Knowledge and the Sacred is a 1981 book by the Iranian philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr. It was originally presented as his Gifford Lectures, which he delivered...

sacra or sacred science is a form of spiritual knowledge that lies at the heart of both divine revelations and traditional sciences, embodying the very essence...

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desacralization of knowledge in his 1981 Gifford Lectures, which were later published as Knowledge and the Sacred. The theme of desacralization of knowledge has been...

Knowledge and the Sacred 1989, p. 279. Aslan 2004, p. 23. sfn error: no target: CITEREFAslan2004 (help) Jahanbegloo 2010, p. xiv. Knowledge and the Sacred...

Sacred mysteries are the areas of supernatural phenomena associated with a divinity or a religious belief and praxis. Sacred mysteries may be either: Religious...

acquiring knowledge—especially knowledge of God—by drawing on sacred traditions and sacred science that uphold divine revelations and the spiritual or...

person who initiates others into mystic beliefs, and an educator or person who has knowledge of the sacred mysteries of a belief system. Another word for...

of magic and knowledge Eijebong Egeria, a water nymph who gives wisdom and prophecy in return for libations of water or milk at her sacred grove Fabulinus...

परमं श्रुतिः, lit. means "To those who seek the knowledge of the sacred law, the supreme authority is the revelation Śruti." Shruti (Śruti) differs from...

between heaven and earth. Promethean man, on the other hand, sees himself as an earthly being who has rebelled against God and has no knowledge of his origins...

traditions. It is closely related to the concept of the sacred tree. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life which appear in Genesis'...

In Christianity and Judaism, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Tiberian Hebrew: עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע, romanized: ʿēṣ haddaʿaṯ ṭōḇ wārāʿ, [ʕesˤ...

an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds. Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda...

dividers. The print was intended by Blake to criticise Newton's profane knowledge, usurping the sacred knowledge and power of the creator Urizen, with the scientist...

Tshivhula, and Venda peoples. Despite locals having knowledge of the sacred site, Mapungubwe was only rediscovered by the scientific community and colonial...

to Its Key Themes, History and Interpretation. Oneworld. ISBN 978-1-85168-354-3. Nasr, S.H. (1989). Knowledge and the Sacred: Revisioning Academic Accountability...

The Yajurveda (Sanskrit: यजुर्वेद, IAST: yajurveda, from यजुस्, "worship", and वेद, "knowledge") is the Veda primarily of prose mantras for worship rituals...

York:Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1952, p.111 Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Knowledge and the Sacred, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989, p.16-17 Annemarie...

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East is a 1970 book...

The Need for a Sacred Science is a 1993 book by the Iranian philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Knowledge and the Sacred Omar 1995, p. 263. Heinen 1994,...

Sacred groves, sacred woods, or sacred forests are groves of trees that have special religious importance within a particular culture. Sacred groves feature...

Nizamani (26 May 2012). "Manto and Sindh". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 21 May 2018. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Knowledge and the Sacred : Revisioning Academic Accountability...

to revive the role of traditional metaphysics in acquiring knowledge—especially knowledge of God—by drawing on sacred traditions and sacred science that...

possesses direct, intuitive knowledge of Jewish sacred texts, without having studied them traditionally. "I've never read the Rambam [Maimonides] in my...

and the Sacred (French: La violence et le sacré) is a 1972 book about the sacred by the French critic René Girard, in which the author explores the ritual...

coeternal principles: spirit (purusha) and primordial matrix (prakriti)." SH Nasr (1989), Knowledge and the Sacred: Revisioning Academic Accountability...

languages as sacred in themselves. A sacred language is often the language which was spoken and written in the society in which a religion's sacred texts were...

learning, knowledge, and scholarship. Most importantly, it refers to valid knowledge, which cannot be contradicted, and true knowledge, which is the intuitively-gained...

adverse effects through knowledge of the sacred calendar and careful selection of actions. As an animating force within both the human and spiritual world, retaining...