[Includes 53 photos/illustrations and 11 maps]The defense of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II is one of the supreme achievements of American arms. Bastogne is deservedly identified with the finest characteristics of the American soldier, and the name Bastogne symbolizes a heroic battle. Bastogne has long held the attention of students of war, yet the battle offers new insights for soldiers with modern concerns.Colonel Ralph M. Mitchell's study, The 101s...

Inspired by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher's book Wild America, recent high school graduate M. Ralph Browning embarked on a tightly budgeted, year-long trip in the US looking for birds. The year was 1962. His 1955 VW Beetle broke after nine months, which forced a premature end to the journey. In 2005, after matters of military duty, college, a family, and a career in birds at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the author resumed the interrupted trip. This time, he was ...

Ralph M. Diaz retired in September 2020 as Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) after a distinguished thirty-year career that began on the yard at Wasco State Prison and Reception Center in June 1991. From his first day as a nervous correctional officer—badge freshly pinned by his wife Maria—to his final days guiding the nation's largest state prison system through one of its most turbulent periods, Diaz lived the phrase that titles this book: Add...

Fulfilling a wish to live in a remote location and the great luck of finding Morgan Spring was a dream come true. The author and Linda, his childhood sweetheart, quickly realized Morgan Spring was a perfect place for retirement and an extended honeymoon. Morgan Spring opened its pages to teach about the day-to-day living where mail came three days per week and where the water was beyond quenching. Their little spot, surrounded by a meadow often filled with elk and a forest with breezes sin...

We humans are capable of great relationships. That is, we are capable of grand WE-hood. This is our heritage, though it is often unclaimed. In this book, we explore this heritage, not merely by theorizing about it, but rather by presenting several actual statements of relationship in psychotherapy that clearly embody WE-hood. We will celebrate and study these statements and their significance. We will find that they are significant not only for the pair of persons with whom they came into ...

This timeless book provides biblically solid truths about the Holy Spirit. In addition to keeping a copy on your shelf for sermon reference, it' s ideal for Sunday School teachers and small group leaders. The Spirit Himself makes it easy to reference a lesson subject or Scripture text with its complete subject and text index. All facets of the Holy Spirit are covered— from miracles, healing, prophecy, and faith, to tongues and discerning of tongues.

This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest presents a compendium of materials that provide a solid introduction to the most important aspects of Kabbalah.

The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Melanesia and Micronesia, 1850 to 1875 is the result of Father Ralph Wiltgen's years of archival work in Rome and at the headquarters of religious orders who worked in Micronesia and Melanesia. It follows his first historical book on the subject, The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania: 1825 to 1850, but narrows the focus. The first book dealt with the whole of Oceania and emphasized developments in Polynesia. This book concentrates...

This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest presents a compendium of materials that provide a solid introduction to the most important aspects of the Pythagorean Tradition.

What were the Sacred Traditions said to have been revealed to Moses—and never spoken by the ancient Hebrews? What were the forces of nature discovered by the Egyptian priesthood and embodied in strange symbols—symbols which became the ever-living knowledge which built King Solomon's Temple, and which found their way into the secret teachings of every century?Regardless of the changing consciousness of man, certain signs and devices have immortalized for all ages the truths which ma...

This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest presents a compendium of materials that provide a solid introduction to the most important aspects of the Orphic Mysteries.

The contents of these essays touch the fundamentals of human interest, such as birth, man's mission, his concern with the afterlife, and practical problems of ethics and morals. The author writes as though he were personally counseling one who came to his study for advice as did several thousand persons during his lifetime.Dr. Lewis was the executive officer of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, one of the world's oldest and largest fraternities devoted to mystical and metaphysical study...