Ivan Aguéli: Sensation of Eternity - Selected Writings
Ivan Aguéli: Sensation of Eternity - Selected Writings

Author: Ivan Aguéli

Publisher: Oliver Fotros

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9789151985091

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Sensation of Eternity - Selected Writings of Ivan Aguéli contains articles by Ivan Aguéli from L'Initiation, Il Convito, La Gnose, and L'Encyclopedie Contemporaine Illustrée. Spanning the period 1902-1913, it touches upon a wide range of topics, such as: Islam, Sufism, Feminism, and contemporary art. The articles featured are: Notes on Islam (1902) Feminism (1904) Pages dedicated to Mercury (incl. Pure Art) (1911) Pages dedicated to the Sun (1911) Universality in Islam (1911) Islam and Anthropomorphic Religions (1911) Al Malamatiyyah (1911) On the principles of Architecture and Sculpturing (1912) The 29th Exhibition of Le Salon des Independantes (1913) La Section d'Or - the Exhibition at Gallery La Boétie (1913) On Western Art On Europeans and Muslims Statutes of Al Akbariyyah Note in English Background: Ivan Aguéli or Shaykh Abdul Hâdi Aqhîli (1869-1917) was a Swedish Sufi and artist who was a pioneer in the introduction of Sufism to the West. Born in the small Swedish town of Sala in 1869, Aguéli moved to Paris in his youth where he converted to Islam in 1898. Travelling to Ceylon and India, Aguéli finally settled in Egypt in 1902 where he was initiated into the Shadiliyyah Sufi order by the renowned Shaykh Elish el Kabir. Returning to Europe in 1909 as Elish's representative, he began teaching the universalist Sufi doctrine of Muhyeddin Ibn Arabi. In 1910 Aguéli moved back to Paris where he learnt to know the young editor René Guénon. Becoming good friends, Aguéli received Guénon into Islam and Sufism in 1911. Shortly after, Aguéli departed for Sweden and the two never met again. During the First World War, Aguéli was exiled from Egypt to Spain, where he perished under tragic circumstances.

Anarchist, Artist, Sufi
Anarchist, Artist, Sufi

Author: Mark Sedgwick

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-04-08

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1350177911

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This book follows the life of Ivan Aguéli, the artist, anarchist, and esotericist, notable as one of the earliest Western intellectuals to convert to Islam and to explore Sufism. This book explores different aspects of his life and activities, revealing each facet of Aguéli's complex personality in its own right. It then shows how esotericism, art, and anarchism finally found their fulfillment in Sufi Islam. The authors analyze how Aguéli's life and conversion show that Islam occupied a more central place in modern European intellectual history than is generally realized. His life reflects several major modern intellectual, political, and cultural trends. This book is an important contribution to understanding how he came to Islam, the values and influences that informed his life, and-ultimately-the role he played in the modern Western reception of Islam.

The Book of Certainty
The Book of Certainty

Author: Martin Lings

Publisher: Golden Palm S.

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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'To express in the language of Sufism, that is, Islamic mysticism, some of the universal truths which lie at the heart of all religions'--this is the book's avowed purpose. It came into being because the author was asked by a friend to set down in writing what he considered to be the most important things that a human being can know. He was also asked to make it very easy, and despite the depth of all that it contains, it has in fact a remarkable simplicity and clarity, due no doubt to the constant use of traditional imagery which awakens and penetrates the imagination.

Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics
Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics

Author: Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-04-03

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9004343113

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The Universal Science (ʿIlm-i kullī) by Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī, is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the ‘living tradition’ of Shīʿī philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shīʿah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.

Anarchist, Artist, Sufi
Anarchist, Artist, Sufi

Author: Mark Sedgwick

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-04-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1350177903

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This book follows the life of Ivan Aguéli, the artist, anarchist, and esotericist, notable as one of the earliest Western intellectuals to convert to Islam and to explore Sufism. This book explores different aspects of his life and activities, revealing each facet of Aguéli's complex personality in its own right. It then shows how esotericism, art, and anarchism finally found their fulfillment in Sufi Islam. The authors analyze how Aguéli's life and conversion show that Islam occupied a more central place in modern European intellectual history than is generally realized. His life reflects several major modern intellectual, political, and cultural trends. This book is an important contribution to understanding how he came to Islam, the values and influences that informed his life, and-ultimately-the role he played in the modern Western reception of Islam.

Against the Modern World
Against the Modern World

Author: Mark J. Sedgwick

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0195396014

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Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and the development of the field of religious studies in the United States, touching the lives of many individuals. French writer Rene Guenon rejected modernity as a dark age and sought to reconstruct the Perennial Philosophy - the central truths behind all the major world religions. Guenon stressed the urgent need for the West's remaining spiritual and intellectual elite to find personal and collective salvation in the surviving vestiges of ancient religious traditions. A number of disenchanted intellectuals responded to his call. In Europe, America, and the Islamic world, Traditionalists founded institutes, Sufi brotherhoods, Masonic lodges, and secret societies. Some attempted unsuccessfully to guide Fascism and Nazism along Traditionalist lines; others later participated in political terror in Italy. Traditionalist ideas were the ideological cement for the alliance of anti-democratic forces in post-Soviet Russia, and in the Islamic world entered the debate about the relationship between Islam and modernity. Although its appeal in the West was ultimately limited, Traditionalism has wielded enormous influence in religious studies, through the work of such Traditionalists as Ananda Coomaraswamy, Huston Smith, Mircea Eliade, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

Transhumanism
Transhumanism

Author: David Livingstone

Publisher: David Livingstone

Published: 2015-09-02

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1515232573

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Transhumanism is a recent movement that extols man’s right to shape his own evolution, by maximizing the use of scientific technologies, to enhance human physical and intellectual potential. While the name is new, the idea has long been a popular theme of science fiction, featured in such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, the Terminator series, and more recently, The Matrix, Limitless, Her and Transcendence. However, as its adherents hint at in their own publications, transhumanism is an occult project, rooted in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, and derived from the Kabbalah, which asserts that humanity is evolving intellectually, towards a point in time when man will become God. Modeled on the medieval legend of the Golem and Frankenstein, they believe man will be able to create life itself, in the form of living machines, or artificial intelligence. Spearheaded by the Cybernetics Group, the project resulted in both the development of the modern computer and MK-Ultra, the CIA’s “mind-control” program. MK-Ultra promoted the “mind-expanding” potential of psychedelic drugs, to shape the counterculture of the 1960s, based on the notion that the shamans of ancient times used psychoactive substances, equated with the “apple” of the Tree of Knowledge. And, as revealed in the movie Lucy, through the use of “smart drugs,” and what transhumanists call “mind uploading,” man will be able to merge with the Internet, which is envisioned as the end-point of Kabbalistic evolution, the formation of a collective consciousness, or Global Brain. That awaited moment is what Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google, refers to as The Singularly. By accumulating the total of human knowledge, and providing access to every aspect of human activity, the Internet will supposedly achieve omniscience, becoming the “God” of occultism, or the Masonic All-Seeing Eye of the reverse side of the American dollar bill.

Modern Esoteric Spirituality
Modern Esoteric Spirituality

Author: Antoine Faivre

Publisher: Crossroad Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780824514440

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"An excellent overview of spiritual movements throughout the last few centuries . . . a superb panorama" (The Book Reader), this book covers esoterica from its ancient beginnings through the alchemists to Gurdijeff and Jung.

Seal of the Saints
Seal of the Saints

Author: Michel Chodkiewicz

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780946621392

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1 A Shared Name 2 ‘He who sees thee sees Me’ 3 The Sphere of Walaya 4 The Muhammadan Reality 5 The Heirs of the Prophet 6 The Four Pillars 7 The Highest Degree of Walaya 8 The Three Seals 9 The Seal of Muhammadan Sainthood 10 The Double Ladder

The Invention of Tradition
The Invention of Tradition

Author: Eric Hobsbawm

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-07-31

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521437738

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This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.