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Tertium Organum P.D. Ouspensky "This is P.D. Ouspenky's Tertium Organum, which he believed was the third major philosophical synthesis, the previous being those of Aristotle and Bacon. Originally issued in Russian in 1912, this is the second, revised edition. It was translated into English...

THE DUALITISTS OR, THE DEATH DOOM OF THE DOUBLE BORN by Bram Stoker The Dualitists recounts the tale of the Bubb family, childless for many years until the couple was finally blessed with twins. Two friends lived in the houses surrounding the Bubbs, Harry and Tommy, but they were forbidden...

Cuisines From Around The World by Kanchan Kabra There are many countries on the earth, and even more cuisines. When we talk about any single cuisine, we can never cover it under one book as the variations are seen at every step. Food is only one common subject where there is no competition...

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is an early 18th century work by Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. The goal of this work was to refute the claims made by rival John Locke regarding...

The Philosophy of Natural Magic By Henry Cornelius Agrippa In his influential work The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Agrippa combined magic, astrology, Qabbalah, theurgy, medecine, and the occult properties of plants, rocks, and metals. This work was an important factor in the spread of the idea of occult sciences.

The Young Engineers On The Gulf by H. Irving Hancock I wish I had brought my electric flash out here with me, muttered Harry Hazelton uneasily. "I told you that you'd better do it," chuckled Tom Reade. "But how could I know that the night would be pitch dark?"...

A Peep at the Pixies, or Legends of the West by Anna Eliza Bray Dartmoor described.--The Pixies said to make it their Haunt.--What they are supposed to be, and what they do. IN this most pleasant part of England, the county of Devon, we have many hills and rivers, with plenty of woods,...

Ancient Egyptian Legends by M. A. Murray IN this book I have retold the legends of the Gods of ancient Egypt, legends, which were current in the "morning of the world," preserved to the present day engraved on stone and written on papyri. I have told them in my own way, adhering strictly...

The Beast In The Cave by H. P. Lovecraft "The Beast in the Cave" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1905, when Lovecraft was fourteen. About The Author :- Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the...

The Moon-Bog by H. P. Lovecraft "The Moon Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in or before March 1921. The story was written for a gathering of amateur journalists in Boston on March 10, 1921, that had a St. Patrick's Day theme....

The Music Of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft "The Music of Erich Zann" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921. A university student is forced, by his lack of funds, to take the only lodging he can afford. In a strange part of the city he...

Sketches In Lavender Blue And Green by Jerome K. Jerome The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. Reginald Blake was as typical a specimen of the well-bred...

The Stone of the Philosophers by Edward Kelly "Though I have already twice suffered chains and imprisonment in Bohemia, an indignity which has been offered to me in no other part of the world, yet my mind, remaining unbound, has all this time exercised itself in the study of that philosophy...

The Way to Nirvana by L. de la Vallée Poussin Investigating Buddhist thought on rebirth and transcendence. This is an academic monograph on Nirvana by a French scholar. Poussin contrasts the Hindu and Buddhist views on the cycle of rebirth, and makes a case for original Buddhist concepts...