The Universe as Symbols & Signs
Subtitle: An essay on Mysticism in the Eastern Church
Edition: Ebook edition
Publisher: St. Tikhon's Monastery Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: South Canaan / Waymart, Pennsylvania
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 980
ISBN-13: 978-1878997906
Copyright date: 2014
First sentence: Many people in the West think of the mysticism of Eastern Christianity as something unreal and imaginary, as a dreamy and vague thinking in the clouds.
Table of contents: title: Forward; label: Chapter 1
title: Introduction; label: Chapter 2
title: Earth, Sun and Stars as Symbols; label: Chapter 3
title: Recognition of the Truth; label: Chapter 4
title: Minerals as Symbols; label: Chapter 5
title: The Plants as Symbols; label: Chapter 6
title: Animals as Symbols; label: Chapter 7
title: Recognition of Truth; label: Chapter 8
title: Places, Things, Tools and Constructions as Symbols; label: Chapter 9
title: Action, Situations and Occupations as Symbols; label: Chapter 10
title: Dreams as Signals; label: Chapter 11
title: Events as Signals; label: Chapter 12
title: Thoughts and Feelings as Signs; label: Chapter 13
title: Ordinary or Normal Happenings as Signs; label: Chapter 14
title: Natural Phenomena and Cataclysms as Signals; label: Chapter 15
title: War, Famine, and Pestilence as Signals; label: Chapter 16
title: Man as a Sign to Man; label: Chapter 17
title: The Signs of the End of the World; label: Chapter 18
title: The Difference between Symbols and Signals or Signs; label: Chapter 19
title: The Recognition of the Truth; title: Notes