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The Hebrew alphabet, along with other scripts like the Celestial Alphabet and runes, became central to the practices of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. These systems often combined magical alphabets with astrological symbols , tarot , and numerology , creating powerful tools for ceremonial magic and ...
This chapter was the first English version of any Buddhist scripture. [221] [222] An English translation of the Lotus Sūtra from two Sanskrit manuscripts copied in Nepal around the 11th century was completed by Hendrik Kern in 1884 and published as Saddharma-Pundarîka, or, the Lotus of the True Law as part of the Sacred Books of the East project.
Shortly after his 1917 marriage to Georgie Hyde-Lees, the poet W. B. Yeats came to be heavily influenced by her delving into what they referred to as "the automatic script". [ 17 ] In his 1918 book The New Revelation , Arthur Conan Doyle wrote that automatic writing occurs either by the writer's subconscious or by external spirits operating ...
The Visuddhimagga (Pali; English: The Path of Purification), is the 'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th century in Sri Lanka.
First, he takes darśana of the manifestations of Bhagavān that appear in this earthly realm, or Bhū-maṇḍala, such as Śrī Śālagrāma Bhagavān; the Deity manifestation of the Lord who is ensconced in the palace of the king; and the ancient Deity of Śrī Jagannāthadeva. He sequentially describes their progressively greater glories.
Intelligence is the subtle manifestation of consciousness and matter its gross manifestation. [6] Pancikarana is the "quintuplication" of the basic/primordial five subtle elements. The subtle elements stand alone .
One of these texts has been published in English by the Pali Text Society as "Manual of a Mystic". [ 50 ] Burmese Buddhist literature developed unique poetic forms from the 1450s onwards, a major type of poetry is the pyui' which are long and embellished translations of Pali Buddhist works, mainly jatakas .
This chapter is devoted to Avalokiteśvara, describing him as a compassionate bodhisattva who hears the cries of sentient beings and who works tirelessly to help those who call upon his name. A total of 33 different manifestations of Avalokiteśvara are described, including female manifestations, all to suit the minds of various beings.