This book explores notions of justice-oriented literacy coaching and offers a way of being in the world with young people, teachers, and communities that centers transformative coaching, teaching, and learning. It is intended to disrupt the traditional and historical positioning of literacy coaches in schools today. Through the lens of social justice and liberatory education, Sailors and Manning begin a dialogue with literacy coaches to help them reconsider their own roles and positions as...

Jim is a young man living by himself in a studio apartment in the city. He harbors a secret desire for female domination and he's out at the bar with his college friends one Friday night when his lesbian friend, Vee, discovers that he is wearing a chastity cage and wants to know all about it and why. After she learns about it, she offers to hold the keys for him.This is a short novella written in first person that explores some of the various female domination kinks. Narrated by th...

When secrets are revealed, will desires no longer be denied?Roommates Owen and Fiona's relationship has evolved in ways neither of them expected. After a night that completely altered their dynamic, Fiona now holds the key—literally—to Owen's most prized possession, and he has become the perfect roommate, fulfilling tasks she never imagined he would. Their bond has grown stronger, with Owen even asking to deepen their unique connection. But there's a catch: Fiona i...

Sometimes hiding the truth is harder than you think.Roommates Owen and Fiona's relationship began on rocky terms, but an unexpected turn of events has shifted things dramatically. After a transformative night where Owen submitted fully to Fiona, their dynamic changed in ways they never imagined. Now, with Fiona holding the key to one of Owen's most prized possessions around her neck, he's become a different person—cooking breakfast, doing chores, and revealing a si...

What you don't know, won't hurt you…right?In a hasty twist of fate, young city-dwellers Owen and Fiona become roommates. What seems like a perfect stroke of luck at first, quickly turns into a fiery dynamic between the two, neither able to tolerate the other. Even still, they're stuck together…and for a while.But maybe fate isn't quite done with them yet.What neither of them know about the other, is that they share some common interests you don't re...

What you don’t know, won’t hurt you…right?In a hasty twist of fate, young city-dwellers Owen and Fiona become roommates. What seems like a perfect stroke of luck at first, quickly turns into a fiery dynamic between the two, neither able to tolerate the other. Even still, they’re stuck together…and for a while.But maybe fate isn’t quite done with them yet.What neither of them know about the other, is that they share some common interests you...

The true story of the life of Jesus of Nazareth has never been unfolded to the world, either in the accepted Gospels or in the Apocrypha, although a few stray hints may be found in some of the commentaries written by the ante-Nicene Fathers. The facts concerning His identity and mission are among the priceless mysteries preserved to this day in the secret vaults beneath the "Houses of the Brethren." To a few of the Knights Templars, who were initiated into the arcana of the Druses, Nazaren...

The Old Testament--especially the Pentateuch--contains not only the traditional account of the creation of the world and of man, but also, locked within it, the secrets of the Egyptian initiators of the Moses concerning the genesis of the god-man (the initiate) and the mystery of his rebirth through philosophy. While the Lawgiver of Israel is known to have compiled several works other than those generally attributed to him, the writings now commonly circulated as the purported six...

FOR the most comprehensive and lucid exposition of occult pneumatology (the branch of philosophy dealing with spiritual substances) extant, mankind is indebted to Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), prince of alchemists and Hermetic philosophers and true possessor of the Royal Secret (the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life). Paracelsus believed that each of the four primary elements known to the ancients (earth, fire, air, and water) consi...

The creatures inhabiting the water, air, and earth were held in veneration by all races of antiquity. Realizing that visible bodies are only symbols of invisible forces, the ancients worshiped the Divine Power through the lower kingdoms of Nature, because those less evolved and more simply constituted creatures responded most readily to the creative impulses of the gods. The sages of old studied living things to a point of realization that God is most perfectly understood through a knowled...

Recognizing the futility of attempting to cope intellectually with that which transcends the comprehension of the rational faculties, the early philosophers turned their attention from the inconceivable Divinity to man himself, with in the narrow confines of whose nature they found manifested all the mysteries of the external spheres. As the natural outgrowth of this practice there was fabricated a secret theological system in which God was considered as the Grand Man and, conversely, man ...

The Masonic legend of the building of Solomon's Temple does not in every particular parallel the Scriptural version, especially in those portions relating to CHiram Abiff. According to the Biblical account, this Master workman returned to his own country; in the Masonic allegory he is foully murdered. On this point A. E. Waite, in his New Encyclopædia of Freemasonry, makes the following explanatory comment:"The legend of the Master-Builder is the great allegory of Masonry....