Charles Upton, Jennifer Doane Upton

Shadow of the Rose

The Esoterism of the Romantic Tradition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Charles Upton: Human love has fallen on hard times; it has been "officially discredited." Even liberal humanitarianism is not what it used to be; how then can romantic love, which in its origins is essentially aristocratic (in Meister Eckhart's sense when he said "the soul is an aristocrat") find any place in today's world? The truth is, it cannot. The world is too small for it. The place of romantic love is nowhere in this world; its place is in the human soul, whose own proper place is in the eternal self-knowledge of God. Jennifer Doane Upton: The love of God is always secret. For most of us it is so secret that we are not even aware of it. All manifestations that appear around this love are false in a sense, and tend to mis-direct us. To look for the love of God itself within manifest conditions is always to go astray. We spend our time in the world being attracted to this and repulsed by that, and all the while we are blind to this one secret love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sophia Perennis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781597310796
• ISBN-10: 1597310794
• Artikelnr.: 23515845

Autorenporträt

Charles Upton, born in San Francisco, California in 1948, is a poet (a protégée of the Beats), a veteran of the peace movement, an activist, and a lifelong student of metaphysics and world religions. His entire formal education, from nursery school through high school, was provided by the Catholic Church. He has published four books of poetry and many others in the genres of metaphysics, mythopoetic exegesis, spiritual psychology, Islam, Sufism, and "metaphysics and social criticism."