Stefan Sperl talks about Neoplatonism and the poetic traditions of the Near East and Europe
‘Diversity is an inevitable consequence of the complete transcendence of the One. There is never only one answer to anything, and nothing has only one meaning.’
Artist Simon Blackwood recalls his trips to Turkey in the 1970s with the Beshara School
“At the level of meaning, Mary represents the completely receptive place in which the action of the spirit can bear fruit”
Alan Williams tells us about his new translation of Rumi’s great epic poem, the Masnavi
“Rumi wants not merely to define in words but to take us to that world of ultimate meaning, which is way beyond any mental conception”
A Conversation with Prof. George Pattison
“Mysticism is not necessarily something weird or wonderful: it consists of a certain kind of attention to reality in all its facets.”