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Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn: Architect of East-West Dialogue and 20th-Century Esoteric Migration

Contents — 5 chapters
  1. Biographical foundation
  2. Monte Verità — the Mountain of Truth
  3. The Eranos achievement
  4. The Blue Book — Olga's private practice
  5. A feminine mode of spiritual authority

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Bardo Thödol (Tibetan Book of the Dead)Tibetan Buddhism · compiled c. 8th–14th c. CEgrounds · high
“O nobly-born, listen. Now thou art experiencing the Radiance of the Clear Light of Pure Reality. Recognize it.”
— The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz, 1927), Chikhai Bardo — the setting-face-to-face with the Clear Light
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Jewish Kabbalah (Sefer Yetzirah, Zohar, Lurianic)Jewish esotericism · classical texts c. 12th–16th c. CEgrounds · high
“In thirty-two mysterious paths of wisdom Jah, the Lord of Hosts... engraved and created His world by three Sepharim: by Number, Writing, and Word.”
— Sepher Yezirah, Ch. I, §1, trans. Isidore Kalisch (1877)
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Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteChristian apophatic theology · late 5th–early 6th c. CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”
— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)
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Texts of Confucianism, Part II — The Yi King (I Ching) (SBE Vol. 16)Chinese / Confucian–Yijing · core c. 1000 BCE, Ten Wings c. 300 BCE; SBE 1882grounds · high
“Khien (represents) what is great and originating, penetrating, advantageous, correct and firm.”
— The Yî King, Hexagram I (Khien) — trans. James Legge, SBE Vol. 16
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Sufism (Junayd, Ghazali, Ibn Arabi, Rumi)Islamic mysticism · c. 9th–13th c. CEgrounds · high
“Hearken to this Reed forlorn, / Breathing, ever since 'twas torn / From its rushy bed, a strain / Of impassioned love and pain.”
— The Masnavi, Book I, Proem — "The Song of the Reed," trans. E. H. Whinfield (1898)
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