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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mara Faustino |
| ISBN: | 0871136961 9780871136961 |
| OCLC Number: | 55596198 |
| Description: | viii, 166 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Heaven and hell alternatives (purgatory) -- The nine orders of angels -- Angelic seals -- Miracles -- Nicknames for the devil (Lucifer, Satan, etc.) -- 3 angelic aperitifs -- Things that come from heaven -- The anorexic angel? -- Spells with devil candles -- Hells Angels Motorcycle Club -- 7 heavenly places that are utter hell -- 7 heavenly virtues -- The contrary virtues -- 7 corporal works of mercy -- Guardian angels -- Angel water -- Buddhist hot and cold hells -- Ha-ha for hellions, a joke -- Terms for and descriptions of Heaven and hell in the Bible -- 6 destinies for reincarnation -- Wheels of life -- Superstitions related to heaven & hell -- Festivals of the dead -- Biblical figures who ascended to heaven -- Beatific & Satanic bumper stickers -- Exorcisms -- Contacting angels, some suggestions -- Celestial couture -- Getting to heaven -- 8 significant angels and the meanings of their names -- 10 heavens and their rulers -- Nike -- Bon mots for Beelezebub (proverbial sayings re: the devil) -- Baby names -- Dumah -- 7 heavens and hells of Muhammadans -- Excerpt fr "Captain Stormfield's visit to Heaven / Mark Twain -- Compounds with "heaven" -- Poesy primer for paradise & hell -- Mara -- People/beings you may find in heaven -- Angelic appellations -- The Mormon plan of salvation -- Angels for the days of the week -- Angels of the seasons -- Angels of the month -- Angels of the planets -- The devil's cocktail -- Spiritual hierarchies -- Heavenly and hellish movies -- From "The marriage of heaven and hell" / William Blake -- Devas and the 7 sephirot -- The ascendant almanac -- Places: demonic detours -- Not sure which way to go? -- 7 lodges of hell (Arka) in the Kabbalah -- 9 orders of demons -- Comparative cosmography and eschatology -- Scientology -- Baha'i -- Islam -- Egyptian heaven & hell -- Greek, Catholic, Ancient Babylonian, Induism, Judaism, Ancient Persian -- 5 rivers of Hades -- SIN -- Satanism or devil worship -- Blue devils -- Islands of the blest -- Fears -- Angel beast (card game) -- Dante's "Inferno," a primer -- "Ballade to our lady" -- Divination o-- What is to-morrow -- Saints and sinners ball -- Norse mythology and its 9 worlds -- How to date an asatruer -- The 3-fold nature of man -- Noshing in Nirvana, snacking with Satan, a cookbook -- "General William Booth enters heaven" / Vachel Lindsay -- Proverbs from paradise -- Meat Loaf's discography as it relates to h & h -- A mix tape for your saintly friends and family -- And one for your hellish ones -- Second-to-heaven holy sites -- Divine games -- "Paradise lost" a primer with excerpts -- H & H bibliography -- How to make a snow angel -- Angelic and archfiendish art -- Quotations -- Proverbs of hell / William Blake -- Saints: don't leave home without one -- The Catholic Saint Club's cardinal rules -- 100 vocational saints -- Saints for the ne'er-do-well -- City saints -- Country saints. |
| Responsibility: | [edited by] Mara Faustino. |
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