Emotions and Ethics the Intellect: Vol.5: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

Paul Brunton

ISBN 10: 8178223821 / ISBN 13: 9788178223827

Published by Motilal Banarsidass, 2012

About this Item

In a Search in Secret Egypt Paul Brunton wrote briefly of "the street that grows red flowers"-one of seven steps awaiting all who would enter the secret chamber of the heart's mysteries. Emotions and Ethics, Part 1 of this fifth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton, is a detailed guide to this pivotal stage of spiritual development. It shows clearly how to claim one's full humanity through controlling, purifying, and transmuting the flowers of passion inherited from our animal nature. Part 2, The Intellect, evaluates the thinking faculty. It demonstrates the transformative potential, and the limitations, of intellectual understanding in spiritual practice.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emotions and Ethics the Intellect: Vol.5: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8178223821
• ISBN 13: 9788178223827
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

The question is whether...to accept the baser weaknesses as human or...to struggle against them as unworthy of a human being. Unsound theoretical principals can never lead to sound practical deeds.

A small mentality can only mangle a large truth. -Paul Brunton



In a Search in Secret Egypt, Paul Brunton wrote briefly of the street that grows red flowers-one of the seven steps awaiting all who would enter the secret chamber of the heart's mysteries. This is a detailed guide to this pivotal stage of spiritual development. It shows clearly how to claim one's full humanity through controlling, purifying, and transmuting the flowers of passion inherited from our animal nature.

Part 2, The Intellect, evaluates the thinking faculty. It demonstrates the transformative potential, and the limitations, of intellectual understanding in spiritual practice.

About the Author

Paul Brunton (1898-1981) was one of this century's most dynamic spiritual authors. His ten early books (1934-1954) awakened millions in the west to the treasure of oriental wisdom and mystical practice.