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The Sabian Symbols were obtained through channelling sessions by the astrologer Dr Marc Edmund Jones and Elsie Wheeler, a clairvoyant, in San Diego in 1925. One symbol for each degree of the zodiac cycle. These beautiful, 360 hand drawn images of the Sabian Symbols are filled with colour and light to bring inspiration and hope. The drawings are presented with key words, key moments and affirmations to provide focal points of understanding. Meditations and creative visualizations are focused and reflective when viewing these insightful drawings, allowing the feelings of peace and happiness to...

Judith Hayes, the Erma Bombeck of the secular humanist community, has the unique ability to raise serious points while making us laugh as she throws buckets of cold water on the irrational beliefs and maddening inconsistencies that often characterize popular religion. She's at her best when recounting modern-day "miracles" such as the apparition of the Virgin Mary's face in a waffle at a Fresno diner. But she also relates poignant stories about believing friends whose struggles with irrational beliefs in the face of perplexing personal tragedies are in many cases heartrending. By turns funny,...

Until recently, the marquise Du Châtelet (1706-1749) was more remembered as the companion of Voltaire than as an intellectual in her own right. While much has been written about his extraordinary output during the years he spent in her company, her own work has often been overshadowed. This volume brings renewed attention to Du Châtelet's intellectual achievements, including her free translation of selections from Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the bees; her dissertation on the nature and propagation of fire for the 1738 prize competition of the Académie des sciences; the 1740 Institutions...