Flow Down Like Silver

Posted on 22 May 2017 by Ki Longfellow

Ki Longfellow, author of the acclaimed The Secret Magdalene, has now written the astonishing life of Hypatia, famed throughout the Mediterranean world, a beauty and a genius, yet for 17 centuries ignored by history As the Roman Empire fights for its life and emerging Christianity fights for our souls, Hypatia is the last great voice of reason A woman of sublime intelligence, Hypatia ranks above not only all women, but all men Hypatia dazzled the world with her brilliance, was courted by men of every persuasion and was considered the leading philosopher and mathematician of her ageyet her mathematics, her inventions, the very story of her life in all its epic and dramatic intensity, has gone untold A heart breaking love story, an heroic struggle against intolerance, a tragedy and a triumph, Hypatia walks through these pages fully realized while all around her Egypt s Alexandria, the New York City of its day, strives to remain a beacon of light in a darkening world. New Read Flow Down Like Silver [ author ] Ki Longfellow [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr After reading The Secret Magdalene last March, I was completely overwhelmed by the sheer depth of the story she presented to me Not just the depth of the story, but also the beauty of her language, the solid composition of the book thrilled me Having read her latest novel, Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria, I know that The Secret Magdalene was not a one time high This lady I m referring to the author now contains gold and I can only hope that she s given the perseverance and th After reading The Secret Magdalene last March, I was completely overwhelmed by the sheer depth of the story she presented to me Not just the depth of the story, but also the beauty of her language, the solid composition of the book thrilled me Having read her latest novel, Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria, I know that The Secret Magdalene was not a one time high This lady I m referring to the author now contains gold and I can only hope that she s given the pe...More of the rich storytelling and compelling research that Ki Longfellow brought to her previous book, The Secret Magdalene Unlike Magdalene , Flow Down Like Silver is told through, not one, but several 1st person witnesses Hypatia herself, plus intimates and acquaintances of the legendary mathematician philosopher during the latter half of her life This approach tempers a bit of the reader s emotional empathy for the principal character, offering in its place the intimate perceptions o More of the rich storytelling and compelling research that Ki Longfellow brought to her previous book, The Secret Magdalene Unlike Magdalene , Flow Down Like Silver is told through, not one, but several 1st person witnesses Hypatia herself, plus intimates and acquaintances of the legendary mathematician philosopher during the latter half of her life This approach tempers a bit of the reader s emotional ...Ever since I finished The Secret Magdalene, I ve been waiting for the second in this writer s trilogy of the Divine Feminine The Secret Magdalene stunned me It took me places few books go So obviously I was one of the first to get this book and to read it, or at least the first to review it here author Ki Longfellow s first book was about Mary Magdalene, but not the Magdalene who s been so abused for so long Flow Down Like Silver takes place 350 years later in the city of Alexandria, Egyp Ever since I finished The Secret Magdalene, I ve been waiting for the second in this writer s trilogy of the Divine Feminine The Secret Magdalene stunned me It took me places few books go So obviously I was one of the first to get this book and to read it, or at least the first to review it here author Ki Longfellow s first book was about Mary Magdalene, but not the Magdalene who s been so abused for so long Flow Down Like Silver takes place 350 years later in the city of Alexandria, Egypt, the very city Longfellow s Magdalene spent her youth in, practicing the ancient Passion of Osiris There was no Christianity in her day, but by the time Hypatia lived Christianity existed side by side with the old faiths and ancient mystery teachings In cities all over the Roman world the struggle was on between them for the human so...There s not much out there about Hypatia of Alexandria and what there is isn t world class Kind of understandable considering what s left of her work and her life But reading this novel, got me as close to her as I ever expect to get This is a wonderful book and though it might differ from the scanty research done by perhaps dubious scholars, I get the feeling that the rational and emotional jumps made by Longfellow areHypatia than any dry biased account could ever be I m also anno There s not much out there about Hypatia of Alexandria and what there is isn t world class Kind of understa...Hypatia lived sixteen centuries ago This was a woman who should be better known and much better respected than Cleopatra and certainly Nefertiti She was a genius and a beauty and the last great teacher of what we call Paganism in all that was left of the Great Library of Alexandria I grabbed this book as soon as I knew the subject, but I would have read it eaqerly anyway since I was changed by Longfellow s The Secret Magdalene A N...Another wonderful book from Longfellow who wrote The Secret Magdalene A Novel This one is set in the 4th and 5th century in Alexandria Egypt when Christianity is the state religion of Rome But all over the Empire Hellenists still teach and ancient religions still compete for the minds of the people Hypatia of Alexandria was one of the last of the great early mathematicians and hilosophers with complete access to what still remained of the Great Library of Alexandria T...I m a bit of a history buff and there are some writers who can really deliver This writer is my latest discovery The world in which she sets her characters blazes under the sun of the last gasp of Egypt, the characters themselves quiver with conflicted life I ve heard of Hypatia, so much so that she d become one of my heroes And I ve been frustrated that she isn t as well known as Joan of Arc But the Church has conspired to bury her, and they ve done a pretty good job of it But if this boo I m a bit of a history buff and there are some writers who can really deliver This writer is my latest discovery The world in which she sets her characters blazes under t...I saw the movie Agora and even though it wasn t quite the best movie I ve seen, I became fascinated by the lead character, Hypatia of Alexandria So I went looking for a book about her and this is what I found Finding this book alone was worth sitting through the overlong Agora I don t know my history but it seems the writer does, and the way she presents it is so alive The book s vitality crackles The city...There s not much out there about Hypatia of Alexandria and what there is isn t world class Kind of understandable considering what s left of her work and her life But reading this novel, got me as close to her as I ever expect to get This is a wonderful book and though it might differ from the scanty research done by dubious scholars, I get the feeling that the rational and emotional jumps made by Longfellow areHypatia than any dry biased account could ever be I m also annoyed that a There s not much out there about Hypatia of Alexandria and what there is isn t world class Kind of understandable considering what s left of her work ...This is the second in Longfellow s trilogy of gnosis This time she s chosen an extraordinary woman s whose history is sketchy at best but who she has given the role of a seeker rather than, as with Mary Magdalene The Secret Magdalene A Novel, a finder Spiritual quests are at the bottom of these first two historic novels and I love them for two reasons First, that the subject is treated in a novelists way rather than as some sort of self help book is just up my street And secondly, I th This is the second in Longfellow s trilogy of gnosis This time she s chosen an extraordinary woman s whose history is sketchy at best but who she has given the role of a seeker rather than, as with Mary Magdalene The Secret Magdalene A Novel, a finder Spiritual quests are at the bottom of these first two historic novels and I love them for two reasons First, that the subject is treated in a novelists way rather than as some sort of self help book is just up my street And secondly, I think Longfellow may just be a great American writer I don t know if we think that way any but I do know we laud writers I can t abide But that s just me, no doubt Academics and Oprah know better This book takes us into the heart and mind of a woman who stands so far above...

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22 May 2017

Ki Longfellow