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Get carried away by this enchanting romance set on the remote Isles of Scilly. The beautiful young girl Armorel has lived a sheltered life -- until the day that she saves two men lost at sea in a daring rescue. One of the boat's occupants, artist Roland Lee, is enraptured by Armorel's beauty and sensitivity,...

The Revolt of Man was written during a certain summer holiday; day by day chapter by chapter, was read out, as it was finished, to two ladies. It is needless to say that their comments on the progress of events were often most valuable. Above all I may now acknowledge their advice as to the conclusion...

I have more than once told the story of the only remarkable thing which ever happened to me in the course of a longish life, but as no one ever believed me, I left off telling it. I wish, therefore, to leave behind me a truthful record, in which everything shall be set down, as near as I can remember...

According to Theosophy, the generally prevailing idea that man is a body and has a soul should be reversed. The physical body, it is maintained, is not the real man, and to regard it so is equivalent to mistaking a house for the one who dwells within it.

I. REVELATION Must religion and morals go together? Can one be taught without the Other? It is a practical question for educationists, and France tried to answer it in the dreariest little cut and dry kind of catechism ever given to boys to make them long to be wicked. But apart from education, the question...

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Seven is one of the most important numbers in the teachings of theosophy, the wisdom-religion. It is a key by which are revealed and explained many of the mysteries of nature, for in theosophy it is taught that number and numbers underlie all the processes of creation. This numerical key of seven...

The ten years' partnership of myself and my late friend Mr. James Rice has been terminated by death. I am persuaded that nothing short of death would have put an end to a partnership which was conducted throughout with perfect accord, and without the least difference of opinion. The long illness which...

Those who begin to consider the subject of the working woman discover presently that there is a vast field of inquiry lying quite within their reach, without any trouble of going into slums or inquiring of sweaters. This is the field occupied by the gentlewoman who works for a livelihood. She is not...

Young Will Halliday is heir to one of the largest shipping fortunes in England, but he decides to forsake a life of affluent leisure to pursue his dream of becoming a musician. When some greedy relatives learn of the rift between Will and his father, they conspire to wrest control of the rest of the inheritance from the budding violinist.

BnF collection ebooks - "En attirant votre attention sur l'imminence de changements physiques, je tiens à vous montrer que des transformations identiques se sont produites dans le passé avant ces transformations d'un autre ordre qui s'appliquent à la naissance d'une Religion Mondiale, à l'avènement d'un Instructeur du monde..."

« Ce livre a pour objet d’appeler l’attention sur les vérités profondes qui sont la base du Christianisme – vérités généralement méconnues et trop souvent niées. » Contenant : LE COTE CACHE DES RELIGIONS ; LE COTE CACHE DU CHRISTIANISME LE TEMOIGNAGE DES ECRITURES ; LE COTE...

BnF collection ebooks - "Beaucoup—la plupart même, peut-être—des personnes qui liront le titre de cet ouvrage l'accuseront immédiatement d'impliquer une idée fausse et nieront qu'il existe rien de précieux ayant droit au nom de Christianisme Ésotérique..."