Add this copy of God Speaks: The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose to cart. $40.00, like new condition, Sold by Good Karma Bookshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rio Vista, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Sufism Reoriented.
Edition:
Second edition (revised and enlarged), third printing 1997
Publisher:
Sufism Reoriented
Published:
1997
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17290013909
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Some shelfwear to dust jacket; bookseller's sticker on inside of front cover, else internally as new. White cloth over boards. 8vo (6.25 x 9.5 inches). 313 p. Illustrated with 10 fold-out color charts and one add'l chart in rear pocket. "God Speaks" is Meher Baba's most complete statement of the process of Creation and its purpose. This recent reprinting maintains the contents of the 1973 revised edition while presenting the material in a new style. A contemporary format makes the work attractive and easier to read for today's audiences.
Add this copy of God Speaks to cart. $41.60, like new condition, Sold by Kona Bay Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kailua-Kona, HI, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Dodd Mead.
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Used-Like New in Very Good jacket. Like new condition! Includes fold out poster of Mystic, Sufi, and Vedantic Terms Related to the PLanes of Consciousness as used in God Speaks. Dust jacket lightly bumped along the top edge, but otherwise pristine.
Add this copy of God Speaks: the Theme of Creation and Its Purpose to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Sufism Reoriented.
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Very good. Wear and bumping to corners is consistent with age, handling and use. Binding is tight and secure. All pages are intact and free of all marks or highlights. Book is wrapped in a poly bag for further preservation. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Add this copy of God Speaks (Gebundene Ausgabe)Von Meher Baba (Autor) to cart. $112.42, very good condition, Sold by LLU- BOOKSERVICE ANTIQUARIAN rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wahlstedt, S-H, GERMANY, published 1997 by Sufism Reoriented.
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Very good. God Speaks is Meher Baba's most complete statement of the process of Creation and its purpose. This recent reprinting maintains the contents of the 1973 revised edition while presenting the material in a new style. A contemporary format makes the work attractive and easier to read for today's audiences. God Speaks incorporates all of life into a spiritual saga. The only protagonist is God, and his story encompasses all individual biographies. It is God himself who becomes the three basic processes for the growth and transformation of consciousness: evolution, reincarnation and involution (the spiritual path of return to Himself). The first phase of God's journey is evolution. It is initiated from a totally unconscious God as if an infinite Ocean were in a state likened to deep sleep. This unconscious God speaks the First Word "Who am I? ". This question disrupts the limitless, undivided, absolute vacuum, and its reverberations create individualized souls, compared to drops or bubbles within the Ocean. By speaking the First Word, God establishes the process of Creation, in which he assumes evolving forms to gain increasing consciousness. Individuality is the vehicle of this quest. Evolution marks a series of temporary answers to "Who am I? " The soul traverses a multitude of forms, beginning with simples gases and proceeding slowly through inanimate stone and mineral forms. These early evolutionary stages obviously have only the most rudimentary consciousness and cannot provide a satisfactory answer to God's original question. The original query thus provides a continuing momentum for the drop soul to develop new forms each with greater consciousness, including the many plant and animal beings. Every evolutionary kingdom reveals new dimensions of consciousness and experience. Each also offers opportunities to gain different kinds of awareness. For example, when the soul identifies itself with varied species of fish, it experiences the world as a creature living in waterconversely, as a bird, it enriches its consciousness by flying through air. When the drop soul finally evolves to human form, consciousness is fully developed, but an individual is still not aware of the potential of his or her consciousness. So the original "Who am I? " imperative persists and inaugurates the second phase: reincarnation. Since consciousness is fully developed, there is no longer a need for evolving new forms. The individual's experience, gathered in early stages of evolution, is now humanized and expressed in countless lifetimes. The impulses gained in sub-human forms can play themselves out in the broader context of intelligence, emotions, choices, diverse setting and interactions with people. But obviously no single lifetime can bear the burden of "humanizing" the entire evolutionary inheritance randomly or simultaneously. There must be a method for re-experiencing the pre-human legacy in manageable segments. The soul thus experiences alternately a series of opposites, organized according to themes. Accordingly, in different lives, the soul becomes male and female, rich and poor, vigorous and weak, beautiful and ugly. Through exploring the potential of these many opposites, one eventually exhausts all possible human identities and, therefore, has fully learned the entire range of human experience. Here begins the third phase: involution, the process by which the soul returns to the full awareness of the Divine Force, which created him. As Meher Baba puts it, "When the consciousness of the soul is ripe for disentanglement from the gross world (the everyday world of matter and forms(, it enters the spiritual path and turns inward." Like evolution, involution has certain states and stages, consisting of "planes" and "realms." But individuality continues along this spiritual path. In fact, the book quotes the Sufi saying "There are as many ways to God as there are souls...." Each new plane denotes a state of being that...
