Every Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of ManBarry McDonald World Wisdom, Inc, 2002 - 354 Seiten Leading perennialist authors direct the readers to their intrinsically spiritual nature. |
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... social classifications , it includes tendencies which may be quite unequal . 4. A loan word in the European languages , derived from the Tamil paraiyan , “ drummer . " since one never knows what kind of person one is 2 Frithjof Schuon.
... social classifications , it includes tendencies which may be quite unequal . 4. A loan word in the European languages , derived from the Tamil paraiyan , “ drummer . " since one never knows what kind of person one is 2 Frithjof Schuon.
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... person one is dealing with ; no one is willing to trust a leader who is at bottom a mountebank and who by his nature is predisposed to crime . This explains the ostracism of the Hindu system with regard to those who , having aris- en ...
... person one is dealing with ; no one is willing to trust a leader who is at bottom a mountebank and who by his nature is predisposed to crime . This explains the ostracism of the Hindu system with regard to those who , having aris- en ...
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... persons who have ended in disaster , does not deprive them of any prestige in public opinion ; quite the contrary , people find them all the more interesting and " authentic , " and let themselves be attracted by the seduction , indeed ...
... persons who have ended in disaster , does not deprive them of any prestige in public opinion ; quite the contrary , people find them all the more interesting and " authentic , " and let themselves be attracted by the seduction , indeed ...
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... person — there is what we may call , not without reser- vations of course , “ religious egalitarianism , " to which we have allud- ed before ; in the face of God man is always man and nothing else , whether or not he possesses a valid ...
... person — there is what we may call , not without reser- vations of course , “ religious egalitarianism , " to which we have allud- ed before ; in the face of God man is always man and nothing else , whether or not he possesses a valid ...
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... person can go . The four rites that we have spoken of in this work ' form the center of the religion : the sweat lodge for purifica- tion ; the vision quest for the spiritual retreat ; the daily prayer with the offering of tobacco smoke ...
... person can go . The four rites that we have spoken of in this work ' form the center of the religion : the sweat lodge for purifica- tion ; the vision quest for the spiritual retreat ; the daily prayer with the offering of tobacco smoke ...
Inhalt
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Man in the Universe | 61 |
The Mystery of the Two Natures | 87 |
Do Clothes Make the Man? | 121 |
Holy Fools | 139 |
Work and the Sacred | 181 |
The Role of Culture in Education | 197 |
The Vocation of Man According to the Koran | 213 |
The Forbidden Door | 233 |
Even at Night the Sun is There | 275 |
The Prodigal Returns | 291 |
The Survival of Civilization | 325 |
Biographies of Contributors | 339 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absolute Allâh ambiguity archetype aspect beauty become Buddhist character Christ Christian Christology civilization collective unconscious consciousness cosmic creation culture demiurgic dimension Divine doctrine dreams earth element esoteric essence essential existence experience expression fact Frithjof Schuon function genius Gnosis heart Heaven heyoka Hindu Hinduism Holy human humor idea Iktomi Incarnation Indian individual Intellect intelligence Islam Jesus Jung knowledge Koran laughter living Logos Luciferian man's manifestation matter Mâyâ means mental metaphysical mind modern moral Muhammad Muslim mystical nature norm object Orthodox Perennial Philosophy perfect person perspective possible principle profane psychic psychology pure question reality realization reason relative religion religious René Guénon sacred sense soul speak spiritual substance Sufism Sun Dance symbolism Tage Lindbom Taoism terrestrial things tion Titus Burckhardt traditional trickster true truth unconscious understand unity universal virtue wisdom words World Wisdom Books
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Seite 223 - And hold fast, all of you together, to the cable of Allah, and do not separate. And remember Allah's favour unto you: how ye were enemies and He made friendship between your hearts so that ye became as brothers by His grace; and (how) ye were upon the brink of an abyss of fire, and He did save you from it. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations unto you, that haply ye may be guided...
Seite 316 - The account of intelligence required of psychology must not of course be question-begging. It must not explain intelligence in terms of intelligence, for instance by assigning responsibility for the existence of intelligence in creatures to the munificence of an intelligent Creator, or by putting clever homunculi at the control panels of the nervous system (see Chapter 4).
Seite 323 - And what there is to conquer By strength and submission, has already been discovered Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope To emulate -but there is no competition There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again : and now, under conditions That seem unpropitious.
Seite 223 - Ye are the best community that hath been raised up for mankind. Ye enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency; and ye believe in Allah.
Seite 149 - ... in an anti-natural manner. Yet, if He so wills, He may appear to mankind in the form of a giant man, and if so, He is then the God, Heyoka. One who looks upon the God, Heyoka, is not thereby made a heyoka. The potency of the Winged God cannot be imparted to anything. His functions are to cleanse the world from filth and to fight the Monsters who defile the waters and to cause all increase by growth from the ground. The acceptable manner of addressing Him is by taunt and villification, the opposite...
Seite 65 - The science of symbols — not simply a knowledge of traditional symbols — proceeds from the qualitative significances of substances, forms. ... we are not dealing here with subjective appreciations, for the cosmic qualities are ordered both in relation to Being and according to a hierarchy which is more real than the individual
Seite 311 - The supposed pedigree of the horse is a deceitful delusion, which simply gives us the general process by which the tridactyl foot of an ungulate can be transformed in various groups into a monodactyl foot in view of an adaptation for speed, but this in no way enlightens us on the paleontological origin of the horse.
Seite 132 - reduced ' to theology, or is, in other words, dispositive to a reception of truth." Thus, the costume which a man wears as a member of any traditional society is the sign, partly conscious and partly unconscious, that he accepts a certain view of the human self and its vocation, both being envisaged in relation to one Principle in which their causal origin (alpha) and their final end (omega) coincide.