Phoenix D Or: 1049 books

The story entails the disappearance of Hatty, Lord St. Simon's bride on the day of their marriage. She participates in the wedding, but disappears from the reception. The events of the wedding day are most perplexing to Lord St. Simon as it seemed to him that his bride, Miss Hatty Doran of San...

Dr Watson is called upon late at night by a female friend of his wife. Her husband has been absent for several days and, as he is an opium addict, she is sure he has been indulging in a lengthy drug binge in a dangerousEast End opium den. Frantic with worry, she seeks Dr. Watson's...

After reading Man Visible and Invisible students have sometimes remarked that the list of qualities there given seems incomplete, and that nothing is said as to some others which are at least equally common , such for example as courage, dignity, cheerfulness, truthfulness, loyalty...

Dans cette nouvelle, Maupassant exprime son angoisse, sa peur face à la maladie.

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Je vais vous dire trois métamorphoses de l’esprit : comment l’esprit devient chameau, comment le chameau devient lion, et comment enfin le lion devient enfant. -De:  Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra. Un livre pour tous et pour personne

Once upon a time there was an old man who lived in a little hut in the middle of a forest. His wife was dead, and he had only one son, whom he loved dearly. Near their hut was a group of birch trees, in which some black-game had made their nests, and the youth had often begged his father's...

When you leave your body to-night, you will remember all that you did last night and during the day , in fact, you will have the whole of your present waking memory, plus that of your nightly astral life. The astral memory includes the physical, but your physical brain does not remember the astral experience, for the simple reason that it had no share in it...

The spirit of a great tree, such as a banyan, not infrequently externalises itself, and when it does so it usually takes on a gigantic human form... Charles Webster Leadbeater  was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator...

Physical immortality is not a possibility, for that which has a beginning must also have an end, and birth, growth, decay and death are the rules of the physical universe...

As we know it, this serpent-fire (called in Sanskrit kundalini) is the manifestation on the physical plane of one of the great world-forces , one of the powers of the LOGOS. You know that what we call electricity is a manifestation of one of His forces, and that that force may take various forms,...

The Irish are not of Atlantean stock, but belong to the fourth sub-race of the fifth root-race. It is true that Ireland was part of the Atlantean continent, and that the earliest inhabitants were of the Rmoahal, the first sub-race of the fourth root-race; but no recognisable trace now remains of these...

We must distinguish carefully between obsession and insanity. The latter is a break in the connection between the ego and his vehicles, while the former is the ousting of the ego by some other entity. Only a weak ego would permit obsession  an ego, I mean, who had not much hold upon his vehicles....

There was once a king's son, who was no longer content to stay at home in his father's house...