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...The Book of Zohar (The Book of Radiance) is an ageless source of wisdom and the basis for all Kabbalistic literature. Since its appearance nearly 2,000 years ago, it has been the primary, and often only, source used by Kabbalists. ...

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...in Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Israel No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permi... ...s book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in criti... ...ase of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laitman, Michael. The Zohar: a... ...ly of the spiritual world and man’s ascension to it, and not at all about history or about our world. Garments—attributes, desires, Kelim. Generally,... ...nstantly passed to the impure forces. The Torah does not tell us about the history of an ancient nation, but about the structure of the spiritual deg... ...rything that is written in the Torah should not be perceived by us not as history, but as an instruction manual. All the actions described in the To... ...ther is to the detriment of the ruler!” (Kohelet, 8:9). The burden of our slavery and the impure force’s rule over us (over holiness) harms only the... ...from its captivity. This Light has sufficient power to deliver Israel from slavery. Only after the attainment of this Light (Ohr Haya), and not a deg... ...mself. On the other hand, to give us a chance to break free from the blind slavery of egoism, the Creator must reveal Himself. This is so because a h...

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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...Tms work in its oripl, German form has already, since its publication fourteen years ago, exercised. on the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size. In view of this influence alone it may be affirmed that 1 and Thou will rank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. It has hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-sp...

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...The primal natm:e of the effort to establish relation is already to be seen in the earliest and most confined stage. Before anything isolated can be perceived, timid glances mOve out into indistinct space, towards something indefinite; and in...

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...n fourteen years ago, exercised. on the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size. In view of this influence alone it may ... ... this influence alone it may be affirmed that 1 and Thou will rank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. . It has hitherto been eompa... ... has hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology. 1 and TIum' is to be understood in the context... ... the Triune God) he attempts an investigation of the relation of faith to history. The controlling a:ffi.rma.tion of his thesis is the reality of o... ...a.tion of his thesis is the reality of our consciousness of other selves: history for him is constituted where two persons meet. Applying this, x ... ...where two persons meet. Applying this, x thought to the modem theory of history as a process within an unbroken causal system, where facts are to ... ...edom; there is only a choice, between resolute, and hopeless rebellious, slavery. And no matter how much is said, in all these laws, of teleologica...

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...ench have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is excessively difficult to find the charms of France outside France. Other countries can show admirable scenery, and they frequently offer greater comfort than that of France, which makes but slow progress in that particular. They sometimes display a bewildering magni...

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...ication Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .... This involution of causes sometimes affects the most seri- ous events of history. This, at any rate, was the opinion of the town of Genoa, where, to... ...in its infancy. If the women of Paris had a little of the genius which the slavery of the harem brings out in Oriental women, they would lend a com- p... ...te A Study of Woman Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Seamy Side of History The Magic Skin A Second Home A Prince of Bohemia Letters of... ...ks Pierrette 75 Balzac A Bachelor’s Establishment The Seamy Side of History Modeste Mignon Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Fontanon, Abbe ...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...upposed it—a simple reca- pitulation, or resumé, of the Roman imperatorial history. It moves rapidly over the ground, but still with an exploring eye,... ...ath- ered so thickly over the one solitary road 5 traversing that part of history. Glimpses of moral truth, or suggestions of what may lead to it; in... ...imagined, any liter- ary valuation of Cicero; it is a new reading of Roman history in the most dreadful and comprehensive of her convulsions, in that ... ...ful chasm, in the abyss that no eye could bridge, between the pollution of slavery,—the being a man, yet without right or lawful power belonging to a ... ... whispers of his ignominy, and the harps of all his sisters that wept over slavery yet joining in one choral gratulation to the regenerated slave. I a...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

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Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Three).

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