The Left Hand of God

Author: Paul Hoffman
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141969121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogy. "Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary." The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the One True Faith. In one of the Sanctuary's vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy. He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old - he is not sure and neither is anyone else. He has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him Thomas Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-minded. He is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or die. His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt. But the Redeemers want Cale back at any price... not because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does not. The Left Hand of God is a must read. It is the first instalment in a gripping trilogy by Paul Hoffman. Imagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose. Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series. Praise for Paul Hoffman: 'This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden 'Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph 'A cult classic . . .' Daily Express

The Beating of His Wings

Author: Paul Hoffman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698168984
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510

Book Description
Following the bestselling novels The Left Hand of God and The Last Four Things comes the final installment of Paul Hoffman’s stark, epic trilogy. Thomas Cale has been running from the truth…. Since discovering that his brutal military training has been for one purpose—to destroy God’s greatest mistake, mankind itself—Cale has been hunted by the very man who made him into the Angel of Death: Pope Redeemer Bosco. Cale is a paradox: arrogant and innocent, generous and pitiless. Feared and revered by those who created him, he has already used his breathtaking talent for violence and destruction to bring down the most powerful civilization in the world. But Thomas Cale’s soul is dying. As his body is racked with convulsions, he knows that the final judgment will not wait. As the day of reckoning draws close, Cale’s sense of vengeance leads him back to the heart of darkness—the Sanctuary—and to confront the person he hates most in the world….

Aghora

Author: Robert E. Svoboda
Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited
ISBN: 9788171673421
Category : Aghorīs
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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The Last Four Things

Author: Paul Hoffman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110154340X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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The epic story of Thomas Cale—introduced so memorably in The Left Hand of God—continues as the Redeemers use his prodigious gifts to further their sacred goal: the extinction of humankind and the end of the world... To the warrior-monks known as the Redeemers, “the last four things” represent the culmination of a faithful life. Death. Judgment. Heaven. Hell. The last four things represent eternal bliss—or endless destruction, permanent chaos, and infinite pain. Perhaps nowhere are the competing ideas of heaven and hell exhibited more clearly than in the dark and tormented soul of Thomas Cale. Betrayed by the girl he loves but still marked by a child’s innocence, possessed of a remarkable aptitude for violence but capable of extreme tenderness, Cale will lead the Redeemers into a battle for nothing less than the fate of the human race. And though his broken heart foretells the bloody trail he will leave in pursuit of a personal peace he can never achieve, a glimmer of hope remains—the question even Cale can’t answer: When it comes time to decide the fate of the world, to ensure the extermination of humankind or spare it, what will he choose? To express God’s will on the edge of his sword, or to forgive his fellow man—and himself?

The Left Hand of God

Author: Adolf Holl
Publisher: Image
ISBN: 0307819728
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
Adolf Holl's divine biography examines the life of the Holy Spirit in the context of the history of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Interweaving scholarship with religion, myth, and culture, Holl expertly traces the influence of the Holy Spirit on men and women from all walks of life, over the course of centuries. The result is quite unlike anything written before. The Holy Spirit inspired a few Galilean fishermen to find the courage to preach a new world religion. The Jews recognized it as the breath of God. Mohammed was inspired by it in the dictation of the Koran. Yet this same spirit has moved individuals to rebel against convention, authority, and even sanity. Through Holl's freewheeling yet always crystal-clear discourse, we see how the Holy Spirit informs an incredible array of beliefs (including those underlying the rituals of Appalachian snake handlers) and ideas (the works of Freud and James Joyce are among the many discussed). When the book was published in Germany, Der Spiegel wrote, "Holl has presented a formidable history, linking together the most distant things in a surprising way and leaving the whole as a paradox. He leaves it to the reader to judge the encounter with the Holy Spirit as a manifestation of the divine in the human being--or as a case for the psychiatrist." Whatever the reader's conclusion may be, The Left Hand of God is sure to be hailed as a major religious publishing event.

Left Hand of God

Author: William E. Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780317279078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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A Left Hand Like God

Author: Peter J. Silvester
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Serving at Satan's Altar

Author: W.L. Newton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664131213
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
The God most of the world worships is known as Yahweh/Jehovah, yet what if you were told that this isn’t the true God, but an angel posing as God? What if you were to be told that Satan is not the enemy but the wife of the true God and Creator? This is the book of hidden teachings! Satan or Iblis is the wife of the True Creator, and the Mother of all! Satan is the Ultimate Reality known as Haawiya who is the Mother of all, the Void or the True Creator of all! In this book I give the proofs of the esoteric/occult teachings that have been hidden for centuries! These are the teachings of true Satanism, and it is through Satan our Mother that we will come to the knowledge of the Truth!

Aghora

Author: Robert Svoboda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
The Aghora trilogy have been embraced world-wide for their frankness in broaching subjects generally avoided and their facility for making the 'unseen' real. We enter the world of Vimalananda who teaches by story and living example.

Ursula K. Le Guin's the Left Hand of Darkness

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
A collection of nine critical essays on the modern social science fiction novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.