Author: Idries Shah
Publisher: Octagon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0863040586
Category : Sufi parables
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Magic Monastery
Author: Idries Shah
Publisher: Octagon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0863040586
Category : Sufi parables
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher: Octagon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0863040586
Category : Sufi parables
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Tales of a Magic Monastery
Author: Theophane (the Monk.)
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780824500856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780824500856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Magic in the Margins
Author: W. Nikola-Lisa
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618496426
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A young apprentice learns to tap his own wellspring of creativity with the help of the magical margins of an illuminated manuscript in this story about patience, talent, and imagination. Full color.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618496426
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A young apprentice learns to tap his own wellspring of creativity with the help of the magical margins of an illuminated manuscript in this story about patience, talent, and imagination. Full color.
Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery
Author: Bahaa' Taher
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520916333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers—including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz—noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, tells the dramatic story of a young Muslim who, when his life is threatened, finds sanctuary in a community of Coptic monks. It is a tale of honor and of the terrible demands of blood vengeance; it probes the question of how a people or nation can become divided against itself. Taher has a magical gift for evoking the village life of Upper Egypt—a vastly different setting than urban Cairo and a landscape that tourists usually glimpse only from the windows of trains and buses taking them to the Pharaonic sites. Here, where Christians and Muslims have coexisted peacefully for centuries, where the traditions of the Coptic Church are as powerful as those of the Muslims, Taher crafts an intricate and compelling tale of far-reaching implications. With a powerful narrative voice and a genius for capturing the complex nuances of human interaction, Taher brilliantly depicts the poignant drama of a traditional society caught up in the process of change.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520916333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers—including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz—noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, tells the dramatic story of a young Muslim who, when his life is threatened, finds sanctuary in a community of Coptic monks. It is a tale of honor and of the terrible demands of blood vengeance; it probes the question of how a people or nation can become divided against itself. Taher has a magical gift for evoking the village life of Upper Egypt—a vastly different setting than urban Cairo and a landscape that tourists usually glimpse only from the windows of trains and buses taking them to the Pharaonic sites. Here, where Christians and Muslims have coexisted peacefully for centuries, where the traditions of the Coptic Church are as powerful as those of the Muslims, Taher crafts an intricate and compelling tale of far-reaching implications. With a powerful narrative voice and a genius for capturing the complex nuances of human interaction, Taher brilliantly depicts the poignant drama of a traditional society caught up in the process of change.
My Monastery Is a Minivan
Author: Denise Roy
Publisher: Loyola Press
ISBN: 9780829416879
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Thirty-five entertaining and touching stories that show how family moments can bring the greatest spiritual rewards. We find everything we need for spiritual growth as we picnic with the children, go to the grocery store, and pick up the morning paper. The author's intimate approach invites us to recognize the grace that exists within our own lives. We needn't pull over and look for enlightenment; the divine is always present, even in the carpool lane.
Publisher: Loyola Press
ISBN: 9780829416879
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Thirty-five entertaining and touching stories that show how family moments can bring the greatest spiritual rewards. We find everything we need for spiritual growth as we picnic with the children, go to the grocery store, and pick up the morning paper. The author's intimate approach invites us to recognize the grace that exists within our own lives. We needn't pull over and look for enlightenment; the divine is always present, even in the carpool lane.
Magic in the Cloister
Author: Sophie Page
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271062975
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271062975
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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.
Magic and Mystery in Tibet
Author: Madame Alexandra David-Neel
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119440
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119440
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.
The Magic Monastery
Author: Idries Shah
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780586039281
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780586039281
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The Book of the Book
Author: Idries Shah
Publisher: Octagon Press Ltd
ISBN: 090086012X
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Publisher: Octagon Press Ltd
ISBN: 090086012X
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The Guru Chronicles
Author:
Publisher: Himalayan Academy Publications
ISBN: 1934145408
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Anyone on the spiritual path knows it's rare that the illumined lives of yogis and gurus are laid before us. We have but a handful: Autobiography of a Yogi; Milarepa: Tibet's Great Yogi; Ramakrishna and His Disciples and a few of others. Now comes an amazing book, The Guru Chronicles, filled with the magical and highly mystical stories of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, his Sri Lankan guru Siva Yogaswami and five preceding masters, who all held truth in the palm of their hand and inspired slumbering souls to "Know thy Self."
Publisher: Himalayan Academy Publications
ISBN: 1934145408
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Anyone on the spiritual path knows it's rare that the illumined lives of yogis and gurus are laid before us. We have but a handful: Autobiography of a Yogi; Milarepa: Tibet's Great Yogi; Ramakrishna and His Disciples and a few of others. Now comes an amazing book, The Guru Chronicles, filled with the magical and highly mystical stories of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, his Sri Lankan guru Siva Yogaswami and five preceding masters, who all held truth in the palm of their hand and inspired slumbering souls to "Know thy Self."