JOYCE DONOVAN

The Jesus Scroll, a time bomb for Christianity?

London, Sphere. 1975, First Thus. (ISBN: 0722151039) Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (200 gram rate) SCARCE first thus in paperback, hard to find title, A radio broadcaster and scriptwriter for 30 years the author now produces his first published work. VG but age browned paper stock " Was Jesus married? Why was he crucified? Did Judas betray him? What were Mary Magdalenes relations with Jesus?Who was Jesus' real Father? Are the Gospels "true"?What was the truth about the Ressurection? Was Jesus a man of eighty when he died? Were his actual remains buried in July 1969?..based upon revelations of an astonishing archaelogical discovery in Israel in 1964." 197pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005297

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Magdalene Christianity Dead Sea Scrolls Jesus Masada Grail Holy Bloodline Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 0722151039

STEWART DUGALD

Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, A New Edition

Cheapside, Thomas Tegg. 1842, New and Enlarged. Full-Leather, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. full calf well rubbed to edges and joints worn through and split, lacking top and lower two sections of the backstrip, needs rebinding, nice marbled endpapers intact, lower board detached, marbled closed edges, two parts in one as printed, viii + 591pp + 1pp advert, solid binding, clean and tidy but needs new boards or else a library bind to hold them onto the text block, new edition, the foreword is dated 1814 and mentions original publication date of 1792 for part one and 1813 for part two, includes chapters on memory, logic, Aristotelian logic, imagination, reasoning. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 013110

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Philosophy Antiquarian Nineteenth Century British

WINKLER FRANZ E

Man the Bridge Between Two Worlds

London, Hodder. 1960, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. DW has wear and chipping at spine head, price clipped, book spine sunned to spine with ghosts from the DW spine titling. "Restoring the balance between material and spiritual values", the existentialist quandary from the viewpoint of a psychiatrist/ psychologist who calls for a strengthening of intuitive reality to combat the modern malaise. 266pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 001967

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Ethics Morals Psychology Law Existensialism Social Sciences Sozialwissenschaften Sociologie

PICCARD E.

Simone Weil Essai Biographique et Critique Suivi D'une Anthologie Raisonnee Des Oeuvres De Simone Weil

Paris, Presses Universitaires De France. 1960, First Edition. Original Wraps, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. sewn sheets in printed paper wrapper, wrapper has age browning and slight foxing to top few inches, closed edges foxed, unopened sheets, 316pp + frontis port. errata, French text. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009901

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: French Philosophy Christian Mystic Mysticism Journals Notebooks Simone Weil Bibliography

WALSH MARY E

The Wine of Roman Babylon

Nashville, The Southern Publishing Association. 1945, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. spine ends rubbed, split at head of upper joint, inscription to paste down, 223pp + plates, a Catholic who after studying the scriptures abjured the faith and writes her reasons against the Catholic Church here, maybe a Southern Baptist? she equates the Catholic and Papl church with the Great Whore of Babylon. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002086

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Christian Evangelical Anti-Papist Catholicism Theology

BROOMHALL MARSHALL ED

Last Letters and Further Records of Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission

London, Morgan & Scott. 1901, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. blue cloth with decorative titling in gilt to upper board , gilt to spine, covers soiled lightly, rubbed to fore edge through to board in some places, nearing VG condition, ink inscr to fep, minor foxing mainly to prelims, rubricated title page, 105pp + 4 pp adverts +plates + frontis with tissue guard, nice type on laid paper, a record of the missionaries slain or imprisoned while trying to convert chinese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, RARE. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 013264

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Missionary Christian China Inland Mission Chinese History Rare

SALTUS EDGAR

The Lords of the Ghostland, a History of the Ideal

London, Werner Laurie. First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) cloth rubbed to joints and edges, some light foxing, undated assumed first, 215pp, essays on Brahma Ormuzd Amon-ra Bel Marduk Jehovah Zeus Jupiter. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006268

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Religion Philosophy Brahma Ormuzd Amon-Ra Bel Marduk Jehovah Zeus Jupiter

SALTUS EDGAR

The Pomps of Satan

London, Greening & Co. 1904, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. cloth rubbed to joints and edges, some light foxing, 251pp, essays on various topics including Gilles De Rais, De Retz, Bluebeard, and the Count De Saint Germain. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006269

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Religion Philosophy Gilles de Rais de Retz Bluebeard Count de Saint Germain Essays

SCHURE EDOUARD

The Genesis of Tragedy and The Sacred drama of Eleusis

London, Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co. 1936, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Scarce book by an anthroposophically inspired genius who shows the spiritual heritage of Greek and Indian theatre and how this sacred drama continued on into the middle ages, covers theatre in ancient India and Greece as well as an interpretation of Goethe and Wagner, Sakuntala, Aeschylus and Sophocles and much on the Eleusinian Mysteries. first edition, blue cloth some fading to spine ends, two small white shelf mark numbers , fep has former owner details in pen and private library stamps, rear paste down has a card pocket affixed, closed edges foxed, some foxing on to the prelims, 301pp. DW unclipped but with heavy chipping with loss to the edges especially at spine ends, private library stamp at top corner of cover, some minor tape repairs to reverse of the joints. Good/Good.

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Book number: 012736

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Steiner Anthroposophy Schure Drama Thatre Tragedy Eleusis Eleusinian Mysteries Pagan Greece India Sakuntala Theatre Sophocles Dionysos

SILLEM EDWARD

Ways of Thinking About God, Thomas Aquinas and Some Recent Problems

London, Darton, Longman & Todd. 1961, First Edition. Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) spine sunned, rubber name stamp to fep, errata slip present, viii 190pp, sewn in paper wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007206

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Theology Christian Philosophy St Thomas Aquinas Religious Religion

ARNOLD EDWIN

Pearls of the Faith or Islam's Rosary Being the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of Allah with Comments in Verse from Various Oriental Sources

London, Trubner. 1883, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. spine leans, binding slightly loosened, light edgewear to spine ends and corners, paper scar top margin of title where name erased, starts with title directly after decorative endpapers, xiv 319pp + 7 pp adverts, pages are bordered in green, some Arabic text printed in green as chapter heads etc. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002802

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Islam Muslim Arab Religion Koran Translation Edwin Arnold

ARNOLD EDWIN

Pearls of the Faith or Islam's Rosary Being the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of Allah with Comments in Verse from Various Oriental Sources

London, Trubner. 1884, third edition. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. VG clean used copy, starts with title directly after green endpapers, xiv 319pp + 7 pp adverts, pages are bordered in green, some Arabic text printed in green as chapter heads etc. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007638

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Islam Muslim Arab Religion Koran Translation Edwin Arnold

SIMPSON MARY ELIZABETH

The Body Glorified

Dunedin, Reed. 1939, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. shows minor handling, clean and unmarked internals, 344pp slight foxing, the author is from Christchurch, New Zealand, Spiritualism, Christian Mysticism, Survival, Reincarnation. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009050

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Spiritualism Christian Mysticism Survival Past Life Reincarnation Christchurch New Zealand Author

SIMPSON MARY ELIZABETH

The Body Glorified

Dunedin, Reed. 1939, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. unclipped DW with very minor short edge tears or handling soiling, vibrant colours and design, clean and unmarked internals, minor foxing to closed edges, 344pp slight foxing, the author is from Christchurch, New Zealand, Spiritualism, Christian Mysticism, Survival, Reincarnation. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009273

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Spiritualism Christian Mysticism Survival Past Life Reincarnation Christchurch New Zealand Author

SIMPSON MARY ELIZABETH

The Body Glorified

Dunedin, Reed. 1939, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library, spine faded, stamps to closed edges, library plates etc to ednpapers, library stamps, part of DW tipped onto title, tidy ex-library copy, 344pp slight foxing, the author is from Christchurch, New Zealand, Spiritualism, Christian Mysticism, Survival, Reincarnation. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009578

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Spiritualism Christian Mysticism Survival Past Life Reincarnation Christchurch New Zealand Author