Years ago before Gurdjieff I read two or three of this series. Last night I had a sudden remembering of it all, the impact back then and wanted to look those books up again. I hit this page and thought how appropriate, Anulios - these things from our past that ‘never allow one to sleep in peace’ like books like this in my past. And now, I try to see all the lines together as described by Beelzebub, and I wonder if I should go back and look at these books again. Maybe it’s like wanting to hear old songs, to reawaken old selves and bring them all together again.
Back then, I did not read the whole series, out-of-print books were hard to find and there were only a few at my library. But they appeared at a key moment, when I felt I was putting the finishing touches on an inner-conviction that all religious leaders of different cultures were brothers and they were all saying the same message.
When you said:
“God guides those to Him who are pleased by God.”
I realized how I had only ever hit the one interpretation, that God does what he wants. It makes me see also Anulios, the call from the past, that there are many tiny moments of realization from the past, probably from reading these books and others, buried in the past, waiting to be reactivated. How many times have I remembered a major truth to realize at the same time how I first thought of it 3 years ago and never since? If only they could all be brought together.
You reminded me they can be brought together. I enjoyed your article.
Tom Mathewson
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Posted by Tom Mathewson on 07/15 at 08:40 PM
Hi Tom, thanks for the comments. Oddly - if you are into coincidentally happenstance - I have also been re-reading the Islamic Space book for the last week.
It does indeed have great depth of meaning and many layers.
Good luck!
Posted by segovius on 07/16 at 10:19 AM
The Islamic Space
A few days ago I felt an urge to read a book that I have not read for about 20 years. This was a bit odd because I have thousands of books and I didn’t really ever like this book so I hadn’t thought so much about it - although at the time I read it I was very into ‘ecstatic’ aspects of Sufism and felt in the over-imaginative way that one sometimes can that it had engendered some sort of ‘mystical experience’.
Anyway, this book, The Islamic Space
by William Corlett and John Moore somehow ‘popped into my head’ a few days ago so I found it and started to re-read it.