Time

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The forms of time give shape to humán experience. Traditional thought, from China to ancient Greece, embodies time not only in gods and goddesses but also in the various devices which measure and grasp it. Time as flux is apparent in the flow of grains in an hourglass; time as eternal return, in the circling aeons of the Indián and Maya calendars or the tail-eating Serpent Ouroboros; time as a universal pattern of synchronous events, in the I Ching or the astrologers' intricate figure-work. The paradoxes inherent in these parallel ways of conceiving time reveal the mysterious Coincidence of Opposites which underlies the cosmos. With 143 illustrations, 16 in colour Titles in the Art and Imagination series include Stanislas Klossowski de Rola Alchemy The Secret Art Warren Kenton Astrology The Celestial Mirror Stanislav and Christina Grof Beyond Death The Gates of Consciousness John Sharkey Celtic Mysteries The Ancient Religion Dávid Maclagan Creation Myths Man's Introduction to the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The forms of time give shape to humán experience. Traditional thought, from China to ancient Greece, embodies time not only in gods and goddesses but also in the various devices which measure and grasp it. Time as flux is apparent in the flow of grains in an hourglass; time as eternal return, in the circling aeons of the Indián and Maya calendars or the tail-eating Serpent Ouroboros; time as a universal pattern of synchronous events, in the I Ching or the astrologers' intricate figure-work. The paradoxes inherent in these parallel ways of conceiving time reveal the mysterious Coincidence of Opposites which underlies the cosmos. With 143 illustrations, 16 in colour Titles in the Art and Imagination series include Stanislas Klossowski de Rola Alchemy The Secret Art Warren Kenton Astrology The Celestial Mirror Stanislav and Christina Grof Beyond Death The Gates of Consciousness John Sharkey Celtic Mysteries The Ancient Religion Dávid Maclagan Creation Myths Man's Introduction to the World Francis Huxiey The Dragon Nature of Spirit, Spirit of Nature Dávid Coxhead and Susan Hiller Dreams Visions of the Night John Michell The Earth Spirit Its Ways, Shrines and Mysteries Lucie Lamy Egyptian Mysteries New Light on Ancient Knowiedge . Joscelyn Godwin Róbert Fludd Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds John Matthews The G fclí I Quest for the Eternal Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi Kabbalah Tradition of Hidden Knowiedge Joscelyn Godwin Athanasius Kircher A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowiedge Francis King Magic The Western Tradition Peter Payne Martial Arts The Spiritual Dimension Jill Purce The Mystic Spirál Journey of the Soul Maria-Gabriele Wosien Sacred Dance Encounter with the Gods Róbert Lawlor Sacred Geometry Philosophy and Practice Joan Halifax Shaman The Wounded Healer Dávid V. Tansley Slibtle Body Essence and Shadow Laleh Bakhtiar Sufi Expressions of the Mystic Quest Philip Rawson Tantra The Indián Cult of Ecstasy Philip Rawson and Laszlo Legeza TSO The Chinese Philosophy of Time and Change RogerCook The TYee of Life Symbol of the Centre Anne Bancroft Zen Direct Pointing to Reality THAMES ANDHUDSON 30 Bloomsbury Street London WC1B3QP Vissza