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There was once upon a time a tailor who had three sons, and only one goat. But as the goat supported the whole of them with her milk, she was obliged to have good food, and to be taken every day to pasture. The sons, therefore, did this, in turn. Once the eldest took her to the churchyard, where the finest herbs were to be found, and let her eat and run about there....

In a certain mill lived an old miller who had neither wife nor child, and three apprentices served under him....

Iamblichus averred that Hermes was the author of twenty thousand books; Manetho increased the number to more than thirty-six thousand (see James Gardner) figures which make it evident that a solitary individual, even though he be overshadowed by divine prerogative, could scarcely have accomplished...

There was once a woman who had three daughters, of whom the eldest was called Little One-eye, because she had only one eye in the middle of her forehead; and the second, Little Two-eyes, because she had two eyes like other people; and the youngest, Little Three-eyes, because she had three eyes, and her third eye was also in the middle of her forehead... 

The Atlanteans had as a race no sense of the abstract, and were unable to generalise; for example, they had no multiplication table; arithmetic was to them a system of magic, and a child had to learn elaborate rules without ever knowing the reason for them...

Once upon a time there lived an old cobbler who worked hard at his trade from morning till night, and scarcely gave himself a moment to eat. But, industrious as he was, he could hardly buy bread and cheese for himself and his wife, and they grew thinner and thinner daily.

You ask about the Great One whom we call the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and about His work in the past and in the future... -Charles Webster Leadbeater was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of...

The present condition of the planet Mars is by no means unpleasant. It is a smaller planet than the Earth and more advanced in age. I do not mean that it is actually older in years, for the whole chain of worlds came into existence , not simultaneously indeed ,  but within a certain definite...

Pif-Paf-Poltrie asks Fair Katrinelje's father for leave to marry her. He is told he needs that of "her mother Milk-Cow, her brother High-Pride, her sister Cheese-Love," as well as her own. Going through the list, he obtains it, on the condition of all the others consenting....

En remontant à pied l'avenue des Champs-Élysées, un vieil ami fait part au narrateur de ses réflexions sur la solitude...

1. Qu’est-ce que Dieu ? « Dieu est l’intelligence suprême, cause première de toutes choses. » 2. Que doit-on entendre par l’infini ? « Ce qui n’a ni commencement ni fin : l’inconnu ; tout ce qui est...

LES PRINCIPES DE LA DOCTRINE SPIRITE SUR L’IMMORTALITÉ DE L’ÂME, LA NATURE DES ESPRITS ET LEURS RAPPORTS AVEC LES HOMMES ; LES LOIS MORALES, LA VIE PRÉSENTE, LA VIE FUTURE ET L’AVENIR DE L’HUMANITÉ. Selon l’enseignement donné par les...

LES PRINCIPES DE LA DOCTRINE SPIRITE SUR L’IMMORTALITÉ DE L’ÂME, LA NATURE DES ESPRITS ET LEURS RAPPORTS AVEC LES HOMMES ; LES LOIS MORALES, LA VIE PRÉSENTE, LA VIE FUTURE ET L’AVENIR DE L’HUMANITÉ Selon l’enseignement donné par les...

Walter Schnaffs is a Prussian soldier unfortunate since its entry into France . It is pacifist , weapons horror , does not like walking and regrets above all his wife and their four children. So when he was sent on patrol in Normandy and the troop is attacked by snipers , he jumps into a hole to...