Category: Spirituality

Sulliver, 2007 (1970)     Amazon.fr

Description de l’ouvrage:

Réédition attendue d’un ouvrage de référence, publié pour la première fois en 1970, ce livre d’une extraordinaire actualité montre d’une part la parfaite adéquation entre la teneur des révélations, aussi transcendantes soient-elles, et les exigences logiciennes de la pensée humaine et pose d’autre part les hases d’un véritable “oecuménisme ésotérique”, si tant est que ce dernier terme ait encore un sens en ces temps de confusion.

Au scepticisme et au relativisme moderne, aux “méandres de la théologie” et au sectarisme religieux, Schuon oppose ici l’intelligence de la métaphysique et les intuitions décisives de la sagesse intemporelle et universelle qui lui permettent d’aborder sans détours les plus épineuses difficultés de la spiritualité.

Métaphysicien d’exception et vrai philosophe, Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) signait là l’un de ses ouvrages majeurs.

Frithjof Schuon (Wikipédia)

Gallimard, 1990 (1976)

Fnac

Selon Guénon, le monde moderne est un monde finissant qui ne saurait échapper à son destin, car la marche descendante du présent cycle temporel est inexorable.

La seule issue possible pour ceux qui veulent réagir contre cette tendance est la voie initiatique, quelles qu’en soient les difficultés. En effet, celle-ci implique deux conditions essentielles : un accord intellectuel fondamental sur les principes métaphysiques des doctrines traditionnelles et une transmission initiatique authentiquement valable, c’est-à-dire fort éloignée des multiples contrefaçons et pseudo-initiations qui foisonnent à notre époque.

Là-dessus, le message de Guénon n’a jamais varié et ses avertissements sont toujours aussi présents en 1990 qu’au début du siècle.

The Free and Regenerative Function of Sexuality in Ordinary Life, and the Transcendence of Sexuality in True Religious or Spiritual Practice

The Dawn Horse Press, 1978; reprinted with minor revisions 1985

Back Cover:

An enlightened spiritual master’s description of true sexual liberation

“Man is the ‘Two-Armed Form’ of God. And regenerative, self-released practice of the sexual embrace is a process in which Man, in the form of individuals who are responsible in live, is sacrificed into Communion with the All-Pervading, Transcendental, Formless, and Infinite Divine Reality. The true and higher human fuction of sexual embrace is a form of Worship, or whole bodily surrender to the Divine. And such practice represents a positive adjunct to the total Way of Life that is religion and spirituality in the highest sense.

This book is offered as a gift to all who suffer from the usual problems of sexuality and who also would realize both higher structural growth and spiritual transformation of their living.”

Da Free John

Here for the first time is a Western Spiritual Master of the highest degree. The scope of his Wisdom is so vast, its insight so profound, and yet he speaks with the elegant and ecstatic voice of the truly Awakened One.

Ken Wilber, author, The Atman Project, Up from Eden, etc.

JOB’s Comment:

The Significance of Franklin Jones

2012

Canon Press, 1995     Amazon (second, revised edition, 2012)

Back Cover of Second Edition:

How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife. Many can fake an attempt at keeping God’s standards in some exterior way. What we cannot fake is the resulting, distinctive aroma of pleasure to God. This is because godly marriages proceed from obedient hearts, and the greatest desire of an obedient heart is the glory of God, not the happiness of the household.

A Brief History of Secret Knowledge

Routledge, 2005

Amazon.co.uk

Back cover:

A controversial issue of public debate during the recent years, esotericism can be described as the search for an absolute but hidden knowledge that people claim to access through mystical vision, the mediation of higher beings, or personal experience. In Western cultural history these claims often led to conflicts with more established forms of scriptural religions and with reductionist interpretations in science and philosophy.

In this highly readable book Kocku von Stuckrad describes the impact of esoteric currents from antiquity to the present and pursues the continuities and breaks in a tradition that significantly influenced the formation of modernity. When Hermes Trismegistos reveals wisdom of an absolute quality, the unveiling of hidden knowledge in Jewish Kabbalah is transformed by Christians, Renaissance thinkers speak of an ‘eternal philosophy,’ or when in the ‘New Age’ people try to get in contact with a source of superior understanding – in every case the dynamic of concealment and revelation is at stake and the ways this hidden knowledge can be made accessible for human curiosity.

About the Author:

Kocku von Stuckrad teaches at the Institute for the History of Hermetic Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Previously he was a professor of religious studies at the University of Bayreuth. His most recent work includes History of Western Astrology (published by C.H. Beck in German, 2003, and by Equinox in English, 2005) and Einfuhrung in die Religionswissenschaft (Introduction to the Science of Religion) with Hans G. Kippenberg published in 2003 in German by C.H. Beck.

Kocku von Stuckrad

Norma, 1986

Baksida:

Den västerländska teologin har sedan århundraden steg för steg anpassat sig till världsliga tänkesätt. Det är främst under trycket av de vetenskapliga framstegen och de ideologier, som framburits av folkliga rörelser, som denna anpassning skett. I den moderna världen med nya samhällsklasser och sociala strider har teologin ej heller lyckats att formulera den socialetik, som hade varit nödvändig för att möta situationen.

Eftergifter och kompromisser med sekulära tänkesätt har framkallat ett sådant tillstånd av förvirring och hållningslöshet att västerländsk teologi kan liknas vid en ruinhög. Men det andliga livet är därför ej tillspillogivet – Sanningens ljus vägleder oss och den som söker han finner.