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Eternal Wisdom The Esoteric Gnosis Of Perennial Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Eternal Wisdom: The Esoteric Gnosis of Perennial Philosophy by : Gwendolyn Taunton
Download or read book Eternal Wisdom: The Esoteric Gnosis of Perennial Philosophy written by Gwendolyn Taunton and published by Manticore Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eternal Wisdom explains the connection between art, mythology, spirituality, and religion through the language of symbols. These concepts are taken outside of the context of religious philosophy to explain how these ideas should be revised to achieve a positive cultural outlook for the increasingly bleak modern era. Archetypes and mystical experiences possess an inherent immortal existence in the collective human subconscious. They are eternally existent in artistic symbolism and spiritual traditions. Part earthly and part-other worldly, these hidden forces interact with humanity by providing a primordial source for the creative facets of human existence that are channeled into the diverse range of spiritual, mystical, and cultural experiences. This book examines the strands of esoteric thought and gnosis provided in the teachings of perennial philosophy - a topic that has been predominantly associated with prestigious authors such as Carl Jung, René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Huston Smith, and Aldous Huxley. Eternal Wisdom aspires to expand on the existing corpus of teachings by advocating for the inclusion of polytheist cultural sources. Additionally, esoteric practices - including divination and the alchemy - are discussed within the context of perennial philosophy and the primordial tradition.
Author :Jean-Baptiste Aymard Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :0791484483 Total Pages :211 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (914 download)
Book Synopsis Frithjof Schuon by : Jean-Baptiste Aymard
Download or read book Frithjof Schuon written by Jean-Baptiste Aymard and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in English devoted to the religious philosopher Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) to appear since his death, this biography also provides an analysis of his work and spiritual teachings. Relying on Schuon's published works as well as unpublished correspondence and other documents, the authors highlight the originality of Schuon's life and teachings in terms of his consistent focus on esoterism, defined as the inner penetration of sacred forms and spiritual practices vis-à-vis the religio perennis, the eternal wisdom that lies at the core of all sacred paths. Schuon's life, they argue, is a quest for the inner meaning of religious experience, as is indicated by his connections to Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Native American Shamanism. Spiritual seekers from all backgrounds will appreciate this comprehensive study of this towering figure of comparative religion.
Book Synopsis Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy by : Harry Oldmeadow
Download or read book Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy written by Harry Oldmeadow and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the writings of Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998), the pre-eminent spokesman of the Perennialist or Traditionalist school of comparative religious thought, is the first book to present a comprehensive study of his intellectual and spiritual message. In addition to a clear explanation of Schuon's message of metaphysics and the great religions, Oldmeadow includes an overview of Schuon's paintings and poetry, and insights on prayer and virtue in the spiritual life.
Book Synopsis Esoteric Christianity by : Annie Besant
Download or read book Esoteric Christianity written by Annie Besant and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Esoteric Christianity by Annie Besant
Book Synopsis Encountering Religious Pluralism by : Harold Netland
Download or read book Encountering Religious Pluralism written by Harold Netland and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2001-08-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Netland traces the emergence of the pluralistic ethos that challenges Christian faith and mission, interacting heavily with philosopher John Hick and providing a framework for developing a comprehensive evangelical theology of religions.
Book Synopsis The Fullness of God by : Frithjof Schuon
Download or read book The Fullness of God written by Frithjof Schuon and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, this book collects from Schoun's vast corpus his writings on Christianity, including selections from his personal correspondence and other previously unpunblished materials.
Book Synopsis Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality by : Jake Poller
Download or read book Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality written by Jake Poller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality offers an incisive analysis of the full range of Huxley’s spiritual interests, spanning both mysticism (neo-Vedanta, Taoism, Mahayana and Zen Buddhism) and Western esotericism (mesmerism, spiritualism, the paranormal). Jake Poller examines how Huxley’s shifting spiritual convictions influenced his fiction, such as his depiction of the body and sex, and reveals how Huxley’s use of psychedelic substances affected his spiritual convictions, resulting in a Tantric turn in his work. Poller demonstrates how Huxley’s vision of a new alternative spirituality in Island, in which the Palanese select their beliefs from different religious traditions, anticipates the New Age spiritual supermarket and traces the profound influence of Huxley’s ideas on the spiritual seekers of the twentieth century and beyond.
Book Synopsis The Unbearable Wholeness of Being by : Ilia Delio
Download or read book The Unbearable Wholeness of Being written by Ilia Delio and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the meaning of Christian theology in light of the scientific discoveries of our age. Like Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry, Delio opens out eyes to the omni-active, all-powerful, all-intelligent Love that forms and guides the interrelatedness and interbeing of everything and everyone - ourselves included.
Book Synopsis Jesus Christ, Sun of God by : David Fideler
Download or read book Jesus Christ, Sun of God written by David Fideler and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early Christian Gnosis did not spring up in isolation, but drew upon earlier sources. In this book, many of these sources are revealed for the first time. Special emphasis is placed on the Hellenistic doctrine of the "Solar Logos" and the early Christian symbolism which depicted Christ as the Spiritual Sun, the illumination source of order, harmony, and spiritual insight. Based on 15 years of research, this is a unique book which throws a penetrating light on the secret traditions of early Christianity. It clearly demonstrates that number is at the heart of being. Jesus Christ, Sun of God, illustrates how the Christian symbolism of the Spiritual Sun is derived from numerical symbolism of the "ancient divinities."
Download or read book Conscious Love written by Richard Smoley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though love is a perennial topic for writers of all kinds, much of what is written aboutlove is simplistic and unsatisfying. In Conscious Love, Richard Smoley—an expert on the esoteric traditions of mystical Christianity—incorporates insights and wisdom about love from noted thinkers in literature, art, philosophy, sociology, cultural criticism, and even neurology. This remarkable book offers a blueprint for infusing conscious love into human relationships.
Book Synopsis The Birth of Modernism by : Leon Surette
Download or read book The Birth of Modernism written by Leon Surette and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Birth of Modernism Leon Surette challenges our traditional understanding of modernism by situating the origins of modernist aesthetics in the occult.
Book Synopsis The Neoplatonic Imagination with Angela Voss by : Angela Voss
Download or read book The Neoplatonic Imagination with Angela Voss written by Angela Voss and published by Wise Studies. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three lectures are an introduction to one of the most important schools of philosophy in the ancient world, the followers of Plato (c.348-428 BCE) who are now called the Neoplatonists. Writing from roughly 100 to 500 CE, these philosophers offered interpretations of Plato’s ideas from varying perspectives but always focussing on the nature of the human soul, and its relationship with the cosmos and with the One, the supreme, divine ground of being which gives rise to all that is. Each lecture is devoted to a different personality and viewpoint – Plotinus’ contemplative approach, Iamblichus’ ritual approach, and the visionary mysticism of the legendary Hermes Trismegistus. These three mystical ‘ways’ of attaining divine knowledge—which are ultimately one—are important because they provide the raw material as it were for the underlying philosophy of the Western esoteric traditions. These hidden and initiatory undercurrents to exoteric monotheism have given rise to the practices of alchemy, astrology, Kabbalah and natural magic which were developed in the Renaissance period where they enjoyed an ambivalent relationship with Christianity. The translation into Latin of many hitherto unavailable Greek sources instigated a flowering of culture, a renewal of religious experience and a new emphasis on working with the divinity within nature and cosmos in practical ways to achieve gnosis, or spiritual knowledge. Session 1 – Plotinus and the Neoplatonic Cosmos In this lecture we will introduce the most well-known of neoplatonists, Plotinus. His Enneads are a manifesto for a contemplative yet intensely intellectual path to transcendence and union with the divine. Plotinus was also one of the first philosophers to exalt the power of the imagination to its role of mediator between heaven and earth. Session 2 – Iamblichus and Theurgy In contrast, Iamblichus’ path was one of ritual practice, and he developed the work of ‘theurgy’ or ‘divine action’ involving contacting the spiritual presences in nature and cosmos in order to raise the consciousness of the soul to remember its true identity. Iamblichus’ use of symbolic objects and incantations as mirrors of divine ideas is based on the theory of sympathy and correspondence which is a feature of all Western esoteric traditions. Session 3 – Hermes Trismegistus Hermes was a mythical figure under whose name a body of texts was composed in the same period as our previous two philosophers. These texts are examples of initiatic practices combining Egyptian and Greek elements, and were to have great influence on the Renaissance ideal of human autonomy, as well as on the power of art to convey symbolic insight into the human condition. ancient greek philosophers ancient philosophers hermetic corpus platonic philosophy religious philosophy books hermetic philosophy esotericism alchemy mysticism hermetica kybalion lost wisdom pharaohs unified consciousness
Book Synopsis A Different Christianity by : Robin Amis
Download or read book A Different Christianity written by Robin Amis and published by Praxis Research Institute. This book was released on 2003-06-13 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the esoteric original core of Christianity, with its concern for illuminating and healing the inner life of the individual. It is a bridge to the often difficult doctrines of the early church fathers, explains their spiritual psychology, and provides new insights for studying and following the spiritual path outside a monastery.
Book Synopsis The Wisdom of the Mystic East by : John Walbridge
Download or read book The Wisdom of the Mystic East written by John Walbridge and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-08-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert on the thought of medieval Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi argues that philosophers have romanticized this work as a revival of “oriental” wisdom.
Book Synopsis The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon by : Frithjof Schuon
Download or read book The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon written by Frithjof Schuon and published by Collins & Brown. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead by : Stephan A Hoeller
Download or read book The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead written by Stephan A Hoeller and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jungian psychology based on a little known treatise he authored in his earlier years.
Book Synopsis Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy by : Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
Download or read book Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy written by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern psychology is at an impasse as it searches anxiously for new therapies to address the increasing occurrence of mental illness in contemporary society. In this groundbreaking anthology, leading authors from the perennialist school, including Huston Smith, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Frithjof Schuon, draw on the age-old insights of the world s wisdom traditions to argue that modern psychology behaviorism, psychoanalysis, humanistic and transpersonal psychology overlooks the specifically spiritual factors contributing to mental health and illness."
