The celtic christianity of Cornwall. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Thomas Taylor   -  Pubme, 2017  - 

In one of the most brilliant of modern books its author calls attention to the common fallacy which assumes that “if you can find a principle which gives an adequate explanation of three different facts it is more likely to correspond with the truth than three different principles which give adequate explanations of the same facts severally.”This fallacy underlies much that is being urged in favour of a common origin for religious doctrines and methods of worship. A single source of religious belief or of religious phenomena is preferred to several sources as being more tidy and more in keeping with what we have learnt to expect in other departments of research. It may be illogical, but still it is recommended as a safe guide to the truth.Indeed, it is difficult for a modern student to conceive how any real advance can be made in scientific pursuits unless the principle, which prefers one explanation of phenomena to many, is favoured.Before the days of Kepler and of Newton it may have been possible, it may be possible still, to imagine more than one explanation of the fall of a heavy body to the ground and of the action of one inert mass upon another. The law of gravity, as elaborated by Newton, represents what, so far as we know, has invariably happened and what we believe will invariably happen in space between two or more bodies, namely, that they will, as heretofore, each attract all the other bodies directly as their mass and inversely as the square of their distance. This law is not merely preferred before all other laws; it is the very foundation of the whole of what is called Physical Astronomy. It is a law to which there are, within its own province, no known exceptions.

The mysteries of Eleusis and Bacchus. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Thomas Taylor   -  Pubme, 2015  - 

These observances once represented the spiritual life of Greece, and were considered for two thousand years and more the appointed means for regeneration through an interior union with the Divine Essence. However absurd, or even offensive they may seem to us, we should therefore hesitate long before we venture to lay desecrating hands on what others have esteemed holy. We can learn a valuable lesson in this regard from the Grecian and Roman writers, who had learned to treat the popular religious rites with mirth, but always considered the Eleusinian Mysteries with the deepest reverence.It is ignorance which leads to profanation. Men ridicule what they do not properly understand. Alcibiades was drunk when he ventured to touch what his countrymen deemed sacred. The undercurrent of this world is set toward one goal; and inside of human credulity—call it human weakness, if you please—is a power almost infinite, a holy faith capable of apprehending the supremest truths of all Existence. The veriest dreams of life, pertaining as they do to “the minor mystery of death,” have in them more than external fact can reach or explain; and Myth, however much she is proved to be a child of Earth, is also received among men as the child of Heaven. The Cinder-Wench of the ashes will become the Cinderella of the Palace, and be wedded to the King’s Son.

The Big Book of Ancient GreeceIllustrated. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Thomas Taylor   -  Bauer Books, 2023  - 

Newly updated. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. Alexander The Great by Jacob Abbott Helen of Troy by Andrew Lang Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Harrison The Hymns of Orpheus by Thomas Taylor Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe by Donald A. Mackenzie Lives of the Greek Heroines by Louisa Menzies Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Ernest Arthur Gardner Myths of Greece and Rome by Jane Harrison Religious Cults Associated With the Amazons by Florence Mary Bennett The Theogony of Hesiod by Hesiod Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus by Thomas Taylor The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries by Thomas Taylor Apollonius Of Tyana by G. R. S. Mead The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang Greek Popular Religion by Martin P. Nilsson The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology by Martin P. Nilsson