Researchers report that the average American processes ten thousand bits of information a day, including at least five thousand urgently pointless distractions. In this story of mid-life crisis, information is processed, but taken with a grain of depression. The main character loses his ability to sleep, his appetite for life, and his spirituality, until he comes face to face with his Divine Purpose. He is stunned by its simplicity, and wonders why he did not discover the solutions previously. His journey transports him on a spiritual odyssey from his bedroom on a rainy San Francisco night, through his childhood in Harlem, to his marriage to the woman of his dreams and the tragedy which shatters his life. This is the story of one man coming to terms with his Divine Purpose and discovering true love in an endless sea of distractions.
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In four elegant chapters, Robert Alter explains the prismlike radiance created by the association of three modern masters, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem. The volume pinpoints the intersections of these divergent witnesses to the modern condition of doubt, the no-man's-land between traditional religion and modern secular culture. Scholem, the devoted Zionist and master historian of Jewish mysticism, and Benjamin, the Marxist cultural critic, dedicated much of their thought and correspondence to Kafka, the explorer in fiction of radical alienation. Kafka's sense of spiritual complexities was an inspiration to both thinkers in their resistance to the murderous simplification of totalitarian ideology. In Necessary Angels Alter uncovers a moment when the future of modernism is revealed in its preoccupation with the past. The angel of the title is first Kafka's: on June 25, 1914, the writer recorded in his diary a dream vision of an angel that turned into the painted wooden figurehead of a ship. In 1940, at the end of his life, Walter Benjamin devoted the ninth of his Theses on the Philosophy of History to a meditation on an angel by the artist Paul Klee, first quoting a poem he had written on that painting. In Benjamin's vision, the figure from Klee becomes an angel of history, sucked into the future by the storm of progress, his face looking back to Eden. Benjamin bequeathed the Klee oil painting to Scholem; it hung in the living room of Scholem's home on Abarbanel Street in Jerusalem until 1989, when his widow placed it in the Israel Museum. Alter's focus on the epiphanic force of memory on these three great modernists shows with sometimes startling, sometimes prophetic clarity that a complete break with tradition is not essential to modernism. Necessary Angels itself continues the necessary discovery of the future in the past.
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Science now admits that matter is largely energy. Esoteric students believe that this energy comes to our planet through the agency of the life-giving Seven Rays which arise from the seven stars of the Great Bear (or Plough) and are coloured indigo, scarlet, green, yellow, orange, blue, rose-red-and violet.

Dr Baker's theme is how the mighty power of these Rays is stepped down and modified as it enters our solar system to affect all men and all nations. Everybody is in special affinity with one or two of the Rays and the Ray complement of an individual can be expressed as a formula. Esoteric psychologists can deduce over a hundred character qualities from a Ray formula and a section of this book features extracts from the Ray analyses of two contrasting personalities.

Man, a miniature replica of the solar system, is strongly affected by the Rays. It is not normally possible for us to see each other's aura but we can all see a two- dimensional representation of the sun's aura when we split sunlight with a prism. Balance and health in the physical body can be achieved by treating the aura with the correct Ray colour. Dr Baker explains some of the methods now used for directing colour to the innermost reaches of the physical body and to the aura.

Assimilating knowledge of the Seven Rays can throw light on the seeker's own.existence, his special qualities and his specific value to the whole scheme of creation.
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