Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Vision of God and Man (1967)

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Volume XII The Vision of God and Man, Confessions, and: Four Plays

This volume contains a set of addresses on varying subjects by the founder of the Sufi Movement, given at different times during his stay in the West and covering a wide field of his teaching.
The second part of the book consists of Inayat Khan's Confessions or reminiscences which he dictated around 1918, while in the third part the reader will find four short plays, written principally to be performed by his pupils in the course of their training.

London, Barrie and Rockliff, 1967

Hardcover, yellow cloth, no dust jacket. Title in gold on front board and spine.
14,5 x 22 x 2,5 cm
274 Pages

GOOD

Today many people question the idea of God. Among the so-called civilized nations there are some who have erased the word God from the textbooks used in their schools. Children educated in these schools have grown up with the idea that there is no God. And even if it occurs to them that there must be something, or they become convinced that there is a God, they call Him "higher powers", or "gods", putting into the plural that which is singular, bringing the highest nature humanity can conceive of down to the sphere of variety.

Inayat (July 5, 1882 - February 5, 1927) was the founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914 (London) and teacher of Universal Sufism. He initially came to the West as a Northern Indian classical musician, having received the honorific "Tansen" from the Nizam of Hyderabad, but he soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufithought and practice. Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization, formed under Swiss law, called the "International Sufi Movement". His message of divine unity (Tawhid) focused on the themes of love, harmony and beauty. He taught that blind adherence to any book rendered religion void of spirit. Branches of Inayat Khan's movement can be found in the Netherlands, France, England, Germany, the United States, Canada, Russia and Australia.

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