Paintings from the Bindu Arts, an organisation that helps leprosy
patients in self-reliance through art, is going to hold its next exhibition at
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Gallery, Pondicherry, from Jan 19 to 29, 2013. All the
works of these artists are sold to international galleries and through the
website of Bindu Arts
Review of a New Publication of the First Edition of Savitri by
Narad
from Savitri Posting date: 16 Jan 2013 - 01:35 PM
The things I lay most stress on then are
whether each line in itself is the inevitable thing not only as a whole but in
each word; whether there is the right distribution of sentence lengths (an
immensely important thing in this kind of blank verse); whether the lines are
in their right place, for all the lines may be perfect, but they may not
combine perfectly together—bridges may be needed, alterations of position so as
to create the right development and perspective etc., etc.
Articles
in Professional Journals and Books Peter Heehs is an independent
scholar based in India .
He has written or edited nine books and published more than fifty
articles. 2011. “The Kabbalah, the Philosophie Cosmique, and
the Integral Yoga: A Study in Cross-Cultural Influence”. Aries 11:2
(September): 219-247 (Pdf file
available here).
The link between Aurobindo and this group was Mirra Alfassa (1878 - 1973),
a Frenchwoman of Sephardic Jewish extraction who met him in India in 1914 and
later became his chief collaborator… The most obvious resemblances between the
Philosophie Cosmique and the Integral Yoga are the least significant… In their
history of the H.B. of L., Godwin, Chanel and Deveney write that Aurobindo and
the Mother ‘were very largely inspired by Theon and his wife’. In his
dissertation, Chanel goes farther: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother ‘may from many
points of view be looked on as disciples of the Theons or in any case as
continuers of their work’. In another passage Chanel suggests that the Theons
have been denied due recognition by Aurobindo’s followers: The Philosophie
Cosmique, he asserts, ‘constitutes one of the essential sources of the
teachings of [Aurobindo’s] ashram in Pondicherry, even though this fact is, or
was, generally little known or eclipsed’.
What I have written in the preceding sections should be enough to show
that these claims are exaggerated… All in all, the parallels between the
Philosophie Cosmique and Aurobindo’s philosophy are interesting but relatively
unimportant compared to the enormous influence of the Vedantic tradition
of India ,
which Aurobindo fully acknowledged. Chanel also notes that it is through the
Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo ‘that the work of the Theons, that is, the
Philosophie Cosmique, is present, though unbeknownst to many, in the world
today’.
This is true, and it draws attention to what might be called the
“multinational” side of the transmission of esoteric knowledge. The Philosophie
Cosmique, based in large measure on a form of the kabbalah that took shape in
what is now Israel , was
developed in France and Algeria during
the early twentieth century, but now is scarcely remembered in any of these
places. Elements of this teaching are present in the Integral Yoga, a system of
thought based largely on the Upanishads that was elaborated in India by
an English-educated Bengali and a Frenchwoman of Sephardic extraction. This
system of yoga is followed by tens of thousands of people in India , and many hundreds in Europe and North America .
Thus elements of an esoteric teaching made a journey from
mediaeval Spain to Palestine and then back to Europe, where they were
repackaged for dissemination in France . From France they were taken to India , and from India they have begun to make
their way back to the West.
8:35 am, 9:21 am
Between
Jerusalem/Benare: Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism - Page 264 - Hananya
Goodman - 1994 - Preview - More
editions These are some of the trends of thought which reveal Sri Aurobindo's faith in the basic
goodness of human nature and in the ultimate evolution of one ... The "breaking of the
vessels" in Lurianic Kabbalah
arises from the spilling over of light.
Mythos:
The Myths and Tales of H.P. Lovecraft & Robert E. Howard - Page 71 - H.
P. Lovecraft, Robert
E. Howard, Gwendolyn Toynton - 2011 - Preview
But it also ties in with the Cthulhu mythos, in that the Lurianic world of chaos pertains
to cycles before the present age ... life
on Earth. This theme of cosmic restitution is developed in much greater detail
by the Indian sage Sri Aurobindo,
who ...
The
Long Trajectory: The Metaphysics of Reincarnation and Life ... - Page 286 -
Eric
M. Weiss - 2012 - Preview
It is these three terms that describe the metaphysical ultimates in Sri Aurobindo's system. ... (This is rather like the
ideas of Lurianic Cabala,
in which God, in order to manifest a universe, must withhold some of his
fullness—an operation termed ...
The
Four Faces of the Universe: An Integrated View of the Cosmos - Page 299 - Robert
Kleinman - 2007 - Preview
For a more detailed examination of the doctrine of creation in Lurianic Kabbalah, see Gershom
Scholem, Kabbalah (New York, 1978), ... She originally met SriAurobindo in Pondicherry and, after a four-year stay in
Japan, returned to India and...
Becoming
Whole: Jung's Equation for Realizing God - Leslie
Stein - 2012 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo initially
refers to the Divine as of no gender, just a Force or an “unremembering
Entity.” After the thought is sown, the ... Ein Sof in Lurianic
Kabbalah withdraws leaving a space for its manifestations. The breaking
off of the female ...
The
Roots of Modern Magick: Glimpses of the Authentic tradition ... - Page xxiv
- Allen
Greenfield - Preview And, his connection to The Mother and to the current that brought us
Sri Aurobindo is not
insignificant! ... Perhaps
a hundred years from now, nobody will care that the Lurianic school at Safed
inherited the rich traditions of Languedocian...
Beyond
man: life and work of Sri Aurobindo and
the Mother - Page 29 - Georges
van Vrekhem - 1997 - It was [Alma] who had been supporting Theon with her knowledge and powers; without her he was
nothing and naturally after her death the entire project suffered shipwreck.' (Sri Aurobindo) One has the impression that
Alma withdrew
from ...
In
Search of the Masters: Behind the Occult Myth - Page 121 - Paul
Johnson - 1990 - Research by Patrice Marot, a contemporary Aurobindo disciple, unearthed
considerable details on Theon's
history. He was born on August 5, 1847 in Warsaw ,
son of a rabbi. His real name appears to have been Louis Maximilien
Bimstein, ...
Ariel
- Issues 56-62 - Page 35 - Israel.
Miśrad ha-ḥuts - 1984 - His
kabbalistic heir was Pascal Thémanlys who asserts that much of Theon's thinking had been passed on
through Mirha Richard to Aurobindo.
Bergman, who was editor of general philosophy for the Encyclopedia Hebraica,
was impressed ...
Secret
Cipher of the UFOnauts - Page 9 - Allen
Greenfield - 2006 - Preview - More
editions Bilnsfein, Louis M., also known as Max Theon and Aia Aziz. The son of a
Polish ...Virtually every
modern occult movement, from the Theosophical Society to the followers of
Sri Aurobindo in India , owe him
a debt in their origins. Bimstein was a...
The
Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye: Alchemy and the End ... - Page 299
- Jay
Weidner, Vincent
Bridges - 2003 - Preview
1968, eighteen years after Sri Aurobindo's death
and only five years before her own death, the Mother began a major series of
building projects at ... As
John Major Jenkins points out in Galactic Alignment, the Matrimandir, like Hewitt's linga altar stone, is a
combination of all three cosmic ... Mirra
Alfassa, the Mother, is in her own right one of the most fascinating figures in
twentieth-century occultism.
Women
of Wisdom: The Journey of the Sacred Feminine Through the Ages - Paula
Marvelly - Preview - More
editions In 1905, Mirra met an occultist by the name of Max Theon in Paris, a Polish Jew who
had been the Grand Master of a ... staying
there, he determined to seek the advice of a holy man, and in 1910 he had his
first encounter with Aurobindo.
The
White Woman's "Other" Burden: Western Women and South Asia ... - Page
208 - Jayawardena
Kum - 1995 - Preview - More
editions Alfassa also knew Max Theon,
a "Polish Jew who was highly advanced in occultism," who had worked
with Blavatsky and had ... There
he met the political exile Aurobindo;
on his return to Paris with news of Aurobindo, Mirra began to feel ...
Stairway
to Heaven: Chinese Alchemists, Jewish Kabbalists, and the ... - Page 210 - Peter
Levenda - 2008 - Preview
Metamon was the teacher of one Louis Maximilian Bimstein (a.k.a. Max Theon), who in turn had so much
influence over the group around the famous Indian teacher Sri Aurobindo and “the Mother.” The
Mother, whose birth name was Mirra ...
Tradition
and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 90 - David
J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview
Despite her later study with the Algerian mystic Theon, this artistic experience seems to have been the most
formative of her life before she met Aurobindo. Her core belief was that the world could be changed by
changing the way people ...
The
Roots of Modern Magick: Glimpses of the Authentic tradition ... - Page 34 -
Allen
Greenfield - Preview
Nahar is perhaps sometimes doubted because of a `devotional' approach in his
writings, directed mainly towards Sri Aurobindo and “The Mother” -- one-time Theon follower Mirra Alfassa.
Yet, Nahar would seem to have no special allegiance... Page 52 - A.
H. Greenfield - 2005
Mythos:
The Myths and Tales of H.P. Lovecraft & Robert E. Howard - Page 71 - H.
P. Lovecraft, Robert
E. Howard, Gwendolyn Toynton - 2011 - Preview Sri Aurobindo provided
detailed philosophical and psychological interpretations of what he referred to
as the ... the English
equivalent 'unconscious', seems to imply the term was adopted from Theon, via Mirra, both being
francophones).
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