... , certain values important to her (which are also the values of the LDS) were bound to slip in somewhere within the story. "Dracula," written by Bram Stoker in 1897, a fantastic book partially based upon the congenital fears of a people in the Victorian era; the night, perverse sexuality, compulsion, blood lust, aggression and impurity. He feeds on, particularly, (young) women. After he ... they have done and are remembered for having participated in something less than reputable. It is not wrong that the church tries to preserve what is left of love and romance in modern society by enco...

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... have issued handsomely packaged translations of gnostic scripture and, in one case, even a collection of meditations called A gnostic Book of Hours. Among gnosticism's more celebrated adherents are novelist Lawrence Durrell and psychologist Carl Jung, whose loopy gnostic outlook has, inspired many a spiritual/psychological best-selling authors, from James Hillman to Elaine Pagels to Thomas Moore to Bill Moyers. Even Stephen King's current ... as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mormon founder Joseph Smith. America's present gnostic renaissance lacks the social reformist impulses that informed th...

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