Rose of the World

Daniel Andreev
Lindisfarne Books
9780940262836
0-940262-83-5

From the translator's introduction: "In picking up this book, you are about to embark on a fascinating journey. It is a journey to places where, according to the author, many of us have already been but.

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about which we have forgotten. It is also a journey within, into that psychological space where our ideas and beliefs about God, spirituality, and religion reside. During both journeys, we are likely to encounter wonder and recognition, skepticism and acceptance, rejection and admiration, confusion and long-sought understanding. For some, this journey will be the start of a much larger one; for some it is but one more leg of a journey undertaken earlier; in any case, The Rose of the World is not a final destination." Completed in 1959, hidden from the Soviet secret police for twenty years, The Rose of the World was first made public through excerpts in the magazine Novy Mir in 1989. The Rose of the World is a unique and poetic cosmological treatise, passionately written out of personal spiritual experience. It offers a prophetic call for the spiritual reunification of all people and an open and harmonious relationship among the great world religions. For Daniel Andreev, The Rose of the world is a spiritual flower whose roots are in heaven; each petal is a unique image of the great world religions and cultures, and the whole flower is their joint co-creation with God. Lindisfarne Books is privileged to publish the first English translation of this masterpiece of contemporary Russian spiritual literature, a work that belongs to Russian religious thought in the tradition of Vladimir Soloviev, and to the West in the tradition of Dante and Blake--truly a work for the twenty-first century. C O N T E N T S Translator's IntroductionForward by Alla AndreevaPhotographs I. The Rose of the World and Its Place in History 1. The Rose of the World and Its Foremost Tasks2. Perspective on Culture3. Perspectives on Religion II. On the Metahistorical and Transphysical Methods of Knowledge1. Some Features of the Metahistorical Method2. A Brief Description of the Transphysical Method3. Points of Departure III. The Structure of Shadanakar: Worlds of Ascent 1. The Sakwala of Enlightenment2. The Zatomis3. The Middle Planes of Shadnakar IV. The Structure of Shadanakar: The Infraphysical Planes1. The Demonic Base2. The Worlds of Retribution3. Shastrs and Witzraors V. The Structure of Shadanakar: Elementals1. Demonic Elementals2. Elementals of Light3. Perspectives on the Animal World VI. The Highest Worlds of Shadanakar1. Up to the Worlds Salvaterra2. The Logos of Shadanakar3. Femininity GlossaryIndex