Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth
Subtitle: From Mazdean Iran to ShiìIte Iran (Bollingen Series, Xci, 2)
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: May 1977
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780691099378
Subjects: Islam; Psychology; Religion; General; Islam - Sufism; Sufism; Iran
First sentence: In a book entitled On the Question of the Soul, G. T. Fechner tells how on a spring morning, while a transfiguring light cast a halo over the face of the earth, he was struck not merely by the esthetic idea, but by the vision and concrete evidence that "the Earth is an Angel, such a gorgeously real Angel, so like a flower!"