Symbols and Themes in Sacred Texts: Self Empowering Wisdom - Volume 3

Symbols and Themes in Sacred Texts: Self Empowering Wisdom - Volume 3
Author: Barnabas Tiburtius
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781647608385

In this information age, the need for explicit meaning in scriptures and rituals is a vital ingredient that is lacking. The literal interpretations and obligatory rituals have left a void in the individual's spiritual journey and hence, the increasing disappointment in organized religions. There are 50 articles in this book whose contents aim to provide a deeper spiritual meaning that is conveyed through certain specific symbols and themes such as Agni or Fire, Cave, Cloud, twice-born, Four beasts, Dragon, Trilogy, Hero, Charioteer, Hostile brothers, Inner demon, East, Nakedness, Reincarnation, Redemption, Deluge, Sword, and Twins. These common symbols and themes, across many mythologies and the spiritual significance they convey, are brought out so that the higher nature of man and the spiritual path one has to traverse can be indicated. The very fact that man seeks a higher and more meaningful knowledge denotes that he is on a path to exploring his true nature or awake to his true self. These symbols and themes cut across all dominant spiritual traditions such as Vedic, Buddhist, Hebraic, Christian, and Islamic religions. Symbols and Themes in Sacred Texts contain the key to unlock the spiritual treasure hidden from humanity through literal and archaic cultural interpretations.

Symbols and Themes in Sacred Texts

Symbols and Themes in Sacred Texts
Author: Barnabas Tiburtius
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1647608392

In this information age, the need for explicit meaning in scriptures and rituals is a vital ingredient that is lacking. The literal interpretations and obligatory rituals have left a void in the individual’s spiritual journey and hence, the increasing disappointment in organized religions. There are 50 articles in this book whose contents aim to provide a deeper spiritual meaning that is conveyed through certain specific symbols and themes such as Agni or Fire, Cave, Cloud, twice-born, Four beasts, Dragon, Trilogy, Hero, Charioteer, Hostile brothers, Inner demon, East, Nakedness, Reincarnation, Redemption, Deluge, Sword, and Twins. These common symbols and themes, across many mythologies and the spiritual significance they convey, are brought out so that the higher nature of man and the spiritual path one has to traverse can be indicated. The very fact that man seeks a higher and more meaningful knowledge denotes that he is on a path to exploring his true nature or awake to his true self. These symbols and themes cut across all dominant spiritual traditions such as Vedic, Buddhist, Hebraic, Christian, and Islamic religions. Symbols and Themes in Sacred Texts contain the key to unlock the spiritual treasure hidden from humanity through literal and archaic cultural interpretations.

Symbols of the Sacred

Symbols of the Sacred
Author: Louis K. Dupré
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780802847485

Symbols of the Sacred gathers four classic essays by Louis Dupr on the role of symbols in our understanding of the sacred and on their fundamental importance to religious consciousness. A leading philosopher of religion, Dupr here discusses the nature of religious symbols, the importance of language for capturing symbolic meaning, the ancient link between art and expressions of the sacred, and the vital relationship between religious symbol and myth. The volume concludes with a powerful reflection on the innate capacity of human minds to grasp the transcendent. Elegantly expressed, conversant with a wide range of thinkers, and marked by a lifetime of reflection on the subject, Symbols of the Sacred offers profound insights into the religious dimension of human life.

The Sacred Symbols of Mu

The Sacred Symbols of Mu
Author: James Churchward
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781533366924

Fully illustrated. According to Churchward, Mu was a lost continent in the Pacific Ocean, which was destroyed in a global cataclysm tens of thousands of years ago; Mu was the original home of mankind, and all subsequent civilizations descended from it. The Pacific islands and their inhabitants are supposed to be the last survivors of this primordial motherland. Churchward's Mu was a huge continent, which stretched from Micronesia in the West to Easter Island and Hawaii in the East. He also believed in a literal mid-Atlantic Atlantis. He proposed a global network of huge gas-filled caverns which, if vented, could cause large areas of land to be submerged. He claimed that, while posted in India, he befriended a priest ('Rishi'), who revealed to him ancient tablets written in an otherwise unknown language. The Rishi taught him how to read this language, Naacal. The tablets described the land of Mu, the Lemuria of the Theosophists. He also claimed that he was able to discern writing from Mu on a mysterious set of tablets discovered in Mexico by an explorer named William Niven.

Sacred Symbols (Deuxe Edition)

Sacred Symbols (Deuxe Edition)
Author: Alonzo Gaskill
Publisher: Cfi
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781462121830

In order to truly understand Deity and how we can return to Him, we must first understand the meaning behind the sacred symbols found in religious ordinances, rituals, covenants, clothing, gestures, and words. In this book, author, Alonzo Gaskill, presents a myriad of ancient and modern Jewish, Christian, and Islamic practices which are illustrative of symbols Latter-day Saints would do well to understand. This new deluxe edition features beautifully designed pages, several colored photographs, and pictures to help readers better understand these important symbols.

Sacred Symbols

Sacred Symbols
Author: Alonzo L. Gaskill
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre: RELIGION
ISBN: 9781462128778

Sacred Symbols

Sacred Symbols
Author: Clare Gibson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1998
Genre: Symbolism
ISBN: 9780760708033

The Signs and Symbols Bible

The Signs and Symbols Bible
Author: Madonna Gauding
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781402770043

Explains the meaning given by diverse cultures in various eras to animals, plants, patterns, man-made objects, and abstract forms.

Images and Symbols

Images and Symbols
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 1991-06-25
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 069102068X

Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.