Electra is the noumenon of intra-Cosmic Electricity


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Electra, one of seven Atlantides, is Fohat or the noumenon of intra-Cosmic Electricity, a Universal Force — the very essence and origin of Life and Life itself. Astronomically, the Atlantides have become the seven Pleiades and these are connected with sound and other mystic principles in Nature. They married gods and become the mothers of famous heroes, and the founders of many nations and cities. Cosmic Electricity is an androgynous Cosmic Energy resulting from Absolute Wisdom mirroring in its Ideation, and impressing upon matter ideas and Ideals of the Universal Mind. Electra is the energising and guiding intelligence in the Universal Electric or Vital Fluid. Electra is the Spirit of Electricity moving in circular motion and, collecting primordial dust in balls, it binds and separates. It is present as much in a dead as in a living body, in the inorganic as in the organic matter. Force and Matter, Spirit and Matter, Deity and Nature, though they may be viewed as opposite poles in their respective manifestations, they are the dual aspects of an ultimate state of Perfect Unconsciousness, the One and Only Reality. Infinite Life and the source of all life, visible and invisible, is an ever present and inexhaustible Essence, the mutable radiance of the Immutable Darkness, Unconscious in Eternity (Svabhava). Electra is a ray from the Ineffable Name, enlightening Greek drama at its best. The Electra of Sophocles and Euripides rendered in modern English.




A Brief History of Human Culture in the 20th Century


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This book examines the cultural concepts that guided the development of the “age of mankind”— the changes that took place in historical, philosophical, scientific, religious, literary, and artistic thought in the 20th century. It discusses a broad range of major topics, including the spread of commercial capitalism; socialist revolutions; the two world wars; anti-colonialist national liberation movements; scientific progress; the clashes and fusion of Eastern and Western cultures; globalization; women’s rights movements; mass media and entertainment; the age of information and the digital society. The combination of cultural phenomena and theoretical descriptions ensures a unity of culture, history and logic. Lastly, the book explores the enormous changes in lifestyles and the virtualized future, revealing cultural characteristics and discussing 21st -century trends in the context of information technology, globalization and the digital era.




Time Driven


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Freud outlines two types of conflict; that between drives and reality; and that between the drives themselves. Adrian Johnston identifies a third; the conflict embedded within each and every drive.




Encyclopedia of Astrology


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Complete, concise, informative and highly intelligent.




Freud on Time and Timelessness


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Time and timelessness are fundamental principles of psychoanalysis yet Freud does not present a consolidated theory of temporality. In this book Kelly Noel-Smith pieces together Freud's scattered 'hints' and 'suspicions' about time and its negative, timelessness. She traces a careful temporal trail through Freud’s published works and his daunting Nachlass, and provides a compelling reason as to why Freud kept his remarkable thoughts about time to himself.




Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister"


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Martin Heidegger's 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn "The Ister" within the context of Hölderlin's poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Hölderlin's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Delivered in summer 1942 at the University of Freiburg, this course was first published in German in 1984 as volume 53 of Heidegger's Collected Works. Revealing for Heidegger's thought of the period are his discussions of the meaning of "the political" and "the national," in which he emphasizes the difficulty and the necessity of finding "one's own" in and through a dialogue with "the foreign." In this context Heidegger reflects on the nature of translation and interpretation. A detailed reading of the famous chorus from Sophocles' Antigone, known as the "ode to man," is a key feature of the course.




Snow-bound


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Conscience and Conscientious Objections


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In Western countries conscientious objection is usually accommodated in various ways, at least in certain areas (military conscription, medicine) and to some extent. It appears to be regarded as fundamentally different from other kinds of objection. But why? This study argues that conscientious objection cannot be understood as long as conscience is misunderstood. The author provides a new interpretation of the historical development of expressions of conscience and thought on the subject, and offers a new approach to conscientious objection rooted in the symbol-approach to conscience.




God After Metaphysics


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A new way of thinking about God and religious experience.




Future Worlds of Social Science


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What are the possible future worlds of social science? How do these prospects compare with recent conclusions that social science "is generally a non-factor in policy debates and irrelevant to the lives of a host of real-world people," as a well-known sociologist reported in the centennial volume of the American Sociological Association? This substantial study covers history, art and aesthetics, identity and the self, in seeking an answer to the question of 'Future Worlds'.