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Author : Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789695191217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Elixir of the Gnostics written by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephan A Hoeller
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 0835630242
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)
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.
Author : Samael Aun Weor
Publisher : Glorian Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1934206628
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The Revolution of Beelzebub written by Samael Aun Weor and published by Glorian Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolution of Beelzebub tells the incredible story of Samael Aun Weor and his efforts to convert the demon Beelzebub. This controversial book explains in detail the subtle distinctions between positive and negative schools of awakening, and includes many adventures in the internal worlds, practices of Alchemy / Tantra, important clues to differentiate between White and Black Magic, angels and demons, and all the essential foundations of positive spiritual work.
Author : William C. Chittick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198031866
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Heart of Islamic Philosophy written by William C. Chittick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the work of an important medieval Islamic philosopher who is little known outside the Persian world. Afdal al-Din Kashani was a contemporary of a number of important Muslim thinkers, including Averroes and Ibn al-Arabi. Kashani did not write for advanced students of philosophy but rather for beginners. In the main body of his work, he offers especially clear and insightful expositions of various philosophical positions, making him an invaluable resource for those who would like to learn the basic principles and arguments of this philosophical tradition but do not have a strong background in philosophy. Here, Chittick uses Kashani and his work to introduce the basic issues and arguments of Islamic philosophy to modern readers.
Author : Samael Aun Weor
Publisher : Glorian Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1934206636
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The Yellow Book written by Samael Aun Weor and published by Glorian Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the practical science to work directly with the root energy of all existence, and experience for oneself the reality of the ancient and mysterious Divine Mother Kundalini, spoken of in all the world’s great religions. Includes practices of meditation, transmutation, astral projection, pranayama, and the long-hidden Jinn Science.
Author : Tobias Churton
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760704783
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Gnostics written by Tobias Churton and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek word 'gnosis' means knowledge; the Gnostics themselves used it to refer to the spiritual knowledge they believed would redeem them from what they regarded as the inherent evil of the material universe. As a mystical alternative tradition within Christianity, Gnosticism suffered the hostility of the official church and, as a result, remains largely unknown or misunderstood to this day.
Author : Philip Gardiner
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601639732
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Gnosis written by Philip Gardiner and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the alluring mysteries surrounding the ancient temple, revealing answers to questions that have puzzled generations. Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem—reputed to be the source of the most esoteric knowledge in human history—has fascinated scholars, seekers and dreamers for centuries. Generations of scholars and researchers have tried in vain to discover the fabled Temple of Solomon, only to be confronted by one problem after another. All the problems raised by these disparate and often desperate people have now been fully answered and can be revealed to the world. Through his own involvement in secret societies and his tenacious spirit, Philip Gardiner has unearthed the secrets of the Temple. From the Queen of Sheba and the arcane secrets of the Christian Gnostics to the Muslim Sufi and Hindu Avatars, Gnosis weaves a tale that is both profound and precise. Gardiner declares that the truth of Solomon’s Temple has been known all along within the realm of esoteric understanding. Only one question remains: Is the world ready for the truth? Find the true secret of the Knights Templar and the mysteries of the ancients. Find the truth for yourself in Gnosis. Praise for Gnosis “Controversial, provocative, even profoundly “irritating” to some. . . . Gardiner eruditely challenges us all with this refreshing study . . . from the Garden of Eden into more modern times.” —Dr. Karen Ralls, medieval historian and author of The Templars and the Grail “Gnosis is a refreshing creation of true spiritual teaching—as well as being a damn good read. Gardiner possesses that rare ability to weave history, mythology and spiritual tradition into writing that is both understandable and enjoyable. Gnosis will fascinate readers with its complex insights into spirituality.” —Gnostic Communications internet magazine “In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Gardiner has literally undressed the sacred mystical language of our ancestors and reveals one of the most profound Biblical concepts to be exposed in recent times.” —Ernest Scott, author of The People of the Secret
Author : Bradley J. Cook
Publisher : Islamic Translation Series
ISBN 13 : 9780842527637
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought - a Compendium of Para written by Bradley J. Cook and published by Islamic Translation Series. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education has always been an important pursuit in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad enjoined his followers to “seek knowledge, even unto China.” Within the religion, educational theory and practice were founded on the work of itinerant teachers who taught the fundamental tenets of the faith in exchange for lodging and other services; Qur’anic schools where masters of the Qur’an tutored pupils; and centers of higher learning in Baghdad, Damascus, Alexandria and elsewhere, where Islamic theology and jurisprudence were developed and taught. In this volume, Bradley J. Cook, with assistance from Fathi H. Malkawi, has drawn together and introduced selections from the writings of eminent Islamic thinkers on the subject of Islamic educational efforts, presenting the original Arabic texts alongside their annotated English translations.
Author : Charles William King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Gnostics and Their Remains written by Charles William King and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcus Milwright
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228013259
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Made for the Eye of One Who Sees written by Marcus Milwright and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-09-10 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada has seen the study of Islamic art and archeology grow steadily over the last five decades, with growth in research and teaching across numerous Canadian universities as well as important collections of Islamic art and archaeological materials, most notably at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Aga Khan Museum. Made for the Eye of One Who Sees uncovers the contributions of scholars and museum curators at Canadian institutions to current scholarship on Islamic art. Employing a wide range of approaches and theoretical perspectives, contributors cover topics from across the Islamic world dating from the eighth century to the present. Subjects include the iconography of architectural design and decoration, the role of Qur’anic inscriptions, the representation of symbolic animals in sculpture, and the interpretation of Persian manuscript painting. The book also juxtaposes modern and contemporary worlds, providing insightful reflections on the early history of the Islamic collections at the Royal Ontario Museum, Matisse’s creative encounter with Byzantine and Islamic visual culture, and the ongoing dialogue between new media and the traditional concepts underpinning Islamic art. Bringing together recent scholarship on Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology, Made for the Eye of One Who Sees provides an overview of the important contributions Canada is making to this rich and evolving field of study.
Author : Ibrahim Kalin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199739587
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy written by Ibrahim Kalin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at how the seventeenth-century philosopher Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi, known as Mulla Sadra, attempted to reconcile the three major forms of knowledge in Islamic philosophical discourses: revelation (Qur'an), demonstration (burhan), and gnosis or intuitive knowledge ('irfan). In his grand synthesis, which he calls the 'Transcendent Wisdom', Mulla Sadra bases his epistemological considerations on a robust analysis of existence and its modalities. His key claim that knowledge is a mode of existence rejects and revises the Kalam definitions of knowledge as relation and as a property of the knower on the one hand, and the Avicennan notions of knowledge as abstraction and representation on the other. For Sadra, all these theories land us in a subjectivist theory of knowledge where the knowing subject is defined as the primary locus of all epistemic claims. To explore the possibilities of a 'non-subjectivist' epistemology, Sadra seeks to shift the focus from knowledge as a mental act of representation to knowledge as presence and unveiling. The concept of knowledge has occupied a central place in the Islamic intellectual tradition. While Muslim philosophers have adopted the Greek ideas of knowledge, they have also developed new approaches and broadened the study of knowledge. The challenge of reconciling revealed knowledge with unaided reason and intuitive knowledge has led to an extremely productive debate among Muslims intellectuals in the classical period. In a culture where knowledge has provided both spiritual perfection and social status, Muslim scholars have created a remarkable discourse of knowledge and vastly widened the scope of what it means to know. For Sadra, in knowing things, we unveil an aspect of existence and thus engage with the countless modalities and colours of the all-inclusive reality of existence. In such a framework, we give up the subjectivist claims of ownership of meaning. The intrinsic intelligibility of existence, an argument Sadra establishes through his elaborate ontology, strips the knowing subject of its privileged position of being the sole creator of meaning. Instead, meaning and intelligibility are defined as functions of existence to be deciphered and unveiled by the knowing subject. This leads to a redefinition of the relationship between subject and object or what Muslim philosophers call the knower and the known.
Author : Joshua Ramey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786601427
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion written by Joshua Ramey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many in continental philosophy of religion aver that we are in a new moment, one where the intellectually marginalized and religiously bastardized traditions of mystical, intuitive, and esoteric apprehensions must be re-articulated and appreciated anew. In an era marked by catastrophic events and atrophied cultural institutions, what seems to be needed is an affirmation of the human potential to truck with non-human or even inhuman forces and intentions, at scales of speed, slowness, or intensity that break with consensual conceptions of human limitations. The essays in this volume outline patterns of mind and mortality, existence and ecstasy, creativity and expression, political possibility and religious matrix from a position that takes quite seriously possible relations with the absolute, however enigmatic, that modernity has denied and postmodernity has obscured in the name of academic skepticism and humanist reservations. Beyond post-modernist pastiche and post-secular nostalgia, these essays explore the potencies of archaic spiritual disciplines as well as the passions driving the mystical, heretical, and Gnostic intimations riddling contemporary relations with the absolute.
Author : Janis Esots
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755644921
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Patterns of Wisdom in Safavid Iran written by Janis Esots and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exceptional intellectual richness of seventeenth-century Safavid Iran is epitomised by the philosophical school of Isfahan, and in particular by its ostensible founder, Mir Damad (d. 1631), and his great student Mulla Sadra (aka Sadr al-Din Shirazi, d. 1636). Equally important to the school is the apophatic wisdom of Rajab 'Ali Tabrizi that followed later (d. 1669/70). However, despite these philosophers' renown, the identification of the 'philosophical school of Isfahan' was only proposed in 1956, by the celebrated French Iranologist Henry Corbin, who noted the unifying Islamic Neoplatonist character of some 20 thinkers and spiritual figures; this grouping has subsequently remained unchallenged for some fifty years. In this highly original work, Janis Esots investigates the legitimacy of the term 'school', delving into the complex philosophies of these three major Shi'i figures and drawing comparisons between them. The author makes the case that Mulla Sadra's thought is independent and actually incompatible with the thoughts of Mir Damad and Rajab Ali Tabrizi. This not only presents a new way of thinking about how we understand the 'school of Isfahan', it also identifies Mir Damad and Rajab Ali Tabrizi as pioneers in their own right.
Author : Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī
Publisher : Islamic Translation Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book اكسير العارفين written by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī and published by Islamic Translation Series. This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadr al-Din Muhammad Shirazi (1572-1640), more commonly called Mulla Sadra, was one of the grand scholars of later-period Islamic philosophy and has grown to become one of the best-known Muslim philosophers. Iksir al-'arifin, or Elixir of the Gnostics, is unique among Sadra's writings in that it reworks and amplifies an earlier Persian work, the Jawidan-nama (Book of the Everlasting) by Afdal al-Din Kashani, or Baba Afdal. The underlying theme of Sadra's amplification is emblematic of Muslim philosophy: the importance of self-knowledge in an individual's journey of "Origin and Return," the soul's origins with God and its eventual return to Him. Everything, Sadra says, is on such a path, gradually disengaging from the material world and returning to a transcendent essence--all leading to a final fruition in which everything in the universe returns to God and finds permanent happiness. Philosophy, Sadra argues, is the most direct means to self-knowledge--and thus the best tool for navigating this journey.
Author : Mohammed Rustom
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438443412
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of Mercy written by Mohammed Rustom and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses philosopher Mulla Sadras commentary on the opening chapter of the Quran. This book investigates the convergence of philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and mysticism in the thought of the celebrated Islamic philosopher Mulla Sadra (d. 1050/1640). Through a careful presentation of the theoretical and practical dimensions of Sadras Quranic hermeneutics, Mohammed Rustom highlights the manner in which Sadra offers a penetrating metaphysical commentary upon the Fatiha, the chapter of the Quran that occupies central importance in Muslim daily life. Engaging such medieval intellectual giants as Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606/1210) and Ibn Arabi (d. 638/1240) on the one hand, and the wider disciplines of philosophy, theology, Sufism, and Quranic exegesis on the other, Sadras commentary upon the Fatiha provides him with the opportunity to modify and recast many of his philosophical positions within a scripture-based framework. He thereby reveals himself to be a profound religious thinker who, among other things, argues for the salvation of all human beings in the afterlife.
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Author : Charles William KING
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Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Gnostics and Their Remains, Ancient and Mediæval. [With Plates.] written by Charles William KING and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Hirtenstein
Publisher : Anqa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0953451313
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (534 download)
Download or read book The Unlimited Mercifier written by Stephen Hirtenstein and published by Anqa Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (AD 1165-1240) is unquestionably one of the most profound figures in the history of world spirituality, a visionary of superlative wisdom and compassion. Known as the 'Greatest Master' (al-Shaykh al-Akbar), he led an extraordinary inner and outer life. He travelled huge distances, from his native Spain to Syria and Turkey, writing over 350 books on the mystical path. His whole life was dedicated to exposing, at the deepest level, the primordial Unity underlying all human and natural existence, and the true degree of human dignity. The book presents a unique portrait of Ibn 'Arabi "from the inside", using his own writing to tell the story of his life and teachings. The biographical chapters, supplemented with photographs and maps, give a vivid picture of his life and times during the height of medieval culture. These are interwoven with a series of chapters that portray the central elements of his thought, and highlight their relevance in today's world. This unusual approach gives a direct flavour of Ibn 'Arabi's genius, whose life and thought are inextricably linked. Above all, his deep insights into what it means to be truly human are applicable to people of all times and places. This highly readable and lucid book will appeal to anyone interested in the heart of Sufism or the mystical path and has a unique arrangement of biographical chapters alternating with chapters on major themes in his work.
