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Max Heindel - Rosicrucian Mysteries

A primer for those interested in the basic philosophy, beliefs & secrets of the Rosicrucians. (Summary by Kirk Ziegler)

KirksVoice 4 hours

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Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

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H. P. Nichols - Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz was edited in 1616 in Strasbourg (annexed by France in 1681). It is the third of the original manifestos of the mysterious «Fraternity of the Rose Cross» (Rosicrucians)....

KirksVoice 3 hours 23 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristotle - On Generation and Corruption

On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away) is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is...

Geoffrey Edwards 3 hours 30 minutes

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H. G. Wells - Anticipations

Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts...

John Trevithick and 2 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Confucius 孔子 - Confucian Analects

The Analects, or Lunyu (simplified Chinese: 论语; traditional Chinese: 論語; pinyin: Lún Yǔ; literally «Classified/Ordered Sayings»), also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts...

Jing Li 5 hours 34 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristotle - On the Heavens

On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argues that the Earth is a sphere by pointing to the evidence of lunar eclipses....

Geoffrey Edwards 5 hours

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Aristotle - Parva Naturalia

<p?Parva Naturalia [the «short treatises on nature» (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome)] is a collection of books by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul....

Geoffrey Edwards 4 hours 28 minutes

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George Santayana - Life of Reason volume 2

The Life of Reason, subtitled «the Phases of Human Progress», is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952). It consists of Reason in Common...

Fredrik Karlsson and 6 more 6 hours

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristotle - De Anima

On the Soul (Greek Περὶ Ψυχῆς (Perì Psūchês), Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living...

Geoffrey Edwards 3 hours 33 minutes

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Clarence Darrow - Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians. In this book, Darrow expands on his...

Peter Yearsley 7 hours 44 minutes

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Edmund Spenser - Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for poets of the Renaissance period. Spenser’s sequence has been largely...

Leonard Wilson 1 hour 51 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - De Profundis (version 2)

This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and charts his spiritual development. (summary by AdamH) NOTE: .«Transcribed from...

AdamH 1 hour 47 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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