Mining, Metallurgy, and the Meaning of Life: A Book of Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (916 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597310859 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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G. Hoover said Interesting Book. This is a well written book and touches on the history and lore/myths of mining. I enjoyed this book and learned a lot that I had heard before. If you are interested in mining and myths this is a book for you.. AnjaK said Five Stars. My husband LOVED this book!. Two Stars Bayasal Unstructured and hard to follow.
Traditionally, these forms of work were thought to repeat and extend the creative powers of God and nature, and those who engaged in them enjoying a special insight into the processes of the divine creaion. The withdrawal of the sacred sense from human work has diminished religion in many Western societies, and the several stages by which this withdrawal occurred is one of the major concerns of this book. In many crafts and professions the stages by which the learner was inducted were initiations into substantial undestandings of the spirit and of spiritual practice. It goes to the heart of how we think about work, about religion, and about the relations between people and nature. What was a commonplace to the European mind for millennia has for us become a matter of the deepest obscurity. Even in quite recent times the spirits of the earth, the fairies and dwarfts, actively assisted farmers and miners in their work according to common belief, and the fifth chapter considers some