...s a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic finds out, however, that he was b...

...nt stairs with a swift, don’t-mess-with-me stride she had perfected over the years. “He’s here!” “There he is!” “Get the camera ready.” The ... ...wd shifted and she got a good, long look at Cade Taylor. The first in five years. Julia’s head swam, and she had the horrifying feeling that she mi... .... Where was the cool, calm and collected persona she’d spent the last four years cultivating? Damn it! Why did he have to look so damn delicious?... ... 7 Chapter One Five Years Earlier “Good God!” That was the last thing Julia heard before ... ...e had daydreamed about that smile, those eyes and that body for almost nine years. Nine long, invisible, tormenting years where she was subjected to... ...s the table. He seethed inside. The problems with the Turner case grew by leaps and bounds. Under normal circumstances he would not balk at a lit...

...For years, Julia Campbell has lusted from afar after her girlhood crush, Cade Taylor. Now the shoe is on the other foot and Cade is limping along helplessly behind her size seven pumps. Two successful attorneys arguing opposite s...

...een possible. Thank you all from the botom of my heart. v Prologue F or years, people talked about various ways that the world would end - plague,... ... in an unusual place. A man who had been in self-imposed exile for over a year came out of hiding… 1 Chapter 1 H artford, Connecticut, had its fair... ...hile still holding his rife and with minimal efort, he made a twenty foot leap to the top of another large chunk of bridge. Soaring through the air,... .... Vincent had enough time to take out two more Seekers before making the leap to a section of collapsed ofce building. Just like the Dark Ones, each... ... a dose of radiation that should have killed me, and was still ticking a year afer it happened.” Josh wasn’t sure how to respond, but setled for ask... ... rounds penetrated the chest plate of another Seeker who had two thirteen year old boys in its sights. The enemy soldiers 32 Mike Saxton began to r... ... he swept the young, fearless girl of her feet and into his arms. Then he leaped into the air just at the moment the thugs fred. Being the foolish d... ...into the mental…whoa!” Before Josh could fnish, Vincent scooped him up and leapt into the air. All Josh could say while they were soaring over the f... ... each Seeker out with one shot until the guns were out of ammuni- tion. He leapt over a desk that was in his way, landed, rolled, and found cover nex...

...enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

...d people's faith in Neo. Neo has spent every waking hour of the past five years compiling this Book, showing people this new light and building the ... ...) ________________________________________ I'v e known Neo for a number of years now, and from the very first time I got to talk to him I felt this a... ...him I felt this awesomeness and this strong sense of purpose. It seemed to leap up from the very words on the screen that he typed. It didn't matter ... ... into his beautiful, kind eyes And you see a wisdom that far surpasses his years You give him holy hell And he is able to shake it off and move on He ... ... ________________________________________ I h a v e n e v e r in the 28 years of my life come across a person that has so much love and compassion... ... in the world doing what he does every hour of his life for the past five years, why you ask…because he can. And the people I have spread the messa...

...unding beliefs of the Zero-Six Contingent, the reasons behind the mission and people's faith in Neo. Neo has spent every waking hour of the past five years compiling this Book, showing people this new light and building the Contingent. He was put here to help them find the key to their own truth and a reason to live, to build a bridge to true PEACE in this world....

...ranted the spiritual knowledge that Kabbalists had accumulated for 3,000 years before his time. Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai (Rashbi) put it all on pape... ...of Rabbi Akiva’s prime students. He studied with Rabbi Akiva for thirteen years, and achieved the highest levels on the spiritual ladder. The Bar-Ko... ...Peqi’in, a village in the north of Israel, and remained there for thirteen years. During that time, they delved in the secrets of the wisdom of the h... ...cceeded, and they discovered the entire system of creation. After thirteen years in a cave, Rashbi heard that the Roman emperor had died. He could fi... ...n they approach the chains of Aza and Azael, they rile and rouse them and leap into the mountains of darkness, thinking that the Creator wishes to b... ...alchut, the greatest desire to receive, called “wrath and rage.” And they leap over the mountains of darkness, thinking that the Creator wishes to br... ...d to their roots and receive Hochma. Therefore, this action is considered leaping, an attempt to ascend, followed by a fall, as a result of which th... ...eper into the mountains of darkness. And they think that because of their leaps (attempts to receive the Light from their root), the Creator is beco... ...or is becoming increasingly stricter with them; thus, they decide to stop leaping. However, even though they cannot give anything, as their attempts ...

...e Book of Zohar (The Book of Radiance) is an ageless source of wisdom and the basis for all Kabbalistic literature. Since its appearance nearly 2,000 years ago, it has been the primary, and often only, source used by Kabbalists. For centuries, Kabbalah was hidden from the public, which was considered not yet ready to receive it. However, our generation has been designat...

... our behavior have been studied by scientists and philosophers for thousands of years. Along with logical assumptions, science uses quantifiable rese... ...ohar was written by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, “the Rashbi.” This was around the year 150 CE. Rabbi Shimon was a pupil of the famous Rabbi Akiva (40 C... ...Rabbi Akiva, the Rashbi escaped with his son, Elazar. They hid in a cave for 13 years. They emerged from the cave with The Zohar, and with a crystall... ...e able to do so. The Zohar explains that human development is divided into 6,000 years, during which time souls undergo a continuous process of devel... ...n in a cave in the vicinity of Safed in Israel. They were found several hundred years later by Arabs residing in the area. A Kabbalist from Safed pu... ...pecific purpose. Advancing a single level provides you with the power to take a leap forward to the next one. The descent from above to below is the...

...Introduction: The laws of nature, our place in the world and our behavior have been studied by scientists and philosophers for thousands of years. Along with logical assumptions, science uses quantifiable research and data. Yet our scientists and researchers have discovered that the more they advance in their research, the more obscure and confusing they find the...

... religious autocrat, whose reign of terror has led to the destruction of their laboratories, but not their secret weapon. We then take a thousand year leap to a future city state in which the human aptitude for duplicitous and unjust social schemes has reached its logical culmination in Oasis, a flesh-crawlingly evil dystopia ruled by the most unpleasant gang of conmen...

...t’s still a shock to know the party’s finally over.’ ‘It’s not over till we’ve given the fat priest the welcome he deserves.’ ‘I wish I was fifty years younger.’ Jarek levered himself to his feet, opened a concealed panel in the wall and pressed a switch that triggered lasers to reflect off multiple mirrors, creating tiny pinpoints of light at strategic locations throu...

...Table of Contents 1: Somewhere in Far North Queensland Towards the End of the Twenty-First Century 2: About a Thousand Years Later 3: A Demonstration 4: Peteru & Uretep Show How It’s Done 5: The Mages Do It 6: Breakfast with the Mages 7: Peteru and Uretep Learn About Oasis 8: Problems 9: Production Gets Underway 10: How the O...

...usaba. Ulusaba meaning “place of little fear”, was aptly named to remind us of the native warriors who stood guard on a mountaintop here hundreds of years ago, alerting their tribe of potential danger or enemies. Ironically, as we jet away from the city to this “place of little fear”, and as we fly over the vast expanse of untouched beauty and untamed beasts, we can’t he...

... his country retreat - she did not captivate him. He did take her on a cruise, two years later, unaccompanied by her husband. He tried to introduce... ...sis 11:27. He may have been born in Ur, in today's Iraq, near Nasiryah, around 4000 years ago. His brother, Nahor, definitely was born in Ur and, ha... ... capital of S(h)umer but the Kasdim - Khaldeans - did not make it to Ur until 1300 years after the birth of Abraham. Why do the Bible call it Ur Ka... ... city, Harran, on the current border between Turkey and Syria. He spent the next 60 years of his life there. Harran is 1200 kilometers off the beate... ...ts There are 11,000 species of ants. The oldest ant fossil is more than 90 million years old. Ants are closely related to bees and wasps. They are ... ...he extra six hours were collected and added as an extra day to the year, creating a leap year of 366 days. But the calendar's underlying estimate... ...he seasons. Pope Gregory XIII decided - in his tenth year in office - to drop 3 leap years every 400 years by specifying that any year whose num... ... In 1923, a Conference of Orthodox Churches in Constantinople reduced the number of leap years every 900 years and attained a discrepancy between t... ...d from trees armed with umbrellas as late as 1687. A Venetian, Fausto Veranzino, leaped, using a parachute from a tower. Louis-Sébastien Lenorman...

... books describing in delicious detail my life in cookies, how for more than 40 years, I've been making and baking and churning out fresh cookies a... ...y all over and keeps me feeling young. If you're young, you can look forward to years and years of enjoying cookies as you mature, and come to appr... ...ready reception. People loved it. When I used the Watermelon Credo poster last year in a column I wrote for the Costco Connection newsletter, it go... ...lects a positive outlook. I wasn't always positive. I was born poor, and many years passed before I realized what valuable assets I had been born ... ... the tiniest of tots can absorb when a story is read aloud. Their little minds leap ahead, storing images, words, and ideas for future use. Readin... ...do or they enjoy it while they're doing it? Or is it the same thing? Nearly 50 years ago, author Norman Cousins documented how watching funny movi...

...Art, Sophia-Art and Cosmo-Art there is continuity as well as a qualitative leap......................................................................... ...ous (I still do so and continuously find something new, and I began thirty years ago) are not making proper use of Sophia-Analysis, because they was... ...’ present as narrated in Homer’s Odyssey, which unravels over the ten long years he is in Troy and another ten spent traveling through the Mediterra... ... imprisoned our minds within limited boundaries for more than two thousand years, in the conviction that we are only creatures capable of sinning, a... ...tand the force of repulsion and they have been trying to understand it for years. Here I want to underline that there is a profound difference bet... ...d his bones smashed, had blue-eyed Athena not whispered in his heart: and leaping he grabbed the rock with two hands, and he clung to it moaning, ... ...Art, Sophia-Art and Cosmo-Art there is continuity as well as a qualitative leap In both Sophia-Art and Cosmo-Art, we speak of life as a work of a... ...s is our conception of life and the world around us. The two qualitative leaps in our thinking that Sophia-Art and Cosmo-Art both ask us to do reg... ...e vices of either and it would mean that humanity could make a qualitative leap in its ability to create itself. The effects of circular causality...

...I TREASON AND DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD have been steeped for a thousand years - in history, then thou wilt be patient. Leader of Women. What tho... ...e Lakes, When with my hand I stopped the British fleet, - Stayed them a year: they dreaded to come on. And I had done it. There remain my fights... ...It chokes me still to say it - had for it - It wakes me in the night with leaping hatred, - Out of my bed I leap to think of it, - Hitting me in m... ... count the cost, File my accounts and give me promises,- Hopes for next year. 'Twas not in coin like that I paid at Saratoga! Treason. Benedict ... ... men are better than old; and we praise them deservedly. This man, a few years since, could endure reverse; but now he is broken and worn away: hi... ...rt shall cure us of such fears; Moments like this make mirth in after I years. [Exeunt Arnold and Andr6.1 peace [ 98 I TREASON AND DEATH Fath...

...her, Rav Laitman has been studying and teaching Kabbalah for the past thirty years. As a Kabbalist, he has published more than thirty books and num... ... for authoring the Sulam (Ladder) commentary on The Book of Zohar. For twelve years, Rav Laitman devotedly studied with the Rabash, and absorbed fro... ... the Russian Academy of Sci- About the Author 13 ences in Moscow. In recent years, Rav Laitman has been cooperating with leading scientists in res... ...refusenik” (one whose request to leave Russia for Israel is refused) for four years, I finally arrived in Israel. Alas, even here I was only allowed... ... philosophy, then to religion, but found an- swers in neither. Only after long years of searching did I find my teacher. It was the great Kabbalist, ... ...d solution to our problems. In the last 100 years or so, we have made a giant leap in scientific and technological progress, and yet we find oursel...

...many of them in his career.” Dan blinked. “Not posthumously, he didn’t. Not 16 years after he died in Berlin.” Prologue “Pol und Jude” P... ... a wailing siren, followed by two minutes of contemplative, silent observation. One year, my mother traveled all the way to Jerusalem and, standing ... ...useum, she taped the piercing sound and the ensuing silence. She played it every year since then on the appointed date and this year was no excep... ...mbling barely audible goodbyes. The air outside was fresh with life. I was 46 years old but didn’t have much to show for it, except a string of... ...w it. A black floppy disk of the kind that has been out of favor and out of use for years. It was labeled 3/3. Frankenberg had an antique computer... ...– I screamed – “Run away, danger, run!” Grease Ball, like some demented kangaroo, leaped across the room and then all went dark for the second tim... ...enebrous underpasses. He reminds me of popular renditions of the Grim Reaper. I leap to attention. “So, you have met Heinrich with the Eyegla... ...ods.” – he chuckled raspingly and sank into oblivious contemplation. He suddenly leapt from his chair and faced me, eyeball to penumbral socket. ...

...e of the wisdom of The Zohar, the reasons for its concealment for so many years, and how it can benefit us today. Part 2 talks about the way we perc... ...permission has been granted to engage in The Book of Zohar. And since the year 1540, it has been a great Mitzva (commandment) for the masses to stu... ...uddenly arise within us leave us restless, prodding us forward, and after years of searching we come to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the wisdom that teac... ...long been predicted. The first time such a state occurred was thousands of years ago in ancient Babylon. The Biblical story about the Tower of Babel... ...higher reality, we will understand that our development over thousands of years has taken place only to bring us to acquire and experience a more ex... ...step before a new degree of existence. We are about to make a qualitative leap to the spiritual degree, and this is why the springboard—the wisdom o... ...Abraham began to look into the nature of creation. He discovered that the leap in egoism was not coincidental, but a preordained move in Nature’s de... ...sensation of the upper force, in bonding and brotherly love until the ego leaped once more to a new degree, causing the loss of that sensation. The ...

...amieson Stone would do his nightly news; the same seat he had sat in for more than twenty years. Jane Simmons, the head assistant producer and floo... ...l. “Let’s go people! Twenty minutes to airtime.” Simmons had been with WNN for almost ten years. Her demeanor was always dour and abrupt, not that i... ... the controls behind the smoke colored windows above the floor of the studio. Over the years, Stone had become the most famous and trusted newsman... ...ng network at the time, he also worked the field better than any other reporter. Over the years, he had taken on the tough assignments reporting liv... ... A small bed light lamp snapped on, and a terrified Susan Stone rushed around the bed and leapt on Brand who was lying flat on his back. “I’m so gla... ...uld call, tell her I’m on my way. I’m leaving now, I’ll be there in a few hours.” Brand leapt into his car, and sped toward the interstate to Richm... ...ft of the house. Maybe, it was the dogs, maybe not. Then suddenly, he saw one of the dogs leap into the air, it fell instantly to the ground. From t... ...n silently. The man kept coming closer to his position. When he was five feet away, Brand leapt at him, encircling his forearm around his throat and ... ... “Or there’s a concerted effort to cover up a national security crisis.” “That’s quite a leap, Cummings. You’re talking about FBI involvment.” “Ye...

... the one that it had has been incapable of passing the test of time. For years we have been working to create centers of energy that are capable of... ...l and group project that aims at reproducing within a human group, through years of work, the same processes that come about when a star is born: co... ...est, immortality has been promised to the saints for the last two thousand years. Before that, in Egypt, it was promised to the Pharaohs and to those... ...has 100 or more rooms, that you will want to paint with frescoes, one each year, starting with the ground floor and then passing to the basement and... ...of art and the drawings for our frescoes that we must paint day after day, year after year. 2) – The Personal SELF, the inner artist, cannot do i... ...sked to produce music and harmony with it? Is it possible to make such a leap? And the second question is: is it possible today to not only stud... ...ng human beings and, according to the answers we get, we can then make the leap from the microcosm of the human being to the macrocosm of the univer... ...anks to the works of humanity, a form of life is created that can make the leap from being a caterpillar to a butterfly, it can make the leap from th...

...ncement. Kane gritted his teeth, barely heard her sealing his verdict. One year or until such time when his new master saw fit to liberate him before ... ...," he whispered, beating her to the punch as he so often had in their five-year marriage. Probably why they had been together as long as they had. Bec... ... was right. He blamed her. Even through all his grief and concern for her, years later and through all their arguments and make- ups, she knew deep do... ...the memory of his look, the pain, could assail her so powerfully even now, years after the doctor had related that she'd miscarried. "...There's no re... ...ge and imposing—materializes between them and the figure does a meandering leap onto its bare back, silently cackling as he rides off into the salmon ... ...oss the room, stomach roaring in anticipation. Marsh picked that minute to leap into the room—a boundless hundred-and-ten-pound ball of Rottweiler ene... ...en eyes gripped her for the second time in her life. He advanced and Marsh leaped between Therese and him, barking and snarling up at the intruder. "I... ...y had been the impromptu picture that Adriano had snapped when Therese had leapt onto her husband's back for a piggyback ride. Therese swallowed hard,... ...tice the evening before. He's an exchange student from Saudi Arabia... She leaped out of the bed to the gentle hum of prayer, automatically snatched h...

... till after the reign of the saints and the elect, designated in scripture, “a thousand years,” and among divines, “the millennium.” Having broken ... ...ripture by “the latter rain,” of which I deem the religious revivals of the last thirty years to be as the first droppings of the shower, and our rel... ...essiah in Glory and Majesty,” was, so far as I can learn, first printed in Spain in the year 1812, in three volumes, during the short period of the C... ...ility” to express the first of those three positions which have laid down above. In the year 1816, it came to England by the circuitous route of the... ...who had perused it, or become at all acquainted with its doctrines. About three or four years ago, a clergyman of the church of England, whose name, ... ...ointed to determine its being shall have taken their course; and there is no break, nor leap, nor start in its growth, which proceedeth by a slow, a... .... But upon this I would not at present reflect, my attention being called to the sudden leap which the interpreters make from the material to the spi... ...hat time, that captivity, that Zion; they would not have made so sudden and wonderful a leap from the material to the spiritual, from those times to...

... first to call to memory all that happened to this grateful people in the first years after the death of Messiah. So far was God from avenging the d... ...nsummation of the age. Notwithstanding those promises, it is certain that a few years thereafter he quitted the Jews, casting them into outer darkne... ... that they should not annihilate each other. “Who does not tremble (said a few years ago, one of the most learned and most zealous prelates of Fran... ...ivity and Dispersion till the Present Time. § 2. O NE hundred twenty and two years after the ten tribes, which composed the kingdoms of Israel an... ...o Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. This transmigration was perfectly concluded eleven years thereafter, when the same Nebuchadnezzar, irritated by the reb... ...tan,” full of the most vehement apprehensions, and in consequence of his fears, leaping up and down at the great novelty in the state of that woman,... ... suddenly return to the day of Nebuchadnezzar? why do they give so prodigious a leap from Nebuchadnezzar to Theodosius? After having made these and ... ... is likewise ordinary with all the prophets of God; for example, “the mountains leaped like rams, and the little hills like lambs…the enemies of the...