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Book of the Spirit

Book of the Spirit

Armstrong, Chris

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 173923040X
ISBN13: 9781739230401
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 21 2022
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Many of my traditional images, found in many of my poems and writings - time, the horizon, the sea - as well of course as love, find a place again in these lines - in my prayers.

'Rooted in the mythologies of religion, of church, synagogue and the Zen Buddhist temple or monastery, and calling, too, on the Graeco-Roman gods and muses, this collection borrows words, terminologies and phrases as well as their characteristic styles to resonate with the Christian and Jewish language and liturgies, with just a whisper of Far Eastern religions. Blending near identical theologies around a single belief system, a religion centred on love, there are echoes of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Torah, the Talmud, and Midrash and Kabbalistic teachings. For example, Kabbalistic teaching suggests that the manifestation of God that we perceive is his unity, when he transitions from nothing to one, just as Zen masters understand the nothingness of the godhead: a God present in nothingness. Despite this heritage, the collection speaks from - and for - the spirit of the modern world. It is the voice of our deepest, most primal faith.' - Chris Armstrong

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