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Egyptian figures and symbols appear on the Major Arcana cards in this deck, based on the designs published in the book Practical Astrology by Comte C. de Saint-Germain.

Never Mind: Twenty Poems And A Story (Ibis Editions)

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Poems of Classic Beauty
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Never Mind: Twenty Poems And A Story (Ibis Editions)
Taha Muhammad Ali , and Peter Cole
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ASIN: 9659012527

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Taha Muhammad Ali is one of the leading poets on the contemporary Palestinian literary scene. Born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya, he fled to Lebanon, together with most of the inhabitants of his village, during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. A year later he slipped across the border with his family and settled in Nazareth, where he has lived ever since. The Saffuriya of his childhood has served as the nexus of his poetry and fiction, which is grounded in everyday experience and driven by a storyteller's vivid imagination. Taha Muhammad Ali writes in a forceful and direct style, with disarming humor and unflinching, at times painful, honesty--the poetry's apparent simplicity and homespun truths concealing the subtle grafting of classical Arabic and colloquial forms of expression. In Israel, in the West Bank and Gaza, and in Europe, audiences have been powerfully moved by Taha Muhammad Ali's poems of political complexity and humanity. Never Mind is the poet's first collection to appear in English.

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Poems of Classic Beauty.......2006-08-29

Gorgeous poems about life in small villages in Palestine, the This book travels over everyday life, eating and farming, how the particular beauties of nature are savored. There are beautiful pictures of a grandfather and a mother. The wonderful story about the author's shoelessness is very touching. This book takes you to the heart of a world that, as an American reader, I knew wxisted but could not find my way to. I am so grateful for Taha for bringing me here.

Affecting Poetry, the Grievous and the Buoyant.......2006-08-29

Taha's limpid and lyrical poems do what wondrous poetry always does. They deliver sensual plesure with their music and special sensibility--they tell us what it means to be alive, in particular ways, "touch the herbs/the wild artichoke and chicory," and to grieve over our losses, again in particular ways: "fatigue, hunger, vagrancy/debt..." These poems embrace the land of Taha's origins, yet never veer into ideology or hatred. They glow with a love of what we are and what we must suffer. Bravo.

Permission to Write Literature.......2006-08-19

English readers may not yet know how lucky they are to be able to read Taha Muhammad Ali's poetry and prose. But once they get their hands on this, they will -- and it will change their minds about the range of themes and styles alive in modern Palestinian literature. Taha Muhammad Ali is one of Palestine's most unique voices. He's been writing, (or telling stories and singing poems) for forty years now, and this collection shows the range of his talent. His sources, famously, are not exactly those of Palestine's literary establishment. Though now located in Nazareth, Israel's largest Palestinian city, he draws his themes from his childhood in his village, Saffuriyya. This means his writing is both as local as the oral epic poetry and zajals he heard as a child, and as cosmopolitan as the world literature he has devoured for decades -- a list that would include Dickens, Mahfouz, and Steinbeck at the top. The mix of local and global, high and low, classic and experimental is as curious as it is engaging. Most importantly, this mix means that Muhammad Ali cannot be pigeonholed as a writer. For all these reasons, Ibis has done us a great favor by introducing us to Muhammad Ali. The translators of this collection -- Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi and Gabriel Levin -- are to be congratulated for the delicacy of their work -- they are a delight to read.

There is, of course, a long history of self-appointed censors who are on the lookout to refute anything a Palestinian might ever say, even when they say it in fiction. They feel it their duty to deny Palestinian self-expression in any form. For students of US history, these attempts to exclude brown-skinned authors from the temple of literature will be sadly familiar. It is not surprising that extremist voices have objected to this book, as they object to all others that don't pass their test of political orthodoxy. What would Muhammad Ali say in reply? Probably just: "Never mind. Go on reading anyway." And then he'd laugh -- and his readers will laugh with him.

In other words, Muhammad Ali's work is itself probably the best challenge to those who would seek to silence him. Pick up "Never Mind" and you'll see why. This author writes literature without a care for small-minded politics -- and readers will appreciate him for that. Finally, it just needs to be emphasized that this book is a work of literature that will expand your mind. Still, if in the midst of reading "Never Mind" you hear a clamor of politics -- a humanist politics that transcends the tribalism of his detractors -- don't be surprised, just keep turning the pages.

PROPAGANDA PASSING AS LITERATURE.......2006-07-12

There may, in fact, be a book about the Palestinian Arab dilemma waiting to be written, but this treacly and biased pretense is not it. The Arab's hard turn in Palestine came as a result of an unrelenting war to extirpate all Jews from all of Palestine. If and when Arab writers really confront these facts they will properly blame their "leaders" instead of the habitual Israel bashing. Then some real poetry and literature may emerge instead of this amateur effort.

Vengeful.......2006-07-11

There are 89 pages of stories and poems in this book, introduced by Gabriel Levin in a fawning statement, almost half as long. This admiration seems based on Levin's belief that Taha "at the age of seventeen was forced to leave with his family for Lebanon, after his village was razed to the ground by the Israeli army in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948." Levin makes a great deal of the "nakba," which resulted in "the shattering and exodus of the Palestinian community."

Unquestionably, Taha fled Saffuriya to Lebanon in July 1948, and returned with his family in 1949 to Nazareth, where they later became Israeli citizens. But it is specious to claim, as Levin does, that Taha was driven to flee from Saffuriya by Israeli forces. Actually, "Saffuriya's inhabitants, expecting revenge for their numerous onslaughts upon Jews, had fled before the IDF captured the village," according to operational orders, oral testimonies and diaries cited by historian Yoav Gelber, in Palestine 1948 (p. 165).

Furthermore, Israel's attack on Saffuriya was defensive. In his 37-page essay, even Levin admits, Taha's village "had sheltered local militiamen." Indeed, Saffuriya was in the 1930s a center of anti-Jewish radicalism and base for attacks, and in 1948 served as command post for Arab Liberation Army leader Fawzi al-Qawuqji, who refused to honor the June 11, 1948, UN-imposed truce. Meanwhile, Madlul Abbas' Hittin regiment controlled Nazareth, and influenced area villages, including Saffuriya.

Now to the poems. Some of the language is lyrical, as in "I hate departure.../ I love the spring/ and the path to the spring,/ and I worship the middle/ hours of morning."

But most seems militant, angry, vengeful. In "Empty Words," Taha wishes his notebook had produced words saying, "I wish I could be/ a rock on a hill/ which the young men/ from Hebron explode/ and offer as a gift to Jerusalem's children,/ ammunition for their palms and slings." He wanted a passage where he is "gazing out from on high/ hundreds of years from now/ over hordes/ of masked liberators!" He mourns that "empty words" in his notebook "frighten no enemy...."

He also misrepresents, with false poetic claims. In "Amerbris," he calls Israel's land a whore taken by "newcomers,/ sailors and usurpers," whom he writes "uproot the backyard hardens,/ burying trees."

And in "Warning," a version of which Taha read at the Dodge Poetry Festival, he makes the false accusation that Israelis "aim your rifles/ at my happiness...." To Taha, Israelis are "killers."

In "Abd El Hadi the Fool," the speaker transforms into a warrior, "no longer a fool." With "bitterness" in his soul, he wants to "burn down the world!" He waits, as the ages drag on, and "lower my eyelashes/ on the raging,/ communing with it/ and longing for bombers!"

I find Taha's poems, like those of Mahmoud Darwish, violent. I recommend Fuad Attal's "Love and Memory," instead.

--Alyssa A. Lappen

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A great story about sister-to-sister relationships
A passionate look at anorexia in the family and its effects on the entire family
Pretty solid up until the end
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Skinny
Ibi Kaslik
Manufacturer: Walker Books for Young Readers
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ASIN: 0802796087
Release Date: 2006-09-19

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Do you ever get hungry? Too hungry to eat?

Holly’s older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, this once strong role model and medical student, is gripped by anorexia. Holly, a track star, struggles to keep her own life in balance while coping with the mental and physical deterioration of her beloved sister. Together, they can feel themselves slipping and are holding on for dear life.

This honest look at the special bond between sisters is told from the perspective of both girls, as they alternate narrating each chapter. Gritty and often wryly funny, Skinny explores family relationships, love, pain, and the hunger for acceptance that drives all of us.

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A great story about sister-to-sister relationships.......2007-01-12

Ibi Kaslik thought about what it is like when your sister has an eating disorder, and also takes the book from the perspective if you had that eating disorder. Two sisters recount the days when everything was well, their dad was alive, and when none of them had anorexia. They also talk about the present, their struggles with their relationship, food, and other people. These sisters go through a life changing experience when one of them is on the verge of death. They learn, by leaning on each other, they can work through the bumps and potholes of life.

A passionate look at anorexia in the family and its effects on the entire family.......2006-12-10

Holly's older sister is fighting anorexia and Holly herself is trying to cope with her sister's deterioration and change from a top medical student and role model to a sick person in Ibi Kaslik's Skinny. How can she affect her sister's life and how can she consider positive changes in the face of such consuming hungers? SKINNY is a passionate look at anorexia in the family and its effects on the entire family, differing from similar titles that focus on the sufferer alone.

Pretty solid up until the end.......2006-11-08

Skinny is the story of two sisters; Giselle, a college-aged med student who has anorexia, and her 8th grade sister, Holly. The chapters alternate narrators to the effect that you get a feeling for how Giselle's anorexia influences both her and those around her.

Giselle's chapters, interspersed with snippets from her med school textbooks, feature a person torn by her own desire for perfection and permanently wounded by a father who openly showed preference for her younger sister. The snippets from the medical textbook act almost as subheads for the pages that follow, and sometimes I found them to be too "artsy." Like something a grad student in a creative writing class would do to make her story seem "different" even if it doesn't really do anything to provide insight. I get the meaning they're often supposed to have, but that's kind of the point. Either the meaning was too obvious, and therefore cheap and unnecessary, or the snippets didn't really seem to have much of a purpose at all. I also failed to see the purpose in her new boyfriend who runs in and out of the book--the one who is so enamored by Giselle's anorexic face that he ignores a broken wrist to go get coffee with her. I feel like the author wanted me to like him, but I was repelled by his tendency for addiction and his dependence on someone who clearly doesn't have enough stamina to even stand on her own. I just kept picturing them, ten years down the road, living out of dirty motel rooms and trying to scrape together enough money for some meth, or something. Yeck.

Holly's chapters almost perfectly capture the inner struggles and angst of being a young teenager. Of course, Holly has a little more on her plate than most kids, her sister has an eating disorder, her father is dead and she is half-deaf. Regardless, the relationship she maintains with her sister is touching in its intimacy and realistic in its acidity.

Sometimes the father's preference for Holly seemed a bit extreme. Like he'd basically hurl Giselle in front of a bus because she was standing in front of Holly when he wanted to hug her. I guessed fairly early on why he was drawn to the younger sibling, but that still wouldn't account for a human being completely and brutally shutting out a child.

All-in-all I'd say this was a very well-written and engaging read. The only part I'm confused about is the ending. See, I read all the pages in the book, but I still didn't get to it. I don't need everything to tie up neatly, like Giselle gains 80 lbs and gets married and gets her doctorate and Holly becomes Student of the Year, but I just wished for a little more epiphany and a little less dreariness.

Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2006-11-03

Giselle is an intelligent, over-achieving medical student who is self-destructive and tormented by her relationship with her dead father. Holly is a blossoming young track star that struggles academically for several reasons, including the fact that she is hearing impaired. Giselle has been hospitalized and forced to return home to recover from anorexia. SKINNY tells the story of the effects of Giselle's illness on these two sisters now that Giselle has come back to the family home. The sisters take turns narrating the story.

Each chapter told from Giselle's perspective is laced with medical textbook excerpts that hold keys to the story. Holly's chapters are often brief and yet very poignant. The book details both sisters learning their family history and struggling with its effect on their current lives. The dialogue between the sisters is very well written, as are their inner monologues.

This book has many subplots and some come together in the end and others are not tied up so neatly. At times it feels as though Kaslik has attempted to write two completely different books about the same characters and weaved them together and yet, overall, the story is incredibly moving and emotional. Each sister's words force the reader to empathize with them despite the fact that they often seem to be battling against each other.

Overall, Kaslik has written a remarkable book about the devastating effects of eating disorders on both the person suffering from the illness and those around them. This book is incredibly weighty and touches on some incredibly intense issues at times, and would likely pose a challenge to even some of the strongest high school readers. But their efforts would not be wasted, as it is an incredibly satisfying read. It is accessible on several levels, so if a younger reader were to read this book they would likely take something from it as well, but revisiting the book later would likely reveal a more complex set of issues and themes.

Reviewed by: Allison M. Rotonda

Tristia, Ibis, Ex Ponto, Halieutica, Fragmenta (Oxford Classical Texts Ser)

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Ovid
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The 100th Generation: The Ibis Prophecy Book One (Ibis Prophecy)

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Eros and Science
Interesting yarn and not what I expected
Hokie, but still enjoyable
First well written, clever and learned adventure story in a long time!

The 100th Generation: The Ibis Prophecy Book One (Ibis Prophecy)
Justine Saracen
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Not What I Expected.......2007-10-05

START OF BACK COVER TEXT - Ancient curses, modern day villains, and a most intriguing woman who keeps appearing when least expected and then...disappearing.

Archeologist Valerie Foret has spent a year searching for a tomb in the Egyptian desert--a labor broken only by high risk trysts with a powerful man's wife. When she finally makes the discovery of a lifetime, she is set upon by jealous rivals and religious fanatics. Worse, she is drawn into the depths of the desert by forces that offer knowledge of vast mysteries and at the same time threaten to destroy everything she knows. For what she's found is a glimpse into the hereafter, and it's nothing like it's supposed to be.

Brilliant scientist that she is, she has loved most unwisely and learned what she does not want to know. Follow her adventures through modern and ancient Egypt, through this world and the next, with Book One of the Ibis Prophecy. - END OF BACK COVER TEXT

I was really looking forward to reading `100th Generation,' mostly because it is set in Egypt and is published by Bold Strokes Books. The book description was intriguing and I was anxious to read this first novel by author Justine Saracen. However, the book was nothing like I expected.

Being published by BSB, I was expecting a lesbian romance, but this book is nothing of the sort. Don't get me wrong, the main character is a lesbian. She also has an illicit affair with an Egyptian dignitary's wife, but this is hardly a romance and the affair is merely an afterthought. Once I got past that fact, I enjoyed the book. Saracen has a great imagination and tells a really good story. The strong leading character - Valerie Foret - along with an interesting supporting cast, colorful `ghosts' and a mystical setting make this an enjoyable read.

I'm not sure I'll read the sequel, `Vulture's Kiss,' but am glad I took the time to read this one. If you're into archaeology, science, and ghosts, take a chance.

Eros and Science.......2007-04-12

The novel takes us on an adventurous journey through Egypt and is a quest into it's pantheon. We follow the protagonist Valerie as she wanders through the desert of human love and strive. She is an archeologist and in her Eros and Science entwine to unravel the ancient prophecy.
Like Prometheus she pays the price, and it is death that gives her the insight which frees her - and our mind - from religious prejudice and illusion. The book argues for tolerance and against militant monotheism.
It is also a story of true love, with a modern version of the Orpheus myth, except, in this case, not only does Orpheus prefer men in the end, but also Euridice finds her love supreme in the arms and ageless eyes of Nekhbet the Vulture-goddess...
It would be easy to make a movie à la Indiana Jones out of this novel, but the content is so rich that I hope somebody turns it into an opera.
It could be the perfect libretto...

Interesting yarn and not what I expected.......2007-03-17

For some reason I thought this was going to be an Indiana Jones type story with women as both heroes and lots of passionate romance in exotic locations.

Instead I was treated to the story of thirty-something archeologist Valerie Foret during a time in her life when every facet is in flux and all tumultuous. There is so much going on in the story and I hesitate to give any of the plot away so I appended the summary from the publisher's website.

I have always loved books set in Egypt from Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney to Dorothy Eden and Joyce Verrette. I found this exceptional modern day novel a nice read chock full of information and interesting characters.

I especially liked how Valerie used her intellect to circumvent the bad guys to ensure the integrity of the artifacts and the dig itself. I enjoyed how the author was able to ground the speculative aspects of the story in the real world and not make it an over the top story more Sci-Fi than fiction.

Our book club chose this title as our book of the week and all were enthusiastic in their comments with many very impressed as to the similar aspects of ancient and modern religions.

We are looking forward to The Ibis Prophecy: Book Two Vulture's Kiss (August 2007)

From the publisher's website - Ancient curses, modern day villains, and a most intriguing woman who keeps appearing when least expected and then...disappearing.

Archeologist Valerie Foret has spent a year searching for a tomb in the Egyptian desert--a labor broken only by high risk trysts with a powerful man's wife. When she finally makes the discovery of a lifetime, she is set upon by jealous rivals and religious fanatics. Worse, she is drawn into the depths of the desert by forces that offer knowledge of vast mysteries and at the same time threaten to destroy everything she knows. For what she's found is a glimpse into the hereafter, and it's nothing like it's supposed to be.

Brilliant scientist that she is, she has loved most unwisely and learned what she does not want to know. Follow her adventures through modern and ancient Egypt, through this world and the next, with Book One of the Ibis Prophecy.

Justine Saracen is something of an "old hand," having traveled to the dense streets and markets of much of the Arab world, in Egypt, Morocco, and the West Bank. After two trips to the Ptolemaic temples along the Nile, however, she lost her heart to the desert and its ancient cultures. Together with her Egyptologist partner, she became immersed in the colorful theology that "lives" in the temples and tombs of Egypt. Speculation on how much fun it would be to throw together the Egyptian gods and the modern world, and to put a lesbian at the center of it all, led to the Ibis Prophecy books. The first novel of the series, The 100th Generation, was a finalist in the Queerlit Competition

Hokie, but still enjoyable.......2006-09-07

Valerie Foret is this novel's star. She's an archeologist and doesn't always follow the rules.

She and her crew have found an unknown tomb and have razed the mummy. Along comes Valerie's power hungry boss to spoil everything. He's going to steal her show and it appears some of the items they've been uncovering have found their way into personal collections rather than remaining with artifacts or going to the museum.

The mummy has two spirits a Ka and Ra. It's strange for everyone to be talking to the two spirits and a predetermined event to be reenacted during this century.

Totally sci-fi and enjoyable.

First well written, clever and learned adventure story in a long time! .......2006-08-09

For all of you out there who have enjoyed Indiana Jones, Lara Croft or even the Da Vinci Code... this is a pure treasure and MUCH better written! The archaeology and Egyptology facts are all well researched, and at the same time, it does not feel like a text book. This is a real page turner, in which the character happens to be a lesbian. The main theme, thankfully, is not the character's sexual life (like TOO many novels of the genre), but the exciting discovery of great mysteries spanning millennia, from ancient Egypt to modern days.
I personally liked this because it is well-written, with real literary style, exciting and the well developped main character is an intelligent woman, who sets her far apart from Lara Croft.
Imagine this novel as an actually well-written Da Vinci Code (for the mystery part - not the same theme, though!), where the female character is not a clueless follower of the male lead.

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Ovid: Ibis (Classic Editions)

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Ibis (Biblioteca Jose Maria Vargas Vila)

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Ibis (Biblioteca Jose Maria Vargas Vila)
J. M. Vargas Vila
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The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum (Ibis Western Mystery Tradition)

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Learn Levi's revelations on the Tarot
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The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum (Ibis Western Mystery Tradition)
Eliphas Levi
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Eliphas Lévi (1810-1875) was the greatest innovator in the revival of Western occultism, most significantly with his great leap of imagination that linked the tarot trumps to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. He set out this tarot theory in his book Transcendental Magic, but never revealed its magical application. This was finally made public in 1896 when Dr. Westcott—creator of the Golden Dawn—translated and printed Levi's secret manuscript. It is this rare text that we are now re-issuing. This book aligns the major arcana symbolism with a detailed description of the ritual of the sanctum regnum, or Kingdom of God

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Listen to the words of Solomon which he spake to his son Rehoboam: "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, but the end of wisdom is the knowledge and love of Him who is the Source of all good, and the supreme Reason, whence all things do proceed." Adonai had passed an eternity in heaven, and then created Man; so a time on earth is given to man to comprehend Adonai.

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Learn Levi's revelations on the Tarot.......2006-11-30

This short work is undoubtably one of Eliphas Levi's most profound writings. It outlines the meanings of the twenty-two tarot trumps with information found nowhere else. The information on Rosicrucian symbolism is no less than revelatory. The meanings of occult symbols, from the Chi-Rho to Solomon's hexagram, are given in text and pictures that will enlighten any devoted student of the Hermetic mysteries.

Cryptically Interesting.......2006-07-08

This book is not much different from what I understand Levi's books are: cryptic, much left unsaid, making reference to other unmentioned works (and you don't get to know which or whose exactly). The text itself is fascinating, interesting, but the mystery of what isn't there is as much of that which is. As far as Tarot books go, and I've read many, this is by no means a beginner's book. In fact, it's not primarily meant to be a Tarot interpretation book, much less a book of spreads as it concentrates exclusively on the 22 major arcana. The attributions or revelations it does make are fascinating, quite tigthly related to the qabbalah (the practical kabbalah). As someone who has studied kabbalah (and also the "q" and "c" versions) I must say that the kabbalistic principles espoused here, while solid, are by no means what a newcomer to Tarot would readily understand. In summary, this is a highly mysterious magical working book which makes reference to the 22 major Tarot arcana, references some kabbalistic mysteries, and is not a good introduction to the Tarot itself. But as with many of Levi's works, its strengths may be precisely on the things it leaves unsaid in the hope that the reader will find out on his own (and exercise his/her magical will in wanting to find out).

A profound critique of ancient Tarot traditions.......2005-09-06

A wealth of information for anyone who is a serious student of Tarot. Whether you give readings or just read for yourself, this work will mystify you (literally!).

A Great Book on the Tarot.......2005-08-26

This is a simple and easy to understand book about the Tarot. This would be a great book for beginners just starting to study the Tarot.

A classic occult and tarot manual .......2005-01-11

The Magical Ritual Of The Sanctum Regnum by Eliphas Levi (1810-1875) is a classic occult and tarot manual that combines major arcana symbolism along with an extensive description of the ritual of the sanctum regnum, or Kingdom of God. Featuring an introduction by Robert Gilbert that recounts the history of Levi's original manuscript, including its eventual prevalence as a source text for ceremonial magicians, The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum remains as insightful today for tarot practitioners and lay readers as it did an age ago. A welcome and recommended core staple for tarot magic and occult reference shelves.

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The Scarlet Ibis
Susan Hahn
Manufacturer: Northwestern University Press
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The Meaning And Philosophy Of Numbers (Ibis Western Mystery Tradition)

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The Meaning And Philosophy Of Numbers (Ibis Western Mystery Tradition)
Leonard Bosman
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ASIN: 0892541385

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In The Meaning and Philosophy of Numbers, Leonard Bosman states that "numbers are symbols of the beginning and development of the universe, of a solar system, or a series of such, or, indeed, of any rhythmic movement. The terms with which we have to deal in considering the science of numbers are figures, symbols, ciphers, arithmetic, and mathematics." Displaying an impressive knowledge of linguistics, philosophers, and mystics, Bosman brings forth the root words, symbols, and ideas that express the numbers and explains each one's role in the movement of creation. This work will help readers understand the fundamental reason for numbers and "know exactly why any particular number used in the science of Numerology means what it is said to mean by the professors of the art who merely affirm, but never explain." The scope of Bosman's study goes beyond a useful application of Numerology to serve students of Kabbalah and divination.

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