An account of the (394-414CE)journey by Fa-hsien and his companions. They visited as many of the Buddhist sacred shrines as they could, especially those associated with the presence of the Buddha.

The Lesser Angles of the Tablets represent the microcosm within the Enochian system. They reflect in miniature the symbolism of the Six conjoined with the Four that is th…

Her name is rarely spoken, yet it is there like the sun or the sky, or the stars that She gazes on - always present even if unheard. It is Seshat - the one who writes upon the leaves of the

Catharism in the Languedoc, Cathar beliefs. Cathars and heretics, the high culture of the troubadours and the Counts of Toulouse. The Role of the Roman Catholic Church: Innocent III, Crusades (The…

The author describes the urge she had since her childhood to achieve the Union with the Divine, this dream came true with Sahaja Yoga. Accounts of many miracles of Sahaja Yoga, story on getting guidance from Shri Mataji on her l…

Witness Lee expounds on the significance of various details found in the description of Christ in Revelation and applies these details to the experience of Christ in the local churches today. Based on chapter 6 of …

The Great Library of Alexandria, so called to distinguish it from the smaller or "daughter" library in the Serapeum, was a foundation of the first Ptolemies for the purpose of aiding the maint…

In the Order of Friars Minor the territory or district assigned to a commissary, whose duty it is to collect alms for the maintenance of the Holy Places in Palestine committed to the care of the Friars …

A theological term used to express the custom which prevailed in the earliest ages of the Church, by which the knowledge of the more intimate mysteries of the Christian religion was careful…

Celebrated on 18 December by nearly the entire Latin Church. Owing to the ancient law of the Church prohibiting the celebration of feasts during Lent (a law still in vigour at Milan), the Spanish Church transferred …

The word genealogy occurs only twice in the New Testament: I Tim., i, 4, and Tit., iii, 9. In these passages commentators explain the word as referring to the Gentile theogonies, or to the …

The religious persecution under Elizabeth and James I lead to the suppression of the monastic schools in Ireland in which the clergy for the most part received their education. It became necessary,

Opposed during the last years of the reign of Louis XV to the government of Maupeou, and the friend of all the reformers who surrounded Louis XVI, he owed to the influence of these economis…

The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used

The term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion, the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, …

The revival of religious life and the zealous activity of St. Bernard and St. Francis in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, together with the enthusiasm of the Crusaders returning from the

The official, definitive and in-depth instruction on the Sacraments of the Catholic Church from articles 1113 to 1134 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It elaborates the commonalities of all seve…

Published in The Rambler, July 1859. Draws on many early Christian writings to support Newman's assertion that "the body of the faithful is one of the witnesses to the fact of the tradition o…

The Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are a community of Catholic women religious committed to living and transmitting the message of Jesus Christ through prayer and service. In the tradition o…

The web page of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross is of value to women looking into the possibility of religious life within a religious community. It provides a guide for discernment about a religio…