Thursday, September 12, 2013

A Veiled Gazelle (1978)

From The Idries Shah Foundation:


A Veiled Gazelle


Idries_Shah_e-books35 (Custom)A ‘Veiled Gazelle’, as the great mystic Ibn Arabi explains in his Interpreter of Desires, is a subtlety, an organ of higher perception.


Sufi experientialists refer to the activation of these centres of awareness as the awakening of real knowledge of Truth beyond form.


A Veiled Gazelle considers the symbolic and instrumental employment of its literature in Sufi studies. Seldom didactic, and never meant only as entertainment, such works are regarded as some of the world’s greatest and most important writing.
Read the full text of  A VEILED GAZELLE: SEEING HOW TO SEE.


Printed copies are available from The Octagon Press and ebooks will soon be available for Kindle and other ebook readers.



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