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Print: $19.92 Download: $5.00 Millions of tomes packed with wisdom had ended their existence in flames, and such fate would have also awaited the Tarots, had their unknown but immensely wise creators not designed a deck of cards instead of a book. The fervent believers in various orthodoxies thus overlooked them in their purges. The Tarot trumps are milestones, set to mark the path of the future initiates. Carl Jung described them as archetypes. In dreams, in myths, in fairy tales or songs of peoples of all historical epochs, essentially the same archetypal figures will always appear - the Mother, the Father, the Hero, the Magician, the Wise Man/Woman, the Fool. There are also archetypal situations and concepts - love, birth, death, justice, self-sacrifice, hope, etc. Archetypes in various guises can be found in the twenty-two Tarot trumps. Above them all stands the Tarot Fool as the archetype of an eternal pilgrim. In this novel he takes the dive and then threads his way through the labyrinth of the world.
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Print: $19.90 Download: $2.50 Dva anonymní vedoucí pracovníci organizace vyššího evolučního řádu, o jejíž existenci lidstvo nemá potuchy a jejímž úkolem je starat se o vývoj sluneční soustavy včetně Země, mají problém. Je jím chronický nedostatek kvalifikovaných pracovních sil. Rozhodnou se proto experimentovat a pokusit se o něco, co zde ještě nebylo. Na Zem vyšlou dva dobrovolníky, aby zde urychleně prošli kurzem, který si normálně vyžaduje několik inkarnací na naší planetě a kvalifikovali se tímto k přijetí. Kurz, který oba musí dokončit v průběhu jediného lidského života, se sestává z 22 arkán tarotů. Oba kandidáti se při pouti životem dostávají do různých neobvyklých situací a pouze na nich závisí, jakým způsobem je vyřeší. Jediný kvalifikační požadavek pro přijetí do kurzu: úspěšný kandidát musí být bláznem! Autor použil vlastní ilustrace i reprodukce tradičních karet Rider Pack a Tarot de Marseilles.
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Print: $15.86 Download: $3.75 A comedy, uses recorded music from Gounod’s opera Faust. Two devils form a team of Hell’s trouble-shooters who use modern methods of marketing, computers, mobile phones and Viagra. Mephisto really wants to be a poet, Pheles is a compulsive computer gamer. They time-travel to 16th century to solve the ‘Faust problem’ — instead they end up as asylum seekers in Heaven. Things don’t go the way they’d been planned - Mephisto falls in love with Siebel, who in the opera is a ‘pants role’, but here is an innocent virgin girl. Marguerite, known as Meg, an escort girl on contract with Hell, who turns out to be a lesbian, is also trying to seduce her. While all this is happening, Faust, who wants to be an immortal literary character, is having continuous problems, not only trying to bed the man-hating and politically correct Meg, but also with the Viagra and mobile phone, both of which he had earned as a bonus for signing up his soul. There are three male and two female roles in the play.
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Print: $29.00 Download: $5.00 The book is about the Kabbalah (also Cabbala, Qabalah, etc.), its history and evolvement, its role in the modern world. Seen from the point of view of a non-Jewish person, who has however studied the subject for more than thirty years. Some personal experiences of the author are included, as well as the insights offered by other personalities, authors and researchers, including a number of quotes. The glyph known as the Tree of Life, which is pivotal to the Kabbalah, is examined in detail and compared to other symbols found in similar esoteric and religious-philosophical systems of the past and present. The author of the book has also made some in-debt studies of the Pythagorean sacred numerology, Theosophy, and the symbolism of the Tarot, on which subject he has also published a book. Included here are more than a hundred and twenty diagrams and other black and white illustrations.
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Print: $24.92 Download: $5.00 For six centuries Tarot cards have been used in Europe, ostensibly for games and fortune telling, but really to preserve the essentials of a secret doctrine. They form a symbolic alphabet of the ancient wisdom, and to their influence upon the minds of a few enlightened thinkers we may trace the modern revival of interest in that wisdom. The aim of this book is to show readers how to use the Tarot and how to understand the Kabbalistic and numerological correspondences of the Tarot cards to the letters of Hebrew alphabet and the Sephirotic paths of the Kabbalah. The book offers a concise explanation of the general plan of the Tarot, and a brief interpretation of its emblems, which the student must complete through own observation and meditation. The author says that there is a definite manner in which to approach the study of the Tarot cards, even as there are tunnels that lead to the heart of a gold mine and he provides a map of the mine. The treasure you must dig out for yourselves.
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Print: $19.92 Download: $3.75 Nine adventure stories about a little dog and a cat, with illustrations. - 82 pages - for children of primary school age (approx. 6-9 years) - Doggie and Moggie: How They Washed the Floor - How Doggie Tore His Trousers - What Happened at Christmas - How They Wrote a Letter to the Girls in Newcastle - The Proud Nightie - The Boys From Ipswich - How Doggie and Moggie Made a Birthday Cake - How They Found a Doll That Cried Very Softly - How They Played Theatre & About Father Christmas ... There was a time when Doggie and Moggie had lived together; they had their own little cottage on the edge of the forest, where they lived, and they wanted to do everything the way the grown-up people do. But they couldn’t always manage to do this, because they have only small and clumsy paws, and on these paws they have no fingers like people have, only those little pads and on them the claws. So they couldn’t do things like people do, and they never went to school either …
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Print: $19.87 Download: $3.75 The amateur golfing career of the author of this book, which deals with the funny side of the game of golf, has truly been unremarkable.
However, the name Voyen Koreis might still sound familiar, particularly to those who are playing, or who have played, golf on their computers.
Over the years he has designed many virtual golf courses, on which players from many countries have played, either single rounds, or in tournaments held on the Internet.
On the 161 pages there are sixteen chapters, in the following order: Golfing Buddies, Caddies, Celebrities, Duffers, Golfers’ Wives, Golf & Animals, Golf, Heaven & Hell, Lady Golfers, Miracles, Nationalities, Naughty Golf, Old Golfers, Professional Golfers, Religion & Golf, Short One-Liners, Various.
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Print: $19.92 Download: $5.00 Karel Čapek (1890-1938) – the Czech dramatist, novelist and journalist.
R.U.R. (1921) has made the author internationally famous, perhaps even immortal. The word “Robot” (from the Czech robota, meaning drudgery), which has since been adopted by practically all languages, appears here for the first time. What is today classified as Science Fiction, in Čapek’s days was known as Utopia, and the author used this genre for making weighty social commentaries. After nearly a century, the play has withstood the test of time; the Robot’s revolt and its consequences could for instance be seen as a warning against giving the scientists a free hand in pursuit of genetic research, no matter how noble and beneficial the aims might appear to be. This is a new English translation.
The Robber (1920) is essentially a romantic comedy, with some dramatic twists. The play, Čapek‘s favourite, is still enormously popular with the Czech audiences. This is believed to be the first English translation.
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