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Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts (Classic Reprint)
Zones of the Spirit A Book of Thoughts - Classic Reprint Author:August Strindberg With an introduction by Arthur Babillotte. — Zones of the Spirit THE HISTORY OF THE BLUE BOOK (Prefixed to the Third Swedish Edition) I HAD read how Goethe had once in tended to write a Breviarium Universale, a book of edification for the adherents of all religions. In my Historical Miniatures I have attempted to trace God's ways in the history o... more »f the world; I included Christianity in my survey by commencing with Israel, but perhaps I made the mistake of ranging other religions by the side of Christianity, while they ought to have stood below it. A year passed. I felt myself constrained by inward impulses to write a fairly unsectarian breviary; a word of wisdom for each day in the year. For that purpose I collected the sacred books of all religions, in order to extract from them "sayings" on which to write. But the books did not open themselves to me! The Vedas and
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; THE HISTORY OF THE BLUE BOOK; A BLUE BOOKThe; Thirteenth Axiom ; The Rustic Intelligence of the "Beans"; The Hoopoo, or An Unusual Occurrence; Bad Digestion; The Song of the Sawyers; Al Mansur in the Gymnasium; The Nightingale in the Vineyard; The Miracle of the Com-crakes; Corollaries; Phantasms which are Real; Crex, Crex! ; The Electric Battery and the Earth Circuit; Improper and Unanswerable Questions; Superstition and Non-Superstition; Through Faith to Knowledge; The Enchanted Room; Concerning Correspondences; The Green Island ; Swedenborg's Hell ; Preliminary Knowledge Necessary ,; Perverse Science; Truth in Error; PAGE; I; 12; 13; 14; IS; 16; 18; 19; 20; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 30; 3 1; 32; 33; 35; 36; 37; XVI Contents; PAGE; Accumulators 38; Eternal Punishment 39; "Desolation" 40; A World of Delusion 41; The Conversion of the Cheerful Pagan, Horace 43; Cheerful Paganism and its Doctrine of Hell 44; Faith« less