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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... sense , yet by no means confined to archaic forms . New readers will discover what experienced ones already have : that to read Schuon is not only to understand prayer anew , but to be drawn into it . " -Carl N. Still , St. Thomas More ...
... sense , yet by no means confined to archaic forms . New readers will discover what experienced ones already have : that to read Schuon is not only to understand prayer anew , but to be drawn into it . " -Carl N. Still , St. Thomas More ...
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... sense and can be used more profoundly , as it was often used in times past , to signify an act of creation , the bringing into being of something where there was nothing before - as God fashions man in His image and likeness . As we ...
... sense and can be used more profoundly , as it was often used in times past , to signify an act of creation , the bringing into being of something where there was nothing before - as God fashions man in His image and likeness . As we ...
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... sense an apologist for the Islamic tradition , but maintained close ties throughout his long life with authorities and wayfarers in a wide variety of orthodox religions , each of which , he insisted , is a saving expression of a single ...
... sense an apologist for the Islamic tradition , but maintained close ties throughout his long life with authorities and wayfarers in a wide variety of orthodox religions , each of which , he insisted , is a saving expression of a single ...
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... sense of the range and variety of Schuon's writings on prayer and the spiri- tual life , though the full scope of his doctrine on these momentous subjects can by no means be covered in a single volume . In a sense everything Schuon ...
... sense of the range and variety of Schuon's writings on prayer and the spiri- tual life , though the full scope of his doctrine on these momentous subjects can by no means be covered in a single volume . In a sense everything Schuon ...
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Contents
Dimensions of Prayer | 1 |
Fundamental Keys | 13 |
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 |
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