As mankind is moving onto the next stage of its evolution, spiritual maturity in order to reach balance, which will be a golden age, human beings will have to choose, with a united voice, to transcend the current paradigm of division and violence. It is thus paramount that each individual understands his or her role for the advent of this future. There are decisions to be made at two levels: collective action and individual action. At the collective level, we must end wars and rethink some legalizations. At the individual level, which is the main focus of this book, emphasis is put on each person’s ability to contribute to collective progress by listening to one’s inner voice and by overcoming the social constructions that enchain people’s minds. Often times, different fears prevent us from being ourselves and different preconceived ideas lead us to believe that there might not be enough resources for all or that others might be an obstacle to our wellbeing. The author is inviting the reader to overcome these personal challenges in order for all of us to feel better.

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CONTENTS:The Growth of the ChurchPersecution under Nero, Marcus Aurelius, and ValerianAttitude of Trajan and HadrianPersecution of Diocletian and GaleriusEdict of Toleration by GaleriusEdict of MilanOn the Witness of the SoulPrinciples of FaithUnity of the ChurchOrigin of AsceticismSimeon the StyliteLetter of St. Ambrose to ValentinianEnactments from the Codex TheodosianusExposition of the FaithGods Foreknowledge and Mans Free WillOriginal SinRedemptionFaith, Hope and LoveSynod of ElviraThe Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed, The Athanasian CreedSt. Benedicts Monastic RuleThe New PeoplesTacitus on the GermansThe Salic LawAnglo-Saxon Conquest of BritainConversion of Kent and of the East AnglesLast of the Irish Church in EnglandConversion of ChlodovechDonation of Pippin and Karl the GreatCoronation of Karl the GreatPalace School of Karl the GreatTreaty of VerdunLaws of Kings Aethelbirht of Kent, Hlothhaere and Eadric, Wihtraed, Alfred, Edward, Guthrum, Aethelstan, Edmund, EdgarThe Era of the ArabsMohammedThe Quran (Koran)Arabian ThoughtMethod of Proving Gods ExistenceA Parallel Between the Universe and Man

Little more than cursory allusions to Sozomen occur in the works of contemporary writers; and the materials for a memoir of his life are therefore at best but few and scanty. We should, in fact, be destitute of almost all knowledge as to his birth, education, mode of life and private history, had not some information on these points been furnished by himself. In the work before us, the only one which has caused his name to be handed down to posterity, he draws aside the curtain which would otherwise have concealed his origin and parentage, and makes known to us a portion of his family history. Aeterna Press

SOZOMENUS COLLECTION [2 BOOKS] Salminius Hermias Sozomenus was a historian of the Christian Church. He was born around 400 in Bethelia, a small town near Gaza, into a wealthy Christian family of Palestine. What he has to tell us of the history of Southern Palestine was derived from oral tradition. He appears familiar with the region around Gaza, and mentions having seen Bishop Zeno of Majuma, the seaport of Gaza. Sozomen wrote two works on church history, of which only the second one is extant. His first work covered the history of the Church, from the Ascension of Jesus to the defeat of Licinius in 323, in twelve books. His sources for it included Eusebius of Caesarea, the Clementine homilies, Hegesippus, and Sextus Julius Africanus. Sozomen's second work continues approximately where his first work left off. He wrote it in Constantinople, around the years 440 to 443 and dedicated it to Emperor Theodosius II. —BOOKS— A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IN NINE BOOKS THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF SOZOMEN PUBLISHER: AETERNA PRESS

Sozomen, a native of Palestine, was a Church historian who lived in the 5th century A.D. His Ecclesiastical History consists of nine books, which roughly coincide with the reign of Roman emperors.

Hermias Sozomen practiced the law at Constantinople, at the same time with Socrates. His ancestors were not mean; they were originally natives of Palestine, being inhabitants of a village near Gaza, called Bethelia. This village was very populous in times past, and had most stately and ancient churches. But the most glorious structure of them all was the Pantheon, situated on an artificial hill, which was the tower as it were of Bethelia, as Sozomen relates in chap. xv. of his fifth book. The grandfather of Hermias Sozomen was born in that village, and first converted to the Christian faith by Hilarion the monk. For when Alaphion, an inhabitant of the same village, was possessed with a devil, and the Jews and physicians, attempting to cure him, could do him no good by their enchantments, Hilarion, by a bare invocation of the name of God, cast out the devil. Sozomen’s grandfather, and Alaphion himself, amazed at this miracle, with their whole families embraced the Christian religion