Seven Footprints of Satan

Seven Footprints of Satan
Author: Abraham Merritt
Publisher: eStar Books
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2014-10-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612108490

Satan has kidnapped an intrepid adventurer! He wants to hire him for a few little… projects… however one must be careful when dealing with Satan for you never know what evil plans he has in store for you or his other minions!

Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined

Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined
Author: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004424806

Fears and stories about an underground religion devoted to Satan, which demands and carries out child sacrifice, appeared in the United States in the late twentieth century and became the subject of media reports supported by some mental health professionals. Examining these modern fantasies leads us back to ancient stories which in some cases believers consider the height of religious devotion. Horrifying ideas about human sacrifice, child sacrifice, and the offering to the gods of a beloved only son by his father appear repeatedly in Western traditions, starting with the Greeks and the Hebrews. In Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined, Beit-Hallahmi focuses on rituals of violence tied to religion, both imagined and real. The main focus of this work is the meaning of blood and ritual killing in the history of religion. The book examines the encounter with the idea of child sacrifice in the context of human hopes for salvation.

Histories of the Devil

Histories of the Devil
Author: Jeremy Tambling
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137518324

This book is about representations of the devil in English and European literature. Tracing the fascination in literature, philosophy, and theology with the irreducible presence of what may be called evil, or comedy, or the carnivalesque, this book surveys the parts played by the devil in the texts derived from the Faustus legend, looks at Marlowe and Shakespeare, Rabelais, Milton, Blake, Hoffmann, Baudelaire, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, and Mann, historically, speculatively, and from the standpoint of critical theory. It asks: Is there a single meaning to be assigned to the idea of the diabolical? What value lies in thinking diabolically? Is it still the definition of a good poet to be of the devil's party, as Blake argued?

"Tsar and God" and Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics

Author: Victor Zhivov
Publisher: Ars Rossica
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781618118042

Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in English for the fi rst time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia's cultural development, these essaysexamine the survival and the reconceptualization of the past in later cultural systems and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. The essays in this collection contain some important examples of Russian cultural semiotics and remain indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization.

Not in His Image (15th Anniversary Edition)

Not in His Image (15th Anniversary Edition)
Author: John Lamb Lash
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2021-09-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 164502136X

“Lash is capable of explaining the mind-bending concepts of Gnosticism and pagan mystery cults with bracing clarity and startling insight. . . . [His] arguments are often lively and entertaining.”—Los Angeles Times Fully revised and with a new preface by the author, this timely update is perfect for readers of The Immortality Key. Since its initial release to wide acclaim in 2006, Not in His Image has transformed the lives of readers around the world by presenting the living presence of the Wisdom Goddess as never before revealed, illustrating that the truth of an impactful Gnostic message cannot be hidden or destroyed. With clarity, author John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe and North Africa. Early Christians burned libraries and destroyed temples in an attempt to silence the ancient truth-tellers and keep their own secrets. Not in His Image delves deeply into ancient Gnostic writings to reconstruct the story early Christians tried to scrub from the pages of history, exploring the richness of the ancient European Pagan spirituality—the Pagan Mysteries, the Great Goddess, Gnosis, the myths of Sophia and Gaia. In the 15th Anniversary Edition, Lash doubles down on his original argument against redemptive ideology and authoritarian deceit. He shows how the Gnostics clearly foresaw the current program of salvation by syringe, and places the Sophianic vision of life centrally in the battle to expose and oppose the evil agenda of transhumanism, making this well-timed update more relevant than ever. “Sometimes a book changes the world. Not in His Image is such a book. It is clear, stimulating, well-researched, and sure to outrage the experts. . . . Get it. Improve not just your own life, but civilization’s chances for survival.”—Roger Payne, author of Among Whales

Folk Devils and Moral Panics

Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Author: Stanley Cohen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780415610162

'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought the term 'moral panic' into widespread discussion. It is an outstanding investigation of the way in which the media and often those in a position of political power define a condition, or group, as a threat to societal values and interests. Fanned by screaming media headlines, Cohen brilliantly demonstrates how this leads to such groups being marginalised and vilified in the popular imagination, inhibiting rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. Furthermore, he argues that moral panics go even further by identifying the very fault lines of power in society. Full of sharp insight and analysis, Folk Devils and Moral Panics is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand this powerful and enduring phenomenon. Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology (1985) and is on the Board of the International Council on Human Rights. He is a member of the British Academy.

The Pursuit of the Millennium

The Pursuit of the Millennium
Author: Norman Cohn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 1970-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198020023

The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies of renewal, doomsday predictions, and New Age prophecies. This fascinating book explores the millenarianism that flourished in western Europe between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. Covering the full range of revolutionary and anarchic sects and movements in medieval Europe, Cohn demonstrates how prophecies of a final struggle between the hosts of Christ and Antichrist melded with the rootless poor's desire to improve their own material conditions, resulting in a flourishing of millenarian fantasies. The only overall study of medieval millenarian movements, The Pursuit of the Millennium offers an excellent interpretation of how, again and again, in situations of anxiety and unrest, traditional beliefs come to serve as vehicles for social aspirations and animosities.

The Devil and Karen Kingston

The Devil and Karen Kingston
Author: Robert W. Pelton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2013-01-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781481986519

"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils!" warned the widely respected C. L Lewis. "One is to disbelieve in their existence! “The other is to believe and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them!" Father Juan Cortes was a psychology professor at Georgetown University! This was where The Exorcist was filmed! He said that all cases of possession he's studied can readily be explained away in modern scientific terms! Today's science can also explain, according to Cortes, the old Biblical accounts of "casting out devils!" Reverend Donald Basham, an ordained Disciples of Christ minister and others vigorously disagree! Basham claims a full one-fourth of Jesus Christ's ministry was solely devoted to casting devils out of possessed people! This man is a long-time counselor. He's able, "by taking authority over a demon," to achieve quickly what months of counseling failed to accomplish! Taking this authority over a demonic spirit is quite simple! The exorcist must only do it "in the name of Jesus!" Or "on the blood of Jesus!" In Acts 16:16, the Apostle Paul was on his way to prayer when he met a psychic, "a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination!” Paul couldn't seem to rid himself of this pesky girl! She continued following him for days! In Acts 16:18, Paul finally lost patience with the diviner! He became quite upset over her persistent antics! Paul promptly turned on the girl! He unhesitatingly cast out the evil spirit of divination, or fortune-telling! How did Paul execute this deed? He simply said: "I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And the spirit was expelled! Almost instantaneously! Most theologians agree that Jesus Christ believed in demons! In Mark 1:21, Jesus drove evil spirits out of a man in the synagogue of Capernaum! Billy Graham supports the view that Jesus acted as God's exorcist! He offers Matthew 12:28 as evidence! Philip performed numerous miracles while he was in Samaria. This man of God is known to have exorcised quite a few evil spirits. These "unclean spirits" came forth from the possessed people "crying with a loud voice." The evil entities are believed to have been both baffled and enraged at being deprived of their dwelling place. "Many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed" by Philip's elementary act of forcing the demonic spirits to leave their human vessel! "It is possible to cast demons out of physical bodies!" declared the late Kathryn Kuhlman, noted television evangelist and healer."Young people have a right to be frightened of the possibility of possession! "Demons are a highly organized system of evil spirits hostile to God and men," charged Evangelist Leighton Ford, a long-time member of the Billy Graham team. “Demons are messengers of Satan! “Wholly given over to evil! A youthful Holiness minister, a dubious Catholic priest, and a skeptical Southern Baptist evangelist formed an unlikely trio of exorcists! They'd come together in an effort to try to help young, pitiful Karen Kingston! They would temporally lay aside their theological differences! They would join hands in mortal combat against the raging forces of Satan! Ten people experienced a horrifying three days in contact with a dangerous group of evil entities! Ten people came away from the chilling experience with a strengthened faith in God! Ten people witnessed a miracle!

Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality

Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality
Author: Philip St. Romain
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0557372097

Account of the awakening of the kundalini process by Philip St. Romain, with reflection on the meaning of this process from the perspective of Christian spirituality. Foreword by Thomas Keating. Appendices by James Arraj. 2nd edition. Original work by Crossroads, NY, 1991.

Against the Darkness

Against the Darkness
Author: Graham A. Cole
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433533189

Many Christians live as though they are effectively alone in the world. However, there is another realm of intelligent life that plays a role in the world—angelic beings. This book explores the doctrine of angels and demons, answering key questions about their nature and the implications for Christians' beliefs and behavior, helping readers see their place in the larger biblical plotline that includes supernatural beings. An understanding of the reality of angels and demons encourages believers to be vigilant in the light of spiritual warfare and to be confident in Christ's victory on the cross.