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| Author | : Livia Kohn |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 955 |
| Release | : 2018-12-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004391843 |
Thirty major scholars in the field wrote this new, authoritative guide to the main features and development of Daoism. The chapters are devoted to either specific periods, or topics such as Women in Daoism, Daoism in Korea and Daoist Ritual Music. Each chapter rigidly deals with a fixed set of aspects, such as history, texts, worldview and practices. Clear markings in the chapters themselves and a detailed index make this volume the most accessible key resource on Daoism past and present.
| Author | : Malcolm Stewart |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 591 |
| Release | : 2022-09-27 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1644114313 |
• Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of detailed diagrams and technical illustrations exploring the evolution and importance of the starcut diagram • Shows how the starcut diagram underlies the shaman’s dance in China, the Vedic Fire Altar in India, Raphael frescoes, labyrinth designs, the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and the building of ancient cities • Explains how the starcut diagram was used in building and design, how it relates to Pythagoras’s Tetrakys, and how it contains knowledge of the Tree of Life As Malcolm Stewart reveals in this lavishly illustrated study, the simplesquare figure of the Starcut diagram, created only with circles, has extraordinary geometric properties. It allows you to make mathematically exact measurements and build perfectly true level structures without a computer, calculator, slide rule, plumb bob, or laser level. Sharing his extensive research, along with hundreds of detailed diagrams and technical illustrations, the author shows how the Starcut diagram was the key to the building of humanity’s first cities and how it underlies many significant patterns and proportions around the world. Using circles drawn from the vesica piscis, Stewart explains how to create the Starcut diagram and shows how this shape was at the foundation of ancient building and design, illustrating the numerous connections between the diagram and the creation of mandalas and yantras, stained glass windows, architectural ground plans, temples and other sacred buildings, and surveying methods. He also shows how the Starcut diagram reveals ancient geometric knowledge of pi, the Fibonacci sequence, Pythagorean shapes and seals, the golden ratio, the power of 108 and other sacred numbers, and magic squares. Exploring the Starcut diagram’s cosmological and theological implications, Stewart explains how it contains knowledge of the Tree of Life and the Kabbalah. He examines how it relates to the Tetraktys, the key teaching device of Pythagoras, and other cosmograms. Demonstrating the ancient relationships existing between number, geometry, cosmology, and musical harmony, the author shows how the simple shape of the Starcut diagram unifies the many threads of sacred geometry into one beautiful mathematical tapestry.
| Author | : Sergio Rijo |
| Publisher | : SERGIO RIJO |
| Total Pages | : 125 |
| Release | : 2023-08-07 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : |
"The Sacred Geometry Guidebook: Illuminating the Power of Patterns" takes readers on an enlightening journey through the mysterious realm of sacred geometry. Delving into the divine secrets of ancient patterns, this comprehensive guidebook explores the deep spiritual connections and hidden knowledge carried by sacred shapes. From the timeless wisdom encoded within the Flower of Life to the magical properties of the golden ratio, readers will uncover the profound symbolism and significance of these geometric wonders. Throughout the book, readers will discover the omnipresence of sacred geometry in various cultural expressions, architecture, art, and the natural world. From ancient structures that possessed sacred shapes to the hidden geometry behind every number, this guidebook reveals how sacred geometry permeates every facet of human existence. Beyond mere theoretical exploration, "The Sacred Geometry Guidebook" empowers readers with practical applications. Understanding the science behind sacred geometry and its influence on the natural world, readers will learn how to harness the transformative power of these patterns for personal growth and spiritual evolution. By embracing sacred shapes in meditation, daily practices, and creative expressions, individuals can foster a deeper sense of unity and harmony with the universe. With its profound insights and easy-to-follow explanations, this guidebook is suitable for both beginners and enthusiasts of sacred geometry. Whether seeking spiritual enlightenment or simply curious about the mysteries of the universe, "The Sacred Geometry Guidebook: Illuminating the Power of Patterns" offers a captivating and transformative exploration into the magic and wisdom of sacred geometry.
| Author | : Edouard Duval-Carrie |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019-11-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780989773058 |
The publication "Sacred Diagrams: Haitian Vodou Flags from the Gessen Collection" presents an overview of the Ed and Ann Gessen Collection of Haitian Vodou flags. It is co-edited by Edouard Duval-Carrié and Joanna Robotham, with essays by Duval -Carrié and Katherine Smith, Ph.D. "Sacred Diagrams" is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Sacred Diagrams: Haitian Vodou Flags from the Gessen Collection," organized by the Tampa Museum of Art.
| Author | : Malcolm Stewart |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Geometry in architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780863157127 |
Describes the starcut diagram which underlies many significant geometrical patterns and proportions across the world.
| Author | : Berthold Kress |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 622 |
| Release | : 2014-05-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004262377 |
After the Reformation the successful painter Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) dedicated himself to spreading revelations on the nature of God. Lautensack was besides Dürer the only German artist who wrote against the iconoclasts, and he believed that he as a painter could explain the images of Revelation better than theologians like Luther. He presented his insights in hundreds of highly sophisticated diagrams that display a wide range of material accessible to an urban craftsman, from the vernacular Bible to calendar illustrations. This study is the first monograph on this extraordinary man, it presents a corpus of his surviving works, analyzes his peculiar theology of the image and locates the elements of his diagrams in the visual world of the Reformation period.
| Author | : W. David Soud |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0198777779 |
A study of how three modernist poets (Yeats, Jones, and Eliot) at the height of their careers drew on their religious beliefs to transform some of their greatest poems into maps of the relationship between history and eternity.
| Author | : Carl Olson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 681 |
| Release | : 2017-10-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1440841888 |
Covering the major monotheistic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—as well as selected Eastern religions and Bahá'í, Zoroastrianism, and Mormonism, this cross-cultural book offers excerpts of sacred texts and interprets passages to enable a deeper understanding of these religious writings. Sacred Texts Interpreted: Religious Documents Explained gives readers the opportunity to examine—directly—the primary sources of different religions and to better understand these texts through expert commentary on selected passages. The interpretative material investigates the nature of sacred texts along with the relationship between sacred scripture and canon, and it explains why these sacred texts have enduring significance and influence. The author provides suggestions on how to read a sacred text before turning to the textual selections from 13 religious traditions arranged alphabetically, beginning with the Bahá'í religion and ending with Zoroastrianism. Each chapter is devoted to the primary textual sources of a particular religious tradition and is prefaced by an introduction to the literature that places it within its historical and cultural heritage. The emphasis for each religion is on its foundational scriptures that are often considered sacred by its adherents. Readers will gain a much greater appreciation of how powerful religious texts have always been across human culture and throughout millennia—and of how religious thought and ideology have shaped daily life, built civilizations, inspired art and literature, and incited wars and violence.
| Author | : Shih-shan Susan Huang |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 533 |
| Release | : 2020-03-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 168417516X |
"Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China’s primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-shan Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, and paintings, as well as other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved in the fifteenth-century Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing), the key concept behind Daoist visuality, is not static, but entails an active journey of seeing underlying and secret phenomena.This book’s structure mirrors the two-part Daoist journey from inner to outer. Part I focuses on inner images associated with meditation and visualization practices for self-cultivation and longevity. Part II investigates the visual and material dimensions of Daoist ritual. Interwoven through these discussions is the idea that the inner and outer mirror each other and the boundary demarcating the two is fluid. Huang also reveals three central modes of Daoist symbolism—aniconic, immaterial, and ephemeral—and shows how Daoist image-making goes beyond the traditional dichotomy of text and image to incorporate writings in image design. It is these particular features that distinguish Daoist visual culture from its Buddhist counterpart."
| Author | : S. T. Manning |
| Publisher | : PageFree Publishing, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781589612785 |
One in a very long while a book like this comes along, offering startling insights into the very nature of being. Innovative and provocative, Manning presents a courageous and penetrating inside look into the convoluted religious world and offers some truly original formulas for dealing with society s current religious problems. This stirringly original book draws upon colorful and dramatic proofs in history, mythology, science, and psychology to candidly confront religious fundamentalism - probably the greatest menace facing our world today.
