," "anima mundi and time", "the metamorphosis of the gods," and the logical steps involved in the transition from childhood to adulthood and from a psychological oneness with nature to modern alienation from nature. The book also discusses the notion of the soul’s logical life and shows in action the psychological procedure of "absolute-negative interiorization" of phenomena into their soul and truth in a number of in-depth examinations of particular phenomena (e.g. Heraclitus’ dictum about the soul’s depth, the "leap into the solid stone," the negativity of the "stone which is not a stone"). In thorough-going critical engagements with other authors in the field, it demonstrates specific instances where psychology fails to do its job due to faulty presuppositions, above all psychology’s failure to face the modern world. It emphasizes the active role of the mind in soul-making as the making of psychic reality. It addresses the questions of the future of psychology and whether progress in psychology is possible.

Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c. 500–1450

Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c. 500–1450
Author: Claudia Bolgia
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000949982

Prominently located on the Arx, the northern summit of the Capitoline hill, S. Maria in Aracoeli is the most significant medieval church of Rome to survive to the present day. Second major church of the Lesser Brothers or fratres minores in the Italian peninsula, and Roman headquarters of the Order, the Aracoeli played a vital role in the interaction between the Franciscans and the papacy, the friars and the laity, and the religious and civic authorities, as reflected in its art and architecture. On the basis of an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological analysis with the finding of new archival evidence, reinterpretation of documents and literary and epigraphic sources, this book offers a reconstruction of the original church, its monuments and its Benedictine as well as eighth/ninth-century predecessors, which differs radically from earlier hypotheses. This reassessment in turn allows the author to revisit a number of major questions, including the Franciscans’ physical and theoretical appropriation of the past, the adaptation of an ancient site by a ‘modern’ religious order, the use and functions of space, the interaction between friars, laity and artists, and the contribution of the Roman Franciscans to the development of Marian devotion, thus shedding new light on the social, political and religious history of late-medieval Italy and its impact beyond the peninsula, from England to Bohemia and the Holy Land.

Althar - The Final Letting Go

Althar - The Final Letting Go
Author: Joachim Wolffram
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2018-08-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781724810212

In "The Final Letting Go," Althar states that all the explanations he has given so far were essentially a preparation for the final letting go. By that he means the release of the belief that separation is real. In Althar's words, this belief is the root cause of all existence within polarity. No matter which spiritual path someone has chosen, in the end he is confronted with the final letting go. Althar describes an alternative view of the world of polarity and explains why a being is choosing rather than creating its reality. Furthermore, this worldview opens up a completely different view of the seemingly omnipresent energy. He describes the nature of True Creation and why there cannot be True Creation within polarity. Only with letting go of the belief in separation will True Creation become the natural expression of an enlightened being. As in the previous volumes, Althar emphasizes that enlightenment is not created, but is exposed by letting go. With respect to embodied ascension, he describes in detail the general conditions for the realization of the light body and suggests in this regard an extremely effective exercise. As in the previous volumes, Althar succeeds in expressing his timeless wisdom in a very clear and humorous way. In doing so, he very personally incorporates the reader into his remarks and reminds him time and again of his own inner wisdom. Contents: About the Final Letting Go; The Root Cause of Polarity; The Ambassador of Yourself; Jumping Off the Cliff - Or How it All Began; The Name of Your True Self; The Song of True Creation; Existence in Expanding Perfection; Peter and the Dark Lady; The Magic of Your Light Body; The Myth of Creation; The Myth of Creating Your Reality; The Myth of Energy; The Myth of Beauty; The Myth of Companionship; The Melancholy of the Final Death; The Final Letting Go; In a Quite Moment; The Althar series consists of: Volume 1: "Althar - The Crystal Dragon" Volume 2: "Althar - The New Magi" Volume 3: "Althar - Towards Utopia" Volume 4: "Althar - The Final Letting Go"