When John Down was 18 years old, he had some kind of mystical experience. He met a girl that appeared so peculiar, that he felt sorry for her and, consciously or unconsciously, would spend his whole life searching for this phenomenon. He decided to study Medicine, became the director of the largest “Asylum for Idiots” in England and wrote articles and books about the thing that fascinated him s...

This paper presents, for the first time, a comprehensive scholarly examination of the history and principles of major traditions of esoteric healing. After a brief conceptual overview of esoteric religion and healing, summaries are provided of eight major esoteric traditions, including descriptions of beliefs and practices related to health, healing, and medicine. These include what are termed ...

Today, Patristic Studies approach the exciting theological problems that arose in first centuries of our era from new paradigms analysis. In this sense, existence a diversity currents early Christianity is an indisputable fact for contemporary research, since there no doubt pluriformity positions interpretations texts and notions. The classification various Christianities into “proto-orthodox o...

This contribution provides the first comprehensive overview of extant iconography Jan van Leeuwen († 1378), ‘Good Cook’ at hermitage and later priory Groenendaal in Sonian Forest outside Brussels. On basis a detailed analysis 8 pictorial representations Jan, this article argues that canons instigated Jan’s veneration almost immediately after his death selected three central foci for veneration:...

The paper focuses the concept of mystic experiences in Akkamahadevi ‘s Vachanas. it deals with following elements as love God, devotion to her Lord, knowledge divinity, self-chosen husband and mystery his personality. covers Worldly solves problems where spiritual crosses over border.

One of the spectacular changes in Catholic Church 1960s was her positive judgement on other religions, as transmitted by texts second Vatican Council (1962–1965). A sociologist is profession interested diverse processes cultural changes, and birth interreligious dialogue therefore a very good case to study. For Catholics involved dialogue, we can observe ideal-typically two attitudes at work th...