#david fideler

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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Image: Alchemy - Mercury and sulfur personified / Unknown artist / Wikimedia Commons (from Wellcome Collection) / Public domain.

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The Great Work

“There is no absolute distinction between the alchemist and nature, between the inner and outer worlds. All are part of one creative, evolutionary process. Because of this alchemy has always possessed a spiritual dimension, since it is not possible to participate in the Great Work of Nature without experiencing a self-transformation. In order for the work to be successful, total participation is required. Alchemy is a comprehensive science of the cosmos in which both humanity and the larger universe are implicated.”

~ David Fideler, Restoring the Soul of the World: Our Living Bond with Nature’s Intelligence.

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[pink-lemonade-rose]

The Muses remind us that all scholarship, even science, is closely allied to the nature of art - perhaps science is *especially* allied with art because, above all other disciplines, it reveals to us the living beauty of the natural world and the laws upon which it is based. But so much in modern scholarship is artless and - dare we say - lifeless, that we would do well to invoke not only the Muses, but also their companions, the Graces. By invoking the Muses within the context of modern scholarship we not only recall our roots, but we also affirm the important role of higher inspiration in the search for authentic knowledge.

David R. Fideler, "Introduction", Alexandria Vol. 1

[majestativa]

Dear God […] Everyone asks for something from your royal threshold— but I have come to ask only for you.

— HASSAN GHAZNAVI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

[majestativa]

... your most royal beauty.

— NAJM AL-DIN RAZI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

[majestativa]

Your half-drunk languishing narcissus eyes.

— RUMI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

[majestativa]

The tip of love’s sword glanced the vein of the spirit—

When one drop emerged, its name was the heart.

— MAJD AL-DIN BAGHDADI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

[majestativa]

Made moist with love’s dew, Adam’s soil became clay.

— MAJD AL-DIN BAGHDADI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

[majestativa]

The men of His way breathe from another soul. […] They are beyond the two worlds and in another.

— NAJM AL-DIN RAZI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)