A well written and researched short account of nomads and heretics that existed during the first few centuries of the millenium, with glimpses into their erotic methods and sexual cult like rituals that were performed as a way for their spirit to cast off a corrupt body and ultimately reach god. Their persecution by first the romans and later the christians and what they did in order to escape their persecutors.

Giuseppe

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This is an excellent essay written with a somewhat literary style. The information it offers is fascinating, provided one has an open mind. I enjoyed reading it and have reread it several times over the past few years.

...you will benefit from this "forbidden fruit." If you are aware that so much of what passes for truth is in fact so much wishful thinking, conditioning, and convenience, then you will enjoy this history. Read beyond the initial discussion of Gnostic metaphysics, and by book's end you may well have an enhanced perspective of some of the greatest questions of all.

Delightful source for folklore concerning flowers! Serious and beginning gardeners will be entertained with the information discovered between the covers of this charming garden book.

Ably translated by Moishe Black and Maria Green, Love In The Garden offers a poetic fancy and lively wit as Jean-Pierre Otte's presents in anthropomorphic perspective the ingenuity and variety of (...) tactics of garden insects and flowers. Otte reveals intricate, humorous, and often horrifying intimate details about the frenzied (...) lives of garden flowers and insects that enriches the scientific knowledge of the reader as well as involving the reader (through(...) and all forms of sensation) to the turbulence of live. Love In The Garden is ardently recommended reading for anyone who has ever watch the small and varied life of within a family garden, up close and personal!