Archive for 'Traditions'
Pablo Beneito: Sufi Contemplation of Numbers, Letters, Geometry
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Pablo Beneito: Sufi Contemplation of Numbers and Harmonic Squares
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Mario Satz on Kabbalistic Word Play, Part 1
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Mario Satz on Kabbalistic Word Play, Part 2
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Paul Fenton: Lesser and Greater Jihad, Sufi and Jewish Similarities
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Anthroposophical and Transpersonal Worldviews by Robert McDermott
The study and practice of spirituality and consciousness have been markedly different on the East and West Coasts. Where and how does the world of Eurocentric Anthroposophy meet the more Asian and shamanistic culture of transpersonalism?
Robert McDermott, PhD, was president and is currently professor of philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral [...]
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Charting Rosicrucian Europe by Christopher McIntosh
A profound and beautiful spiritual movement arose in Central Europe in the early 17th century. How far did its influence reach and what became of it after the destruction of the Thirty Years War?
Christopher McIntosh, D.Phil., Oxford, has written books on Rosicrucianism, the French occultist Eliphas Lévi and, more recently, Gardens of the Gods, dealing [...]
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The Eternal Feminine: Goethe in Marienbad by Christopher Bamford
Christopher Bamford, editor of SteinerBooks and Lindisfarne Books, is a writer and scholar of Western esotericism, esoteric Christianity and Anthroposophy. He is the author of, most recently, An Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West.
This article is a transcription of a talk presented in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic, as [...]
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Recommended Reading for the 21st Century
What books might help shape our thinking as we enter the new century? Lapis asked thought leaders for their suggestions.
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The Golden Thread, Ch. 7, by Joscelyn Godwin
Gnosis, direct knowledge of spiritual reality, is explored in Chapter Seven, “Meddling God,” from Joscelyn Godwin’s The Golden Thread.





