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Zoroaster or Zarathustra, Zoroastrianism
The founder of Zoroastrianism, Zarathushtra, or Zoroaster as the Greeks rendered the name, cannot be ascribed any precise date and dating is a hotly contested issue. Acad... |
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Yin-Yang Symbol
The yin-yang symbol represents unity and duality, a universal dual monism. It is also inherent in the ancient Chinese system of divination of the I Ching (Book of Changes... |
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Confucius, Chinese Philosopher
Confucius was a famous sage and social philosopher of China whose teachings deeply influenced East Asia during twenty centuries. Living in times of trouble, he was convin... |
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The Kabbalah : An Introduction
Kabbalah can be translated from the Hebrew as "received tradition", and is a term applied to a vast and seemingly disparate body of esoteric knowledge and practice. I... |
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Sefer Yetzirah: Book of Formation
The "Sefer Yetzirah" is believed to have come from the "Oral Law" which the Lord gave to Moses on Mt. Sinai. Moses was said to have received the Oral Law along with the W... |
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Qabbalah or Kabbalah
Many people are studying the Kabbalah now as they search for their roots - the origins and greater understaning of creation - and the messages of God. Kabbalah can be spe... |
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Rumi, Sufi Mystic
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a great Persian poet and Sufi mystic. His Masnavi-ye Manavi is a 6-volume poem regarded by many Sufis as second in importance only to the Q... |
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Emerson, Founder Transcendentalism
Philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was founder of transcendentalism, Emerson believed in the power of intuition over scientific reason and in the strength of nature... |
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Madame Blavatsky, Founder of Theosophy
Helena Petrovna Hahn, better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky was the founder of Theosophy. Helena Blavatsky was a great authority on theosophy, the doctrine... |
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Rudolf Steiner, Founder Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator, and social thinker. He is the founder of anthroposophy, "a movement based o... |
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Grigori Rasputin, Russian Mystic
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic with an influence in the later days of Russia's Romanov dynasty. Rasputin played an important role in the lives of the Ts... |
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Aldous Huxley, Writer
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer who emigrated to the United States, living in Los Angeles until his death in 1963. He was a member of the famous Huxley family... |
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Etty Hillesum, the girl that learned to kneel
Like Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jew living in Amsterdam. She died in Auschwitz in 1943, at the age of 29. She began a diary nine months after Hitler invaded t... |
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Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan Teachings
Carlos Castaneda was an author of a series of books that claimed to describe his training in traditional Native American shamanism, which he referred to as a form of "sor... |
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Oscar Ichazo, Founder Arica Institute
Founding Director of the world-renowned Arica School, Oscar Ichazo developed his (Psychocalisthenics) exercise system 35 years ago for awakening the vital energy of his s... |
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