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...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden parts of reality which scientists are now discovering. While other sciences research the definable world ar...

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...Foreword: The essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to discover, invent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evol...

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... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael L... ...e LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate W... ..........................220 9 F O R E WO R D T he essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, ... ...e understand our surroundings. To understand the present state of humanity and its pros- pects, we must build a bridge connecting several milestones i... ...is a reality. Everyone sees the reality, as all those who come to the city of London in England see what is in the city and what is said in the city... ...vironment is defined as a “spiritual environment.” With it, one can break the wall that sep- arates him or her from others. While those in a “spiritu... ...ree gesture. Because our caveman would not have the sense that per- ceives the wall as Matter or as Form in Matter, he would be able to go through wa... ...s …This is what is meant in the Zohar (VaYera, 117) that in the year 1840 the gates of wisdom will open from above K A B B A L I S T S W R I T E A ...

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...l lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment,? Susy Lansing opined, as they hung over the inevitable marble balustrade and watched their tutelary orb roll its magic carpet across the waters to their feet....

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in....

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...OUR MUTUAL FRIEND Charles Dickens Volume One BOOK THE FIRST THE CUP AND THE LIP A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Our Mutual... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...t, floated on the Thames, be- tween Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in. The f... ...fore, was running down, and his eyes watched every little race and eddy in its broad sweep, as the boat made slight head-way against it, or drove ster... ...ime and ooze with which it was covered, and 4 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 1 its sodden state, this boat and the two figures in it obviously were doing ... ...s changed swiftly , and the deepening shad- ows and the kindling lights of London Bridge were passed, and the tiers of shipping lay on either hand. It... ...imer looked at the boy, and the boy looked at the bran-new pilgrims on the wall, going to Canterbury in more gold frame than procession, and more carv... ... better than a ladder. T wo or three old sculls and oars stood against the wall, and against another part of the wall was a small dresser, mak- ing a ... ...away from the front compartment. On their being descried emerging from the gates of the Bower, the neighbourhood turned out at door and window to salu...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...ti- mately into a journey through several provinces,—a jour- ney which had its dull moments (as one may defy any journey not to have), but which enabl... ...aying that Touraine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tours, however, has some thing sweet and bright, whi... ...n for that of any mystic virtue which may be supposed to reside within its walls, but simply because to look at those four modest walls can hardly fai... ...rrets of slate-roofed chateaux, terraces with gray balustrades, moss-grown walls draped in scarlet Virginia-creeper. You turn into the town again besi... ...eau, which is almost a rival of Chenonceaux. The village lies close to the gates, though after you pass these gates you leave it well behind. A little... ...Protestant painter; no one can forget that, who in the National Gallery in London has looked at the picture in which he represents several young ladie... ...ad met in the afternoon at Tarascon, and more remotely, in other years, in London; the other was that there sat enthroned behind the counter a splendi...

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...hon; the other was one of the most elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were friends of long standing. Each had sent away his carriage, and no cab was to be seen in the street; but the night was fine, and the pavement dry....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Part The First. Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for th...

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...Excerpt: An ancient English cathedral tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by...

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... The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document... ...f the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document... ...HAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN AN ANCIENT ENGLISH CATHEDRAL TOWER? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massi... ...re in a sleep or 4 The Mystery of Edwin Drood stupor; the last is blowing at a kind of pipe, to kindle it. And as she blows, and shading it with her ... ...lied white robes, in a hurry, when he arrives among them, gets on his own robe, and falls into the procession filing in to service. Then, the Sacrista... ...ether in the echoing Close. Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia c... ...s mostly in shadow. Even when the sun shines brilliantly, it seldom touches the grand piano in the recess, or the folio music-books on the stand, or ... ... ‘It’s from Mr. Honeythunder, of course,’ said the old lady, folding her arms. ‘Of course,’ assented her son. He then lamely read on: ‘“Haven of Phila... ...two ends of any capacious old-fashioned chimneypiece, and by right should never have been seen apart, was the childless wife of a clergyman holding Co...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva....

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...w Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden ...

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...Introduction: Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: ?Pipe a song about a Lamb!? So I piped with merry cheer. ?Piper, pipe that song again;? So I piped: he wept to hear....

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...hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking....

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............... 16 CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the foot of a hill which he begins to ascend; he is hindered by three beasts; he turns back and is met by Virgil, who proposes to guide him into the eternal world. ....................................... 16 CANTO II. Dante, doubtful of his own powers, is discouraged at the outset.?Virgil cheers him by telling him th...

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... Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- Chapter X., 65 -- Chapter XI., 74 -- Chapter XII., 82 -- Book II ?Old and Young., 97 -- Chapter XIII., 97 -- Chapter XIV., 104 -- Chapter XV., 113 -- Chapter XVI., 124 -- Chapter XVII., 135 -- Chapter XVIII., 142 -- Chapter XIX., 151 -- Chapter XX., 154 -- Chapter XXI., 164 -- Chapter XXII., 17...

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