Saturday, 12. November 2005
Indoor Water Fountains

image

Relax and listen to the sound of water cascading from sculpted copper tubes over natural slate into a pool of water.

Designed by Nayer Kazemi. He believes that seeing, feeling and hearing the sound of water, brings peace and tranquility to many aspects of our lives.


Recreate the babbling brook, the rushing waterfall with the decorative Kenroy Hunter Pagoda Fountain. The relaxing sound and healing benefits of falling water creates an oasis of peace, calm and tranquility in interior environments with the Pagoda Tabletop Water Fountain.

Inspired by Zen, Feng Shui, Haiku and more ... Escape from the stress of the moment as streams of water cascade downward across natural, polished river rocks. Clear your mind as nature's original lullaby slowly melts away your tension:
Indoor Water Fountains

image

Category: Lifestyle & Trend | Products & Services |




Hot News or Hoax?

image

Ancient Egyptians used helicopters and airplanes for battles? by Pravda. (English)
Well-known Egyptologist Alan Alford left to the Nile banks to study the Abydos mystery. The researcher studied the mysterious hieroglyphs and made sure that what seemed absolutely incredible was in fact quite real. Alford told journalists that ancient Egyptians had depicted a real helicopter model as if they made the engravings from life.
With a little help from their Martian ancestors, no doubt.


How the dead live by The Telegraph. (English)
The book elaborates Tibetan Buddhist teaching on the journey of the consciousness through the three stages, or bardos, of dying; the moment of death, the intermediate state between death and rebirth, and the process of rebirth itself. Central to the text is the belief that death presents the greatest opportunity to gain liberation, and so to step off the endless wheel of suffering that is held to characterise worldly existence.
For the first time in 1,300 years, the great Tibetan Book of the Dead has been translated into English. Mick Brown reports.
Available in Jan-Feb 2006. Definitely one for the serious bookshelf.

Some news-links do not last long. In this case please send me a note.
Category: News & Stories |




Nature Magick

Giambattista della Porta (also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta or John Baptist Porta) was a polymath who dabbled in nearly everything. "Magiae Naturalis", his first book, is also his best known work and the basis of his reputation. The first edition, which consisted of four books, appeared in 1558; an expanded edition of twenty books was first published in 1589. Della Porta was a hugely influential figure in Naples around 1600.

From Della Porta’s book published in English as Natural Magick in 1658:

image

There are two sorts of Magick; the one is infamous, and unhappy, because it has to do with foul Spirits, and consists of incantations and wicked curiosity; and this is called Sorcery; an art which all learned and good men detest; neither is it able to yield an truth of reason or nature, but stands merely upon fancies and imaginations, such as vanish presently away, and leave nothing behind them; as Jamblicus writes in his book concerning the mysteries of the Egyptians. The other Magick is natural; which all excellent wise men do admit and embrace, and worship with great applause; neither is there any thing more highly esteemed, or better thought of, by men of learning. The most noble Philosophers that ever were, Pythagorus, Empedocles, Democritus, and Plato, forsook their own countries, and lived


abroad as exiles and banished men, rather than as strangers; and all to search out and to attain this knowledge; and when they came home again, this was the Science which they professed, and this they esteemed a profound mystery. They that have been most skillful in dark and hidden points of learning, do call this knowledge the very highest point, and the perfection's of Natural Sciences; inasmuch that if they could find out or devise amongst all Natural Sciences, any one thing more excellent or more wonderful then another, that they would still call by the name of Magick.

Nature Magick - in twenty books - by Giambattista della Porta (I538-I6I5).

Include the origins of ancient magic, the definition of a magician throughout history and across cultures, magic's medicinal applications, plus miscellaneous material under chapter headings such as "Of the Generation of Animals", "Of the Production of New Plants", "Of Changing Metals", and "Of Physical Experiments".
He wrote on cryptography, meteorology, physics, astrology, physiognomy, mathematics, and fortification. Further observations upon geology, optics, medicines, poisons, cooking, metallurgy and magnetism as well as cosmetics, perfumes, gunpowder and invisible writing.

Maybe first read the Introduction

image

Category: Books & Magazines | Magick & Witchcraft |


Page 1 of 1 pages

top