The writings are meant to be studied from three distinct points of view: religious philosophy, material for the study of those states between mind and body such as ecstasy and trance, and for the sake of their mysticism. Drawn from the writings and teachings of Saint Augustine, Saint Gregory and Saint Bernard, the writings form a coordinated body of doctrine with what three great teachers of mystical theology in the Western Church have written concerning their own religious experience and the theories they based on it.

This classic work is the standard reference on Biblical botany. Two hundred and thirty plants mentioned in the Bible are treated in detail, beginning with references in scripture and proceeding to botanical descriptions of appearance and use; references in the non-Christian literature of antiquity and in the writings of non-botanical travelers in the Holy Land; etymological comparisons; comparative plant lore; symbolism and variations in translations of the Bible. The work clarifies many Biblical passages and references, and gives fascinating insights into daily life in Biblical and earlier...

Originally, the Ethiopian Church received fourteen Anaphoras from the Church of Egypt, yet at the time of first publication, only three of them could be accounted for -that of St. Cyril, St. Gregory and St. Basil. Marcus Daoud has translated the remaining thirteen. First translated in Arabic, it was H. E. Blatta Marsie Hazen who requested the English translation, and His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, former Emperor of Ethiopia, who personally funded the printing of the English manuscript. Accompanied by footnotes taken from an interpretation of the Liturgy written in Amharic by the...