Spiritual Disciplines: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks.

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Essays by Rudolf Bernoulli, Martin Buber, C. M. von Cammerloher, T. W. Danzel, Friedrich Heiler, C. G. Jung, C. Ker nyi, John Layard, Fritz Meier, Max Pulver, Erwin Rousselle, and Heinrich Zimmer. With an introduction by Mircea Eliade. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691018634
• ISBN13: 9780691018638
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 509 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"

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Man and Transformation

Since 1933, the Eranos Conferences have gathered the world's leading scholars of religion and mythology. This set consists of Joseph Campbell's selections of the best papers from that conference. This is Volume 5, "Man and Transformation". The eleven papers include: Mircea Eliade, "Mystery and Spiritual Regeneration in Extra-European Religions"; Fritz Meier, "The Transformation of Man in Mystical Islam"; Henry Corbin, "Divine Epiphany and Spiritual Birth in Ismailian Gnosis"; Paul Tillich, "The Importance of New Being for Christian Theology"; Daisetz T. Suzuki, "The Awakening of a New Consciousness in Zen"; Ernst Benz, "Theogony and the Transformation of Man in Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schilling"; Lancelot Law Whyte, "The Growth of Ideas"; Jean Daniélou, "The Dove and the Darkness in Ancient Byzantine Mysticism"; Adolf Portmanm "Metamorphosis in Animals: The Transformations of the Individual and the Type"; Heinrich Zimmer, "Death and Rebirth in the Light of India"; and G. van der Leeuw, "Immortality."

The Mystic Vision

Since 1933, the Eranos Conferences have gathered the world's leading scholars of religion and mythology. This set consists of Joseph Campbell's selections of the best papers from that conference. This is Volume 6, "The Mystic Vision". The fourteen papers include: Boris Vysheslawzeff, "Two Ways of Redemption: Redemption as the Solution of the Tragic Condition"; Wilhelm Koppers, "On the Origin of the Mysteries in the Light and Ethonology and Indology"; Heinrich Zimmer, "The Indian World Mother"; Erwin Rouselle, "Dragon and Mare, Figures of Primordial Chinese Mythology"; Ernesto Buonaiuti, "Christ and St. Paul", "Christology and Ecclesiology in St. Paul", and "Symbols and Rites in the Religious Life of Certain Monastic Orders"; Gilles Quispel, "Gnostic Man: The Doctrine of Basilides"; Henri-Charles Puech, "The Concept of Redemption in Manichaeism"; Louis Massignon, "Nature in Islamic Thought" and "The Idea of the Spirit in Islam"; Jean de Manasce, "The Experience of the Spirit in Christian Mysticism"; Friedrich Heiler, "The Madonna as Religious Symbol"; and Erich Neumann, "Mystical Man".

Spiritual Disciplines

Since 1933, the Eranos Conferences have gathered the world's leading scholars of religion and mythology. This set consists of Joseph Campbell's selections of the best papers from that conference. This is Volume 4, "Spiritual Disciplines". The twelve papers include: Heinrich Zimmer, "On the Significance of the Indian Tantric Yoga"; Erwin Rouselle, "Spiritual Guidance in Contemporary Taoism"; Theodor-Wilhelm Danzel, "The Psychology of Ancient Mexican Symbolism"; John Laynard, "The Malekulan Journey of the Dead"; Carl Kerényi, "Man and Mask"; Martin Buber, "Symbolic and Sacramental Existence in Judaism"; Friedrich Heiler, "Contemplation in Christian Mysticism"; Maw Pulver, "The Experience of Light in the Gospel of St. John, in the `Corpus hermeticum', in Gnosticism, and the Eastern Church"; Fritz Meier, "The Spiritual Man in the Persian Poet Attar"; Rudolf Bernoulli, "Spiritual Development as Reflected in Alchemy and Related Disciplines"; Carl Jung, "Dream Symbols of the Individual Process"; and M. C. Cammerloher, "The Position of Art in the Psychology of Our Time".

Spirit and Nature

Since 1933, the Eranos Conferences have gathered the world's leading scholars of religion and mythology. This set consists of Joseph Campbell's selections of the best papers from that conference. This is Volume 1, "Spirit and Nature". This volume includes the writings of some distinguished scientists as well. The thirteen papers include: Carl Jung, "The Phenomenology of Spirit in Fairy Tales"; Carl Kerényi, "Apollo Epiphanies"; Walter Wili, "The History of Spirit in Antiquity"; Max Pulver, "The Experience of Pneuma in Philo"; Hugo Rahner, "Earth Spirit and Divine Spirit in Patristic Theology"; Fritz Meier, "The Problem of Nature in the Esoteric Monism of Islam"; Paul Masson-Oursel, "The Indian Conception of Psychology" and "Indian Techniques of Salvation"; Ernesto Buonaiuti, "Ecclesia Spiritualis"; Werner Kaegi, "The Transformation of Spirit in the Renaissance"; Friedrich Dessauer, "Galileo and Newton: The Turning Point of Western Thought"; Erwin Schrödinger, "The Spirit of Science"; Adolf Portmann, "Biology and the Pheonomenon of the Spiritual"; and Carl Jung, "The Spirit of Psychology".

An invaluable resource for those interested in the Mysteries

One of numerous volumes of the Eranos Yearbook Papers, The Mysteries consists of articles written by the likes of Carl G. Jung (Transformation Symbolism in the Mass), Max Pulver (Jesus' Round Dance according to the Apocryphal Acts of St. John), Hans Leisegang (The Mystery of the Serpent),and Walter F. Otto (The Meaning of the Eleusinian Mysteries); and is edited by the godfather of modern mythological interpretation, Joseph Campbell. Any student of the Western Esoteric Traditions will surely enjoy these eye-opening, scholarly, and erudite articles.Of particular importance is the translation into English of the Acts of St. John, which relates the Mystical Round Dance of Jesus after the last supper, as well as John's vision of the Cross of Light during the crucifixion at Golgotha.