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A Guide To the Hidden Wisdom of Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...re, our place in the world and our behavior have been studied by scientists and philosophers for thousands of years. Along with logical assumptions, ... ...a list of books or study materials that you could send me in English, French or Spanish? Unfortunately, there are no reputable, serious Kabbalah boo... ...Web site, and is publishing books for beginners in several languages, including Spanish, German and Russian. The latest publication by Bnei Baruch, ...

...Introduction: The laws of nature, our place in the world and our behavior have been studied by scientists and philosophers for thousands of years. Along with logical assumptions, science uses quantifiable research and data. Yet our scientists and researchers have discovered that the more they advance in their research, the more obscu...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...te egalitarian and a successful politician. He is credited with the liberation from Spanish colonial yoke of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and... ...his friends to become an addict. But cocaine was popularly used long before Freud. Spanish discoverers of the New World, such as Amerigo Vespucci, ... ...espucci, tried it in Peru and reported enthusiastically back home in 1505. Both the Spanish crown and the church taxed coca production and accepted ... ... Columbus denied to his dying day that he detected a new continent. Indeed, the Spanish royal couple, Ferdinand and Isabella, twice rejected his... ... for 74 days. Filibuster is originally a Dutch word meaning "pirate, hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" meant "freebooting" and applied to 16th ce... ...://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/ http://www.walkthewall.com/ Greek Philosophers There were so many ancient Greek thinkers that vi...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

... AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IR... ..., by God’s especial providence, been brought to the knowledge of a book, written in the Spanish tongue, which clearly sets forth, and demonstrates f... ...irculation, both at home and on the other side of the ocean, that is, I suppose, in the Spanish colonies of South America. The government of the Cort... ...deny myself the pleasure of introducing a very instructive anecdote, related to me by a Spanish refugee of great honour and worth, with whom I have ... ...oft conversed concerning this work and the author of it. When the inquiring mind of the Spanish y outh was hindered from the food which it desired a... ...d to the millennium. It is not the millennium of the scripture, but the optimism of the philosophers which they are looking forward to; and the Spiri... ... will. Or in other words, the justest code which hath ever been devised in the idea of’ philosophers, or embodied in the codes of legislators, neith... ...to me, able to sustain the whole. By this method, for more than a century, our physical philosophers have proceeded in the study of nature; neither ... ...hings upon the ancient system of Ptolemy; I ask this explanation of the most celebrated philosophers and astronomers, Egyptian, Greek, Arabian, and ...

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Unlocking the Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ophy originated in contact between students of the prophets and the first philosophers. The philosophers took fragments of the concepts of Kabbalah,... ...lone. 40) And I know that it is completely unaccepted in the eyes of some philosophers. They cannot agree that man, which they think of as low and w... ...isseminated by Bnei Baruch in many languages, including English, Hebrew, Spanish, and Russian. It is apolitical, non-commercial, and written in a c... ...and are simultaneously interpreted into seven languages—English, Russian, Spanish, French, german, Italian, and Turkish—by skilled and experienced ...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...AJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.... ...s that heaven which we call empyrean? Hath any one of the ancient or the modern philosophers seen it, or any one of the prophets of God? Is this hea... ... That only which I have been able to find upon this point, is that some ancient philosophers, especially Plato and certain of his disciples, as they ... ... as a rest to the magnificent idea which Coming of Messiah Vol. 2 Part III. philosophers have formed of this most beautiful work, which we consid...

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...t difficult at all, for their terms are the complete opposite to those of philosophers. They maintain that any spiritual quality equalizes with the ... ... be completed below, from Item 32 on.) 21) And do not be led astray by the philosophers who say that the very essence of the soul is an intellectual ... ...tence of the soul in no way depends upon the concepts it has acquired, as philosophers claim. Rather, its eternality is in its very essence, in its ... ...lone. 40) And I know that it is completely unaccepted in the eyes of some philosophers. They cannot agree that man, which they think of as low and w... ...disseminated by Bnei Baruch in many languages, including English, Hebrew, Spanish, and Russian. It is apolitical, non-commercial, and written in a c... ...and are simultaneously translated into seven languages: English, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Turkish. As with everything else, th...

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The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... time until today, The Book of Zohar has been the subject of controversy. Philosophers, scientists, and other “sages,” still debate it today. Yet, t... ...grity, for no thought can grasp Him. This sage was a representative of the philosophers who asserted that the main principle in working for the Creat... ...ssons are simultaneously translated into six languages: English, Russian, Spanish, German, Italian, and Turkish. In the near future, broadcasts will ...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...TY WHICH CHARACTERIZED THE PIRATES, MAROONERS AND BUCCANEERS WHO RAVAGED THE SPANISH MAIN AND FOR CENTURIES BID DEFIANCE TO THE ARMED FLEETS OF ALL... ...s of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigato... ...owards destroying the sacrificial altars -- A force sent against Cortez by the Spanish sovereign -- A forced march of brave fellows -- Cortez falls up... ... Spanish sovereign -- A forced march of brave fellows -- Cortez falls upon the Spanish force in the midst of a storm -- He compels Narvaez to acknowle... ... into a fatal trap -- A terrible slaughter at the breach -- Awful sacrifice of Spanish prisoners -- A spectacle that freezes the blood with horror -- ... ...rovers on desperate undertakings -- England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- ... ...e dead. Pythagoras in the sixth century, and Plato, Aristotle, and other great philosophers and geographers taught the sphericity of the earth, yet a ...

..., and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish main and for centuries bid defiance to the armed fleets of all nations....

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...7% that same as a chimpanzee and about 60% the same as a chicken, we would have to assume that we have some instincts. ―Psychologists, philos... ...d our reliance on faith and hope. Theologians have given us many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philos... ... many women in history condemning heretics to death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanis... ...ove as it is now defined. The idea of love can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philos... ...s meaning in life, or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artists and poets, philos... ...oesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish, Italian, Spanis... ...t. Aristotle said we should live by the ‗golden mean‘ not wanting too much or too little. ―Economists, sociologists, psychologists, philos...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...The Tuscan altiloquence, the Venus of the French, the sharpe state of the Spanish, the strong signifacncy of the Dutch cannot from heere be drawne to... ...eir number, are not here set-forth.' Cicero saith, That amongst all other Philosophers that have avowed and acknowledged the Gods, onely Xenophanes ... ...t goe seeke what our neighbours report of the Cataracts of Nile; and what Philosophers deeme of the celestiall musicke, which is, that the bodies of... ...ers of estate, to have been therewithall excellently wise. And concerning Philosophers, retired from all publike negotiations, they have indeed some... ...bear/montaigne/1xxiv.htm (2 of 10)4/10/2005 3:38:17 AM Montaigne's Essays Philosophers in speaking. As for those Philosophers, I say, that as they we... ...r wont to entermixe some ornament taken from vulgar bookes, and above all Spanish amongst his common speeches. And of all Spanish authors, none was ... ...rom all venerian acts and touching of women. In a certaine country of the Spanish Indies, no man was suffered to take a wife before he were thirtie y... ...aturarum magistri Raimondi de Sebonde. And for so much as the Italian and Spanish tongues were very familiar unto him, and that the book was written... ... familiar unto him, and that the book was written in a kinde of latinized Spanish, whereof divers words had Latine terminations; he hoped that with ...

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Paradoxism and Postmodernism in Florenitin Smarandache's Work

By: Ion Soare

...arise the progress (phenomenon and notion denied by many contemporary history philosophers)? The strong and flagrant contradiction between what has ... ... have you move yourself away? ...-With patience. Some speeches of the philosophers-playwrights recall our popular “nonsenses”, where, in sim... ...om different languages of the polyglot Smarandache (he knows French, English, Spanish, Portuguese).Affinities, volume of translations from the unive...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Only by using Islamic translations of the Greek‘s writings would European philosophers rediscover them. Islam also brought to Europe the compass—a... ...century.  Because it threatened to obviate the need to master mnemonics, Spanish poet Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) decried the coming of printed b... ...e English language. In the 1580s, just before the English destroyed the Spanish Armada, Spaniards proudly proclaimed: ―El sol nunca fija en el Imp... ...for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Spanish and Hindustan. Yet many believe that the number of native and n...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Only by using Islamic translations of the Greek‘s writings would European philosophers rediscover them. Islam also brought to Europe the compass—ano... ...century.  Because it threatened to obviate the need to master mnemonics, Spanish poet Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) decried the coming of printed b... ...the English language. In the 1580s, just before the English destroyed the Spanish Armada, Spaniards proudly proclaimed: ―El sol nunca fija en el Imp... ...for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Spanish and Hindustan. Yet many believe that the number of native and non...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ur thinking. They are absolutely basic to our thinking and our behavior. Philosophers generally realize that they have such assumptions. They call t... ... They call them metaphysics--meaning beyond the physical world. ―Philosophers usually see the world as basically ‗matter‘ or as basically ‗i... ...Matter then comes from God, the ultimate idea. ―Certainly not all philosophers agree. Plato saw the basis, the primary starting point, as ‗i... ...ot turn the other cheek. This continued into the Fifteenth Century and the Spanish Inquisition. It wasn‘t officially ended until the mid-Nineteenth C... ..., God or matter. Is there a God. ―Naturally some theologians and philosophers have attempted to prove that a Supernatural exists by using e... ...poll in 1826. Six years after his execution the queen mother declared the Spanish Inquisition finished—after 354 years. ―You don‘t hear as mu... ...ng had to be done. More masses across the country are being celebrated in Spanish. Do you think you can recruit more Hispanic priests?‖ —―Yo... ...Spain where there is a movement to require immigrants to be able to speak Spanish. 286 ―But looking at my country, those who want to ha... ...to have English as the universal language meet strong opposition from the Spanish speakers. On another front, the immigration needs of the U.S. have...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...sider only organisms with extremities and the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas)... ... structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the co... ...e Moreover, in life, the human body and form are considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that... ...of upbringing and conditioning rather than anything innate. Causes, External Some philosophers say that our life is meaningless because it has a p... ... Moreover, in daily usage we treat facts (as well as events) as causes. Not all the philosophers are in agreement regarding factual causation. Davi... ... later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich." Roberto Calvo Macias, a Spanish author and thinker, once wrote that it is impossible to ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...sider only organisms with extremities and the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas)... ... structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the co... ...e Moreover, in life, the human body and form are considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that... ...of upbringing and conditioning rather than anything innate. Causes, External Some philosophers say that our life is meaningless because it has a p... ... Moreover, in daily usage we treat facts (as well as events) as causes. Not all the philosophers are in agreement regarding factual causation. Davi... ... later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich." Roberto Calvo Macias, a Spanish author and thinker, once wrote that it is impossible to ...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...t of the world functions in just such a mechanistic manner. Many contemporary philosophers recognized that while this view yielded great benefits, i... ... I V: R E A L I Z I N G T H E S P I R I T UA L G E N E 186 Many scientists and philosophers admit that they relate to the world as to a real threat. ... ...as “Elohim” (God). And this is the truth that the Creator concealed from the philosophers. --Ramchal, The Book of the War of Moses, Rule 15 Rabbi El... ...ragmatischen Geschichte der Arzeikunde Raymundus Lullus (1235-1315) Lullus, a Spanish writer and philosopher born into a wealthy fam- ily in Palma, M... ...ehuda Ashlag), such as Talmud Eser Sefirot and Zohar. Although scientists and philosophers will delight in its illumina- tion, laymen will also enjoy...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...Look at the old Chinese saying „clubbing produces virtuous wives.‟ Or the Spanish „to keep your wife on the rails, beat her—and if she goes off the ... ...ic philosophies and religions that are usually strongly influenced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment period. It is particularly true when tho... ...u trying to teach? “Our major films show the lives of composers, philosophers, artists and others who show courage and intellect. There is ...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ing why its mouth could not be equally delicate. She silently called it the Spanish word of "criatura." Her extended family had been a mixture of Ge... ... her get him something. Partial or complete hunger strikes, she told him in Spanish would not hasten his trip back to Miami but only make his stay in... ...proaching and could say the names of the zoo animals in English, German, and Spanish. He couldn't sputter out the Latin so she had to give up on push... ...s running out of toilet paper." Gabriele laughed. "Double negatives are for Spanish, dear heart." Michael said, "My mother would have taken dish soa... ...other non-Parmenidetian activity that was paradise to the masses and vile to philosophers and contemplatives would have caused her to grab the nearest... ... She probed this concept of an everywhere man in German but then changed to Spanish. In both languages he told her that everywhere was a concept tha... ...a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and traditional m... ...y that had tossed the chemicals of inchoate matter, then cloistered artists, philosophers, and other contemplatives would be the dominant force on the...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

... and infinite. You may have heard of Shankara, he was the greatest of the philosophers or theologians of Juana. He taught us to use the intellect to... ... that there are a million words in English and a half million in Chinese. Spanish has 275,000. It is no wonder that they are the three major language... ... English as an elective language, just as they can take French, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic or Hindi. Several countries have copied our approach to Si...

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