Pagan and Christian Creeds, Paperback by Carpenter, Edward, Like New Used, Fr...

Pagan and Christian Creeds, Paperback by Carpenter, Edward, ISBN 1535485469, ISBN-13 9781535485463, Like New Used, Free shipping in the USCONTENTSIntroductorySolar Myths and Christian FestivalsThe Symbolism of the ZodiacTotem-Sacraments and EucharistsFood and Vegetation MagicMagicians, Kings and GodsRites of Expiation and RedemptionPagan Initiations and the Second BirthMyth of the Golden AgeThe Saviour-God and the Virgin-MotherRitual DancingThe Sex-TabooThe Genesis of ChristianityThe Meaning of it AllThe Ancient MysteriesThe Exodus of ChristianityConclusionAppendix on the Teachings of the UpanishadsI RestII. The Nature of the Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early LGBT poet and writer, he was a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, and a friend of Walt corresponded with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, Keir Hardie, J. K. Kinney, Jack London, George Merrill, E. D. Morel, William Morris, Edward R. Pease, John Ruskin, and Olive a philosopher he is particularly known for his publication of Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure in which he proposes that civilisation is a form of disease that human societies pass early advocate of sexual freedoms, he had an influence on both D. H. Lawrence and Aurobindo, and inspired E. M. Forster's novel in Hove in Sussex, Carpenter was educated at nearby Brighton College where his father was a governor. His brothers Charles, George and Alfred also went to school there. When he was ten, he displayed a flair for the academic ability appeared relatively late in his youth, but was sufficient enough to earn him a place at Trinity Hall, there he began to explore his feelings for men. One of the most notable examples of this is his close friendship with Edward Anthony Beck (later Master of Trinity Hall), which, according to Carpenter, had "a touch of romance".Beck eventually ended their friendship, causing Carpenter great emotional heartache. Carpenter graduated as 10th Wrangler in university he joined the Church of England as a curate, "as a convention rather than out of deep Conviction".In 1871 he was invited to become tutor to the royal princes George Frederick (late King George V) and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, but declined the position. The job instead went to his lifelong friend and fellow Cambridge student John Neale continued to visit Dalton while he was tutor, and was presented with photographs of themselves by the the following years he experienced an increasing sense of dissatisfaction with his life in the church and university, and became weary of what he saw as the hypocrisy of Victorian found great solace in reading poetry, later remarking that his discovery of the work of Walt Whitman caused "a profound change" in him......