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Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn: Architect of East-West Dialogue and 20th-Century Esoteric Migration

Contents — 9 chapters
  1. Biographical foundation
  2. Monte Verità — the Mountain of Truth
  3. The Eranos achievement
  4. The Blue Book — Olga's private practice
  5. A feminine mode of spiritual authority
  6. Eranos After Olga (1962-Present)
  7. The Monte Verità Renaissance
  8. Limitations and Critiques of the Eranos Model
  9. Shared Themes

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The roots of this work — where its teaching comes from
Bardo Thödol (Tibetan Book of the Dead)Tibetan Buddhism · compiled c. 8th–14th c. CEgrounded in · high confidence
“O nobly-born, listen. Now thou art experiencing the Radiance of the Clear Light of Pure Reality. Recognize it.”
— The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz, 1927), Chikhai Bardo — the setting-face-to-face with the Clear Light
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Jewish Kabbalah (Sefer Yetzirah, Zohar, Lurianic)Jewish esotericism · classical texts c. 12th–16th c. CEgrounded in · high confidence
“In thirty-two mysterious paths of wisdom Jah, the Lord of Hosts... engraved and created His world by three Sepharim: by Number, Writing, and Word.”
— Sepher Yezirah, Ch. I, §1, trans. Isidore Kalisch (1877)
Read in full — in the Lycaeum →Sepher Yezirah: A Book on Creation — trans. Isidor Kalisch (1877)cited from Sacred Texts
Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteChristian apophatic theology · late 5th–early 6th c. CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”
— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)
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Texts of Confucianism, Part II — The Yi King (I Ching) (SBE Vol. 16)Chinese / Confucian–Yijing · core c. 1000 BCE, Ten Wings c. 300 BCE; SBE 1882grounded in · high confidence
“Khien (represents) what is great and originating, penetrating, advantageous, correct and firm.”
— The Yî King, Hexagram I (Khien) — trans. James Legge, SBE Vol. 16
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Sufism (Junayd, Ghazali, Ibn Arabi, Rumi)Islamic mysticism · c. 9th–13th c. CEgrounded in · high confidence
“Hearken to this Reed forlorn, / Breathing, ever since 'twas torn / From its rushy bed, a strain / Of impassioned love and pain.”
— The Masnavi, Book I, Proem — "The Song of the Reed," trans. E. H. Whinfield (1898)
Read in full — in the Lycaeum →Masnavi i Ma'navi — trans. E. H. Whinfield (abridged) (1898)cited from Sacred Texts