"Man and God" by Victor Gollancz, 1951.
"Passages chosen and arranged to express a mood about the human and the divine" is the description inside the book. There are 3 dedications from the author, each one with a few bars of sheet music underneath the name.
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"The Fruit of the Spirit" by H. B. Jeffery, 1940.
Harley Bradley Jeffery was working in architecture in his early 30s when he met Dr. Charles Brodie Patterson in New York City, who was doing healing work and giving a series of lectures on the new subject of “metaphysics.” Patterson asked Jeffery to aid in his work and when Patterson moved back to England, Jeffery took over the healing ministry in New York and then opened a 2nd one in Philadelphia.
He later gave a series of lectures in Europe and met Judge Thomas Troward, whose works have come up in this project a handful of times.
My grandparents' address label is inside the front cover.
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"The Law and the Word" by Thomas Troward, 1917, this twelfth printing, 1945.
Sure enough, another book by Troward pops up today. My great-grandmother wrote her name inside the front cover and dated it September, 1948. She marked up a good handful of pages and left notes on her findings.
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"Dharma" by Annie Besant, 1918.
Yet another book from the president of The Theosophical Society, this small booklet is a 3rd edition and has no markings in it, just some smudges on the front cover.
"The word dharma translates as that which upholds or supports, and is generally translated into English as law." (taken from wikipedia)
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"The Game of Life and How To Play It" by Florence Scovel Shinn, 1929 - this eighth edition, 1928.
Eight editions in 4 years? Popular book!
Shinn was a successful artist and book illustrator known as "Flossie." She married the realist painter Everett Shinn, although they divorced in 1912. She later got into the metaphysical and New Thought movement and self-published this, her first book, in 1925.
Everett did a dark self portrait in 1901 that is now my new favorite.
My grandmother wrote her name inside the front cover while she was married to her first husband (not my grandfather).
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"Law and Work" published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1916.
Another little booklet from our friends at Christian Science.
This is the 3rd book this week with "law" in the title, in one language or another.
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The Life Power and How to Use It" by Elizabeth Towne, 1906.
A New Thought writer, Towne also was president of the International New Thought Alliance in 1924. She founded and published the New Thought journal 'Nautilus Magazine' which ran from 1898 until 1953.
The title page to this book is shown in the opening of the movie 'The Secret'.
The newspaper here was found in the red crate of treasures we pulled from my parents' storage unit months ago. It was printed in 1887 with an "exact fac-simile of the first printed copy of the Constitution of the United States, and concise report of the great national celebration at Philadelphia in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution."It was printed by The North American, "The Oldest Daily Newspaper in America" out of Philadelphia at 701 Chestnut Street, which ran from 1876 until 1925. The Old Nelson Food Company is currently at that address.
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