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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... seem to have no beginning and no end . In the early morning hours and late at night they echoed in the minds of our ancestors , and they will whisper in the minds of our descendents . Profound questions which concern the deepest nature ...
... seem to have no beginning and no end . In the early morning hours and late at night they echoed in the minds of our ancestors , and they will whisper in the minds of our descendents . Profound questions which concern the deepest nature ...
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... seem beyond our immediate con- trol . The serious study of religion has been relegated to academic departments where professors lecture about great religious litera- ture which inspired noble sentiments and heroic actions in history ...
... seem beyond our immediate con- trol . The serious study of religion has been relegated to academic departments where professors lecture about great religious litera- ture which inspired noble sentiments and heroic actions in history ...
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... other stories ; it would seem as though they wrote them simply 28. Translator's note : Elsewhere , the author has written : " to be objective is to die a little . " because others have done so , and because they do 17 To Have a Center.
... other stories ; it would seem as though they wrote them simply 28. Translator's note : Elsewhere , the author has written : " to be objective is to die a little . " because others have done so , and because they do 17 To Have a Center.
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... seems to be a borderline case from the standpoint of sanctity . Technically speaking , Gandhi can no doubt be included in the category of saints ; traditionally speaking , the question remains open . " Against ” him , there are his ...
... seems to be a borderline case from the standpoint of sanctity . Technically speaking , Gandhi can no doubt be included in the category of saints ; traditionally speaking , the question remains open . " Against ” him , there are his ...
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... seem to have any such examples to offer ; we reply without hesitation that genius lies within human nature and that it must be possible for it to occur wherever there are men . Obviously , the manifestation of genius depends on such ...
... seem to have any such examples to offer ; we reply without hesitation that genius lies within human nature and that it must be possible for it to occur wherever there are men . Obviously , the manifestation of genius depends on such ...
Inhalt
31 | |
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.