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Manual of the Lodge distills the three Craft degreesEntered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master Masoninto clear monitorial guidance. In measured, didactic prose, it sets out ceremonies, lectures, charges, and emblematic notes on the working tools, pillars, letter G, and point within a circle. Arranged for quick consultation as well as study, it participates in the midnineteenthcentury effort to regularize American ritual while honoring the ancient landmarks. Albert Gallatin Mackey (18071881), a Charleston physician turned preeminent Masonic scholar, wrote with the combined habits of clinician and lexicographer. Author of the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and studies in symbolism and jurisprudence, he sought clarity, consistency, and historical grounding. His service in organized Masonry and his articulation of the landmarks naturally prompted a manual to instruct initiates and guide officers across jurisdictions. Students of ritual, lodge officers, and curious candidates will find here a reliable vade mecum and a thoughtful exegesis. Accessible yet rigorous, it rewards consultation on the floor and meditative reading at home. For anyone seeking a compact synthesis of Masonic practice and meaning, this book remains indispensable.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Cur Deus Homo is Anselms rigorous inquiry into why God became human, framed as a dialogue with the monk Boso. Eschewing appeal to bare authority, he articulates the satisfaction theory: sin incurs a debt no finite creature can pay, so only the God-man can restore justice and mercy. In lucid, tightly argued Latin, the treatise models early scholastic method while rooted in monastic devotion, and decisively shaped Western reflection on Incarnation and redemption. Benedictine monk and later Archbishop of Canterbury, Anselm brought to theology the philosophical discipline of the Monologion and Proslogion. Formed by Augustine and realist metaphysics, and writing amid ecclesial conflicts and pastoral care, he sought to render mysteries intelligible by reason for believers and questioners alike. His classroom habits - patient questioning, careful distinctions - govern the dialogues progress. Scholars of theology, philosophy of religion, and medieval studies will find here a compact masterpiece. Whether you seek a seminal account of atonement or a classic of faith seeking understanding, Cur Deus Homo offers clarity, rigor, and spiritual seriousness in rare combination - an indispensable guide for probing the logic of the Incarnation.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Introduction to the Devout Life (1609) offers a clear, pastoral roadmap for sanctity amid ordinary duties. Cast as counsel to Philotheathe soul desiring Godit moves from foundational meditations and a decisive renunciation of sin to practical disciplines of prayer, confession, Communion, modesty, friendship, and vocational discernment. Its style is limpid, affectionate, and concretely observant, enlivened by homely metaphors and precise moral psychology. Situated within the Catholic Reformation, it reframes monastic wisdom for merchants, magistrates, spouses, and servants, insisting that genuine devotion adorns every state of life. Francis de Sales (15671622), Bishop of Geneva resident in Annecy, combined rigorous legal training with patient pastoral practice. His mission in the Chablais, vast correspondence, and direction of lay penitents taught him that zeal without gentleness wounds. Drawing on patristic sources, Ignatian methods, and his collaboration with Jeanne de Chantal (co-founder of the Visitation), he distilled years of confessional counsel into letters first penned for a laywoman, later universalized as Philothea. This classic offers a humane, time-tested school of prayer and virtue for those seeking holiness within ordinary life. Read a chapter at a time; few guides match its doctrinal clarity, psychological realism, and pastoral gentleness.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A Treatise on White Magic is a disciplined manual on the creative use of consciousness, defining magic as the intelligent building and release of thought-forms under soul control. Organized as Rules for Magic with commentary, it blends occult cosmology with practical counsel on meditation, harmless speech, and group work, analyzing glamor and illusion within an emerging psychological vocabulary of integration. Alice A. Bailey, British-born esotericist and cofounder of the Lucis Trust and the Arcane School, produced this text during her claimed telepathic collaboration with the Tibetan, Djwhal Khul. Her journey from orthodox Christianity through the Theosophical Society to independent teaching shaped her emphasis on ethical, experimental occultism oriented to service and responsive to interwar social and psychological upheaval. This volume rewards readers of Western esotericism, comparative mysticism, and the history of psychology, as well as serious practitioners seeking a rigorous program of meditative work. Demanding but lucid, it invites sustained study and application, especially concerning speech, desire, and cooperative endeavor. For such readers, it remains a seminal articulation of spiritual practice as intelligent, creative service.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Homage to Catalonia is Orwells unsparing firsthand chronicle of his service with the POUM militia on the Aragon front during the Spanish Civil War. Combining frontline reportage, memoir, and political analysis, it traces the exhilaration of revolutionary Barcelona, the drudgery of trench warfare, and the disorienting betrayals of the 1937 May Days. Orwells plain, scrupulous prose resists romanticism; he tests ideals against observed fact, exposing rifts within the antiFranco coalition and the corrosions of Stalinist orthodoxy. Its hybrid structureinterleaving narrative with analytic chapters and documentary detailplaces the book in the tradition of engaged, ethical journalism. Written by Eric Arthur Blair, former colonial policeman and chronicler of poverty, Orwell went to Spain a democratic socialist and left radicalized against totalitarianism. Wounded by a sniper at Huesca, he saw POUM comrades outlawed as "Trotskyists" and narrowly escaped arrest during the Barcelona purgesevents that compelled him to rebut both fascist and Communist lies. The book inaugurates the moral and political trajectory culminating in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Scholars, journalists, and general readers will find a lucid, bracing study in integrity and ideologyindispensable for understanding the Spanish Civil War, the fractured Left, and the origins of Orwells enduring anti-totalitarian vision.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Drawing on the Confessio, the Letter to Coroticus, and the early Lives of Muirchú and Tírechán, Bury reconstructs Patricks mission from sparse evidence, testing hagiography against annals, law, and landscape. He separates Patrick from Palladius, recalibrates the chronology, and clarifies Armaghs rise. In lucid, exacting prose with a robust critical apparatus, the book exemplifies the Edwardian commitment to scientific history, stripping accreted legend while preserving the contours of a compelling life. J. B. Bury (18611927), an Irish-born classicist and later Regius Professor at Cambridge, brought to this study the philological discipline and late Roman expertise honed in his histories of the Empire and his edition of Gibbon. Formed in Dublins academic milieu yet wary of confessional and nationalist myth-making, he sought to treat Patrician evidence with scientific rigor, situating Patrick at the fringes of a contracting Roman world. Essential for students of late antiquity, medieval Ireland, and ecclesiastical history, this volume remains a model of sober, source-driven biography. General readers will value its clarity and judicious skepticism. If you want a reliable guide through Patrician legend to the historical missionaryand to the processes by which Christianity took root in fifth-century IrelandBurys book is the authoritative place to begin.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Counsels and Maxims distills Schopenhauers practical philosophy into compact aphorisms on prudence, character, self-mastery, solitude, reputation, health, and the pursuit of limited happiness amid suffering. Lapidary and mordant yet lucid, it advances by maxim and antithesis. Composed within the late Parerga and Paralipomena, it joins the European moralist tradition while absorbing Stoic and Buddhist restraint. Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860), philosopher of the will, forged these pages from pessimistic metaphysics and obstinate independence. Schooled in classics and attuned to Indian sources, he lived long in Hegels shadow, moved from cholera-stricken Berlin to Frankfurt, and found late fame with the Parerga; here he translates his diagnosis of striving into prudential counsel and compassionate restraint. Recommended to readers who prefer bracing clarity over consolatory uplift, this volume rewards slow, selective reading. Students of ethics and nineteenthcentury thoughtand admirers of Seneca, Montaigne, Pascal, or La Rochefoucauldwill value its durable strategies for self-possession and measured desire, a vade mecum for living sanely within, rather than against, the limits of the human condition.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Courage to Stand Alone gathers U. G. Krishnamurtis uncompromising letters and conversations, a sustained dismantling of spiritual authority, self-improvement, and the ideal of "enlightenment." Terse, aphoristic, and unsentimental, the prose refuses system or method, exposing belief as habit and craving. Set against late twentiethcentury critiques of guru culture, the book advances his stark claim that the socalled natural state is physiological rather than mystical, and that genuine freedom requires no secondhand certainties. Raised in Theosophical circles in South India, later traveling widely and debating celebrated teachers, Krishnamurti turned iconoclast after the 1960s "calamity" he described as a purely physical upheaval. His antiguru stance, refusal to teach, and conversational practice shape these pages: dryly exact, resistant to consolation, and suspicious of any system that promises transformation. Recommended to skeptical seekers, scholars of religion and modern Indian thought, and readers fatigued by techniques, this volume is best read slowly, without expectation. It offers not a path but a bracing clarity about the limits of paths, a summons to thinkand standalone.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Published in 1754 amid postGreat Awakening controversy, The Freedom of the Will offers a rigorous compatibilist account of agency under divine sovereignty. Edwards distinguishes natural from moral inability and argues the will follows the strongest motive arising from ones prevailing disposition. Combining scholastic logic, scriptural exegesis, and Enlightenment precision, he contests Arminian libertarianism and clarifies necessity, contingency, and the renewal of the affections. Edwards (17031758)pastor, revival theologian, later missionary at Stockbridgewrote in dialogue with Locke and in rebuttal of New England Arminians, notably Daniel Whitby. Shaped by the Northampton revivals and his study of the affections, he sought to preserve moral accountability while grounding salvation in sovereign grace, refined by pastoral conflicts and reflective exile. Scholars of theology, philosophy of action, and early modern thought will value this lucid yet demanding treatise for its durable distinctions and argumentative economy. Patient readers will find a coherent framework for reconciling freedom and grace without evading responsibility. For seminars, clergy formation, or rigorous self-study, it remains an indispensable, clarifying classic.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Impersonal Life speaks in the first-person voice of the indwelling "I AM," addressing the reader with scriptural cadence and spare, aphoristic chapters. It counsels surrender of the personal ego, prayer as listening, and obedience to the inner Teacher rather than to external authorities or psychic spectacle. Situated within New Thought and Christian mysticism, it converses with Emersonian self-reliance and the American metaphysical tradition. Joseph Benner, an Ohio-based businessman turned mystic, issued the work anonymously to efface personality and emphasize the source of the voice he transmits. Formed by New Thought currents and a biblically inflected devotional culture, he sought a direct, nonsectarian pedagogy. Companion texts such as The Way Out and The Way to the Kingdom share its plain, imperative diction and practical spirituality. Recommended for readers of contemplative practice and seekers wary of borrowed authority, this book rewards slow, reflective reading: short passages, revisited often. Accept its theistic idiom or translate it into a universal register; either way it remains a bracing corrective to restless seeking and a durable guide to interiority.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Apology of the Church of England (1562) is a lucid, forensic defense of the Elizabethan Settlement, arguing not innovation but a return to Scripture and the consensual teaching of the first centuries. In polished Latin humanist prose arranged like a legal brief, Jewel answers Roman charges on Scriptures sufficiency, the sacraments, images, saints, purgatory, clerical marriage, and papal supremacy, marshalling Augustine, Jerome, Chrysostom, and early councils. Firm yet irenic, the work situates an English via media within pan-Protestant apologetics while insisting on patristic continuity. John Jewel (15221571), bishop of Salisbury, was schooled at Oxford and tempered by Marian exile in Strasbourg and Zurich, under the tutelage of Peter Martyr Vermigli and the counsel of Bullinger. Returning under Elizabeth, he issued the famous 1559 Challenge Sermon at Pauls Cross, demanding Roman proofs from Scripture or the first six centuries; the Apology crystallizes that demand. Humanist training, pastoral responsibility, and the politics of the Settlement converge to produce a cool, documentary case for reform. Essential for students of Reformation theology, Anglican identity, and patristic reception, this classic rewards historians, theologians, and clergy alike with clarity, concision, and principled continuity without credulity.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A Treatise on White Magic: Fifteen Rules articulates a disciplined program for the "magical work of the soul," defining white magic as the souls creative expression through a trained, impersonal mind. Fifteen terse rules, each followed by expository commentary, cover thought-form building, meditative alignment, harmlessness, and the shift from personal effort to group service. Composed within the interwar Theosophical milieu, the book engages contemporary psychology while retaining a technical esoteric vocabulary, framing practice through motifs like "energy follows thought" and the analysis of glamour and illusion. Alice A. Bailey (18801949), a British-born esotericist, presented this text as part of a teaching cycle attributed to the Tibetan master Djwhal Khul. After leaving the Theosophical Society, she founded the Lucis Trust and the Arcane School, marrying meditative discipline to organized training, and recasting occultism, amid postwar upheaval, as a psychology of service. This volume will reward readers of Western esotericism, comparative religion, and depth psychology who seek method rather than spectacle. Used as seed-thoughts for contemplative study, its rules offer a durable framework for creative living, ethical responsibility, and group-centered, world-serving work.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Devachanic Plane maps the Theosophical mental world, Devachan, as a graded series of seven subplanes where post-mortem consciousness assimilates embodied experience. Leadbeater describes karmic assimilation, the architecture of thought-forms, synesthetic correspondences of color and sound, and the distinction between lower and higher Devachan, situating these states alongside the astral and physical planes. Written in a quasi-empirical register said to derive from trained clairvoyance, it stands within the fin de siecle occult revival and complements his earlier The Astral Plane. Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934), an English clergyman turned Theosophist and collaborator of Annie Besant, pursued occult research under the Societys comparative program of religion, philosophy, and science. His disciplined clairvoyant practice and pedagogical work at Adyar yielded the field-notes distilled here. Drawing on H. P. Blavatskys cosmogenesis yet seeking finer phenomenology, he aimed to render invisible worlds amenable to methodical description. Recommended to students of Theosophy, comparative religion, and esoteric intellectual history, The Devachanic Plane rewards careful reading. It clarifies the Theosophical interval between death and rebirth and pairs fruitfully with The Astral Plane and Thought-Forms.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Published in 1863, The Life of Jesus offers a rigorously historicized portrait of the Nazarene within the Galilean world under Herodian rule. Reconstructing the ministry from the Synoptics with philological tact, Renan treats miracles as later legends while foregrounding the moral force and eschatological tone of Jesuss preaching. His lucid, gently lyrical prose sets villages and the Lake of Gennesaret before the reader even as it applies higher criticism. The book belongs to the nineteenth-century quest for the historical Jesus, in dialogue with German methods yet insistently vivid. Renan, a former seminarian turned philologist, drew on mastery of Semitic languages, a chair at the College de France, and observations from Levantine travel. Seeking to unite moral reverence with scientific inquiry, he composed a human-centered portrait that provoked ecclesiastical censure yet established him as a founder of modern religious historiography. Essential for students of theology, history, and literature, this classic models how faiths origins can be examined without scorn and piety without credulity. Read it as a landmark of historical criticism and as an elegant, provocative narrative of Christian beginnings.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Mortification of Sin is John Owens classic treatise on sanctification, expounding Pauls charge in Romans 8:13 with Puritan precision and pastoral urgency. Owen dissects the anatomy of indwelling sin, distinguishes counterfeit mortification from Spirit-wrought obedience, and prescribes a disciplined regimen grounded in union with Christ, the Word, prayer, and watchfulness. Written in tightly argued propositions and practical casuistry, it refuses both ascetic self-reliance and lax antinomianism, pressing the memorable axiom: "be killing sin, or sin will be killing you." An Independent divine and vice-chancellor of Oxford during the Interregnum, Owen (16161683) combined classical learning with relentless pastoral inquiry. Composed in the mid-1650s alongside companion essays on temptation and indwelling sin, this work arose from university sermons and counsel amid civil turmoil, sectarian excess, and moral weariness. Owen writes as a physician of souls shaped by Reformed scholastic method, personal affliction, and disputes with both legalists and libertines. Readers of theology, pastors, and serious laypeople will find in Mortification of Sin a bracing, deeply consoling manual for growth in holiness. It rewards slow, reflective study, offering diagnostics and remedies that remain startlingly contemporary for anyone intent on resisting sin by the Spirit.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Story of Malta charts the islands long arc: from megalithic sanctuaries and Phoenician traders through Roman, Arab, and Norman dominion, to the Knights of St. John, the 1565 siege, and British rule, attending to Vallettas fortifications, harbors, and civic life. Ballous lucid, pictorial prose fuses itinerary with archive, placing Malta within nineteenth-century popular history while engaging debates on language, architecture, and ritual at a crossroads of Mediterranean exchange. Maturin M. Ballou, Boston editor, journalist, and seasoned globe-trotter, brought a reporters eye to this study. A founder and early editor of the Boston Globe and author of influential travel books on Cuba, Mexico, Scandinavia, and Alaska, he combined on-site observation with careful reading of chronicles and state papers. Malta, visited on his Mediterranean circuits, embodied his thesis that strategic geography molds institutions and everyday life. Scholars and curious travelers alike will value this concise, gracefully narrated synthesis of Maltese history. It rewards readers of Mediterranean and imperial studies, naval history, and urban heritage, and offers an informed companion to walking Valletta or Mdina. For those who prize narrative clarity anchored in trustworthy sources, The Story of Malta remains a lively, durable guide.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Autobiography of Madame Guyon recounts a spiritual odyssey from precocious piety through marriage, widowhood, persecution, and prison to the practice she calls pure love. In lucid, confessional prose that echoes Scripture, she braids narrative with counsel on interior prayer and surrender of the will. Set amid seventeenth century French debates on mysticism and Quietism, the book balances intimate experience with measured theological reflection. Born in 1648, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon was widowed young, formed by exacting confessors, sickrooms, and the demands of motherhood. Her influence drew Fenelon and alarmed Bossuet; arrests followed. Writing during and after confinement, she distilled a lifetime of experiment with passive prayer into a defense of interior devotion and a testimony for ordinary believers navigating courtly pressure and ecclesiastical censure. Readers of Augustine and Teresa, scholars of early modern religion and womens writing, and seekers of contemplative practice will find this narrative both unsettling and bracing. It rewards slow reading, offers a window on the Quietist controversy, and remains an incisive manual for prayer under surveillance and strain.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is both theological apology and practical handbook, written as affective, Christocentric piety was reshaping seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury Catholicism. Croiset presents the Heart of Christ as the visible sign of invisible charitygrounded in Scripture, the Fathers, and liturgythen translates this vision into concrete exercises: acts of reparation, frequent Communion (notably First Fridays), and the Holy Hour. His prose marries Jesuit methodorderly, didactic, attentive to conscienceto the tender, nuptial accents of the French School and the Visitation milieu, yielding a text at once lucid in doctrine and ardent in appeal, a measured counter to contemporary rigorism. Jean Croiset, S.J. (16561738), a Jesuit director linked to the Visitation at ParayleMonial, gathered and systematized St. Margaret Mary Alacoques testimonies. Formed by Ignatian discernment and ministering amid Jansenist polemics, he defended divine mercy while shaping a practicable, supervised path of reparative love. Scholars of early modern spirituality, pastors seeking sound devotional guidance, and contemporary devotees alike will profit from this classic. It offers a clear theological rationale and a humane discipline of prayer, inviting readers to contemplate the pierced Heart and to embody Christs merciful charity in daily life.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Occult World (1881) records Sinnetts closely observed phenomena attributed to the Theosophical Mahatmas Koot Hoomi and Morya, chiefly in Simla and often mediated by H. P. Blavatsky. In a crisp, journalistic style interlaced with precipitated letters and timelines, he presents occult exchanges as experiments addressed to Victorian empiricism. Situated amid spiritualism, Orientalist inquiry, and the British Raj, the book advances an esoteric philosophy through repeatableif contestedpsychic displays. An English journalist and editor of the Pioneer in Allahabad, Sinnett applied a reporters exactitude to extraordinary claims. After meeting Blavatsky and Henry S. Olcott in 1879, he cultivated correspondence with the supposed adepts and used his Simla circle to stage controlled tests. His training, colonial vantage, and desire to reconcile Eastern doctrine with Western reason shaped his decision to publish a public brief for occult science. Read as a foundational theosophical document and a case study in Victorian belief, The Occult World rewards historians of religion, students of empire, and curious skeptics. Even if one doubts its theses, Sinnetts staged episodes and contextual argument offer essential evidence for the eras negotiations between science and the supernatural, and a gateway to his later Esoteric Buddhism.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

City of God, in twenty-two books, answers pagan indictments after the sack of Rome and builds a theology of history. Augustine opposes the earthly city, driven by libido dominandi, to the City of God, ordered by charity. Blending Scripture, Roman historiography, and Platonizing philosophy, he critiques civil religion and divination, treats providence and freedom, and narrates creation to consummation in a style at once polemical, pastoral, and encyclopedic. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in North Africa, brought the craft of a former rhetor, the conscience of a convert, and the learning of a reader of Cicero and Plotinus. Written between 413 and 426 and addressed in part to the official Marcellinus, the treatise arose from pastoral necessity: to steady a shaken Roman elite, answer pagan critics, and clarify for Christians the mixed condition of the saeculum. Students of theology, philosophy, and political thought will find a bracing account of the limits of politics and the ordering of loves. City of God rewards patient study for its diagnosis of idolatry, its account of virtue under grace, and its eschatological hope, an indispensable guide beyond the illusions of empire.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.