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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... direct intuition of that Truth or an indirect idea " ; or his dismissal of the cult of suffering : " Clearly what matters is not that man should suffer , but that he should think of God . " This sort of penetrating , practical insight ...
... direct intuition of that Truth or an indirect idea " ; or his dismissal of the cult of suffering : " Clearly what matters is not that man should suffer , but that he should think of God . " This sort of penetrating , practical insight ...
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... direct intuition of that Truth or an indirect idea.1 It is an abuse of language to reduce " faith " to " belief " ; it is the opposite that is true : belief - or theoretical knowledge - must be changed into the faith " that moves ...
... direct intuition of that Truth or an indirect idea.1 It is an abuse of language to reduce " faith " to " belief " ; it is the opposite that is true : belief - or theoretical knowledge - must be changed into the faith " that moves ...
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... direct analogy and becomes in this way a possible channel for intellection . The question of oppor- tuneness arises only on the level of individual applications . The cult of suffering or of what is disagreeable is a different thing ...
... direct analogy and becomes in this way a possible channel for intellection . The question of oppor- tuneness arises only on the level of individual applications . The cult of suffering or of what is disagreeable is a different thing ...
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... direct object , it would lose its specifically negative characteristics . Furthermore it does not contain within itself any principle of repose , for it excludes all consciousness of its own destitution . We must beware of two things ...
... direct object , it would lose its specifically negative characteristics . Furthermore it does not contain within itself any principle of repose , for it excludes all consciousness of its own destitution . We must beware of two things ...
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... escape the necessity of a direct insight into the spiritual or cosmic factors whose nature one seeks to define . * What is better in principle does not always appear so 22 Prayer Fashions Man : Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life.
... escape the necessity of a direct insight into the spiritual or cosmic factors whose nature one seeks to define . * What is better in principle does not always appear so 22 Prayer Fashions Man : Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life.
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