An Introduction to The Work of Martinus
Title | An Introduction to The Work of Martinus PDF eBook |
Author | Rolf Elving |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781099762291 |
The Third Testament is available to anyone who may be interested. Anyone inspired by The Third Testament can arrange study groups or give talks. Likewise anyone can download and use this publication, for non-profit use, providing the text and form is unaltered. It has been produced in cooperation with Rolf Elving, the last personal student of Martinus, who is the author of The Third Testament.Everyone is a teacher and everyone is a student. Spiritual Science cannot be enclosed within societies or sects with subordinates and superiors. Life itself, which is synonymous with God, is the supreme teacher in the evolution of humankind towards higher states of consciousness.The Third Testament FoundationTHE SCHOOL OF LIFE in Martinus Spiritual ScienceVestre Gade 6A, DK-2605 BrøndbyCopenhagen, DenmarkPhone +45 2015 [email protected]
Death Is An Illusion
Title | Death Is An Illusion PDF eBook |
Author | Else Byskov |
Publisher | Paragon House Publishers |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2002-11-18 |
Genre | Religion |
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Martinus will become much more prominent as a spiritual teacher, thanks to Else Byskov's clear summary of his life and teachings. Death Is An illusion is a timely introduction to the Danish 20th century mystic, Martinus (1890-1981) whose teachings have a sound picture of the cosmos and a perspective about the human future based on the evolution of consciousness. Martinus cosmology is an all-embracing world picture, a spiritual science that describes and analyses the spiritual laws of life. It leads to an optimistic view of life, and it provides the basis for a harmonious and empathetic relationship to all people and all living things.
Galatians
Title | Galatians PDF eBook |
Author | Martinus C. de Boer |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2011-07-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1611643627 |
This new commentary in the New Testament Library series is not a systematic study of Pauline theology; rather, the aim of this study is to trace Paul's theology as it unfolds in his letter to the church at Galatia, and to attempt to illuminate, as far as possible, how the Galatians likely comprehended it, at the time they received it. The author asks readers to imagine themselves as silent witnesses to Paul's dictation of the letter and to observe, through a historical perspective, how the Galatian Christians might have understood Paul's words.
Diagrammatica
Title | Diagrammatica PDF eBook |
Author | Martinus Veltman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1994-06-16 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 113993600X |
This author provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. His aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules. The book begins with a brief review of some aspects of Einstein's theory of relativity that are of particular importance for field theory, before going on to consider the relativistic quantum mechanics of free particles, interacting fields, and particles with spin. The techniques learnt in the chapters are then demonstrated in examples that might be encountered in real accelerator physics. Further chapters contain discussions of renormalization, massive and massless vector fields and unitarity. A final chapter presents concluding arguments concerning quantum electrodynamics. The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. An appendix containing a comprehensive summary of the rules and conventions used is followed by an appendix specifying the full Lagrangian of the Standard Model and the corresponding Feynman rules. To make the book useful for a wide audience a final appendix provides a discussion of the metric used, and an easy-to-use dictionary connecting equations written with different metrics. Written as a textbook, many diagrams, exercises and examples are included. This book will be used by beginning graduate students taking courses in particle physics or quantum field theory, as well as by researchers as a source and reference book on Feynman diagrams and rules.
Self-Reference
Title | Self-Reference PDF eBook |
Author | S.J. Bartlett |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 940093551X |
Self-reference, although a topic studied by some philosophers and known to a number of other disciplines, has received comparatively little explicit attention. For the most part the focus of studies of self-reference has been on its logical and linguistic aspects, with perhaps disproportionate emphasis placed on the reflexive paradoxes. The eight-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for example, does not contain a single entry in its index under "self-reference", and in connection with "reflexivity" mentions only "relations", "classes", and "sets". Yet, in this volume, the introductory essay identifies some 75 varieties and occurrences of self-reference in a wide range of disciplines, and the bibliography contains more than 1,200 citations to English language works about reflexivity. The contributed papers investigate a number of forms and applications of self-reference, and examine some of the challenges posed by its difficult temperament. The editors hope that readers of this volume will gain a richer sense of the sti11largely unexplored frontiers of reflexivity, and of the indispensability of reflexive concepts and methods to foundational inquiries in philosophy, logic, language, and into the freedom, personality and intelligence of persons.
The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon
Title | The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Nolan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1642 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1316380939 |
The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by critics and developed by followers. There are entries on topics such as certainty, cogito ergo sum, doubt, dualism, free will, God, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, Meditations on First Philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team of Cartesian scholars ever assembled for a collaborative research project - 92 contributors from ten countries.
Being and Not-Being
Title | Being and Not-Being PDF eBook |
Author | P. Seligman |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9401020124 |
The present monograph on Plato's Sophist developed from series of lectures given over a number of years to honours and graduate phi losophy classes in the University of Waterloo. It is hoped that it will prove a useful guide to anyone trying to come to grips with, and gain a perspective of Plato's mature thought. At the same time my study is addressed to the specialist, and I have considered at the appropriate places a good deal of the scholarly literature that has appeared during the last thirty years. In this connection I regret that some of the pub lications which came to my notice after my work was substantially completed (such as KamIah's and Sayre's) have not been referred to in my discussion. As few philosophy students nowadays are familiar with Greek I have (except in a few footnotes) translated as well as transliterated all Greek terms. Citations from Plato's text follow Cornford's admirable trans lation as closely as possible, though the reader will find some significant deviations. The most notable of these concerns the key word on which I have rendered throughout as "being," thus avoiding Cornford's "existence" and "reality" which tend to prejudge the issues which the dialogue raises.