Download or read book The Ladders of Death written by Philippe Erhard and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LADDERS OF DEATH is a compelling historical novel that’s as much a call to action against apathy as it is a portrait of people trying to determine how they’ll react to the atrocities of World War II. Jenny a Canadian law student and Paul a French medical student discover their power to act when their individual beliefs are challenged in Nazi occupied France. The plot defines them and is used to depict the human tendency to ignore atrocities and crimes against humanity.
Download or read book The Role of Death in the Ladder of Divine Ascent and the Greek Ascetic Tradition written by Jonathan L. Zecher and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ladder of Divine Ascent, the work of an otherwise shadowy figure, John Climacus (meaning of the Ladder), abbot of St. Catherine's, Sinai (ca. 579-649 CE), is one of the most popular and enduring classics of Greek ascetic spiritual direction. Hailed as the great synthesis of early ascetic writings, the Ladder presents a spirituality self-consciously rooted in the literary and theological tradition of the Desert Fathers and the Great Old Men of Gaza. Despite its incredible popularity among monastic and lay readers, the Ladder is virtually unknown in scholarship. In this work, Jonathan L. Zecher offers a sustained study of the Ladder's spiritual vision, which is contextualized within an equally sustained genealogical survey of Climacus' own tradition. The Ladder is built up through the 'memory of death', a term referring to admonitions of early authors to remember one's inevitable but unknowable death and to contemplate the divine judgment which would follow to cultivate particular ascetic, Christian, lifestyles in their readers. In the literature that formed Climacus, every aspect of the 'memory of death' varied considerably, but Climacus draws these together in the Ladder so that death and the judgment which follows defines a symbolic framework within which monks reflect on their past and approach the future. Climacus also took up metaphorical practices of dying to oneself and others to craft an idea of spiritual progress in the imitation of Christ taking into account failure and frailty. At the heart of this study is the abiding question of how tradition forms, and in the Ladder is an outstanding example of how unflinching fidelity to tradition results in a creative, synthetic achievement.
Download or read book The Ladder of Divine Ascent written by Saint John (Climacus) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Climacus (c. 579-649) was abbot of the monastery of Catherine on Mount Sinai. His Ladder was the most widely used handbook of the ascetical life in the ancient Greek Church.
Download or read book Ladder written by Yan Song and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains poems about my life: my feelings and happenings in my life, my family, my friends, and even my country. It also contains many poems I composed to the characters in my unfinished fictions and plays of the same theme.
Download or read book The Ladder of Divine Ascent written by St. John Climacus and published by Fivestar. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ascetic Treatise by Abba John, Abbot of the monks of Mount Sinai, sent by him to Abba John, Abbot of Raithu, at whose request it was written.
Download or read book Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing written by Hélène Cixous and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration of 'the strange science of writing.' In a magnetic, irresistible narrative, Cixous reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for 'great' writing: The School of the Dead--the notion that something or someone must die in order for good writing to be born; The School of Dreams--the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration and output; and The School of Roots--the importance of depth in the 'nether realms' in all aspects of writing. Cixous's love of language and passion for the written word is evident on every page. Her emotive style draws heavily on the writers she most admires: the Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, the Austrian novelists Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard, Dostoyevsky and, most of all, Kafka.
Download or read book The Ladder of Lights written by William G. Gray and published by The Sangreal Sodality Press. This book was released on 2007-12-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ladder of Lights by William G. Gray, considered a classic in its field, is an outstanding study of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. ".....the most original commentary on basic Kabbalistic knowledge that I have read for God knows how many years." - Israel Regardie "......beautifully presented and set in excellent marching order.....For one new to the subject, this is a fine text and an exceptionally lucid introduction to a veiled and meditative lore which is still being enlarged from year to year." - Max Freedom Long (Huna Vistas)
Download or read book The Ladder to Heaven written by AiR - Atman in Ravi and published by AiR Institute of Realization . This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a Ladder to Heaven? If we pray, will we be able to go to Heaven? Is there really a place called Heaven? Has anybody gone there? Heaven is nothing but being with God! The Ladder to Heaven by AiR entails a step by step method that will help us climb the virtual Ladder to Heaven and unite us with God!
Download or read book Stone written by Richard Hampton and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone By: Richard Hampton About the Author Richard D. Hampton Born 1/24/1952 Coldwater Michigan Lived in a house that set next to M-60 In the small town of Burlington. Father Willard Hampton Mother Dorothy. They lived in Burlington for the next four years. Richard never forgets. One of his first memories was that of a tanker truck hitting a tree in front of his house. His father and uncle brought the man in still on fire screaming for help. He set back in the dark stairs, just four years old unnoticed and watched everything as the dark burnt man screamed repeatedly until he could no longer scream. The kitchen filled with smell and smoke and the man was nearly all black and smoking. He was smoldering. Richard never forgot anything. His brothers (Terry and Tom) were responsible for Richard most of the time. They got caught in a big storm. Snow came down so thick you had a hard time seeing one another. Richards boots were packed with compressed snow. The snow got up to his waste. He did his best He was wet and shaking. There was a large pack of coyotes following them. Richard was losing his boots and walking barefoot in the deep snow. They were in great danger from freezing to death or being attacked by coyotes. They had one 22 single shot Winchester. You might hold them off for just a short while. When that sun goes down, they were going to be in serious trouble. He was shaking uncontrollably, walking so slowly His pants were stiff frozen ice cutting into his ankles. Richard was six. They almost made it. Richard stopped about a hundred yards from home and just sit down. His father carried him. Richard had an unbelievable life. He filled his duty to USA and was injured twice. His best friend died about a foot away from him. He spent weeks in the army hospitals. He was part of a special unit that gathered and analyzed top secret information. He has been all over the world. He is well educated in business and engineering. He built his own business and managed a few for others He been reading books since he was five. His favorites were, the jungle book, The tale of two cities, and the works of Joseph flavius. He is someone everyone should meet and get to know. General George Patton Jr. president and Ford knew him. This book was written because he was reading so much history about the area and time period. He had been there before. If you meet one man in your life time it should be Richard Hampton. To my brother who helped, my sister who believed, and my wife for tolerating me. Thanks for your support R.D.H.
Download or read book The Ladder of High Designs written by Doranne Fenoaltea and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on the structure and interpretation of the French lyric squence marks a number of tentative signposts for future travlers along this relatively unmarked path. It explores the means of seeing how harmony and greater meaning, concordia discors, arises from the organization of a collection of poems into a poetic work.
Download or read book Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia written by G. Domenig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his richly illustrated Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia Gaudenz Domenig investigates the nature of Indonesian ethnic religions by focusing on land opening rituals, sacred groves, and architectural responses to the custom of presenting offerings. Since deities and spirits were supposed to taste offerings on the spot, it was a task of architecture to attract them and to guide them into houses where offerings were presented. Domenig quotes numerous sources to show that certain material elements of the house were viewed as spirit attractors, spirit ladders or spirit pathways. Various ‘exotic’ features of Indonesian vernacular architecture thus become understandable as relics from times when architecture was still responding to indigenous religions practised in the archipelago.
Download or read book Climbing the Ladder Chasing the Dream written by Candace O’Connor and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing about Homer G. Phillips Hospital came easily. Built to serve St. Louis’s rapidly expanding African-American population, the grand new hospital opened its doors in 1937, toward the end of the Great Depression. “Homer G.,” as many called it, joined a burgeoning group of black hospitals amid a national period of institutional segregation and strong racial prejudice nationwide. When the beautiful, up-to-date hospital opened, it attracted more black residents than any other such program in the United States. Patients also flocked to the hospital, as did nursing students who found there excellent training, ready employment, and a boost into the middle class. For decades, the hospital thrived; by the 1950s, three-quarters of African-American babies in St. Louis were born at Homer G. But the 1960s and 1970s brought less need for all-black hospitals, as faculty, residents, and patients were increasingly welcome in the many newly integrated institutions. Ever-tightening city budgets meant less money for the hospital, and in 1979, despite protests from the African-American community, HGPH closed. Years later, the venerated, long-vacant building came to life again as the Homer G. Phillips Senior Living Community. Candace O’Connor draws upon contemporary newspaper articles, institutional records, and dozens of interviews with former staff members to create the first, full history of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital. She also brings new facts and insights into the life and mysterious murder (still an unsolved case) of the hospital’s namesake, a pioneering Black attorney and civil rights activist who led the effort to build the sorely needed medical facility in the Ville neighborhood.
Download or read book Death s Daughter and the Ebony Blade Volume 5 written by Maito Ayamine and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia, Claudia, and Ashton set off on a journey, but this time it’s not a battlefield they're headed to. Fernest has forged an alliance with the Holy Land of Mekia to combat the Asvelt Empire, and Olivia is invited by the enigmatic Seraph Sofitia on an official visit. A magnificent welcome awaits them amongst the soaring spires of the seraph’s palace, but there’s more at play. Sofitia’s true aim is to make Olivia’s incredible power her own—and she has a killer offer with which to tempt the young commander. What will Olivia do when faced with the choice between her new friends and what she’s been seeking all this time? When offered hope of finding Z, will she be able to say no? Meanwhile, down in the darkness, Chancellor Darmés’ schemes are growing closer to fruition...
Download or read book Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art written by Hope B. Werness and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly produced voulume is the first reference work to focus on the symbols, meaning, and significance of art in native, or indigenous, cultures.
Download or read book The Ladder to the Stars written by Jane Helen Findlater and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ladder written by Philip Everett Curtiss and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
