Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual LifeIn this newly revised English translation from the French, including a comprehensive glossary, this volume surveys the enormous range of Schuon's writngs on prayer and spiritual life. |
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... Condition Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty : Paintings by Frithjof Schuon Echoes of Perennial Wisdom The Play of Masks Road to the Heart : Poems The Transfiguration of Man The Eye of the Heart Songs for a Spiritual Traveler ...
... Condition Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty : Paintings by Frithjof Schuon Echoes of Perennial Wisdom The Play of Masks Road to the Heart : Poems The Transfiguration of Man The Eye of the Heart Songs for a Spiritual Traveler ...
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... condition that it engages all that we are : only when it constitutes a path which works and trans- forms , and which wounds our nature as the plough wounds the soil " , 6 In the years since his death , a number of his close associates ...
... condition that it engages all that we are : only when it constitutes a path which works and trans- forms , and which wounds our nature as the plough wounds the soil " , 6 In the years since his death , a number of his close associates ...
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... condition - while others , motivated by a taste for the exotic precisely and looking only for the most advanced of pranayamic or samadhic techniques , may be surprised to learn that Schuon always began from the premise that every man ...
... condition - while others , motivated by a taste for the exotic precisely and looking only for the most advanced of pranayamic or samadhic techniques , may be surprised to learn that Schuon always began from the premise that every man ...
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... conditions that guarantee the legitimacy and efficacy of such an alchemy . Whatever the case , the psychosomatic analogies we have just called to mind convey teachings that concern all men : every human being must , out of love for God ...
... conditions that guarantee the legitimacy and efficacy of such an alchemy . Whatever the case , the psychosomatic analogies we have just called to mind convey teachings that concern all men : every human being must , out of love for God ...
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... condition that he is not closed to the influx of Light . " God alone is good . " In order to be forearmed against all unconscious presumption , a man may start from the idea that the human recipient is bad , the Spirit alone being good ...
... condition that he is not closed to the influx of Light . " God alone is good . " In order to be forearmed against all unconscious presumption , a man may start from the idea that the human recipient is bad , the Spirit alone being good ...
Contents
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Prayer and the Integration of the Psychic Elements | 29 |
Modes of Prayer | 57 |
1 | 71 |
Spiritual Perspectives IV | 77 |
Trials and Happiness | 89 |
Spiritual Perspectives V | 95 |
Microcosm and Symbol | 139 |
Meditation | 157 |
A Sampling of Letters | 183 |
Editors Notes | 209 |
Sources | 237 |
Index | 253 |
Biographical Notes | 267 |
Dimensions of the Human Vocation | 119 |
Common terms and phrases
absolute according Amitabha analogy appears Arabic aspect attitude beauty become Brahma Buddha Buddhist certitude charity Christ Christian consciousness contemplation cosmic divine Name doctrine editor's note esoterism Essence Evagrius Ponticus everything evil existence expression fact faith Frithjof Schuon gnosis grace heart Heaven Hesychasts Hindu Hinduism holy human humility Ibn Arabi implies individual infinite initiatic insofar Intellect intelligence inverse invocation Islam Jesus Jesus Prayer knowledge Luke Macarius of Egypt manifestation Matt Mâyâ means meditation Meister Eckhart Mercy metaphysical microcosm mode Muslim mystical nature neighbor note for Ch note for Spiritual nothingness object oneself ourselves outward Perennial Philosophy perfect Philokalia plane point of view possible pray pride Principle priori pure reality realization reason religion sacred Saint Sanskrit sense sincerity soul speak Spiritual Perspectives Sufi Sufism Sûrah symbol things thou tion tive traditional transcendence true truth union universal unto virtue words World Wisdom Books