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Written 1902 (CW 8)“As simultaneously mysticism and fact, Christianity is a breakthrough in the historical development of humanity, for which the mysteries, with the results that they brought about, form a prior evolutionary stage.” ―Rudolf Steiner
During the fall and winter of 1901–02, Steiner gave a series of lectures called “Christianity as Mystical Fact” to members of the Theosophical Society. The lectures were rewritten and issued as a book later that year. They mark a watershed in the development of Western esotericism. Steiner wrote of the idea behind his book:“The titleChristianity as Mystical Factwas one I gave to this work eight years ago, when I gathered together the content of lectures given in 1902. It was meant to indicate the special approach adopted in the book. Its theme is not just the mystical side of Christianity in a historical presentation. It was meant to show, from the standpoint of a mystical awareness, how Christianity came into being.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION – 00:00
I. POINTS OF VIEW – 6:11
II. THE MYSTERIES AND THEIR WISDOM – 15:59
III. THE GREEK SAGES BEFORE PLATO IN THE LIGHT OF THE WISDOM OF THE MYSTERIES – 48:39
IV. PLATO AS A MYSTIC – 1:15:32
V. THE WISDOM OF THE MYSTERIES AND THE MYTH – 1:49:20
VI. THE MYSTERY WISDOM OF EGYPT – 2:27:54
VII. THE GOSPELS – 2:50:34
VIII. THE LAZARUS MIRACLE – 3:03:40
IX. THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN – 3:23:13
X. JESUS AND HIS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND – 3:46:41
XI. THE NATURE OF CHRISTIANITY – 3:52:06
XII. CHRISTIANITY AND HEATHEN WISDOM – 4:05:18
XIII. ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE CHURCH – 4:17:56
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Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as The Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft.
It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer, and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. It has been described as the compendium of literature in demonology of the 15th century.
The top theologians of the Inquisition at the Faculty of Cologne condemned the book as recommending unethical and illegal procedures, as well as being inconsistent with Catholic doctrines of demonology. The Malleus elevates sorcery to the criminal status of heresy, and recommends that secular courts prosecute it as such.
The Malleus suggests torture to effectively obtain confessions, and the death penalty as the only certain remedy against the evils of witchcraft. At the time of its publication, heretics were frequently sentenced to be burned alive at the stake, and the Malleus encouraged the same treatment of witches.
Despite its condemnation by the clergy, the book enjoyed a period of popularity among literate laymen.
PART ONE
00:00 – Introduction
27:45 – The Bull of Innocent the 8th
36:32 – Question I. Whether the Belief that there are such Beings as Witches is so Essential a Part of the Catholic Faith that Obstinacy to maintain the Opposite Opinion manifestly savours of Heresy…..
22 hours of these answers to over 70 of their questions…
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Account of A Vampire. (1738). By Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens. – 00:00
Dead Persons in Hungary Who Suck The Blood Of The Living. (1746) By Antoine Augustin Calmet. – 2:24
The Vampyre. (1819). By John William Polidori. – 5:29
The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo. (1819) By. Uriah Derick D’Arcy. – 1:02:04
Wake Not the Dead. (1823). By Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach. – 1:51:12
The Dead Leman. (1836). By Théophile Gautier. – 3:01:10
The Family of the Vourdalak. (1839). By Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. – 4:15:36
Varney The Vampyre or The Feast of Blood. (1845). By James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett. – 5:18:52
The Vampyre Bride. (1851). By Edwin F. Roberts. – 7:14:43
The Mysterious Stranger. (1854) By anonymous. – 7:50:34
The Coffin-Lid. (1859). By Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev. – 9:27:48
The Soldier and the Vampire. (1863). By Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev. – 9:31:36
The Last Lords of Gardonal. (1867). By William Gilbert. – 9:38:50
Carmilla. (1871). By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. – 11:04:50
The Vampire Cat of Nabéshima. (1871). Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale. – 14:03:50
Ken’s Mystery. (1883). By Julian Hawthorne. – 14:19:35
The Old Portrait. (1890). By James Hume Nisbet. – 15:14:55
The Vampire Maid. (1890). By James Hume Nisbet. – 15:24:42
A Mystery of the Campagna. (1891). By Anne Crawford. – 15:39:26
The Vampire of Croglin Grange. (1900). By Augustus Hare. – 17:00:36
The Tomb of Sarah. (1900). By F. G. Loring. – 17:09:38
The Singular Death of Morton. (1910). By Algernon Blackwood. – 17:40:34
Dracula’s Guest. (1897). Bram Stoker. – 18:03:34
The Sumach. (1919). By. Ulric Daubeny. – 18:31:16
Mrs. Amworth. (1922). By E. F. Benson. – 18:53:56