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Divine Light and Melodies Lead the Way: The Santmat Tradition of Bihar by Veena R. Howard

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Saint Sophrony Sakharov’s Vade Mecum towards the Divine Light by Ioan Chirilă, Stelian Pașca-Tușa

“…Sophrony will enable the reader to access the knowledge required to understand how one may come to partake in the divine Light.…”
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‘Vestiges of the Divine Light’: Girolamo Zanchi, Richard Hooker, and a Reformed Thomistic Natural Law Theory by Littlejohn Bradford

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Aisthetics of Religion and embodied spiritual perception: hermeneutic approaches in Hesychasm, Christian Platonism, and Aesthetics of Idealism, to ‘divine light’ and ‘mystical flight’ by Ullrich Kleinhempel

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The Category of Light in Ukrainian Art. From Byzantium to Baroque by Liudmila Miliaeva, Oleksandra Shevliuga

Subjects: “…divine light…”
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Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede’s Thoughts on Ethics: Synthesizing Peripatetic Philosophy and Sufi Thought in Ishrāqī Wisdom by İlker Kömbe

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Léirmheas: The Pearl of the Kingdom: A study of A fhir léghtha an leabhráin bhig by Giolla Brighde Ó hEódhasa / The Light of the Universe: Poems of Friendship and Consolation by Giolla Brighde Ó hEódhasa / The Dark Cave and the Divine Light: Verses on the human condition by Giolla Brighde Ó hEódhasa by Mícheál Mac Craith

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Hieroglyphiskt i Stockholms slott omkring 1900 by Bo Vahlne

“…Oskar II used the star and the anchor, syncretized masonic symbols of Divine Light and Hope, as his personal emblem. In his private dining room there is also a chandelier in the shape of a royal crown hanging from a holder in the form of a five-pointed star and an anchor. …”
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The Wound Inflicted on the Body of History: Elsa Morante between Western and Eastern Spirituality by Lucia Dell'Aia

“…According to Weil, the experience of succumbing to divine light is made possible through a meditation on the ordeal of the cross, the unconsoled affliction that strikes the soul and permits the process of ‘decreation’.  …”
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Limits of Thought in the Light of Nature and Divinity. A Return to Ancient Thought or the Quest for the Being of Primordial Thinking in the Later Heidegger by Viktor Okorokov

“…Another conclusion is, that origins of mentioned above ancient philosophical inquiries on the divine-light essence of primordial thinking, may be found in earlier, than Heidegger thinks, texts composed by Homer, Hesiod, and perhaps even in the religious philosophical texts of the Orient heritage (India, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and other ancient states), created before the sixth century BC.…”
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EXPLORING THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT OF EMERSON’S “THE OVER SOUL” IN HIS ESSAYS by Albertin Minderop

“…The result of the study concludes that “The Over Soul” or the “divine light” is able to provide the feeling of “Perfect Happiness” and became “the Whole-Man” by performing the following: having retrospect, doing introspection, contemplation and meditation in order to reinforce self-control attitude…”
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Thousands of Glittering Shards: Spirituality as Resonance in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities by Keith Dow

“…In the Kabbalah creation myth, God creates the universe by “stepping back”, releasing ten holy vessels with his light—only to have those vessels shatter with shards of divine light, or “shards” scattered throughout the earth. …”
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The Universal Light, or the Only Way to the Father? Universalism and Exclusivism in John’s Provocative Christology by Paul N. Anderson

“…What else could this mean, other than to affirm that every person has saving access to the divine Light of Christ? And yet, Jesus also declares in John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. …”
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Aspect visuel de la deification selon Denys L’areopagite by Ivanović Filip

“…Given the reality of the human person, who is called upon to receive the revelation, the Divinity cannot be perceived without the help of mediators that, for Dionysius, were "sacred veils" beneath which the divine light is hidden. The aim of this article is to highlight the role of visual elements (material objects, symbols) as the starting point in the process of deification, and in the context of the aesthetic elements of Christianity and the Church’s doctrine of deification, which owes its foundation to the Areopagite.…”
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The Great Palace of Constantinople: Eternal symbol of the state by Featherstone, J

“…Like the palaces of Constantine's semi-divine pagan predecessors, the palace of Constantinople, residence of the Christian God's representative on earth, was also sacred, as attested in the official appellation, τὸ ἱερὸν παλάτιον and in literary descriptions of the main gate of the palace, the Chalke, with its gilded bronze roof reflecting the divine light of the sun. The sixth-century poet Corippus declared the palace and its ceremonies an imitation of heaven.2 The tenth-century Byzantine emperor Constantine VII compares his Book of Ceremonies, the De Cerimoniis, to a shining mirror set up in the Great Palace in which the ceremonies of the court are reflected, representing the harmony and benevolence of the Creator in the universe. …”

Sufi Approaches to Education: The Epistemology of Imam Al-Ghazali by Muhammad Yusuf Fadhil, Saliha Sebgag

“…The conclusions of this paper are as follows: ontologically speaking, science is not an abstraction of the object being observed, but the essence of knowledge is a divine light that radiates to the soul (al-ruh ilahiyah) that exists in all humans. …”
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Heart-Centered Paths: A Comparative Study of Hesychasm and Sufism by İsa Babur

“…The discussions on divine light, knowledge of God, and transformative processes underscore shared themes, while differences in theological nuances highlight the unique paths individuals traverse in their spiritual journeys. …”
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Griffin and Hero-Deer in cosmological composition, as practical model of social development of ancient societies, on example of Pazyryk carpet (V century BC) by Polyakova, O.O.

“…It can be assumed that the tradition and image herbivorous hoofed symbolized divine light solar power, and other images of predatory Gryphon tradition symbolized the real strength of the earth in their binary code change of light and darkness, life and death, good and evil - as displayed in the minds of rotating constellation rising or setting on the horizon. …”
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The Philosophy of Illumination: Esotericism in Shihāb ad-Dīn Suhrawardī’s Sufism by Ridhatullah Assya'bani, Ghulam Falach

“…Suhrawardī believes that only a clean soul can be connected to the divine light, wherein at that level, one can get intuitive wisdom, or in Sufism, it is called the laduni knowledge. …”
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