Creation, the Sacred Universe: The Incubation of the Phoenix

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Phoenix Source Distributors, Inc., 1994 - 231
 

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Strona 105 - But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.
Strona 147 - In his mouth he held a sharp sword to strike down the nations; he ruled them with an iron grip; and he trod the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God...
Strona 60 - The more capitalism is developed, the more strongly the shortage of raw materials is felt, the more intense the competition and the hunt for sources of raw materials throughout the whole world, the more desperate is the struggle for the acquisition of colonies.
Strona 189 - Every [human] transformation . . . has rested on a new metaphysical and ideological base; or rather, upon deeper stirrings and intuitions whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of man. . . . We stand on the brink of [such] a new age: the age of an open world and of a self capable of playing its part in that larger sphere. An age of renewal, when work and leisure and learning and love will unite to produce a fresh form for every stage of life, and...
Strona 147 - Then I saw heaven opened, and a white horse was standing there. And the one sitting on the horse was named Faithful and True.
Strona 4 - TREASON doth never prosper; what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Strona 31 - Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels.
Strona 151 - Sexuality is a dimension of one's restless heart, which continually yearns for interpersonal communion, glimpsed and experienced to varying degrees in this life, ultimately finding full oneness only in God, here and...
Strona 35 - ... and his superhuman security in misfor-tune, his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire; his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death; all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was twofold the unity of God and the immateriality of God: the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God...
Strona 32 - History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.

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