Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements.
Seit Jahrhunderten hüten die Dogon, ein Volk aus den Felsenlandschaften Malis, ein erstaunliches kosmologisches Wissen – darunter präzise Angaben über das Sirius-System, das erst in der Moderne durch Teleskope bestätigt wurde.
Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers.
Sufism, the name given to Islamic mysticism, has been the subject of many studies, but the orders through which the organizational aspect of the Sufi spirit was expressed has been neglected.
This comprehensive study is unique in its chronological breadth, intellectual diversity and historical scope and which demonstrates the central role played by Sufism in Persianate culture in Iran, Central Asia and India
The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively.
The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.
In den heiligen Hallen von Heliopolis hüteten die Priester ein Wissen, das über Generationen hinweg verschlüsselt und nur Eingeweihten zugänglich war: das Geheimnis der Sonne – des Gottes Re, der als Quelle allen Lebens verehrt wurde.
Das Buch "Was wir wirklich sind - Die Erkenntnis für ein glückliches und erfülltes Leben" weist auf eine für das menschliche Auge unsichtbare geistliche Existenz im Menschen und im gesamten Universum hin.
In this fascinating book, Richard Smoley examines the roles God has played for us and reconciles them with what we today know through science and reason.
Originally published in 1973, this volume consists of a sequence of essays in religious thinking, responsive to the impact of Quranic style and emphasis.
Having translated The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, and following with The Platform Sutra, Red Pine now turns his attention to perhaps the greatest Sutra of all.
Raimon Panikkar (Barcelona, 1918-Tavertet, 2010) es uno de los representantes más destacados del pensamiento intercultural y el diálogo interreligioso.
In einer Welt, die zunehmend aus dem Gleichgewicht zu geraten scheint, öffnet Die Feder der Wahrheit das Tor zu einer jahrtausendealten Weisheit: den Lehren der Ma'at – Göttin der Wahrheit, Gerechtigkeit und kosmischen Ordnung im alten Ägypten.
It has been argued that the mystical Sufi form of Islam is the most sensitive to other cultures, being accommodative to other traditions and generally tolerant to peoples of other faiths.
Academy of Parish Clergy 2022 Top Five Reference BookThere are few biblical texts more familiar to Christians than Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want .
This is the first extensive scholarly study of drone metal music and its religious associations, drawing on five years of ethnographic participant observation from more than 300 performances and 74 interviews, plus surveys, analyses of sound recordings, artwork, and extensive online discourse about music.
*; Examines in depth Enoch's full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge*; Explores how Enoch was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism, speculative Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, and Gnostic mythology*; Investigates the entire history of the Book of Enoch and its important esoteric offshoots, including the later 2 Enoch (the Slavonic ';Book of the Secrets of Enoch') and the so-called Hebrew ';Book of Enoch' (3 Enoch)Said to have been written by the prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, the Book of Enoch disappeared for many centuries, except for one place: the Bible of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which held the book as canonical.
Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesus "e;boom"e; of roughly 1880-1930 and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St.
Sufi Meditation and Contemplationoffers fresh translations of three classic Sufi texts from Mughal India: The Alms Bowl of Shaykh Kalimullah Shajehanabadi,The Compass of Truth by Dara Shikoh, and Treatise on the Human Body attributed to Mu'in al-Din Chishti.
Stephen Wunrow addresses the pressing question of what the author of Hebrews meant by his descriptions of heaven, arguing that the author intended his references to heavenly space to be interpreted as realistic descriptions of a real place.
Drawing on Jewish myth, ritual and tradition, as well as the author's own experiences, this original and unique book offers insights into how Jung's psychology and ideas are relevant if understood from a wider, archetypal, perspective.
Furthers the revelations of The Urantia Book, providing a beautiful vision of our coming return to the Multiverse *; Offers angelic reassurance that ';Armageddon has been canceled' and that the coming transition will be gentle and the future positive *; Explains Lucifer's angelic rebellion, its impact on the past 200,000 years, and the transformation of consciousness on the horizon as the fallen angels return *; Shares the author's spiritual wisdom gained through extensive travels and encounters with angels, ETs, and other enlightened beings As recorded in The Urantia Book, two hundred millennia ago 37 planets, including our own, were quarantined from the rest of the Multiverse to quell the spread of the Lucifer rebellion within the angelic hierarchy.
In this companion to his best-selling translation ofThe Dhammapada, Eknath Easwaran explains howThe Dhammapadais a perfect map for the spiritual journey.
Weaves Jewish sacred texts, mysticism, human rights, and a modern voice of radical love, taking readers on a path of healing from brokenness to wholeness.
Over the last twenty years, the rise of Qur'anic studies has been one of the most remarkable developments within the wider framework of Islamic scholarship.