Download or read book La Sorcellerie suivi de Le Diable sa vie ses moeurs et son intervention dans les choses humaines written by Charles Louandre and published by FV Éditions. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magie, druidisme, satanisme et alchimie, Ch. Louandre retrace l'histoire fascinante de la sorcellerie, de ses croyances et de ses instruments. Le texte est suivi d'un article du même auteur sur le "Diable, sa vie, ses moeurs et son intervention dans les choses humaines".
Download or read book Le Diable written by Charles Louandre and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Quel est donc cet esprit de t�n�bres, homme, serpent ou dragon, qui plane � tous les horizons du pass� ? Dans le ciel, il blasph�me et se bat avec les anges ; sur la terre, il se sert de l'homme � comme d'un cheval qu'il pique et monte � sa volont� ; � il l'afflige, le tourmente, l'excite au p�ch�, et, dans l'ab�me, il le punit d'avoir p�ch�. Il habite, avec les juifs, les carrefours tortueux des villes sombres du moyen-�ge ; il se perche, comme les hiboux, sur les toits aigus des couvents, se glisse, la nuit, dans la cellule des nonnes, et va voler pour les magiciens des hosties dans les calices, des os dans les cercueils. Les saints en ont peur, Dieu s'en d�fie. Le grimoire enseigne comment on l'�voque, le rituel comment on le chasse. L'�glise le maudit, la sorcellerie l'adore. Cet esprit de t�n�bres, c'est le d�mon de la th�ologie, le diable du conte monacal et de la tradition populaire.Le moyen-�ge avait trop peur du diable pour en parler raisonnablement. Pour nous, qui ne sommes ni obs�d�s, ni poss�d�s (et c'est sans doute, h�las ! le seul avantage que nous ayons sur les moines et sur les saints), nous trouverons peut-�tre quelque int�r�t � faire appara�tre Satan, non pour lui demander, comme les sorciers, le bonheur, la science, l'amour sans inqui�tude et sans larmes, tout ce que l'homme poursuit sans l'atteindre, mais simplement pour le prier de nous conter son histoire, histoire multiple et difficile, qui remonte � la source m�me des jours, sombre biographie d'un fant�me qu'il faut reconstituer d'apr�s des r�ves. Il s'agit d'une biographie, �claircissons d'abord le myst�re des origines..."
Download or read book Le Diable written by Charles Louandre and published by Ginkgo éditeur. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans ce texte fascinant, paru en 1842 dans la Revue des Deux Mondes, Charles Louandre retrace l’histoire du diable à travers les âges. Puisant aux sources de la religion et de témoignages anciens, du moyen âge au XVIIe siècle, il éclaire cette figure mystérieuse par laquelle les hommes ont cherché à expliquer les tentations, les turpitudes et les accès de folie dont ils étaient sujets ou témoins. Descriptions d’exorcismes, tableaux de sabbats, d’orgies et d’envols de sorcières habitent ce livre à la fois érudit et grand public. Louandre s’interroge sur la permanence de la présence du démon dans l’âme et la vie humaines, fruit des superstitions « qui s’entassent autour du dogme comme les masures au pied des cathédrales », et sur ses rôles et ses métamorphoses : tour à tour « ennemi du genre humain » au moyen âge, tentateur des saints et des religieuses, personnage de farces puis libérateur romantique et mystique. Dans les Fleurs du Mal, Baudelaire le plaçait aux côtés de La Sorcière de Michelet. Cette « Monographie du diable » comme l’appelait le poète est un vrai délice de lecture. La tentation du diable...
Download or read book Le Diable written by Charles Louandre and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Quel est donc cet esprit de ténèbres, homme, serpent ou dragon, qui plane à tous les horizons du passé ? Dans le ciel, il blasphème et se bat avec les anges; sur la terre, il se sert de l'homme comme d'un cheval qu'il pique et monte à sa volonté; il l'afflige, le tourmente, l'excite au péché, et, dans l'abîme, il le punit d'avoir péché. Il habite, avec les juifs, les carrefours tortueux des villes sombres du moyen-âge; il se perche, comme les hiboux, sur les toits aigus des couvents, se glisse, la nuit, dans la cellule des nonnes, et va voler pour les magiciens des hosties dans les calices, des os dans les cercueils. Les saints en ont peur, Dieu s'en défie. Le grimoire enseigne comment on l'évoque, le rituel comment on le chasse. L'église le maudit, la sorcellerie l'adore. Cet esprit de ténèbres, c'est le démon de la théologie, le diable du conte monacal et de la tradition populaire..."
Download or read book Les Tragiques written by Agrippa d' Aubigné and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Garden written by Anne Hebert and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When her long-estranged daughter disappears in Quebec, famous actress Flora Fontanges returns home from Paris and experiences a devastating confrontation with the past."
Download or read book Vampire City written by Paul Feval and published by Black Coat Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some tell of a great city of black jasper which has streets and buildings like any other city but is eternally in mourning, enveloped by perpetual gloom. Some call it Selene, some Vampire City, but the vampires refer to it among themselves by the name of the Sepulchre... To destroy the dreaded vampire lord Otto Goetzi, writer Ann Radcliffe, Merry Bones the Irishman, and Grey Jack her faithful servant, launch an all-out attack on Selene... "We can easily see in Vampire City the ultimate literary ancestor of Buffy the Vampire-Slayer."-Brian Stableford. Paul F?val (1816-1887) was the author of numerous popular swashbuckling novels and one of the fathers of the modern crime thriller. Brian Stableford has published more than fifty novels and two hundred short stories. Vampire City was written in 1867-thirty years before Bram Stoker's Dracula-and is one of three classic vampire stories also available from Black Coat Press.
Download or read book La sorcellerie written by Charles Louandre and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Louandre (1812-1882) laisse une oeuvre importante, en tant que rédacteur en chef du "Journal de l'Instruction publique". Mais le travail savant a son côté noir : "Le Diable, sa vie, ses moeurs et son intervention dans les choses humaiines", sont sa première incursion dans l'occulte, et il découvre un monde. Dans un pays où chaque région comporte son savoir sorcier et ses traditions de guérisseurs ou d'envoûteurs, où l'église s'appuie sur ses grimoires pour les exorcismes, il entreprend une enquête qui en fasse la synthèse. C'est en partie sur ses travaux que s'appuiera Michelet pour "La sorcière". Alors, anneaux d'invisibilité, recettes au sang de singe, alchimie, maladies, talismans, "ensorcellements des sorciers par eux-mêmes", hallucinations, onguents magiques, procès, l'élan est donné. À partir du "Louandre", qui paraît en 1853, la frontière entre fantastique et occultisme est désormais sur la place publique : à nous, pour inventer, d'aller y rêver.
Download or read book Man and the Sacred written by Roger Caillois and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Translator's Introduction 7 Preface to the Second Edition 11 Introduction 13 Ch. I General Interrelationships of the Sacred and the Profane 19 Ch. II The Ambiguity of the Sacred 33 Ch. III The Sacred as Respect: Theory of Taboo 60 Ch. IV The Sacred as Transgression: Theory of the Festival 97 Ch. V The Sacred: Condition of Life and Gateway to Death 128 App. I Sex and the Sacred: Sexual Purification Rites Among the Thonga 139 App. II Play and the Sacred 152 App. III War and the Sacred 163 Bibliography 181 Index 189.
Download or read book Theosophy written by René Guénon and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late nineteenth century, the Theosophical Society has been a central force in the movement now known as the New Age. Just as the Communist Party was considered 'old hat' by peace activists in the '60s, so the Theosophical Society was looked upon by many in the 'spiritual revolution' of those years as cranky, uninteresting, and passé. But the Society, like the Party, was always there, and-despite its relatively few members-always better organized than anybody else. Since then, the Society's influence has certainly not waned. It plays an important role in today's global interfaith movement, and, since the flowering of the New Age in the '70s, has established increasingly intimate ties with the global elites. And its various spinoffs, such as Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Summit Lighthouse, and Benjamin Crème's continuing attempt to lead a 'World Teacher Maitreya' onto the global stage-just as the Society tried to do in the last century with Krishnamurti-continue to send waves through the sea of 'alternative' spiritualities. Guénon shows how our popular ideas of karma and reincarnation actually owe more to Theosophy than to Hinduism or Buddhism, provides a clear picture of the charlatanry that was sometimes a part of the Society's modus operandi, and gives the early history of the Society's bid for political power, particularly its role as an agent of British imperialism in India. It is fitting that this work should finally appear in English just at this moment, when the influence of pseudo-esoteric spiritualities on global politics is probably greater than ever before in Western history.
Download or read book Evil Incarnate written by David Frankfurter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government. As historian of religions David Frankfurter listened to these sinister theories, it occurred to him how strikingly similar they were to those that swept parts of the early Christian world, early modern Europe, and postcolonial Africa. He began to investigate the social and psychological patterns that give rise to these myths. Thus was born Evil Incarnate, a riveting analysis of the mythology of evilconspiracy. The first work to provide an in-depth analysis of the topic, the book uses anthropology, the history of religion, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, to answer the questions "What causes people collectively to envision evil and seek to exterminate it?" and "Why does the representation of evil recur in such typical patterns?" Frankfurter guides the reader through such diverse subjects as witch-hunting, the origins of demonology, cannibalism, and the rumors of Jewish ritual murder, demonstrating how societies have long expanded upon their fears of such atrocities to address a collective anxiety. Thus, he maintains, panics over modern-day infant sacrifice are really not so different from rumors about early Christians engaging in infant feasts during the second and third centuries in Rome. In Evil Incarnate, Frankfurter deepens historical awareness that stories of Satanic atrocities are both inventions of the mind and perennial phenomena, not authentic criminal events. True evil, as he so artfully demonstrates, is not something organized and corrupting, but rather a social construction that inspires people to brutal acts in the name of moral order.
Download or read book Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe written by Claire L. Carlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art historians. Even today, the spread of disease inspires moralizing discourse and the ostracism of groups thought responsible for contagion; the fear of illness and the desire to make sense of it are demonstrated in the current preoccupation with HIV, SARS, 'mad cow' disease, West Nile virus and avian flu, to cite but a few contemporary examples. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe explores the nature of understanding when humanity is faced with threats to its well-being, if not to its very survival.
Download or read book La Vampire written by Paul Fval and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La vampire by Paul F�val
Download or read book The Consistory and Social Discipline in Calvin s Geneva written by Jeffrey R. Watt and published by University of Rochester Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the most successful institution of social discipline in Reformation Europe: the Consistory of Geneva during the time of John Calvin
Download or read book International Calvinism 1541 1715 written by Menna Prestwich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Administrative Litigation Systems in Greater China and Europe written by Yuwen Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Administrative litigation systems are a rapidly developing legal field in many countries. This book provides a comparative study of the administrative litigation systems in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao, as well as a number of selected European countries that covers both states with an advanced rule of law and new democracies. Despite the different historical backgrounds and the broader context which has cultivated each individual system, this collective work illustrates the common characteristics of the rapid development of administrative litigation systems since the 1990s as a consequence of the advancement of the rule of law at a global level. All of the contributors have addressed a wide array of key issues in their particular jurisdiction, including court jurisdiction, the scope of judicial review, grounds of litigation claims and mediation in judicial process. Whilst pointing out the shortcomings and challenges which are faced by each jurisdiction, the book offers both ideas and inspiration on how the systems can learn from, and influence each other. This book is essential reading for those studying Chinese law, administrative litigation and comparative law, as well as judges and lawyers specialising in administrative litigation, and administrative courts.
Download or read book Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy written by Michael Albertus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that - in terms of institutional design, the allocation of power and privilege, and the lived experiences of citizens - democracy often does not restart the political game after displacing authoritarianism. Democratic institutions are frequently designed by the outgoing authoritarian regime to shield incumbent elites from the rule of law and give them an unfair advantage over politics and the economy after democratization. Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy systematically documents and analyzes the constitutional tools that outgoing authoritarian elites use to accomplish these ends, such as electoral system design, legislative appointments, federalism, legal immunities, constitutional tribunal design, and supermajority thresholds for change. The study provides wide-ranging evidence for these claims using data that spans the globe and dates from 1800 to the present. Albertus and Menaldo also conduct detailed case studies of Chile and Sweden. In doing so, they explain why some democracies successfully overhaul their elite-biased constitutions for more egalitarian social contracts.
