But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.

    Across an ocean, through decades of danger and desire, this is Alexandria's life-the life of an indomitable woman who gives her tormented heart to two bold men, who travels to distant America in search of a dream and in flight from a love that would follow her to the end of her days, and who creates a dynasty in the years preceding the Civil War.

    Available in a one-volume paperback edition for the first time, the Companion brings together in conveniently numbered glosses for each canto the most pertinent details from the vast body of work on the Cantos during the last thirty years. The Companion contains 10,421 separate glosses that include translations from eight languages, identification of all proper names and works, Pound's literary and historical allusions, and other exotica, with exegeses based upon Pound's sources. Also included is a supplementary bibliography of works on Pound, newly updated, and an alphabetized index to The Cantos.

    Featured are "The Four Golden Truths" and "The Seven Steps of Power" - processes for easy every-day use of symbolic imagery for self-empowerment. Way of the Great Oracle brings together symbols and signs as never before so that everyone can become their own oracle and realize their highest dreams.

    An original exposition of the book of Psalms; A collection of illustrative extracts from the whole range of Literature; A series of Homiletical hints upon almost every verse; and lists of writers upon each Psalm.Volume 1 = Psalm I-LXXXVII