Mirrors Of The Divine

Author : Emily Cain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Eye
ISBN : 0197663389

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Mirrors of the Divine by Emily Cain Pdf

"There has long been a curious fascination with eyes and mirrors as evident throughout art, film, and literature. From fantastical characters who shoot lasers from their eyes to those whose memories are altered visually, the way in which a story portrays the function of the eyes demonstrates the way the storyteller imagines the character's relationship to the world. Is the character powerful or powerless? Does she impact her world or is she impacted by that world? The storyteller's portrayal of vision answers those questions and reveals deeper assumptions about the individual and her ability to move within and to know her world. While eyes are associated with interacting with this world, mirrors are distinctly associated with interacting with some other world. Mirrors function as portals to other worlds, windows that glimpse an alternate reality, or harmful traps that hide sinister intentions. How an author portrays eyes reveals how she understands the world, while how she portrays mirrors reveals how she imagines the unknown"--

Author : Melissa R. Katz,Robert A. Orsi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050554677

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Divine Mirrors by Melissa R. Katz,Robert A. Orsi Pdf

Through a unique and stunning collection of paintings, sculpture, rare books, and works on paper, Divine Mirrors examines the complex relationship between sacred imagery and secular identity in the art of the Madonna. This magnificent work--born from a multi-year project that included a museum exhibition, scholarly symposium, and reinstallation of a segment of the permanent collection of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College--features the work of such renowned artists as Il Pintoricchio, Mantegna, Munch, and Leger, alongside fresh, undiscovered masters and little-known works of art. The book's fifty catalogue entries range from a rare thirteenth-century panel painting to a specially commissioned artwork exploring the intersection of religion and modern life. This volume investigates everything from non-Western perceptions of European religious practices to the Virgin Mary's voice in musical composition. In the opening essay "The Many Names of the Mother of God" noted scholar Robert A. Orsi considers why images of Mary offer contemporary Americans such a powerful visual experience. Unlike paintings and sculptures created solely for aesthetic contemplation, Orsi writes, images of Mary are more than just artistic representations--they become for us an embodiment of the Virgin Mother herself. Then, moving into the historical realm, editor Melissa R. Katz guides us on a twenty-century chronological tour that explores the intersection of art history and world history in representations of Mary. Katz's essay "Regarding Mary: Women's Lives Reflected in the Virgin's Image" takes the elements of Marian iconography most relevant to the study of art and weaves them together to provide a guide for modern audiences to engage with the religious origins of our common artistic legacy. Filled with fascinating information, this important work requires no particular background in art history, religion, or the Bible. Readers of all levels will be rewarded with an in-depth encounter of a remarkable and complex figure."

Author : David Kinsley
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0887068367

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The Goddesses' Mirror by David Kinsley Pdf

Discusses the cultural background and meaning of ten goddesses, including Aphrodite, Isis, Athena, Durga, Laksmi, and Sita

Author : David R. Kinsley
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0887068359

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The Goddesses' Mirror by David R. Kinsley Pdf

Discusses the cultural background and meaning of ten goddesses, including Aphrodite, Isis, Athena, Durga, Laksmi, and Sita

Author : Drew Leder
Publisher : Sorin Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1893732819

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Sparks of the Divine by Drew Leder Pdf

The notion that the world is filled with holy sparks is shared by religious traditions around the world. Learn to uncover this sacred dimension and you will begin to both hallow the world and be healed by its powers. These 101 lively reflections will help you learn to look outward and discover a spark of the divine in everyday objects, activities, experiences, and the glories of the natural world.

Author : Edward St Amant
Publisher : Edward A St Amant
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Book of Mirrors by Edward St Amant Pdf

Our better angels???

Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438466927

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The Greatest Mirror by Andrei A. Orlov Pdf

A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts. The idea of a heavenly double—an angelic twin of an earthbound human—can be found in Christian, Manichaean, Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars have long traced the lineage of these ideas to Greco-Roman and Iranian sources. In The Greatest Mirror, Andrei A. Orlov shows that heavenly twin imagery drew in large part from early Jewish writings. The Jewish pseudepigrapha—books from the Second Temple period that were attributed to biblical figures but excluded from the Hebrew Bible—contain accounts of heavenly twins in the form of spirits, images, faces, children, mirrors, and angels of the Presence. Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity. He focuses on heavenly alter egos of Enoch, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and Aseneth in often neglected books, including Animal Apocalypse, Book of the Watchers, 2 Enoch, Ladder of Jacob, and Joseph and Aseneth, some of which are preserved solely in the Slavonic language. Andrei A. Orlov is Professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University. He is the author of Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology and Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism, both also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438439532

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Dark Mirrors by Andrei A. Orlov Pdf

Dark Mirrors is a wide-ranging study of two central figures in early Jewish demonology—the fallen angels Azazel and Satanael. Andrei A. Orlov explores the mediating role of these paradigmatic celestial rebels in the development of Jewish demonological traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to later Jewish mysticism, such as that of the Hekhalot and Shi'ur Qomah materials. Throughout, Orlov makes use of Jewish pseudepigraphical materials in Slavonic that are not widely known. Orlov traces the origins of Azazel and Satanael to different and competing mythologies of evil, one to the Fall in the Garden of Eden, the other to the revolt of angels in the antediluvian period. Although Azazel and Satanael are initially representatives of rival etiologies of corruption, in later Jewish and Christian demonological lore each is able to enter the other's stories in new conceptual capacities. Dark Mirrors also examines the symmetrical patterns of early Jewish demonology that are often manifested in these fallen angels' imitation of the attributes of various heavenly beings, including principal angels and even God himself.

Author : Cheryl Wall,Yes International Publishers
Publisher : Yes International Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0936663316

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Mirrors for Women by Cheryl Wall,Yes International Publishers Pdf

A journal of inspiration and exercises, surprises and fun! Begin a new adventure: write in the journal and on your mirror to reap rewards of self-affirmation and celebration. Ideas and exploration both old and new to delight and inspire your day.

Author : Theosophical Society (Chennai, India)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Theosophy
ISBN : HARVARD:AH579U

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The Theosophical Congress Held by the Theosophical Society at the Parliament of Religions, World's Fair of 1893, at Chicago, Ill., September 15, 16, 17 by Theosophical Society (Chennai, India) Pdf

Author : Andreas Andreapoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134936694

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Art as Theology by Andreas Andreapoulos Pdf

Religion and spirituality are key aspects of the contemporary art scene. Following Ronald Barthes' 'death of the author' - which argued for the dissociation of work from creator - works of art have withdrawn as independent objects, giving way to a growing religious awareness or practice. 'Art and Theology' examines the connection between art and religion in ancient Jewish drama, Greek tragedy, the Renaissance, the Byzantine icon and the medieval cathedral. The book explores how art lost its sacred character in the late Middle Ages and how the current withdrawal or 'death' of art and the fusion of the limits of art and life are consistent with the medieval view of the religious icon.

Author : Alex Grey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781620552698

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Sacred Mirrors by Alex Grey Pdf

This unique series of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. From anatomically correct rendering of the body systems, Grey moves to the spiritual/energetic systems with such images as "Universal Mind Lattice," envisioning the sacred and esoteric symbolism of the body and the forces that define its living field of energy. Includes essays on the significance of Grey's work by Ken Wilber, the eminent transpersonal psychologist, and by the noted New York art critic, Carlo McCormick.

Author : Maria Gerolemou,Lilia Diamantopoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350101302

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Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period by Maria Gerolemou,Lilia Diamantopoulou Pdf

This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on the intersection between technological and cultural dynamics of mirrors. The international scholars brought together here explore critical questions around the mirror as artefact and the phenomenon of mirroring. Beside the common visual registration of an action or inaction, in a two dimensional and reversed form, various types of mirrors often possess special abilities which can produce a distorted picture of reality, serving in this way illusion and falsehood. Part I looks at a selection of theory from ancient writers, demonstrating the concern to explore these same questions in antiquity. Part II considers the role reflections can play in forming ideas of gender and identity. Beyond the everyday, we see in Part III how oracular mirrors and magical mirrors reveal the invisible divine – prosthetics that allow us to look where the eye cannot reach. Finally, Part IV considers mirrors' roles in displaying the visible and invisible in antiquity and since.

Author : Sultan ul Arifeen Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo
Publisher : Sultan ul Faqr Publications
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789699795879

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Nur-ul-Huda Kalan (The Light of Divine Guidance) by Sultan ul Arifeen Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo Pdf

Nur-ul-Huda (The Light of Divine Guidance) is an exceptional work by the great Saint of Sub-continent Sultan Bahoo containing grand treasures of mysticism. As the name depicts, it is light of right guidance for all who seek it. Sultan Bahoo himself elaborates the grandeur of book in these words; Know that by reading this mystical work based on Divine words, the reader is certainly immersed in the state of annihilation in Allah and reaches the essence of secret of ‘Be’. The words of this mystical work speak and by their efficacy, the reader gains enlightenment, insight, inward purification, spiritual unification and guidance towards the Divine secrets. No doubt, the discussion in this mystical work instantly takes the seeker to the Divine presence granting him the Miraj and closeness of Allah that leads to gnosis and Divine observations and shows him the spectacle of both the worlds making him aware of every state. For online reading please visit http://sultan-ul-faqr-publications.com/ Contact # +923224722766 #sultanbahoo #sultanularifeen #sultanulashiqeen #haqbahoosultan #bahoosultan #haqbahusultan #sultanbahu #bahusultan #hazratsultanbahoo #hazratsultanbahu #sakhisultanbahoo #sakhisultanbahu noor ul huda kalan, noor ul huda qalan, nur ul huda kalan, nur ul huda qalan, noor ul hudaa kalan, noor ul hudaa qalan, nur ul hudaa kalan, nur ul hudaa qalan, noor ul huda qlan, noor ul huda qalaan, sultan bahoo books in english, sultan bahoo english books, sultan bahoo persian books, sultan bahoo books in persian

Author : Matthew Fox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781591438182

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Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works by Matthew Fox Pdf

Hildegard of Bingen, a Rhineland mystic of the twelfth century, has been called an ideal model of the liberated woman. She was a poet and scientist, painter and musician, healer and abbess, playwright, prophet, preacher and social critic. The Book of Divine Works was written between 1170 and 1173, and this is its first appearance in English. The third volume of a trilogy which includes Scivias, published by Bear & Company in 1985, this visionary work is a signal resounding throughout the planet that a time of healing and balance is at hand. The Book of Divine Works is a cosmology which reunites religion, science, and art, and readers will discover an astonishing symbiosis with contemporary physics in these 800-year-old visions. The present volume also contains 51 letters written by Hildegard to significant political and religious figures of her day and translations of twelve of her songs.