THE SPIRITUAL DIRECTION OF SAINT CLAUDE DE LA COLOMBIÈRE 1 ON PRAYER As I feel a great attraction toward prayer I asked God, by Our Lady’s intercession, to give.

 

The Spiritual Life: Christian Because Dante is Right The incomparable greatness of the Divine Comedy shows itself not least in the fact that, in spite.

 

The Quran and the Sunnah The great theophany of Islam is the Quran; it presents itself as being a “discernment” furqā n between truth and error. 1 In a sense the whole.

 

51 11. FRITHJOF SCHUON AND THE PERENNIALIST SCHOOL What has become known as the “perennialist” school of thought was founded by the French philosopher and orientalist René Guénon.

 

101 The Quintessential Esoterism of Islam The Islamic religion is divided into three constituent parts: Īmān, Faith, which contains everything one must.

 

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4 Modes of Prayer The most elementary mode of orison—of contact between man and God—is no doubt prayer in the most ordinary sense of the word, that.

 

The Quran and the Sunnah The great theophany of Islam is the Quran; it presents itself as being a “discernment” furqā n between truth and error. 1 In a sense the whole.

 

23 The Question of Protestantism Christianity is divided into three great denominations: Catholi cism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism, not to mention the Copts and other ancient.

 

1 Dimensions of Prayer Man must meet God with all that he is, for God is the Being of all; this is the meaning of the Biblical injunction to love God “with all our strength”. Now one of the dimensions.

 

1 Outline of the Christic Message If we start from the incontestable idea that the essence of all reli- gions is the truth of the Absolute with its human consequences,.

 

www. The Question of Theodicies Frithjof Schuon image of a more or less arbitrary Divine Will, when in fact it simply means that man is in general.

 

207 CHAPTER 15 Spirituality and Science Convergence or divergence 1 Seyyed Hossein Nasr In a world torn by contention and strife at every level, from the spiri-.

 

5 Chapter 1 What Is Hindu Spirituality I If we take our existential condition as our starting point, we are immediately confronted by a paradox. Our existential situation imme- diately.

 

163 CHAPTER 10 On Gurus and Spiritual Direction Rama P. Coomaraswamy It is interesting to note that in almost every field or specialty, common sense tells.

 

17 4. IDEOLOGICAL OBSTACLES TO THE SPIRITUAL LIFE “That which is ‘below’ cannot worship that which is ‘above’, if that which is ‘left’ does.

 

INTRODUCTION Models of the Spiritual Way There is a fourth century 1 Eucharistic prayer of Sarapion of Thmuis that expresses the center of the experience for the early Christians.

 

21 ³ 8586´ 1 63,5,78 / ,5 7,21 Rama P. Coomaraswamy,MD It is interesting to note that in almost every field or specialty, common sense tells us that.

 

I T IMESANDTHE L IGHTOF T RADITION The title of this anthology alerts us to the spiritual crisis of moder- nity and to its root cause: the betrayal of tradition. That.

 

78 CHAPTER 3 The Incantation of the Griffin Simurgh and the Cry of the Eagle Islam and the Native American tradition 1 Seyyed Hossein Nasr The incantation of the Simurgh awakens those.

 

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Selections from The Soul of the Indian 1911 Foreword “We also have a religion which was given to our fore- fathers, and has been handed down.

 

CHAPTER 13 ONENVYAccording to the knowers of Islam, envy is defined as the wish that a person whom one dislikes should not receive a good that Allah.

 

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7 2. MEANING BEHIND THE ABSURD Space and time are the two fundamental conditions of our existence, but neither is unchanging, and this is particularly evident, as well as profoundly disturbing,.

 

1 THE FU THE CONFLICT BETWEEN MODERN ² OF TEN CALLEDTHE CONFLICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FAITH Rama Coomaraswamy,M. D. ³ Science has remained movement based on naive faith´.

 

65 6. The Nature of Man The Islamic conception of man is summarized in the doctrine of al-insān al-kāmil, the universal or perfect man, a doctrine whose essence and full manifestation is to be found.

 

1 THE HIDATSA TRADITION, HABITAT, AND CUSTOMS THE Hidatsa, commonly known under the inappropriate appellation “Gros Ventres of the Missouri,” differed from most.

 

1 THE PIMA TRIBAL CHARACTERISTICS T HE myth of the creation as related by the northern Piman tribes is an almost inextricable confusion of logical and illogical acts and events.

 

1 THE PAPAGO T HE Papago are a strong branch of the Piman family living in the narrow valleys of south-central Arizona as far north as Tucson, and the broad desert stretches.

 

1 THE MOHAVE HABITAT, HOME LIFE, AND SOCIAL CUSTOMS A BARREN earth and a sunless sky came together, begetting gods and people. Such, according.

 

F AITHAND M ODERNITY Karen Armstrong In the Western world, a strong belief in the objective truths of reli- gion, which are viewed as demonstrable facts,.

 

47 2. ISLAMSufism and Poetry A t a first reading, theQur’ān does not seem to favor poets. SÅ«rah 26, enti- tled “The Poets” al-Shu’arā’ , concludes.

 

1 THE NEZ PERCÉS.

 

xvii INTRODUCTION Some years ago the historian Jonathan Spence treated us all to his book, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci , the vivid study of a Jesuit.

 

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of time and eternity.