Du Phoenix: 1059 books

A fiddler, wandering in the forest, gets bored and longs for company. He starts to play his fiddle, which draws to him a wolf, fox, and hare, none of which is the company he seeks. Using the animals' admiration for him and playing...

Au moment où Arsène Lupin, son repas achevé, tirait de sa poche un beau cigare bagué d’or et l’examinait avec complaisance, la porte de la cellule s’ouvrit. Il n’eut que le temps de le jeter dans le tiroir et de s’éloigner de la table. Le gardien entra,...

A última hora de la caída , Karl Rauville , uno de sus primos , el narrador invita a venir y matar a los patos en las marismas .  

  DIARIO DEL MARQUÉS DE ROSEVEYRE

Como cada cena Jueves , Padre Mauduit en Castle Rock en el antiguo condesa de Saville . Pero ese día , la condesa le pidió al abad para revelar lo que se decidió imponer votos eterna .  

It is desirable that one who wishes to study Theosophy thoroughly should acquaint himself in the course of time with the whole of Theosophical literature. This is no light task; and the order in which the books are taken is of importance if a man wishes to get out of them the best that he can. But...

It is difficult to say anything on the question of prayer that would be universally applicable, because there are such very different kinds of prayer and they are addressed to beings who differ very widely in evolution.... -Charles Webster Leadbeater  was an influential member of the Theosophical...

The ordinary ego is by no means yet in a position to choose a body for himself... Charles Webster Leadbeater was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church....

I have looked up many cases, and I find that for the ordinary man there seems to be but little continuity of personal appearance life after life... Charles Webster Leadbeater  was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator...

When we state the great truth that all evolution came forth from the Divine, and that we ourselves are but sparks of the divine flame and one day to be reunited to it, people often ask us two not unnatural questions. First they say, “Why should the divine Being have sent us forth, since after all...

We have just passed the middle point of the evolution of our chain of worlds. There are to be seven rounds , seven journeys round the seven globes. Three of those journeys have been completed, and we are now on the fourth (the middle) globe of the fourth round. The middle point of our world-period...

THE most famous of the ancient religious Mysteries were the Eleusinian, whose rites were celebrated every five years in the city of Eleusis to honor Ceres (Demeter, Rhea, or Isis) and her daughter, Persephone. The initiates of the Eleusinian School were famous throughout Greece for the beauty...

The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief. The primitive mind, recognizing the beneficent power of the solar orb, adored it as the proxy of the Supreme Deity...

Concerning the secret significance of numbers there has been much speculation. Though many interesting discoveries have been made, it may be safely said that with the death of Pythagoras the great key to this science was lost. For nearly 2500 years philosophers of all nations have attempted...