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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art
history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A
scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and
philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of
art transcends history, and a social thinker influenced by William
Morris, Coomaraswamy was a unique figure whose works provide
virtually a complete education in themselves. Finding a universal
tradition in past cultures ranging from the Hellenic and Christian
to the Indian, Islamic, and Chinese, he collated his ideas and
symbols of ancient wisdom into the sometimes complex, always
rewarding pattern of essays. "The Door in the Sky" is a collection
of the author's writings on myth drawn from his "Metaphysics" and
"Traditional Art and Symbolism," both originally published in
Bollingen Series. These essays were written while Coomaraswamy was
curator in the department of Asiatic Art of the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts, where he built the first large collection of Indian art
in the United States.
This work, the third panel of a triptych dedicated by the author to
the notion of illness derived from the patristic and hagiographic
texts of the Christian East from the first to the fourteenth
centuries, makes an essential contribution to the history of mental
illnesses and their therapies in a domain very little studied until
now. Confronted by the numerous problems still posed today in
understanding these illnesses, their treatment, and their
relationship to those who are sick, he shows the importance offered
for reflection and current practice by early Christian thought and
experience. After indicating how the Fathers understood the psyche
and its relationship with body and spirit, the author gives a
detailed analysis of the different causes they attribute to mental
illness and the various treatments recommended. At the same time he
shows how, relying on fundamental Christian values, they manifest a
constant solicitude and respect for the sick, and how they are at
pains to integrate them into community life and have them
participate in their own healing, foreshadowing in this way the
needs and aspirations of our own time. The last part discloses the
deep significance of one of the strangest and most fascinating
forms of asceticism the Christian East has known: 'folly for the
sake of Christ', a madness feigned with the goal of attaining a
high degree of humility, but also a way well-suited, through a
close experience of their condition, to help those who are often
among, today as in the past, the most destitute. Jean-Claude
Larchet is docteur des lettres et sciences humaines, docteur en
theologie, and docteur d'Etat en philosophie. The author of
Therapeutique des maladies spirituelles (Paris: Editions de
l'Ancre, 1991) and The Theology of Illness (Crestwood, New York: St
Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2002), he is a specialist in questions
of health, sickness, and healing. He is today one of the foremost
St Maximus the Confessor specialists.
This work, the third panel of a triptych dedicated by the author to
the notion of illness derived from the patristic and hagiographic
texts of the Christian East from the first to the fourteenth
centuries, makes an essential contribution to the history of mental
illnesses and their therapies in a domain very little studied until
now. Confronted by the numerous problems still posed today in
understanding these illnesses, their treatment, and their
relationship to those who are sick, he shows the importance offered
for reflection and current practice by early Christian thought and
experience. After indicating how the Fathers understood the psyche
and its relationship with body and spirit, the author gives a
detailed analysis of the different causes they attribute to mental
illness and the various treatments recommended. At the same time he
shows how, relying on fundamental Christian values, they manifest a
constant solicitude and respect for the sick, and how they are at
pains to integrate them into community life and have them
participate in their own healing, foreshadowing in this way the
needs and aspirations of our own time. The last part discloses the
deep significance of one of the strangest and most fascinating
forms of asceticism the Christian East has known: 'folly for the
sake of Christ', a madness feigned with the goal of attaining a
high degree of humility, but also a way well-suited, through a
close experience of their condition, to help those who are often
among, today as in the past, the most destitute. Jean-Claude
Larchet is docteur des lettres et sciences humaines, docteur en
theologie, and docteur d'Etat en philosophie. The author of
Therapeutique des maladies spirituelles (Paris: Editions de
l'Ancre, 1991) and The Theology of Illness (Crestwood, New York: St
Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2002), he is a specialist in questions
of health, sickness, and healing. He is today one of the foremost
St Maximus the Confessor specialists.
"The Problem with the Other Sacraments is a must read for anyone
who is concerned about saving their immortal soul and understanding
deceptions and errors of the Second Vatican Council. In this book,
Dr. Coomaraswamy exposes the defects of the sacraments of the
Conciliar Church. He exposes the planned self-destruction of the
Church as designed and executed by the Conciliar and Post-Conciliar
progressive clergy, and their subtle plan to crucify the Church by
destroying the sacraments." Bishop Joseph S. Macek]"Today, we are
witnessing the auto-destruction of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
For the past 2,000 years, Satan has sought to destroy the Faith by
perverting the truths that Christ taught the Apostles. Beginning in
Jesus's own time with the betrayal of the arch-heretic Judas
Iscariot, and continuing through the centuries, waves of error have
threatened to destroy the Church, only to break and be dashed upon
the Rock of Peter. With the inception of the Second Vatican
Council, however, this spirit of arch-heresy has been welcomed into
the Church of Rome by progressivists. Today, we are witnessing the
sin of malfeasance. Priests, Bishops, Cardinals, and Popes have
embraced the spirit of Judas Iscariot and have betrayed Christ by
allowing the Church to be destroyed from within. Satan is having
His hour."Traditions are not 'changed', they are either kept or
discarded. Destroy Christian (Catholic) Tradition-immemorial, if
not Apostolic, ceremonies, laws and practices of the Church-and you
undermine the Church itself. Such was the strategy of the
modernists who, under the aegis of John XXIII's aggiornamento
('updating'), quickly seized control of the Second Vatican Council,
which laid the groundwork for the overthrowing of Tradition. The
revision of the Mass and the sacraments came in the wake of the
Council; the specific changes made to the sacraments other than the
Mass are well documented here by Dr. Coomaraswamy." Bishop Robert
F. McKenna, O.P]
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