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Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew: סֵפֶר יְצִירָה Sēp̄er Yəṣīrā, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation) is a book on Jewish mysticism.Early commentaries, such as the Kuzari, [1] treated it as a treatise on mathematical and linguistic theory as opposed to Kabbalah.
John of the Cross. The treatises Ascent of Mount Carmel (1581–1585) and Dark Night (the Declaración, 1584–1586) are commentaries on the poem, explaining its meaning line by line. Both works were left uncompleted. The Ascent of Mount Carmel is divided into three books that reflect the two phases of the dark night. The first is a ...
Breathed his last today in Austin, USA. He had recently celebrated his centennial birthday.his contribution books, booklets and papers on spirituality, Islam, the Holy Quran, religion, spiritual sciences and other topics.
The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling. New York: Image Books. ISBN 0-385-03097-5. (first edition, 1973) John J. Kirvan (1996). Where Only Love Can Go: A Journey of the Soul into the Cloud of Unknowing. Ave Maria Press. ISBN 0877935912. The Cloud of Unknowing and other works. Penguin Classics. 2001. ISBN 978-0-14-044762-0.
The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola are considered a classic work of spiritual literature. [16] Many Jesuits are ready to direct the general public in retreats based on the Exercises . Since the 1980s there has been a growing interest in the Spiritual Exercises among people from other Christian traditions. [ 3 ]
Some Christian interpretations of Ezekiel's temple are: it is the temple that Zerubbabel should have built; a literal temple to be rebuilt during the millennial reign of Christ; a temple which is symbolic of the worship of God by the Christian church today; or a symbol of the future and eternal reign of God. [2]
The resulting Right Meaning of the Book of Changes (Zhōuyì zhèngyì; 周易正義) became the standard edition of the I Ching through the Song dynasty. [ 64 ] By the 11th century, the I Ching was being read as a work of intricate philosophy, as a jumping-off point for examining great metaphysical questions and ethical issues. [ 65 ]
The first (1882 edition) publication, as it was originally presented in 1882, contained various glyphs, whose resemblance to real Egyptian hieroglyphs was attested to by Prof. Thomas A. M. Ward, who claimed to have deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Cleopatra's Needle obelisk in Central Park.