Show how Christianity came into being. This book shows that spiritual happenings were factors in the emergence of Christianity. It demonstrates that mysticism may coexist with the clarity of natural sciences and that mysticism is "presentation of spiritual reality", a reality accessible only to knowledge drawn from the sources of spiritual life.
The 1948 Notebook, with Lectures and Critical Writings
Leo Strauss famously asserted that the fundamental, defining debate within Western civilization is that between Jerusalem and Athens, piety and philosophy, the Bible and Plato. And yet, surprisingly, Strauss never published any of his thoughts on Plato's dialogue on piety, the Euthyphro. This volume presents, for the first time, Strauss's 1948 ......
This is an anthology of 25 essays by the leading exponents of the perennialist school of comparative religious thought. It aims to be the most accessible introduction yet to the perspective of the Perennial Philosophy.
Providing the statements by Rudolf Steiner on the development of higher, suprasensory knowing - Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition, this text takes the reader from the idea of inner development, through the cultural and evolutionary need for higher knowing, and then to examples of the practices and inner gestures required by this work.
This late work of Frithjof Schuon represents a general survey of his metaphysical perspective, which is that of the Sophia perennis, or "perennial wisdom" found at the heart of the world's religions. This new edition of The Play of Masks features a fully revised translation from the French original as well as over 50 pages of new material, ......
Should we depend exclusively on our own efforts, or surrender all to the Grace of a greater power in which we live and breathe and have our being? Is there room in life's truth for both Karma and Grace? A perfect companion to What Is Karma?, this heart-warming book clarifies what Grace is and is not, how to recognise its presence in one's life, ......
A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism The Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author 'Ayn al-Qudat, is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which that it is in all likelihood the earliest philosophical exposition of mysticism in ......
Analyzes the different types of explanations of religion, not just the thoughts of individuals, advanced primarily - but not exclusively - from within the Western tradition.
Captures the synthesis that emerges from the dialectical process of a transcending Godhead and the rational and material world. This work covers miracles, the Trinity, Creation, prayer, resurrection, immortality, faith and more.
