Sacred Web 33
Editorial: Interiority and the Alchemical Beauty of Forms
by M. Ali Lakhani
Why do we tend to be attracted to surfaces while being dismissive of forms? The editorial suggests that the explanation for this modernist phenomenon is explained by our lack of interiority. Exploring the spiritual meaning of forms, the essay looks at the relationship between outer form and inner substance, the relationship of interiority to beauty, and the requirement of engaging with formal disciplines in spiritual practices. Read more...
Jesus and the Perfect Man
by Stratford Caldecott
In this essay, a companion piece to the essay on metaphysical correspondences in Christian and Muslim theosophy which was published in Volume 32 of Sacred Web, and written shortly before his death last month, Caldecott explores whether Jesus can be reduced to the Perfect Man or Insan al-Kamil of Sufism, and suggests how this reduction might compromise a Trinitarian understanding in Christian theosophy which must accommodate the doctrine of Original Sin and the Fall of Man, but how a modified understanding of the Sufi Doctrine of the Perfect Man might be the basis of reconciling it with a Pauline understanding of human perfectability in Christ. Read more...
The Cherry-Tree Carol: Knowledge is a Gift, Not an Acquisition
by Charles Upton
The "Cherry-Tree Carol", a Child Ballad, believed to be based on an account of Jesus' infancy that appears in The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, resembles the story of the Holy Virgin in Surah Maryam of the Qur'an (which is the inspiration for the cover illustration of this volume of Sacred Web by the artist, Nigel Jackson). This brief essay explores the inner significance of the story told in the Carol. Read more...
Special Section on the Sacred Web Conference 2014
An Overview of the Sacred Web Conference 2014
by M. Ali Lakhani
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"Rediscovering the Sacred in our Lives and in our Times" - Introductory Message to the Sacred Web Conference 2014
by HRH the Prince of Wales
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Opening Address: 'The Dearest Freshness Deep Down
Things': The Relevance of the Sacred in our Lives
by M. Ali Lakhani
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Keynote Address: What is the Sacred and How Can We Know It in a Secular World?
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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From Secular Science to Sacred Science: The Need for a Transformation
by Osman Bakar
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The Metalaw of Holistic Haqq: Toward a Just Third Way beyond Capitalism and Socialism in the Holy Land
by Robert Dickson Crane
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The Sacred and the Post-Modern: An Impossible Convergence
by Patrick Laude
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Blessing the Prophet: Purifying the Heart
by Reza Shah-Kazemi
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Stratford Caldecott (1953-2014)
Reminiscences and Reflections by Philip Zaleski, Robert Bolton, and Reza Shah-Kazemi
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Book Review
The Science of the Greater Jihad: Essays in Principial Psychology
By Charles Upton
Reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
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Letters to the Editor
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Notes on Contributors
