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How To Seduce, Pleasure and Titillate in Classical Latin
Notes from Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Blake and Swedenborg: Opposition Is True Friendship : The Sources of William Blake's Arts in the Writings of Emanuel Swe by Rahl Bellin
Thoughts and Meditations by Kahlil Gibran
The Poems of Alexander Pope: A reduced version of the Twickenham Text by Alexander Pope
The Outline of History, Volume 2: The Roman Empire to the Great War by H. G. Wells
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
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Thanks for visiting. I bought my first Krishnamurti book in 1978 - it was a partial edition of The Awakening of Intelligence and I couldn't make heads or tails of it! How people change. Since about 14 years K has been one of my favourite authors and because so many of his talks have been compiled and published at one point I decided to focus on his books that were published only by the UK publisher Victor Gollancz 26 in all (most of which were published in the US by Harper in its various incarnations), plus a few that focus specifically on education. I haven't been updating my LT collection because I sort of fell out of love with it and am currently working on a major overhaul of my own online library. Check back to see when I've updated the link!
posted by EsotericLore at 11:32 am (EST) on Aug 20, 2008
I just wanted to comment on the first sentence on your homepage, "The modern world is in a spiritual crisis." I couldn't agree more (is that why we share so many Krishnamurti books?) and immediately recalled this quotation which I had on my profile page for a while:
"Our age, we say, is inferior in wisdom to any other, because it professes, more visibly every day, contempt for truth and justice, without which there can be no wisdom. Because our civilization, built up of shams and appearances, is at best like a beautiful green morass, a bog, spread over a deadly quagmire. Because this century of culture and worship of matter, while offering prizes and premiums for every 'best thing' under the sun, from the biggest baby and the largest orchid down to the strongest pugilist and the fattest pig, has no encouragement to offer to morality, no prize to give for any moral virtue... Because, finally, this is the age which, although proclaimed as one of physical and moral freedom, is in truth the age of the most ferocious moral and mental slavery, the like of which was never known before. ... Rapid civilization, adapted to the needs of the higher and middle classes, has doomed by contrast to only greater wretchedness the starving masses." (From the article 'The Dual Aspect of Wisdom', by H.P.Blavatsky, in Lucifer Vol. VII, Sept. 15, 1890).
How true, even now.
posted by EsotericLore at 8:44 am (EST) on Aug 17, 2007