There has always been a major difference between the three synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, and the later gospel of John. John's book has been regarded, not so much a story about the life of Jesus, as an interpretation of the deeper spiritual significance of his words and actions. White Eagle in The Living Word of St John, disclosing the profoundly mystical truth behind the gospel of John, reveals that it is even more unique than many biblical sholars could imagine. "Men have studied the message of the Master Jesus, but they do not comprehend its full implication."
Based on talks given by White Eagle through Grace Cooke in London, UK, between 1943 and 1945, The Living Word offers a refreshing insight into the deeper meaning behind long-practiced ceremonies, such as Baptism--are children really born into sin?--and the true significance of the Creation--what is the difference between soul and spirit? It also answers questions regarding the Resurrection--did the physical body of Jesus actually rise from the dead?--and the true meaning of Salvation--who is the Saviour? It is well-known that the early Church was divided over its Christological controversies regarding the humanity and divinity of Jesus, but rather than being divisive, John's gospel, as translated in The Living Word of St.John "transcends the limits of dogma to bring the wisdom of the East and West together.
For those who enjoy Bible study, The Living Word is clearly set out. Each one of the twenty-one chapters includes the biblical passage from St.John's gospel and is followed by White Eagle's interpretation. "When the bible is read with understanding, when the light of the spirit is thrown upon its pages, you will discover many jewels of truth." White Eagle suggests that chapter fourteen, one of the most famous chapters, contains "the jewel of the whole gospel." It contains many well-known phrases: "in my Father's house are many mansions," and "the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works..." and White Eagle explains the esoteric significance of the words that through misinterpretation have long been a source of division: "I am the way, the truth and life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Many have interpreted these words to mean that Christianity is the sole path to God. "Do not confuse Christ," says White Eagle, "with the man through whom he worked, Jesus of Nazareth, the Initiate."
The Living Word of St.John contains an important message. Like Jesus, we can all become "man made perfect." It is a book well worth reading.

The caption, "Harold Snedleigh was found beating a sick small animal to death with a rock when he was five years old," begins what truly, as the book cover states, is "...its author's most unpleasant ever." It is a truly disturbing book, on a horrible topic (the eponymous Harold Snedleigh and his almost-lover Mona Gritch murder children as "their life's work"). Clearly the work of a psychopathic and disturbed mind.

Or is it? Coming from Edward Gorey, we realize the satire immediately. But I pity those who have come across this treasure without ever having consumed a Gorey before, for it would be the rare individual indeed who would ever buy another of his works. This is a work for the true Goreyphile: aware that his dark streak has an outlet in brilliant satiric writing inextricably coupled to magnificent and meticulous pen-and-inks (darker than is typical of Gorey).

Some of the prose in this obscure little book is so memorable that it cannot be anything other than true genius. Ditto for the illustrations: poor little Eepie Carpetrod, the loathsome couple's first victim, in incredibly cute in that way that only Gorey can draw a child; as cute as Harold and Mona are repellent. "They spent the better part of the night murdering the child in various ways."

Lacking Gorey's talent, it will forever be a mystery to me how a mind that can create cute little Eepie can also create the horror that is the subject of this book. For it is a true horror book, despite the satire. It is also a repudiation that horror need be explicit, for it is as explicitly horrifying as Gorey's masterpiece The Curious Sofa is explicitly pornographic.

TIME PERIOD OF BOOK: 1790-1860. BOOK TITLE: Lotta's Progress. AUTHOR NAME: Norma Johnston. MY SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK: Norma Johnston's novel, Lotta's Progress, is set back in the early 1800s, and deals with a family of Germans who immigrated to America. They immigrated to America in hopes of a better life, and, of course, a friend had promised the father of the family a job. However, when they reach America, the friend was nowhere to be found, as well as the job. Not only this, but now the family is in worse poverty than before. In addition, seeing that none of them can speak English, except for the small vocabulary Lotta picked up on the voyage, it made it extremely hard to communicate. This may have been the reason that Lotta and her brothers and sisters were not welcome at school. Furthermore, their new house has the luxury of having eight immigrant families, none of which speak German, all packed in together, and living with each other. Also, this will not be a good thing for the mother of the family, who is expecting a baby. Despite all of this, Lotta Muller, the thirteen-year-old daughter, who is the oldest daughter, ends up assisting the family to a better life. It all starts when she finds and asks for the help of a social worker, Mrs. Bronson Alcott, to be exact. Mrs. Alcott greatly helps the family in many ways. She helps Karl, the oldest son, get a job, so he can provide the family with food. She also donates the Mullers many shirts and shorts, and a large amount of fabric so that they can make their own clothes. At this point, the "American dream" is beginning to come true, considering that the father has finally gotten a job, Karl has a job at the market, and Mrs. Alcott and her daughters help Lotta get a job as a seamstress. The Mullers are also moving to a new, much better house, all thanks to the Alcotts. Thus, with the help of the Alcotts, the dream is almost reality. MY REVIEW: My own review and opinion of this book, Lotta's Progress, is very good. I feel this way because the clothes that they apparently wore, for example, matched the style of the time period perfectly. Another aspect about this book, of how it is historically correct, is how the market in the book was run. For instance, the market in the book was ran outside, each different type of food had its own stall, there were apprentices who helped their masters, and the food that the market sold was exactly like the food that would be sold in a real market at that time. As a result, the book's market was just like a real market at that time. Besides that, the book was very exciting, and constantly kept me thinking of what would happen next. THE SUGGESTED USES FOR HISTORY AND SUGGESTED SECTION OF BOOK THAT I RECOMMEND BE READ ALOUD: Additionally, this book obviously deals with immigration, in the early 1800s, from countries such as Germany and Europe to America. Therefore, to someone interested in immigration, which is a major event that has occurred many times in history, should definitely read this book. Reading this book would help someone learn all about how immigration worked in the 19th century, and about the harsh conditions in the places that people immigrated to. As a matter of fact, a chapter that I suggest be read aloud to a class, for example, that displays some of these harsh conditions and hardships, such as getting into school, is most of chapter one. It shows how hard it would be to get into a school, and how poor they were. This would give someone a good idea of what it was like back then for most immigrants. SOME SIMILAR ADOLESCENT LITERATURE BOOKS BY SUBJECT, BOOKS IN THIS TIME PERIOD IN THE WEST SHORE MEDIA CENTER, AND OTHER SUGGESTED BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY THIS AUTHOR ARE: Last, if you read this book and like it, I have compiled a list of similar adolescent literature books with the same basic subject as Lotta's Progress. These books are The Vision of Emma Blau, What Remains, My Antonia, Dreamland, and Letters from Rifka. Of these books, two of them can be found in the media center of West Shore Jr./Sr. High school, which is located in Brevard, Florida. These books are My Antonia and Letters from Rifka. Last, I have some other suggested books. However, Norma Johnston wrote all of these ones. If you did not know, Lotta's Progress is not Norma Johnston's only book. She has actually written over 70 books. I have narrowed them down to five though. These books are Over Jordan, The Image Game, The Dragon's eye, The Delphic Choice, and Gabriel's Girl. If you ask me, these are all great books, which I strongly recommend be read by everyone.

Minidoka? What kind of a word is that, you say? Then you stop and think, "Oh, Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and John Carter. It's a made up word!" WRONG. Minidoka is a small town (or was, I don't know if it is still there) in Idaho where Mr. Burroughs worked in one of his many failed careers as a gold miner (1901 to 1904) with his brother at the Yale Dredging Company. It didn't pan out, pardon the pun, and the world is much more richer for the failed attempt.

Burroughs has never been accused of being a literary genius, although his stories have reached every corner of the world, his books are published in over sixty different languages (not counting dialects), his tales have been the basis for dozens of films, TV series, animations and comics. What Mr. Burroughs was gifted with was the art of storytelling and that trait has made him a legend.

Mindoka, 937th Earl of One Mile Series M is a story that sprung from that ability. No one knows for certain when this wonderful tale was created, perhaps it was one of the series of bedtime stories Burroughs told his children each night. All of them created on the spot as he paced the hall of their small home and spoke in a loud voice so that all in the house could hear. What ever occurred, Burroughs liked this particular story so much that he committed it to paper. Of a sorts, at least. He used the backs of old letterheads from the mining company, photo bills from Pocatello and letterheads of the American Genealogical Society to compose this story. None of the hand written manuscript is dated, nor was it discovered until 1955, five years after his death, in his personal belongings. The paper the story was written on gives proof that this is Burroughs first ever written work, never before seen by another beside himself until after he had died and never published until today. This makes that story almost a century old!

The tale is very strange, not at all like his works that were published in his lifetime. This is a children's story, it is written with the intention of being read aloud to children and has all the classic elements of fairy tales. Horrible monsters, magic spells, beautiful damsels to rescue and battles to be fought, all of these are in there along with a never before seen look at the man's sense of humor.

The story itself is quite captivating, even if it is a bit difficult to read for an adult. I dare say that I will be hard pressed to pronounce some of the words that Burroughs has created for this story, but many of the characters and creatures are quite endearing. I really liked the hoobody and hookidooki. The hoobody reminded me of one of the mythical creatures of my people, the Apache, (perhaps that's where he got the idea) and the hookidooki was just plain fun to read about even if it was a villain.

The setting for the story is Idaho of a million or more years in the past, but with European type kingdoms all based as the origin of Irish names. Very interesting concept and for the life of me I can't determine why he took that tact in the story. But it matters not, as the tale is fantastic.

Many aspects of his published works can be seen in this story. The way his heroes act and react is based on this tale. Many animals and places for completely unrelated stories are mentioned here as something else. It is almost as if he created an entire universe from the seeds that he planted for himself in this story to his children.

There is something else that is very special about this book. The cover art is a painting by J. Allen St. John that has never been published before. Who is St. John, you ask? This is the man that made every single cover painting for Burroughs books starting in 1915 with The Son of Tarzan and ending in 1942 with The Tiger Girl (I have copies of all of these). The painting was made over 50 years ago when an art director told St. John that it was impossible for an artist to do an illustration using all known mediums that were known at the time. St. John went to his loft and created a drawing he titled Minidoka by those exact means just to prove the man wrong. This cover is the first printing of that painting.

The book is a mere 63 pages long with about 15 of those pages being lavishly drawn full page illustrations. Each page also has drawings around the edges that have to do with what the story is talking about at the time.

The book is published by Dark Horse Comics and is available now at all book stores. You will more than likely have to special order it, because it is a limited edition print. The price is ... well worth it. I can hardly wait until it is mass produced so that I can get a reading copy to give my children when they are old enough. Get one of these first prints while they are still out there. You will never regret it.

The Moon Maid: Complete And Restored is a classic pulp-magazine saga of the late Edgar Rice Burroughs' science fiction adventure hero Julian the 5th whose destiny is to be reincarnated again and again, until he can lead mankind's fight for freedom against vicious alien oppressors from the moon. An engaging science fiction odyssey by the celebrated creator of Tarzan, The Moon Maid includes countless passages, sentences, and words originally removed from the magazine edition and/or added later by the author. Enhanced with an brief but informative introduction by Terry Bison, this superbly presented Bison Press edition of The Moon Maid is a "must-read" and "must-have" for the legions of Edgar Rice Burroughs fans everywhere!

I receive quotes from this book in a news letter and they are very inspirational as well as relevant. John was a priest in the rough Russian port city of Kronstadt. He was a spokesman for the poor and was not afraid to criticize the Tsar. In spite of this, he was killed by the Bolsheviks. I haven't been able to buy the book because it is out of print.

This small book is an excellent resource for the classroom! It is written in simple language that children can understand.

Native American Scientists helps to fill the cultural void in most curriculums and provides us with a friendly, easy to understand description of the childhood and careers of five American Indian scientists. The colorful pictures of these scientists, their Native homelands and work environments lend interest to the reading.

When Nick Sinclair barges into his neighbor's home, weapon drawn, ready to take on the intruder he find Ryanne Whitaker has come home. Only she's not Ryanne Withaker any more, she's Ryanne Davidson, and she's just here on vacation. Nick needs to remember that. His boyhood crush will be leaving again soon.

Ryanne couldn't wait to get out in the world and spread her wings. Now she's back home, a little worse for the wear. Her ex-husband has stolen her company's money and left her to clean up the mess. She's broke and broken-hearted. All she's worked for is gone. Her childhood neighbor isn't a child anymore. As a matter of fact, he's hot...but Ryanne's not looking for any committments. She's got all she can handle on her plate. Yet, her attraction to Nick can't be denied. She drawn to him. But drawn or not, when she finds a new job, she'll be going.

Two people with seemingly different goals and dreams come together...but can they stay together?

Cheryl St. John always tells such poingnant stories. Her characters come to life and work their way into your heart.

I love these authors! This work was my first introduction to Nemeck and Coombs. Not only is it an excellent introduction to the tenets of St. John of the Cross, it also provides tremendous insight into addiction and attachment, both of which are prevelant in the human condition. Although he lived in the 16c, John of the Cross offers much to contempary Christians interested in being freed from the bondage to self. I highly recommend this, and all books by Nemeck and Coombs.

The mastermind of Sir Isaac Newton yields results just as brilliant when studying Bible prophecy as when he turned his attention to the physical universe! There is in this book a consistency of interpretation in all the details of the prophecies of Daniel and of Revelation that I have not seen in any of the works of modern-day scholars. Isaac Newton seems to be completely true to the message of the Bible when providing his own thoughts on the Antichrist, the Beast, the Woman called "Babylon", and the "Great Tribulation". The integrity of Newton's scholarship and skills of exegesis give the reader a distinct impression that, unlike most writers on end-times prophecy today, when faced with a detail of interpretation that conflicted with his existing views, Newton would have gladly given up his prejudices in exchange for something better: the Truth. He presents an excellent example--perhaps the best I have read--of what is known as Premillennial Historicism. This is essentially the same view held by H. Grattan Guinness, E.B. Elliott, Matthew Henry, and Charles Spurgeon. In my opinion every pastor or teacher who preaches or teaches on the subject of the Last Things should have a copy of "Observations..." on his or her desk.