...e protagonists that populate this work of fiction. In a way, therefore, this is a roman-a-clef. Still, names and circumstances were altered to p... ...s played host to King David and to Jesus, to King Solomon and to countless wannabe Roman emperors. It is one of the cradles of civilization and you ... ...s if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration quotas. The Jews merely abused our... ...f good men carried them into a waiting van.” He hesitated but plunged on: “The Catholics helped me get here through Spain aboard a submarine. Th... ...Hitler made his Vice- Chancellor, von Papen, publish an open letter addressed to the American Chamber of Commerce and saying that Jews were safe in G... .... “Read” – she pointed at an official looking document – “It’s a report from the American Embassy in Berlin. See what it says about Hitler? ‘Hitle... ... answer, Jew-dog!” – he barked shrilly. “My great-great grandfather was the wild, romantic artist type. He had a fling with a German servant-girl ...

...mised by the Christian religion. 26 If humanity is partially (as the Catholics say) or completely (as the Protestants say) corrupted by origin... ...ovie, says to Ben-Hur: “You have Messala inside yourself”. Messala is the Roman horseman dressed in black. We have to look at life not as a race ag... ...lopment of my reflections on the anthropic principle created by a group of American scientists. Anyone who would like to know more about the anthro... ...e created. Life as a work of art is not intended here like Neitzsche or the Romantics intended it. It is the creation of a unified and unifying field...

... a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empir... ...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ...e it upon the authority of Antonio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, ... ...en many Latin books, these affording additional evidence of the claim that the Catholics had sent priests to instruct the early Norse settlers of that... ...red the strait, met with a yet more terrible fate, in the opinion of all good Catholics, for he renounced his religion and became a Mohammedan. In ad...

...ytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

...running the Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune... ... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ...edo momentarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish... ...Not only because he had been newly appointed, but primarily because he was an American Cardinal, and the mood in the Vatican was to return the Papac... ...him, feeling alone and very uncomfortable before the premiere Eminence of the Roman Catholic Church, to which he had dedicated his life The Pope a... ...ne may have merely viewed the beauty of Rome, but Father Antonio saw the Holy Roman Empire, headed by the most powerful religious leader in the worl... ... mother described their meeting as if she were telling a fairy tale: a young, romantic girl meets her daring knight and sweeps her off her feet and ...

...rayer, he put the chaos of his Office into perspective: the business of running the Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune with his own spirituality, to harmonize his soul with the peace of his Father in Heaven. He rolled the rosary beads, one by one, through his fingers ...

...ights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac. ACKNOWLEDG... ..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ...many readers will remember that within the general Christian tradition the Roman Catholic Church, until very recently, retained some vestiges of food ... ...ng many influences from Indian Buddhism, Persian Zoroastrianism, and Greco-Roman philosophy. They gained prominence during the first centuries AD and ... ...ne has as much human validity as a thinking-doctrine. Both Protestants and Catholics alike tended to limit their discussion to debate about the intell...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...ian system. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...ed years—from the days of Pericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. ... ... doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorians, Armenians, Buddhists, and Muslims. Kublai Khan‘s ... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1...

...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...is early death. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...ed years—from the days of Pericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. ... ... doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorians, Armenians, Buddhists, and Muslims. Kublai Khan‘s re... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Ch... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. 13 Som... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar‘s ―The American Printer‖ 1887 1...

...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ...s in the same society these customs may differ somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are co... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...ondoms if they are going to have sex. ―Look at the rising number of Catholics in Latin America who say they are warning Pope Benedict XVI: tha... ...traceptive needs than some elderly cardinals in Rome. It is true that many Catholics are soured by Vatican dogma but in my parish I hold strongly to ... ...re a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of one god belief is ... ...fferent from us. Remember that the Hindu approach, the ancient Greeks and Romans, and many other groups have believed in multiple theistic gods. So p...

...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall... ...ures, Churches and families? What impact have these cases in America had on Catholics around the world? Zero. Nothing. Catholics still send the... ...nts zealous acolytes who are as blind and as unquestioning of their gospel as Catholics are unquestioning of the pope’s edicts. If you ever try to p... ...ere was a secret war going on inside the Jamestown fort. Protestants against Catholics; they were systematically killing each other and poisoning e...

...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...that are called into question. It‟s the same with Protestant Evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons. The more conservative, or I should say the more rea... ... 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.” And the nearly u... ...t back like the religious right in America or the fundamentalist Muslims, Catholics and Mormons. JUSTICE “Our justice system is a bit di... ...not necessarily more popular than other types of stories such as comedies, romances or adventure stories.” 53 —“I believe that it is so m... ...erved, as the citizens of the empire abdicated their civic duties and the Roman empire was decaying from their neglect, they lived only for bread and... ...migrants.. Our frowning on Western religions discourages many Muslims and Catholics from coming. And illegal immigrants are denied our health and we...

...t isn’t fair. But then as my grand dad said, ‘things are never fair.’ Our American bodies are well fed, some of our minds are well read, we hold the ... ...ople in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day. Americans use three gallons just to flush a toilet. Add in drinking and coo... ... global IT network for decades and are rated at least as effective as the American and European hardware and software developers. The per capita inc... ...arming and protect the planet‘s ecology. And many Americans, not only the Catholics, follow the Pope‘s ideas with our highest birthrates ever—well o... ... been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced th... ...his world so that they could unite with God. And you 50 know that our Roman Catholic priesthood is celibate, as are our nuns and brothers. So the... ...ew upholds the true religion, the Reformed Jews are really misguided. The Catholics have the true Christian religion, but the Protestants claim that... ...atic church, Ray. The Pope decides something today and tomorrow a billion Catholics internalize his pronouncement.‖ 78 —―If it were only...

...e might yet have invented an Ottoman "nationalism" to compete with Serbian, Greek, Romanian, or Bulgarian nationalism. Third, villagers did not cr... ...andsome world media coverage) and kidnapping for ransom (like the kidnapping of the American Protestant Missionary Ellen Stone - quite a mysterious ... ...of a successful campaign - namely, over Macedonia. Serbs, Greeks, Montenegrins and Romanians subdued Bulgaria sufficiently to force it to sign a tr... ...ionalism) lasted four tumultuous years - it persisted for a quarter of a century in Romania ("infected" by Orthodox clericalism and peasant lores). ... ...d with its self-important figurehead (for instance, in September 1992). Successive American administrations funnelled money into the province and w... ... was all but ignored in these events. Rugova was not. He was often consulted by the American negotiators and treated like a head of state. The messa... ...ucational efforts of Cyril and Methodius. Even before the traumatic schism of 1054, Catholics and nascent Orthodox were battling over (lucrative) re... ...legating them to the role of malevolent heretics, the Orthodox made the sins of the Catholics unforgivable, their behaviour inexcusable, their fate ... ...e attacks were directed at the "Latins" - foreigners from Germany and France. Local Catholics were somehow dissociated and absolved from the diabol...

... Poland or Venezuela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,00... ...oblems I see relate to a large part of the world’s children. Perhaps I am a romantic, but when I hear of infants being raped in Africa, I cry. Wheth... ...lete with religiously unethical behavior by the proponents of every belief. Catholics fought Protestants. Protestants fought each other. The Muslims... ...ough to go around and give everyone the equivalent income of today’s average American or Brit. The other day I mentioned the wealth of the world when... ...urg would have to give up about $55,000 per year. The average Norwegian and American would have to give up about $35,000 a year. Would they stand st... ...stant Dr. King would still face the ire of the protestant evangelicals, the Catholics, the Mormons and the Muslims. No matter how important an idea,... ...religions, into Islam, ‘born again’ evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics like me. “Of course you can’t put religious leaders in... ... not far behind at 1.18. It just goes to show that even in these supposedly Roman Catholic countries, family needs outweigh the commands of religion...

...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ... price of their exports up. The Chinese yuppies are following the American way of pursuing money and the things it can bring—less free time... ...ng many. When Jesus 28 and Paul brought a newer form of monotheism, the Romans tortured them. Then when the Christians rose to power they torture... ...k they know. The Lutherans think they know. The Amish think they know. The Catholics think they know. The atheists think they know. The Republicans ...

...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...Jews and gypsies as the devils. Bin Laidin needed pro-Israel countries and liberal Muslims as his reasons for killing innocents. Power driven Cathol... ...as always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christianity really developed based on what the Roman ... ... death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanish Inquisition, when she tried to make Roman ... ...e can be more powerful than totalitarian politics.‖ —―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romant... ...f all sins. So just when should we employ the merciful or forgiving behaviors that the Bible and Koran demand?‖ —―Ray, you know that the Cathol... ...you know that the Catholics have used the same rationalizations as the Islamic terrorists. The Christian rationalization for killing both good Cathol...

...to The New State of the Economy (Allvine and Tarpley 1977), Philip Kotler wrote: Americans will have to pay more attention to resource conservation... ...lives. (p. xiii) In the book the authors succinctly speak of reformulation of the American Dream such that our society will have “to expect less in... ...intended to be fruitful and multiply ("Save the Whales" 1979): The materialistic American dream, while dominant, is not universal. Young adults sh... ...e specific episode; gossip is more general. Trade in rumors dates back to ancient Roman emperors who appointed public rumor wardens (called delatore... ... Religion appeared to be a significant characteristic in the study suggesting that Catholics are more likely to perceive themselves as materialistic...

...pines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198 Poland 199 Portugal 200 Qatar 202 Reunion 203 Romania 205 Rwanda 206 S St. Christopher and Nevis 207 St. Helena 20S St.... ...67 estimates of religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Inf... ... Pharmaceuticals Major trade partners: exports Yugosla- via, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, F... ...ces Member of: FAO, G-77, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IDE Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTER... ... Europe, DAC, ECE, EFTA, EMA, ESRO (ob- server), FAO, GATT, IAEA, IDE Inter- American Development Bank, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, In... ...ICOM, CDB, Common- wealth, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IBRD, ICAO, IDE Inter-American De- velopment Bank, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAS, PAHO... ...6% unaffiliated or other; less than 5% of Protestants and about 25% of Roman Catholics active participants Language: German, Serbian Infant mortality ... ...s supported financially by contributions (known as Peter's pence) from Roman Catholics throughout the world; some income derived from sale of Vatican ...

...tion To Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano. It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajet... ...uthor of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived many of his plots and even com- plete c... ...at of a perfect lover dy- ing for his mistress. In the same way, these two romances form a pair, like twins of opposite sexes. This is a literary vaga... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...knees before Adeline, took up the hem of her dress and kissed it, as pious Catholics kiss the holy relics of a martyr. “Nay, get up, Hortense,” said t... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator ...

...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...sted with the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqu... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ...en who professed a democratic and republican Christianity – Arrival of the Catholics – For what reason the Catholics form the most democratic and the ... ... pour a Catholic population into the United States; on the other hand, the Catholics of America made proselytes, and at the present moment more than a... ...ing the truths of the Church of Rome are to be met with in the Union.* The Catholics are faithful to the observances of their religion; they are ferve...

...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...sible read- ers, “as good as manuscript”? Not to insist, however, upon any romantic rigor in constructing this idea, and abiding by the ordinary stand... ...n a saintly scheme of ethics; but where is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to... ... there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspect the romance of “Essenismus.” And I am not sure that the knowledge of this fact ... ..., a haughty petition was addressed to the throne, on behalf of the Ro- man Catholics, by an association that arrogated to itself the style and title o... ...the whole line of this retreat, they continued to burn the cabins of Roman Catholics, and often to massacre, in cold blood, the unoffending inhabit- a... ...nd the spirit of massacre! What did that mean? It meant this: Some Ro- man Catholics had pleaded, and pleaded truly, as a reason for special indulgenc...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................