By (author) Max Gorman
Explores concepts central to Christianity, the kingdom of Heaven, son of God, baptism, and resurrection.
Jesus is seen as a representative of an ancient and continuing wisdom tradition identified with that of the Sufis. By his distinctive use of stories for teaching purposes, his sayings, and what the Sufis call 'action-teachings', including those actions known as 'miracles', Jesus is shown to have been quintessentially a Sufi master.
Max Gorman shows how Sufism illuminates from within concepts central to Christianity: the kingdom of Heaven, son of God, baptism, resurrection - which can then be seen as states and stages in an evolutionary philosophy.
This new edition of the classic work includes a new chapter on Gnosis.
By (author) Max Gorman
Max Gorman was born in Karachi, India (now Pakistan). He was educated at a convent in the Himalayas, then Lawrence School, Mount Abu, and privately by a hermit in a ruin in the jungle near Delhi. Next he was sent to Rugby School. He went to Oxford, mystic rather than academic, to read Poetry under the guise of History. He became wandering tutor to sons of owners of Scottish Castles and English mansions. He returned to Oxford to teach literature, before taking up the post of Tutor in Environmental Ethics at the Extramural Department of the University. He moved to the fair city of Brighton to work at the Friends Adult Education Centre as tutor in Mystical Studies and Early Christianity. He has held Seminars in developmental philosophy at the University of Brighton, and the University of Sussex.
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I've not even finished the book yet, but what a magnificent work. For those who are walking an inner path this book is indispensable.
It is written from the perspective of one who has traversed the inner way with great success, otherwise I cannot see how Max Gorman could have such an understanding of the dimentional attitudes of inner transformation.
For me the book came to me accidentally at a perfect time, which, of course, is always the case. I was able to reflect on many things that I had experienced on the path, whilst also bathing in the light of Gorman's brilliant research.
David Ashworth.