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Vom Göttlichen zum Menschlichen (e-Book)
The book is aimed at people who are in search of a spiritual understanding of the world and their own lives, an understanding that goes beyond the answers that modern sciences or exoterically understood religions can provide.
Featured Poems
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Pride
A Spanish grandee, it is said, would never stoopIf perchance he dropped a piece of gold.For a marquis does not bow for money;He only bows before God’s Face,Before the Virgin — then before noble women,And before the king’s angry brow.He would stoop for gold were he to...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-El Pilar
The Virgen del Pilar in SaragossaStands on the pillar where the Virgin stood;Custom and devotion clothe her in silk —She wears a dress that shines with gold.The Holy Virgin, as on angel’s wings,Came from afar to the foreign landTo bring a blessing to a new world...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Resting
The weary soul sometimes wishes to restAnd, like a child, to reach for a toy — For a book with beautiful pictures,Or in a garden where the fruits are ripening.This is not littleness, it is nature, Which has its rights; repose has its good.The soul carries the body’s...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Conceit
There is righteous pride, even in the wise;A man with this pride can live in humility before God.But righteous conceit there never was,For arrogant pride means deviation into bitterness.Pride is often noble — sometimes ridiculous;Conceit as such is a diabolical thing.
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