“This book offers an unusually penetrating critique of our modern civilization in terms of both symptoms and causes. By way of illustrating his subject, the author gives us a number of vividly delineated pen-portraits of certain contemporary writers, each of whom had attempted a similar analysis. He has a wide-ranging historical sense, coupled with strong human sympathies unsullied by tendentious undertones, whether of a sentimental or a cynical kind. Behind all this he allows one to recognize a metaphysical flair of uncommon sureness." — Marco Pallis, Studies in Comparative Religion "A remarkably lucid short guide to the Wisdom of the East." — New English Weekly "A book of unusual interest for Western readers. Eaton attempts with considerable success to present a clear summary of what has come to be called the Wisdom of the East, which he finds enshrined in the Upanishads, the Vedanta, Taoism, and Buddhism. His discussion of these various doctrines is a useful corrective of the vague generalizations which usually do duty for the average reader's ideas of Eastern tradition and philosophy." — New English Review "I remember—many years ago now—picking up a copy of Eaton's first book in a Tokyo bookshop. It was called "The Richest Vein," and I was not a little moved and impressed by it. Gai Eaton has trodden a long path since that first essay into what is, for him, the only subject of his writing, and he came to conjoin, to intuition and longing, an inner knowledge and experience that has enabled him to produce subsequently such widely-acclaimed books as King of the Castle, and Islam and the Destiny of Man." — Peter Hobson, Studies in Comparative Religion

The Richest Vein: Eastern Tradition and Western Thought

Literature & Fiction

Wetmore, James Richard

Eaton, Charles Le Gai

History & Criticism

Sophia Perennis

Especially since the Renaissance, some in Western Christendom have suspected that the deeper dimension of their tradition has somehow been lost, and have therefore sought to discover, or create, an 'esoteric' or 'initiatic' Christianity. In the middle of the nineteenth century two scholars, Gabriele Rossetti and Eugène Aroux, pointed to certain esoteric meanings in the work of Dante Alighieri, notably The Divine Comedy. Partly based on their scholarship, Guénon in 1925 published The Esoterism of Dante. From the theses of Rosetti and Aroux, Guénon retains only those elements that prove the existence of such hidden meanings; but he also makes clear that esoterism is not 'heresy' and that a doctrine reserved for an elite can be superimposed on the teaching given the faithful without standing in opposition to it. One of René Guénon's lifelong quests was to discover, or revive, the esoteric, initiatory dimension of the Christian tradition. In the present volume, along with its companion volume Insights into Christian Esoterism (which includes the separate study Saint Bernard), Guénon undertakes to establish that the three parts of The Divine Comedy represent the stages of initiatic realization, exploring the parallels between the symbolism of the Commedia and that of Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Christian Hermeticism, and illustrating Dante's knowledge of traditional sciences unknown to the moderns: the sciences of numbers, of cosmic cycles, and of sacred astrology. In these works Guénon also touches on the all-important question of medieval esoterism and discusses the role of sacred languages and the principle of initiation in the Christian tradition, as well as such esoteric Christian themes and organizations as the Holy Grail, the Guardians of the Holy Land, the Sacred Heart, the Fedeli d'Amore and the 'Courts of Love', and the Secret Language of Dante. In addition to Dante, various other paths toward a possible Christian esoterism have been explored by many investigators-the legend of the Holy Grail, the Knights Templars, the tradition of Courtly Love, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Christian Hermeticism-and Guénon deals with all of these in the present volume as well as his Insights into Christian Esoterism. In the latter, one chapter in particular, 'Christianity and Initiation', will be of special interest with regard to the history of the Traditionalist School. When first published as an article, it gave rise to some controversy because Guénon here reaffirmed his denial of the efficacy of the Christian sacraments as rites of initiation, a point of divergence between the teachings of Guénon and those of other key perennialist thinkers. Both The Esoterism of Dante and Insights into Christian Esoterism will be of inestimable value to all who are struggling to come to terms with the fullness of the Christian tradition.

The Esoterism of Dante

Religion & Spirituality

GUÉNON, RENÉ

Fohr, Henry

Islam

Sophia Perennis et Universalis

This is the definitive edition of the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich. Angelico Press has completed their monumental, decade-long project of republishing Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions of the life of Jesus in a large-format, double-column trilogy of nearly 1,700 pages. Ten years in the making, it is unlike any other edition of her work ever published.
 Together, the three books incorporate all 350 of James Tissot’s paintings of the life of Jesus, themselves largely inspired by his reading of the visions of Emmerich in the late 1800s, as well as new material, some translated for the first time from Clemens Brentano’s original notes of the visions.
 On the basis of comprehensive chronological and geographic studies by Fr. Helmut Fahsel and Dr. Robert Powell, the years of Jesus’s ministry are presented as a day-by-day chronicle, and appendices supplied illustrating how this was achieved. Brief summaries offer a preview of most days of the ministry to prepare readers before they embark upon the more extensive version in the full text. A Dramatis Personae provides separate short articles—drawn from the visions and supplemented by translations from the recently published notebooks of Clemens Brentano—on the lives of the Apostles, of Lazarus and his friends, and of the Holy Women, as well as an account of the Enemies and Adversaries of Jesus.
 But this is not all. Fr. Fahsel had 42 detailed maps drawn especially for his work, Der Wandel Jesu in der Welt (1942), depicting in minute detail the daily movements of Jesus during his teaching journeys according to Anne Catherine’s visions, which are here translated and updated. A gazeteer of places shown on the maps has also been included, as well as an extensive, cumulative index of proper names, places, and events referencing all three volumes, making this vast work more readily accessible for further study and research.
 In addition to the paintings of James Tissot, Angelico selected from late 19th-century travelogues of the Holy Land more than 100 etchings and drawings. The Holy Land at that time had been so little altered by the march of history that these illustrations give the reader a real sense of “accompanying” Jesus during his travels.
 Over the years many have attested to the transformative power of these visions, and Anne Catherine was beatified on Oct. 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II. It is the editor’s hope that these visions—so engaging as an historical narrative, so illustrative of the gospel stories, so replete with inspired spiritual insight—may open a gateway, for the many who have in modern times fallen away from any connection with the life and teaching of Jesus, to the earthly garden where the Spirit bloomed, and blossoms still.
 "These volumes, so beautifully bound, so carefully annotated, so majestically illustrated with Tissot’s original paintings and drawings (and so well-mapped), will help tune the hearts of our skeptical age toward the mysterious, which is to say the Divine.”—CHRISTOPHER CHECK, president of Catholic Answers
 “To call Angelico’s new definitive edition of Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions of the life of Christ a stunning, moving, and beautiful epic is almost an exercise in understatement.”—KEVIN VOST, author of Memorize the Faith!
 “An extraordinary, captivating look at how a major mystic ‘saw’ the life of Our Lord, with monumental artwork that brings us to Palestine two thousand years ago.”—MICHAEL H. BROWN, Spirit Daily
 “Angelico Press establishes a landmark in Catholic publishing with this definitive revised and supplemented new edition of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich’s Visions of the Life of Christ.”—CHRISTOPHER A. FERRARA, author of The Secret Still Hidden
 “The publication of this magnificent treatise at this critical moment in church history could well be providential.”—WOLFGANG SMITH, author of Christian Gnosis

The Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich (Deluxe Edition), Book I: Dramatis Personae - Creation - Antiquity Old Testament Times - Youth of Mary - Birth and Early Years of Jesus - First Journeys of Jesus

Emmerich, Anne Catherine

POWELL, ROBERT

Christian Books & Bibles

Angelico Press

The Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich (Deluxe Edition), Book II: The Journeys of Jesus Continue Till Just Before the Passion With a Day-by-Day Chronicle August AD 30 to February AD 33

The Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich (Deluxe Edition), Book III: The Final Teachings, Passion, & What Follows With a Day-by-Day Chronicle February ... the Ascension June AD 33 to August AD 44

In the final volume of her acclaimed trilogy Through the Eyes of Mary Magdalene, Estelle Isaacson intimates a connection between Magdalene and Repanse de Schoye, who lived nine centuries later in the Grail family. Repanse was a sister to Anfortas, the Grail King wounded by the Sky-Fallen Lance, which according to tradition is the same that pierced the side of Christ Jesus. The Chalice used to collect the blood flowing from that wound is said to have been the Holy Grail, which was later in Repanse’s keeping—her role being tht of Grail Bearer at Montsalvat. As the Magdalene visions ended, a new cycle began on Repanse and the Grail Family, and the intimation mentioned became a visioned certainty that the two women were incarnations of the same eternal individuality, of whom then the present volume constitutes a continuing “spiritual biography.” Central to the work is an urgent call to take up again the quest for the Holy Grail in the changed and challenging conditions of our time. Opening messages and a prologue on the City of the Grail and the Grail Bearers are followed in Part One with the story of the young Repanse de Schoye. Part Two portrays the relationship between Repanse and her brother Anfortas, meant to be Bearers of Divine Love, but failing in this task through Anfortas’s fall to the wiles of Dengresse, as described in Part Four. As an intermezzo, Part Three tells the story of the Knight Who Buries and Unburies His Armor, a teaching on the Divine Father and destiny. Part Four continues with accounts of Parsifal’s first visit to the Grail Castle, his meeting with Anfortas at Emerald Lake, and the story of the Knight With Downcast Eyes. Part Five plays out between Parsifal’s first and second visits to the Grail Castle, providing a fascinating look at his relationship with Kyot, cousin of Charlemagne. We hear also the story of the Gardener Knight. In Part Six, Parsifal returns to the Grail Castle, where Anfortas is finally healed, and his half-brother Fierefiz marries Repanse. The book ends with messages on the Disciples of the Night and the Bleeding Lance, the Power of Utter Powerlessness, and the epoch of Philadelphia. “We are all part of the Grail stream. We have each a role in the Grail story that is now revealing itself further, bringing to light characters as yet unknown, or lost to memory, as well as their stories—stories that may echo in our depths and illuminate our destinies.” From Grail Bearers: Bringing Heaven and Earth Together

The Grail Bearer: Tellings from the Ever Primal Story: Through the Eyes of Repanse de Schoye

Isaacson, Estelle

LogoSophia

In the final volume of her acclaimed trilogy Through the Eyes of Mary Magdalene, Estelle Isaacson intimates a connection between Magdalene and Repanse de Schoye, who lived nine centuries later in the Grail family, a sister to Anfortas, the Grail King. As the Magdalene visions ended, a new cycle began on Repanse and the Grail Family, leading to the publication in 2016 of The Grailbearer: Tellings From the Ever Primal Story, Through the Eyes of Repanse de Schoye. The Knight Kyot, paladin of Charlemagne, leapt to life also in this book, whose deeper purport is a call to take up again the quest for the Holy Grail in the challenging conditions of our time. The visions, however, continued, not forward but into the past. In the present book we follow the Younger Kyot as in a forest he comes upon the Astrologer Flegetanis of the East. When that night a star above Kyot’s head falls from the Heart of the Virgin into the Cup, Flegetanis reads this as a sign to commence initiating Kyot into the Lore of the Stars. Along the way, Kyot is twice saved by a strange bird of multi-colored plumage, first at the brink of a crumbling cliff, then in face of a mysterious snarling cat in the mist. In due course he makes his way to the Land of Grace, so-called for its harboring of the Holy Grail. He is introduced to two wondrous Manuscripts and The Book That Writes Itself, then seeks out in a cave the young Hermit Trevrizent, brother of Anfortas and Repanse de Schoye, and grandson of the old Grail King Titurel. He reads also in The Book With No Name. A mysterious Maiden Petite, with oars of filigree, rows on Emerald Lake singing most wondrously. A Queen, by name Belletrieste—straddling both our world and that of the Nature Spirits—appears with shattered crown a-dangling. In her tale the Agitator and his minions rise up from a Crack in the Earth, and the Sorceress Chanzacouth, in whose Sickly Tree the Queen is trapped, would tempt Kyot to her bed. Ever and anon we hear of the Grail, o’er which keeps ward a family to it destined, and upon whom Kyot’s heart is set. But first he must to Charlemagne. And ever does a Presence warm and easing guide our good Knight Kyot—the spirit of St. Odile! And more besides… Let the story, then, be further told. “We are all part of the Grail stream. We have each a role in the Grail story that is now revealing itself further, bringing to light characters as yet unknown, or lost to memory, as well as their stories—stories that may echo in our depths and illuminate our destinies.” From Grail Bearers: Bringing Heaven and Earth Together

The Younger Kyot: Tellings of Mages and Maidens: Shimmerings Through the Grail Land of Grace

New Age & Spirituality

Together, the three books in this series incorporate all 350 of James Tissot's paintings of the life of Jesus, themselves largely inspired by his reading of the visions of Emmerich in the late 1800s, as well as new material, some translated for the first time from Clemens Brentano's original notes of the visions.
On the basis of comprehensive chronological and geographic studies by Fr. Helmut Fahsel and Dr. Robert Powell, the years of Jesus's ministry are presented as a day-by-day chronicle, and appendices supplied illustrating how this was achieved. Brief summaries offer a preview of most days of the ministry to prepare readers before they embark upon the more extensive version in the full text. A Dramatis Personae provides separate short articles--drawn from the visions and supplemented by translations from the recently published notebooks of Clemens Brentano--on the lives of the Apostles, of Lazarus and his friends, and of the Holy Women, as well as an account of the Enemies and Adversaries of Jesus. But this is not all. Fr. Fahsel had 42 detailed maps drawn especially for his work, Der Wandel Jesu in der Welt (1942), depicting in minute detail the daily movements of Jesus during his teaching journeys according to Anne Catherine's visions, which are here translated and updated. A gazeteer of places shown on the maps has also been included, as well as an extensive, cumulative index of proper names, places, and events referencing all three volumes, making this vast work more readily accessible for further study and research. In addition to the paintings of James Tissot, Angelico selected from late 19th-century travelogues of the Holy Land more than 100 etchings and drawings. The Holy Land at that time had been so little altered by the march of history that these illustrations give the reader a real sense of "accompanying" Jesus during his travels. Over the years many have attested to the transformative power of these visions, and Anne Catherine was beatified on Oct. 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II. It is the editor's hope that these visions--so engaging as an historical narrative, so illustrative of the gospel stories, so replete with inspired spiritual insight--may open a gateway, for the many who have in modern times fallen away from any connection with the life and teaching of Jesus, to the earthly garden where the Spirit bloomed, and blossoms still.

The Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich (Deluxe Edition): Book I

History

World

The Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich (Deluxe Edition): Book II

The Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich (Deluxe Edition): Book III

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