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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... questions and problems , often posed by those who sought the author's spiritual counsel . As a result , Schuon's writings are often more meditative than discursive in character , with any given essay ranging across a number of fasci ...
... questions and problems , often posed by those who sought the author's spiritual counsel . As a result , Schuon's writings are often more meditative than discursive in character , with any given essay ranging across a number of fasci ...
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... question , " Knowledge and Love ” and “ The Spiritual Virtues ” , come from Schuon's book Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts ( for bibliographical information , see p . 238-39 ) ; their style is reminiscent of the genre of ...
... question , " Knowledge and Love ” and “ The Spiritual Virtues ” , come from Schuon's book Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts ( for bibliographical information , see p . 238-39 ) ; their style is reminiscent of the genre of ...
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... 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 from the spiritualizing of suffering : it is the error of believing that suffering ...
... 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 from the spiritualizing of suffering : it is the error of believing that suffering ...
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... question and in the way in which it is experienced . A spiritually necessary form of darkness is passive , and it never destroys continuity of judgment or humility ; it gives rise to suffering but not to error ; it could not tarnish the ...
... question and in the way in which it is experienced . A spiritually necessary form of darkness is passive , and it never destroys continuity of judgment or humility ; it gives rise to suffering but not to error ; it could not tarnish the ...
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... question require this . Concentration in itself - apart from its possible contents ― ulti- mately pertains to the " deiformity " of the planes constituting the human microcosm : man is like a tree whose root is the " heart " and whose ...
... question require this . Concentration in itself - apart from its possible contents ― ulti- mately pertains to the " deiformity " of the planes constituting the human microcosm : man is like a tree whose root is the " heart " and whose ...
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