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The Book of Angels: Turn to Your Angels for Guidance, Comfort, and Inspiration
Why this book?
From an entertainment point of view (The Prophecy, Constantine, Legion, etc.) as well as from a socio-historic / cultural vantage point and a general interest in religions vs. faith, I have long been interested in the concept of angelic beings as heralds and harbingers of higher powers -- mysterious and powerful; but also, ever only servants.
Preliminary considerations:
Of special interest to me, personally, are the tragic -- or independant -- half-angels (or 'Watchers'; e.g., Fields Of The Nephilim; the Book Of Enoch that I'm still to read; and the excellent film Noah by Aronovsky), depicted in a myriad of different forms across the ages. I didn't expect them to be featured in this book.
But I expected a whole lot more from it, as well. A more historically inclined perspective, for instance. (Had I researched my purchase better, I may have refrained from making it. The product is not mislabeled.)
I bought this book cheaply, so I'm not complaining; but it's wri
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The Secrets make known High Magic
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Herman Melville
American writer and poet (1819–1891)
Herman Melville (bornMelvill;[a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival.[1]Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler Acushnet, but he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Typee, his first book, and its sequel, Omoo (1847), were travel-adventures based on his encounters with the peoples of the islands. Their success gave him the financial security to marry Elizabeth Shaw, the daughter of the Boston jurist Lemuel Shaw. Mardi (1849), a romance-adventure and his first book not based on his own experience, was not we