Название: Cambridge handbook of western mysticism and esotericism ISBN: 0521734916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521734912 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This Handbook brings together articles on two distinct but related subjects: Western mysticism and Western esotericism. Readers will be able to trace, in one volume, connections between mystical and esoteric currents of thought. The essays are accessible to novices, but will be of interest to seasoned scholars as well.
Автор: Aleister Crowley Название: Aleister Crowleys Treasure House of Images ISBN: 1561845698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781561845699 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4931.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Treasure House of Images was composed by Captain, later Major General J. F. C. Fuller, one of Aleister Crowleys most important disciples and a leading military theorist of the twentieth century. Fuller was the author of The Star in the West and a principal editor of The Equinox. The Treasure House of Images is an exquisite work containing hymns to the signs of the Zodiac and the Sun. In Crowleys Confessions, he described it as some of the most remarkable prose ever written and an astonishing achievement in symbolism. This edition is enhanced by contributions from a number of modern magical writers including David Cherubim, whose introduction places the work in its historical context and discusses its symbolism and use as a manual of Pathworking. Nancy Wasserman offers expanded practical instructions for Astral Travel, and provides an example for designing an actual Pathworking. Lon Milo DuQuettes foreword to this new edition places all this in context. Also included is Crowleys masterpiece, Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae, in which specifics for developing the Body of Light are detailed.
Revealing, in an original and provocative study, the mystical contents of the works of famous atheists Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch, Donna Lazenby shows how these thinkers' refusal to construe worldviews on available reductive models brought them to offer radically alternative pictures of life which maintain its mysteriousness, and promote a mystical way of knowing. A Mystical Philosophy contributes to the contemporary resurgence of interest in Spirituality, but from an entirely new direction.
This book provides a warning against reductive scientific and philosophical models that impoverish our understanding of ourselves and the world, and a powerful endorsement of ways of knowing that give art, and a restored concept of contemplation, their consummative place.
Описание: This book examines how postmodernist writers use the long poem as a means of exploring a direct relationship with the divine. They find that they must chart individual paths of spiritual understanding informed by the culture in which they are situated.
Автор: Underhill Evelyn Название: Practical Mysticism: A Little Book For Normal People ISBN: 9353364469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353364465 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1552.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Автор: Israel Regardie Название: The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic ISBN: 1561845647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781561845644 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 81722.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: EARLY YEARS: Francis Israel Regardie was born in 1907 to an Orthodox Jewish family in the East End of London, an impoverished area that twenty years previously had been the stalking ground of Jack the Ripper. When he was still a teenager, he emigrated along with his family to the United States, settling in Washington, D.C. Regardie was early on attracted to the writings of Madame Blavatsky and her Theosophical Society, in addition to Qabalistic and Rosicrucian studies. While living in D.C., at the age of 20, Regardie became an Initiate of a Rosicrucian group there. RELATIONSHIP WITH ALEISTER CROWLEY: Shortly after, Regardie came across a book of Aleister Crowleys and was immediately awestruck by the elder magicians talent and evident genius. In 1928 He began a correspondence with Crowley, who was then living in Paris, and was eventually offered a job as Crowleys personal secretary. Regardie travelled to Paris to join him at a great personal sacrifice and while there he served as Crowleys secretary. He also provided the British magician with some financial assistance needed to help the latter maintain his outlandish hedonistic lifestyle. The arrangement may have been ideal for Crowley, who utilized Regardies services as secretary and errand-boy, while pursuing women and drugs to his hearts content. It was less than idyllic for Regardie, who became disillusioned by Crowleys failure to truly teach him the higher secrets of magic, which he had to get from extensive reading instead. The whole episode came to an end less than a year later, when Crowley was deported from France, accused of being a German spy. THE GOLDEN DAWN: Regardies resonance with the Golden Dawn derived in part from the intuitive knowledge that he demonstrated in his 1932 book, The Tree of Life. With the sponsorship of Dion Fortune, he joined the Stella Matutina in 1933 but quickly became disillusioned with its egotistical leadership and departed less than two years later after attaining the grade of Adeptus Minor. Three years after that, he published his landmark collection The Golden Dawn, making the secret rites and teachings of the on-again, off-again Order available to a wider public for the first time, and making possible todays resurgence of interest in the Order. Several years later, Regardie and Crowley parted company after an acrimonious public clash of personalities. Regardie returned to the United States and studied chiropractic medicine in New York. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and afterward moved to Los Angeles to open a chiropractic clinic and also work as a Reichian therapist. He had studied psychology and psychiatry with several notable teachers and was a strong proponent of Jungian analysis all his life, as well as the work of Wilhelm Reich. Both Jung and Reich are known among the 20th centurys most unique and controversial psychological theorists, whose writings straddled the border between science, religion and myth, and incorporated a strong element of sexuality. It is easy to see how this emphasis blended well with Regardies magical and esoteric studies.DR. CHRISTOPHER HYATT: It was in Los Angeles in the early 1970s that Regardie met Dr. Christopher Hyatt and served as a mentor to the younger man by introducing him to the Golden Dawn tradition of Magic as well as Reichian Therapy. Regardie served as a much better mentor to Hyatt than Crowley had to Regardie; in any case, Regardies and Hyatts similar backgrounds (both were Jewish and inclined to psychotherapeutic methodologies) helped them mesh and eventually led to a branch lineage of the Golden Dawn formed by Dr. Hyatt in Phoenix, Arizona, in the early 1980s. In a sense, Regardie went beyond his erstwhile mentor Crowley in terms of bringing the practice of medieval mysticism into the modern world by tying it to the new science of psychology. Regardies most well-known works, The Middle Pillar, A Garden of Pomegranates, The Tree of Life, and of course his The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic are some of the most widely read books on the art of Magic today. Regardie introduced the Golden Dawn system to a far wider audience than it had ever had before. Regardies books were always written for a broad audience and made a point of explaining esoteric concepts in a rationalistic fashion that mid-20th century readers, already exposed to the discoveries of psychology, could accept. NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS: Regardie died, in retirement, in 1985, in the magically powerful area of Sedona, Arizona. Before passing to the other side, Regardie helped establish Falcon Press, now New Falcon Publications with his student Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt Ph.D. Today New Falcon Publications proudly publishes much of Dr. Regardies great work. Israel Regardie (1907-1985) was the messenger to the modern world charged with preserving and perpetuating the teachings of Aleister Crowley and the Golden Dawn. He takes his place among such luminaries as Madame Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, and Dion Fortune. Even in such distinguished company, Regardie stands out as a figure of central importance.
Описание: G.I. Gurdjieff (d. 1949) remains an important, if controversial, figure in early 20th-century Western Esoteric thought. Born in the culturally diverse region of the Caucasus, Gurdjieff traveled in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere in search of practical spiritual knowledge. Though oftentimes allusive, references to Sufi teachings and characters take a prominent position in Gurdjieff's work and writings. Since his death, a discourse on Gurdjieff and Sufism has developed through the contributions as well as critiques of his students and interlocutors. J.G. Bennett began an experimental 'Fourth Way' school in England in the 1970s which included the introduction of Sufi practices and teachings. In America this discourse has further expanded through the collaboration and engagement of contemporary Sufi teachers. This work does not simply demonstrate the influence of Gurdjieff and his ideas, but approaches the specific discourse on and about Gurdjieff and Sufism in the context of contemporary religious and spiritual teachings, particularly in the United States, and highlights some of the adaptive, boundary-crossing, and hybrid features that have led to the continuing influence of Sufism.
The book supports an ecumenical theory of mysticism through a comparative analysis of Tibetan Dzogchen and German mysticism. Using a systems model of consciousness as an interpretive framework, it shows how the distinct doctrines and practices of these two traditions function in parallal, equally transformative ways.
Автор: Reiser Daniel Название: Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism ISBN: 3110710498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110710496 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 4640.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book analyzes and describes the development and aspects of imagery techniques, a primary mode of mystical experience, in twentieth century Jewish mysticism. These techniques, in contrast to linguistic techniques in medieval Kabbalah and in contrast to early Hasidism, have all the characteristics of a full screenplay, a long and complicated plot woven together from many scenes, a kind of a feature film. Research on this development and nature of the imagery experience is carried out through comparison to similar developments in philosophy and psychology and?is fruitfully contextualized within broader trends of western and eastern mysticism.
Описание: Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, this title demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints` physical bodies as sites of sacred power.
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