Translator: Guest Translator
Urzeugung, painting by
Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken,
also known as Bô Yin Râ.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a text presented by our Via-HYGEIA partner and long time contributor, Emir Abdülkadir İnanç. Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi’...
Make a wish, Pray, and Keep the Aim: A Dialogue Between Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani & Annie Lou Staveley
‘Unio Mystika’, painting by
Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken,
also known as Bô Yin Râ.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a contribution by our friend Emir Abdülkadir İnanç, who imagined a meeting (sohbet) between Sheikh...
Michel Chodkiewicz: Emir Abd El-Kader – About The Majdhub Or The Fool Of God
‘Whirling Ring’ by
Mohammed Abu Elwafa
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a contribution by our friend Emir Abdülkadir İnanç, a selections from the ‘Mawakif’ of Amir ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jazayiri (Emir...
Emir Abd El-Kader – The Mirror of God
Ange Tissier,
portrait of Emir Abd El-Kader,
paintings in the collections
of the Musée d’Art et d’Industrie in Roubaix, France.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a contribution by our friend Emir Abdulkadir Inanç with...
Emir Abd El-Kader – The Gate of Humility
‘Moses in front of the burning bush’,
painted around 1920 by Gebhard Fugel (1863–1939),
Freising Diocesan Museum, Germany.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a contribution by our friend Emir Abdulkadir Inanç with...
Marsilio Ficino: From The ‘Three books on Life’ – On Nourishing The Spirit And Conserving Life Through Odors
‘The Soul of the Rose’, aka ‘My Sweet Rose’, by John William Waterhouse-1903.
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Another sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, excerpts from Marsilio Ficino’s ‘Three Books on Life’. Book II, chapter XVIII. The Renaissance Society...
Marsilio Ficino: From The ‘Quid Sit Lumen’- About Light’s Joy and Laughter
‘Sieg’, artwork by Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, a.k.a. Bo Yin Ra
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, are two excerpts from Marsilio Ficino’s ‘Quid Sit Lumen’, chapter six and seven. English translation by Via-HYGEIA...
Abd al-Razzaq Kashani – About Manliness & Chivalry
Ottoman Caligraphic Composition,
1895 “Oh, Submission!”
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Another sharing for the day from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is from Abd al-Razzaq Kashani, in his ‘Tuhfat al ikhwan fi khasa is al-fityan’ (The gift to the brethren on the characteristics of the...
Plotinus – On Sculpting The Beautiful Spirit
‘The Birth of Venus’ by Sandro Botticelli 1486, Uffizi Gallery.
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Another sharing for the day from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, an excerpt from Pierre Hadot’s ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to...
Georgios Gemistos Plethon – About the Two Natures in Man
Medieval miniature of the philosopher and mystagogue George Gemistos Plethon.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an excerpt from ‘The Book of Laws’ by George Gemistos Plethon. Book III. CHAPITRE XLIII. — Épinomis or Conclusion....
Socrates: The Midwife Of Souls
‘La Mort de Socrates’, 1787, Jacques-Louis David.
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Living Reality
…In Xenophon’s Memoirs of Socrates, Hippias tells Socrates that, instead of always asking questions about justice, he would do better simply to say, once and for all, what justice...
Fernando Pessoa & Alvaro de Campos- The Elusive Muse
Picture by Charles Buell
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We couldn’t resist the pleasure to share with you a poem by ‘Alvaro de Campos’, Fernando Pessoa ‘s modernist heteronym. English translation by Irene Ramalho Santos in her study, ‘Modernist...