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Everywhere yet Nowhere: The manifestation of Truth and Illusion by Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi

Urzeugung, painting by Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, also known as Bô Yin Râ. * 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’...

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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. * 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...

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Michel Chodkiewicz: Emir Abd El-Kader – About The Majdhub Or The Fool Of God

‘Whirling Ring’ by Mohammed Abu Elwafa * 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...

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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. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a contribution by our friend Emir Abdulkadir Inanç with...

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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. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a contribution by our friend Emir Abdulkadir Inanç with...

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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. * 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...

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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 * 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...

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Abd al-Razzaq Kashani – About Manliness & Chivalry

Ottoman Caligraphic Composition, 1895 “Oh, Submission!” * 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...

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Plotinus – On Sculpting The Beautiful Spirit

 ‘The Birth of Venus’ by Sandro Botticelli 1486, Uffizi Gallery. * 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...

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Georgios Gemistos Plethon – About the Two Natures in Man

Medieval miniature of the philosopher and mystagogue George Gemistos Plethon. * 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....

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