The Aletheon - Hardcover

Adi Da Samraj

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570972737 ISBN 13: 9781570972737

Publisher: The Dawn Horse Press, 2009

Synopsis

The Aletheon is a fathomless gift to the world - immense in both its scope and profundity. It is a supreme masterpiece of wisdom, instruction, and Divine Self-Revelation.
During the final three years of his life, Avatar Adi Da created this scripture-moved by his indefatigable impulse to 'say everything' to everyone. His work on The Aletheon ended on the very day of his passing when he called for the title page of The Aletheon and finalized the wording on that page, thereby forever bringing to a close his final great writing-labor of love.
Adi Da had written many extraordinary and comprehensive books before The Aletheon. The early years of Avatar Adi Da's active Teaching-Work were an astounding demonstration of his willingness to submit himself to ordinary egos, and to work by reflecting egos to themselves and calling egos to true esoteric practice. What is unique about The Aletheon is that it was written after that time of submission to ordinary beings had been completed, when Avatar Adi Da was demonstrating the culminating phase of his outshining revelation. In writing The Aletheon, Avatar Adi Da had utterly relinquished his previous modes of self-submission and teaching, and expressed only his own purest communication of Truth.
In summary The Aletheon includes:
* Penetrating consideration of true and false understandings of God, religion, and human existence altogether
* Adi Da's unique revelation of the Divinely Enlightened condition
* His confession of his own purpose and work
* A description of the practice he offers to all who are moved to become his devotees.

The Aletheon contains four chapters, twenty-seven parts, a full biography, and extensive reference materials.

First Word through Part Five opens with Avatar Adi Da's Self-Disclosing statements - relative to who he is and what the purpose of his word is. He also presents his fundamental arguments relative to conventional religion versus the true esoteric process, the primacy of devotion, and the seven stages of life.

Part Six through Part Eight presents Avatar Adi Da's 'overview' statements about and definitions of the Reality-Way of Adidam including the essential essay Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga.

Part Nine through Part Ten includes his more extended and detailed statements about the Reality-Way of Adidam including fundamental summary statements relative to devotion, right life, and 'Perfect Knowledge'.

Part Eleven through Part Thirteen includes two essential texts relating to the beginnings of the Transcendental Spiritual process; The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries and Hridaya Rosary.

Part Fourteen is devoted entirely to essays on Perfect Philosophy.

Part Fifteen through Part Eighteen contains many of Avatar Adi Da's most fundamental and ecstatic Communications about the 'Perfect Practice' of Adidam.

Part Nineteen through Last Word presents a completely astounding series of Self-Confessional Divine Statements by Avatar Adi Da including The Boundless Self-Confession, and a great many more.

Over 2300 pages, The Aletheon is also available in an eight-volume softcover edition. The contents of the hardbound and softcover editions are identical including the full text of The Aletheon, over one hundred photographs of Avatar Adi, a full biography, and extensive reference materials. Both editions come in a beautiful slipcase adorned with a stunning logo-image, created by Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

About this title

About the Author

On November 27, 2008, Adi Da Samraj, departed from the body. He passed on to humankind a legacy of inexhaustible profundity and limitless Blessing-Power. Adi Da's primary gift is his own Eternal Transcendental Spiritual Being. The primary purpose of his human lifetime was to establish the means by which any and all beings could be truly connected to him and in devotional communion with him. Thus, he worked with utmost intensity, throughout his entire life, to develop and establish his Transcendental Spiritual Way.

Adi Da's literary, philosophical, and practical writings consist of over sixty published books including The Knee of Listening, his Spiritual Autobiography, The Dawn Horse Testament, his magisterial revelation of the entire Spiritual Process from beginning to end, and The Aletheon, his final (and first and foremost) book. In addition to his writings, Adi Da gave thousands of hours of recorded discourse. Many discourses have been published by The Dawn Horse Press on CD and DVD.

Adi Da was a prolific artist, producing a remarkable body of work in different media. He was invited to show his work in a solo exhibition at the 2007 Venice Biennale, and also as part of the 2008 Winter in Florence and his work will be shown in New York. Among the publications of Adi Da's art are The World As Light, Transcendental Realism, and The Spectra Suites.

Another dimension to Adi Da's far-reaching legacy is the social wisdom embodied in his book Not-Two Is Peace. In it he calls for the establishment of a Global Cooperative Forum that mobilizes 'everybody-all-at-once' on the basis of recognizing the prior (or inherent) unity of the entire human family. He proposes that such a forum is the necessary and effective means for addressing the world's most pressing issues.

In Praise of Adi Da Samraj

'I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.'
--Irina Tweedie, Sufi teacher; author, Chasm of Fire

'He is a great teacher with the dynamic ability to awaken in his listeners something of the divine Reality in which he is grounded, with which he is identified, and which in fact, he is.'
--Israel Regardie, Author, The Golden Dawn

'It is obvious, from all sorts of subtle details, that he knows what IT's all about . . . a rare being.'
--Alan Watts, Author, The Way of Zen, Man and Woman, In My Own Way

'I regard the work of Adi Da and his devotees as one of the most penetrating spiritual and social experiments happening on the planet in our era.'
--Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D. Host, PBS Series Thinking Allowed and author.

'Through his words I have experienced a glimmering of eternal life, and view my own existence as timeless and spaceless in a way that I never have before.'
--Richard Grossinger, author, Planet Medicine, The Night Sky

Praise for Not-Two Is Peace

'Absolutely brilliant. Undauntingly honest. Staggeringly bold. A breathtaking call to humankind to wake up'
--Charmian Anderson, Doctor of Transpersonal Psychology and author.

'Profound wisdom on the root of human conflict, and the path away from a grim destiny. An astonishing gift'
--Jonathan Lynch, Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Praise for Avatar Adi Da's Transcendental Realism Art

'It is a rare artist who can convey, convincingly, the sense of being face to face with the source of being. Adi Da can clearly live in the depths without succumbing to their pressure, bringing back pearls of art to prove it.'
--Donald Kuspit, Critic, Professor of Art History and Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Review

Nothing like this has ever been Revealed before. We have waited for this moment in history for countless lifetimes. Adi Da Samraj is the True Heart of the world. --Roger Savoie. philosopher, writer, and translator; author, La Vipere et le Lion: La Voie radicale de la Spiritualite

About this edition

• Publisher: The Dawn Horse Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1570972737
• ISBN 13: 9781570972737
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 2300