[PDF] Ancient Traditions And Secret Families eBook

Author : Jay Lucas
Publisher : Jay Lucas
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Joe was living what he thought was a normal life with his girlfriend Laura. He knew his girlfriend was right about getting a new job that paid better, but hated to admit she was right. The aspirations of a home and getting married made him think that she was behind the job recruiter that came harassing him with a job offer. When he gave in and talked to the recruiter, he did not expect him to call his bluff on the pay increase he asked for. The job was a simple one of driving an old man around town and taking care of the car. He never expected Mr. Preston to have wealth and need a driver who had no experience acting like a chauffeur. Joe soon found out that working for Mr. Preston was nothing that he expected as it was a constant party of girls all with the approval and watchful eyes of his wife. It was a strange life that paid well and soon found himself without a girlfriend and living at the Preston mansion. Mr. Preston was old but acted like a bachelor in his twenties who had boundless energy for strip clubs and female escorts. After months of working for such an odd man, he could see that his age was catching up on him. It soon became apparent that the job would be ending when Mr. Preston became bed ridden. There was no need for a driver when he could not get out of bed and Joe figured that he would be out of a job. Not one for assuming he would be I the will, he did think that he might get the expensive sports car that he used to drive Mr. Preston around in. On his death bed, Joe found out that he was not just getting the car, but a life that he never knew existed. The secret that was held from him was that he was not some random hire, but a member of the family who was in line to take over. Joe finds himself the heir apparent to an ancient family whose blood lines date back to biblical times. He must now go through the initiation of being a member of the family that was from the long-lost city of Gomorrah who was known for their sexual perversions. Thinking it was just the money he inherited soon ends when he finds out that there are other families to this lost city, and they all want to celebrate him in being the head of a house from the lost city.

Author : Lionel Fanthorpe
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1998-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780888822024

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This is a collection of remarkable and mysterious people, from all ages and places, including our own.

Author : John 1801-1875 Timbs
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781360269764

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Patricia Fanthorpe
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 2887 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1459730925

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This special 16-book bundle collects fearless investigations into the paranormal from the pens of Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, who for several decades been researching and writing about ancient and eternal mysteries. Their entertaining and thought-provoking works span numerous topics, from numerology, freemasonry, voodoo, satanism and witchcraft to the very nature of death and time. Additionally, they have produced numerous volumes examining the great unexplained mysteries and places of history, including The Bible, European castles, strange murders, arcane objects of power, the mysterious depths of the sea and remarkable people. Take a strange and beautiful trip to the mystical side of life in this special set! Includes Death Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology Mysteries and Secrets of the Masons Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars Mysteries and Secrets of Time Mysteries and Secrets of Voodoo, Santeria, and Obeah Satanism and Demonology Secrets of the World’s Undiscovered Treasures The Big Book of Mysteries The Oak Island Mystery The World’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries The World’s Most Mysterious Castles The World’s Most Mysterious Murders The World’s Most Mysterious Objects The World’s Most Mysterious People Unsolved Mysteries of the Sea

Author : Bruce Feiler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0062199501

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In The Secrets of Happy Families, New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler has drawn up a blueprint for modern families — a new approach to family dynamics, inspired by cutting-edge techniques gathered from experts in the disciplines of science, business, sports, and the military. Don't worry about family dinner. Let your kids pick their punishments. Ditch the sex talk. Cancel date night. These are just a few of the surprising innovations in this bold first-of-its-kind playbook for today's families. Bestselling author and New York Times family columnist Bruce Feiler found himself squeezed between caring for aging parents and raising his children. So he set out on a three-year journey to find the smartest solutions and the most cutting-edge research about families. Instead of the usual family "experts," he sought out the most creative minds—from Silicon Valley to the set of Modern Family, from the country's top negotiators to the Green Berets—and asked them what team-building exercises and problem-solving techniques they use with their families. Feiler then tested these ideas with his wife and kids. The result is a fun, original look at how families can draw closer together, complete with 200 never-before-seen best practices. Feiler's life-changing discoveries include a radical plan to reshape your family in twenty minutes a week, Warren Buffett's guide for setting an allowance, and the Harvard handbook for resolving conflict. The Secrets of Happy Families is a timely, counterintuitive book that answers the questions countless parents are asking: How do we manage the chaos of our lives? How do we teach our kids values? How do we make our family happier? Written in a charming, accessible style, The Secrets of Happy Families is smart, funny, and fresh, and will forever change how your family lives every day.

Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 2007-12-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1620554534

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An overview of how esoteric brotherhoods have shaped history • Examines the secret chronology and clandestine causes of seminal world events • Shows how secret societies feed into one another, and how they have worked together For thousands of years secret societies--guardians of ancient esoteric wisdom--have exercised a strong and often crucial influence on the destiny of nations. Though largely ignored by orthodox historians, the Freemasons, Knights Templar, and Rosicrucians affected the course of the French and American Revolutions as well as the overthrow of the medieval feudal order. Inevitably, the true ideals and esoteric practices of these societies have, at times, been perverted by self-serving individuals. The Nazis and the Bolsheviks, British security forces, the founding fathers of America, and the Vatican have all justified their actions--for good or for ill--by claiming the mystic ideals of secret societies. Michael Howard explores these connections, tracing their effects in politics and statecraft from the time of ancient Egypt up to the present. He sheds light on the influence of secret societies on governments and in the lives of many well-known figures, including Frederick the Great, John Dee, Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Comte de Cagliostro, Helena Blavatsky, Rasputin, and Woodrow Wilson. He contends that the recent formation of the European Union was directed by an umbrella group of secret societies and reveals that though secret societies have been persecuted throughout history, they have survived and continue to operate powerfully in world affairs today.

Author : André Burguière
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 48,60 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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As old as the prehistoric bones jumbled in caves, as new as the latest union consummated in a test tube, the family in one form or another is at the heart of every society. Our most common institution, it is also the source of some of the world's most compelling and persistent questions, touching the very quick of history, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. A History of the Family is the first work to address all these aspects of the family over time and across the earth--to search out what the family means in its most particular and universal senses. This monumental work in two volumes brings together experts from every discipline to show what the study of each epoch has to tell us about the family. Why is the family universal and yet so different in its various cultural manifestations? What notions of kinship regulate it, and how do these develop and change? Françoise Zonabend's anthropological perspective on these questions, leading off Volume I, surveys familial terms and arrangements from familiar patrilinear models to matrilinear societies in Sumatra and Ghana to polyandry among the Nayar and the Toda of India. The following essays, which move from prehistory to antiquity to the middle ages, trace the evolution of the family from primate behavior to codified practices--in Sumer and Babylon and ancient Rome, in feudal Europe and medieval Byzantium, in China and Japan and Arab Islam--and relate these developments to religious, economic, and governmental concerns from land ownership to dynastic control and the maintenance of public order.

Author : Michael E. Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190842385

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Secret societies in ancient Judaism -- "Esoteric", mysteries, and secrecy -- Esoteric as a social category -- The social organization of secrecy -- Initiation and graded revelation -- Other secret Jewish groups and traditions -- The social setting of esoteric tradition