I am a voracious reader and highly recommend the following books.
You will find a wide variety of books from which to choose. I have enjoyed each and every book.

I choose to be filled with light,
and surrounded by light,
sharing that light and
helping to awaken an
awareness of that
light in others.

Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East by Baird T. Spalding A Course In Miracles by the Foundation for Inner Peace The Bible Version of your choice. The Woman With The Alabastar Jar Mary Magdalene, Bride in Exile Magdalene's Lost Legacy by Margaret Starbird When Women Were Priests by Karen Jo Toriesen Hebrew Goddess Raphael Patai Moses in the Twentieth Century, A Universal Primer by Susan Roth Melchizedek Truth Principles, Ancient Mystical White Brotherhood Frater Achad The Book of Rituals Reverend Carol E. Parrish-Harra Introduction to the Cabala, Tree of life by Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi The Moon Under Her Feet by Clysta Kinstler Solomon and Sheba by Barbara Black Koltuv, Ph.D. The Jewish Book Of WHY Alfred J. Kolatch The Gift of Kabbalah Tamar Frankiel, Ph.D. Kabbalah, The Way of the Jewish Mystic Perle Epstein The Practical KABBALAH Guidebook C. J. M. Hopking Jew in the Lotus Rodger Kamenetz ROSSLYN, Guardian of the Secrets of the Holy Grail Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins God Has Ninety-Nine Names, Reporting From A Militant Middle East Judith Miller Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln God and The Big Bang Daniel C. Matt The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons and Digital Fortress Dan Brown Archetypes On The Tree Of life Madonna Compton Messengers of light Terry Lynn Taylor The Rabbi's Tarot Daphna Moore No longer in print but can often be found at Albris New, Used, Hard to Find Books and Music. An excellent reference for those interested in Tarot. These books by J. K. Rowling are suggested just because they are a fun read. I thoroughly enjoyed the books and the movies. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh! . . . in which it is revealed that one of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese . . . or a venerable philosopher . . . but is in fact none other than that effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear, A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh! While Eeyore frets . . . . . . and Piglet hesitatates . . . and Rabbit calculates . . . and Owl pontificates . . . Pooh just is. And that's a clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists. Enthusiasm It costs nothing, yet it can help to bring you just about anything. It can draw people to you and compel them to give their support. It is enthusiasm. And when you have it, you have a powerful force working in your favor. Enthusiasm is contagious. So get yourself around others with enthusiasm, and you'll have a lot more of it. Looking for a way of getting yourself to do those things that you know must be done? Put some enthusiasm on your side. When you're excited and enthusiastic about where you're going, guess what happens? You'll find a way to get there. Put a smile on your face and a spring in your step, and don't be afraid to show some real enthusiasm. It will surely take you far. ~Ralph Marston~ Today the victims could be Muslims. Tomorrow it could be you or anybody else. Let us not forget what the great German pastor, Martin Niemoeller wrote in 1945: In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.

by Vicki Leon

Maria Prophetissima

Among her accomplishments, Maria Prophetissima invented a standard prop in kitchens for 2,000 years: the double boiler. Maria's real love affair was with alchemy, however, not haute cuisine. The forerunner of modern chemistry, alchemy came out of a mystical quest by early scientists. They were looking for the Philosopher's Stone, a primal substance that would turn everything it touched to gold.

Maria had the luck to live in Alexendria of the first century A.D., a yeasty city of exploration and experimentation. She was probably a mix of Jewish, Roman, and Egyptian blood, as cosmopolitan as the city. Alchemy and Alexandria were made for each other. After millennia under the pharaohs, Egyptian artisans has fine-tuned the arts by jewelry making, glasswork, metallurgy, and ceramics. Alchemists like Maria borrowed the tools and processes of these highly refined arts to pursue their own ends.

Or they invented new ones, as Maria did. The first true still, which was to enable alchemists to "find the essence of that which is bodily, and embody that which is spirit," is credited to her. There's no evidence that this three-part apparatus helped her find the Philosopher's Stone, but it came in might handy for distilling perfume and other substances. Maria then came up with the kerotakis, a covered pot whose vapors could waft over gold leaf and other esoteric (and expensive) ingredients to produce the desired effect. No show on the Stone again, but now Maria had a double boiler, useful for making a nice egg custard to keep her spirits up after these dead ends.

These experiments and others being a bust, metaphysically speaking, Maria put her alchemical recipes together in a book called The Dialogue of Maria and Aros on the Magistry of Hermes. Darn thing sold, too, as did a smaller volume called the The Gold-Making of Cleopatrs (not that Cleopatra), in which Maria's invention is diagrammed. A folk memory of Maria still exists; cooks in France and Spain, for instance, still call their double boiler le bain de Marie" or "bano-Maria" - Mary's bath.

With real estate, it's always been location, location, location. In ancient Egypt, however, "prime land" was often the soggiest--like the marshes throughout the Delta region of the Nile, full of waterfowl, fishes, and stands of papyrus, the plant most in demand to make paper, boat sales, and canoes in those days. As the owner of various papyrus marshes, Dionysia was in the catbird seat when it came to revenue. Around 5 B.C., she leased her wetlands cash crop for a cool 5,000 silver drachmas a year, paid monthly. Woe be unto the lessees who failed to meet her terms; if the drachmas dried up, they could be evicted, arrested, and imprisioned, followed by repayment with penalties (an even tougher chore behind bard). Dionysia's desires on these points were carefully spelled out in a contract, written on the very best papyrus, of course.

This is just a sample from Uppity Women of Ancient Times by Vicky Leon. I bought the book when she gave a reading and it has many other fascinating stories about uppity women. It's a fun read!

Hear, Israel,
The Eternal is our God,
The Eternal is One.

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