The Magic Monastery
Author | : Idries Shah |
Publisher | : Octagon Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Sufi parables |
ISBN | : 0863040586 |
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Author | : Idries Shah |
Publisher | : Octagon Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Sufi parables |
ISBN | : 0863040586 |
Author | : Thomas Keating |
Publisher | : Lantern Books |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781590560334 |
For many years, congregations have been inspired, challenged and charmed by the homilies given by the monks who live at St Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. This collection of homilies captures the vitality, wit and spiritual wisdom of the monks as they explore the Christian calendar.
Author | : Theophane (the Monk.) |
Publisher | : Crossroad Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780824500856 |
Here, the charming, mature stories from the internationallly beloved monk are accompanied by original art. Like the parables of Jesus, these tales repeatedly unfold new levels of meaning if we are willing to sit with them.
Author | : Idries Shah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780586039281 |
Author | : Idries Shah |
Publisher | : Octagon Press, Limited |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
This beautiful collection of stories is one of Shah's best-selling books, and a stirring example of the Sufi system of development at work in the world today. The Magic Monastery was the first book to include stories written by Shah, along with traditional tales-mostly unpublished-illustrating the instructional methods employed by Middle Eastern sages during the last thousand years.
Author | : Idries Shah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sophie Page |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013-10-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271062975 |
During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine’s in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for the practice of magic and books in which works of magic were copied side by side with works of more licit genres. In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to magic texts, in spite of the dangers involved in studying condemned works, and how the monks combined magic with their intellectual interests and monastic life. By showing how it was possible for religious insiders to integrate magical studies with their orthodox worldview, Magic in the Cloister contributes to a broader understanding of the role of magical texts and ideas and their acceptance in the late Middle Ages.
Author | : Idries Shah |
Publisher | : Plume Books |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
The Magic Monastery differs from its predecessors in that it contains not only traditional tales--mostly unpublished--but also stories specially written by Shah to complete the book as 'a course in non-linear thinking.'
Author | : Marina Montesano |
Publisher | : MDPI |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2020-05-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3039289594 |
Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.
Author | : Caroline Humphrey |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2013-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022603206X |
A Monastery in Time is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery—the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia—from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed tell a story of religious formation, suppression, and survival over a history that spans three centuries. Often overlooked in Buddhist studies, Mongolian Buddhism is an impressively self-sustaining tradition whose founding lama, the Third Mergen Gegen, transformed Tibetan Buddhism into an authentic counterpart using the Mongolian language. Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork, Humphrey and Ujeed show how lamas have struggled to keep Mergen Gegen’s vision alive through tremendous political upheaval, and how such upheaval has inextricably fastened politics to religion for many of today’s practicing monks. Exploring the various ways Mongolian Buddhists have attempted to link the past, present, and future, Humphrey and Ujeed offer a compelling study of the interplay between the individual and the state, tradition and history.