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Summer 2000

Vol 6, No 1

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In this issue
articles

On the Death of Flora Courtois

From the Editors

The Extrapolated Universe

by Wolfgang Smith

Supplementary Notes on Christian Initiation

by Marco Pallis, foreword by Rama P. Coomaraswamy

Contemplation (Knowledge) and Action (Power):

A Commentary on a Coomaraswamy Sutra

by A. K. Saran

Frithjof Schuon seen through his Handwriting

by Mark Perry

The Face:

Five Stages

by Rusmir Mahmutcehajic

The Jaina Path of Knowledge

by Lynna R. Dhanani

Review Articles

Hikam: Paroles de sagesse suivi d'un choix d'Epitres et des Entretiens confidentiels

by Ibn `Ata-Illah al-Iskandari

Reviewed by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Mecca The Blessed, Medina The Radiant:

The Holiest Cities of Islam

Text by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Photos by Ali Kazuyoshi Nomachi

Reviewed by Maryam Jameelah

Knowledge Is Light

Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Zailan Moris, editor

Reviewed by Waleed El-Ansary

The Music of Silence:

A Composer's Testament

by John Tavener, edited by Brian Keeble

Reviewed by Katherine O'Brien