Sentences with phrase «mystical interpretations of»

Kabbalah instructor and scholar Chaim Solomon will discuss the concepts and themes of Kabbalah, the ancient tradition of mystical interpretations of the Bible, found in the work of artist Anselm Kiefer.

Sufi — a Muslim mystic; a member of a religious order which follows mystical interpretations of Islamic doctrines and practices.

Cannabis is frequently used among Sufis the mystical interpretation of Islam that exerts strong influence over local Muslim practices in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Turkey, and Pakistan.

Not exact matches

That original Islam is only hinted at in the Qur» an and the Hadith, which were written years after the prophet Mohammed had his mystical experience — just as the original precepts of Christianity are minimized and only obliquely presented in the New Testament and its «authorized» translations, interpretations and commentaries, which were written over many years, well after Jesus» ministry and Paul's mystical experience.

They have been stirred together in a mortar, and the two elements have completely neutralized each other in a compound which is neither history nor interpretation, but mystical rhapsody and poetry of devotion, not so much a theology as a half - Gnostic Christian theosophy — history turned inside out in order to reveal its inner meaning, but ceasing to be history in the process.

[21] As John Henry Newman famously wrote: «It may be almost laid down as an historical fact that the mystical interpretation and orthodoxy will stand or fall together» John Henry Newman, A.n Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, ch 7, section 4, no5).

Today in Turkey there is no conflict between Sunni and Shi'a or between those who follow a literal interpretation of Islam and those who prefer a mystical interpretation.

Dr. Code holds that there is an unavoidable mystical dimension in every interpretation of nature.

But the symbols discover this meaning for us (S 57, emphasis added), 21 a remark that recalls Wittgenstein's famous conclusion of his Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus: «Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is»; except that the how of world - making, if it is ultimately dependent on imaginative interpretations of signs or symbolisms, becomes every bit as mysterious as the fact that it is.

When there were contradictions in those materials, a reconciliation was effected, or at least attempted, through the use of the «different levels of interpretation», where the historical meaning, the moral meaning, the theological meaning, and the highly mystical meaning could be distinguished and an appropriate distribution made in the discussion of this or that biblical text.

The method gave rise to the couplet: Litera gesta docet, Quid credas allegoria / Moralis quid agas, Quo tendas anagogia (which freely translates as: «The literal teaches what God and our ancestors did; the allegory is where our faith and belief is hid / The moral meaning gives us the rule of daily life; the anagogy [or mystical interpretation] shows us where we end our strife»).

It is indeed the grave necessity of hour to not only simplify this great message but also to relate the interpretation of mystical verses of Gita with our modern tastes, trends and tendencies of life.

Take horses for instance: from the symbolism behind the forms of Amy Laugesen's classic sculptures to the expressive interpretation of Peggy Judy's paintings of livestock; from the mystical photographs by Sandra Lee Kaplan to the modern artifacts and adornments of Janet Nelson; the style, form, and interpretation of these artists couldn't be more varied.

In exploring the visual connections between numbers — exact and absolute units of measurements — and the mystical, wayward ways of luck, as embodied by locals performing for her camera, Cromwell offers a lyric homage to Cuba, the place that's shaped her practice and that continues defying expectations and interpretations.

While they no doubt owe much to the precedents of Op art and Pattern and Decoration, Takenaga's repetitive forms, like Ross Bleckner's, inspire more mystical interpretation... Takenaga's paintings portray matter and energies beyond what we know, beyond the everyday world.

Tai Shani's work occupies the central gallery space and frames the gallery entrance with vibrant symbolic sculptures; technicolour, psychedelic interpretations of mystical objects and ritualistic architecture.

They use varying kinds of imagery appropriated from popular culture and abstract interpretations of nature, used as a symbolic vocabulary to express a mystical, ephemeral and kaleidoscopic viewpoint.