Bøker av Alan Lewis Silva

This volume features two very interesting books of poetry, somewhat humorous, and descriptive of southern California from 2004 to 2016. It totals about 95,000 wordsNEW CENTURY POEMS: This collection of poetry involves themes of contemporary life experienced by a millennial. It conducts the reader in humor, wit, and moments of growing up through the teenage years through the early thirties, in the vein of an artist's imaginative, inquiring search for truth. It is edgy and satirical, and in other ways spiritual, sincere, and emotive. These verses appertain to a bohemian mood throughout, containing filtered observations of sin and virtue. Each poem finds terms to record the soul's journey in a diverse array of situations. Challenging to classify stylistically, this is a rare California vision on the effects of the Information Age. Composed in three sections, this work poses questions one can contemplate and relate to: What is the value of modern life? What has altered our achievements, behavior, and values? Although humanity continues to grow, what will be our lasting impressions? Discover the complex and primitive motivations of the natural and artificial ecosystems of the 21st century.MUSICAL SHADOWS: Have you wondered what life would look like through the eyes of youth? What do we express in our needs, desires, and attentions? What is the fountain of folly? Who are the Millennials? Read about these topics and more in the pages of this special collection of Alan Lewis Silva's Musical Shadows.

Zoroastrianism is the major spiritual faith of ancient Persia. It was founded by the Prophet Zarathushtra Spitama (Zoroaster), author of The Gathas, or Divine Songs. The Gathas is the oldest surviving literature known to humanity attributed to a single author. The religion of Zoroastrianism co-existed alongside Iranian Mithraism and heavily influenced the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Avesta is the holiest book of Zoroastrianism and is similar to the Bible in many ways. The Avesta contains knowledge of one true and loving Lord God, holy angels, morality, Satan, devils, reverence of the Earth and its ecosystems, the idea of Heaven and Hell, spiritual laws, principles of righteousness, the power of prayer, Conscience, personal judgment, the coming Savior or Christ, and numerous prophecies that have been historically fulfilled or are ongoing, including the Savior's resurrection and the renovation of the universe. Zoroastrianism is founded on the idea of Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good Deeds as its organizing principle, and one prayer given by God to Zarathushtra, the Ahuna Vairya.This edition of the Avesta of Zoroastrianism includes the Yashts, or Hymns, and Vendidad, or Law. It has been lovingly and carefully edited and re-translated from public domain sources by Alan Lewis Silva. This book features easy-to-read font, logical organization, and the fruit of numerous years of Zoroastrian and Christian study and practice. This book contains dozens of helpful footnotes and guides from a non-judgmental perspective focused on highlighting very illuminating and impressive contents attributive of the spiritual and religious development of Iran, the Iranian peoples, and humanity as a whole.

Recent archaeological discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library have revealed a larger than previously known body of Christian and Messianic literature. For many, these and other findings lead us to wanting to learn more about the Holy Bible and related events. Since much of Christianity's early church history and spiritual literature seems to have been ignored or even condescended by religious gatekeepers, we are still left wanting to know more. There is a saying, "We don't know what we don't know," and there is a parallel saying, "The application of knowledge is power." Two Essene Gospels includes in this volume The Gospel of the Sacred Twelve and The Salvation of the World. This book has been carefully and lovingly edited by Alan Lewis Silva. The overall format is organized and the font is easy to read. This Essene Gospels Bible is offered non-judgmentally without any interest in changing anyone's belief system. This book is a gift of spiritual fruit from an author with some talents, who is a born-again Christian. Please enjoy this book and feel free to share your insights with others. Thank you, and peace.

EssaysClaims of Identity in Bret Harte's Gabriel ConroyChapter 1: OverviewChapter 2: The Critical ReceptionChapter 3: The Coherent Plot of Gabriel ConroyChapter 4: Claims of IdentityChapter 5: Representations of the OutsiderChapter 6: The Literary OutsiderBret Harte's Later StoriesAngolan PoetryArchetypes of PowerCrossing Roads of Yokes: T.S. EliotForcing People to WorkFreedom and Equality of Western CivilizationHeads and Tails in French ExistentialismIdentity ExpertsLeaderships of Disappearing PowerMusic and Beauty in Wallace StevensNational Views of College and MediaOverseas or FantasyPortugal and ChinaRole of Humor in the EnvironmentSherman's March and Social MatingThe Bible and MythologyThe Passionate ShepherdThe Rebel's HumanismIndividuality, Talent, TraditionWizard's ValuesWomen's Identity in Irish Literature

What is the value of modern life? What has altered our achievements, behavior, and values? Although humanity continues to survive, what will be its lasting impressions of the Information Age? Discover in New Century Poems by Alan Lewis Silva the complex and primitive motivations of the natural and artificial ecosystems of 21st century California.

The Hebrew alphabet is composed of 22 letters. This book provides a key to many interesting facets of awareness pertaining to the Hebrew alphabet and numbers. The contents here are thoroughly researched from many sources. The reader is invited to learn about this book's information and see if it is reliable. See if this book's information adds more meaning and deeper comprehension to Bible study and life in the outside world that is practiceable. This books provides valuable insights into the Holy Bible and its relationship and identity correlating to the Hebrew letters. This book is knowledge for life. The Holy Bible is used as support for these keys, relying on the King James Version translation. The foundation of numerical values and word associations of each Hebrew letter are provided on a reliable basis that can be tested through the readers' own Bible studies and life experiences. Further readings included in this work are the Wisdom of Solomon, Psalms of Solomon, Odes of Solomon, Gospel of Thomas, Didache: Teachings of the Apostles, Wisdom of Sirach, and Sdiblestudy Church. This book has been carefully and lovingly edited by Alan Lewis Silva.