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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... teacher of the first rank on the work of Schuon . Professor Cutsinger has a kind of genius for organization , for discovering an ordering principle in the author's work and using that principle to guide his own decisions . His editorial ...
... teacher of the first rank on the work of Schuon . Professor Cutsinger has a kind of genius for organization , for discovering an ordering principle in the author's work and using that principle to guide his own decisions . His editorial ...
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... teaching and practice . Crucial to Schuon's exposition in The Transcendent Unity of Religions is the central importance that he accords to prayer . He concludes his study by speaking of prayer's role in " perfecting the natural ...
... teaching and practice . Crucial to Schuon's exposition in The Transcendent Unity of Religions is the central importance that he accords to prayer . He concludes his study by speaking of prayer's role in " perfecting the natural ...
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... teachings will not present prob- lems for some readers . I myself , as a Roman Catholic , find it difficult to reconcile orthodox Christian theology with Schuon's belief that the personal God is the " relative Absolute " , beyond which ...
... teachings will not present prob- lems for some readers . I myself , as a Roman Catholic , find it difficult to reconcile orthodox Christian theology with Schuon's belief that the personal God is the " relative Absolute " , beyond which ...
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... teaching as a metaphysi- cian and philosopher , on the other — a teaching that is universalist in its scope and intention and worlds apart from any proselytiz- ing , sectarian , or authoritarian aim . Born in Switzerland in 1907 , where ...
... teaching as a metaphysi- cian and philosopher , on the other — a teaching that is universalist in its scope and intention and worlds apart from any proselytiz- ing , sectarian , or authoritarian aim . Born in Switzerland in 1907 , where ...
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... teachings to life in a way that speaks directly , and deeply , to the problems and possibilities of con- temporary men and women , continue to serve as a bridge between the great saints and sages of the past and our own experience in ...
... teachings to life in a way that speaks directly , and deeply , to the problems and possibilities of con- temporary men and women , continue to serve as a bridge between the great saints and sages of the past and our own experience in ...
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