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372 published guides
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The circle, drawn with compass, is perfect--no beginning, no end, all points equidistant from centre. The circle, duplicated, produces vesica piscis--the lens of intersection,…
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The text is brief--approximately fourteen lines, depending on the recension. Attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, thrice-great, legendary founder of alchemy, astrology, and theurgy. The original,…
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The thread, extended through Alexandria, Baghdad, and Toledo, was often carried by invisible hands. Jewish scholars--multilingual, multicultural, and positioned between giants--mediated the transmission of…
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The chakras, in contemporary imagination, are seven coloured wheels aligned along the spine--red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet--each associated with psychological functions, each…
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The One is perfect. The perfect, complete, lacks nothing. Yet from the One, the many emerge. Not through creation--creation implies will, decision, change in…
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The Tree of Life--Etz Chaim--is the central symbol of Kabbalah. Ten sefirot, divine emanations, arranged in pattern. Twenty-two paths connecting them, corresponding to Hebrew…
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The thread, extended to Baghdad, returned to Europe through Spain. The Toledo School of Translators--a term coined by nineteenth-century historians to describe a network…
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The thread, cut in Alexandria, extended to Baghdad. The House of Wisdom--Bayt al-Hikma--associated with the Abbasid court from the late eighth century onward, became…
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The instruction arrives with striking uniformity across every contemplative tradition: "Observe the breath." "Watch the thoughts." "Be aware of awareness." Yet beneath this apparent…
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The ego--that persistent sense of being a "someone"--is not binary. It is not simply present or absent. It is a spectrum, variable in intensity,…
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