7 Mysteries: Contemplative Arts for the Modern MysticThis ground-breaking book takes meditation, contemplation and prayer and makes them accessible to anyone interested in personal evolution. Using the symbolic information encoded in the number 7, and a set of beads designed to take advantage of the many sets of ``7 Mysteries'' in human cultures, Rev. Alesia Matson D.D. places before the reader a banquet of choices for contemplative study, then in a warmly engaging way shows how these ``sets of 7'' can literally transform an entire life -- for the better. From an interview with Dr. Matson, published in the March 2004 issue of The New Age Journal: ``There is a reason why 7 occurs so often as a set delimiter, and each time it does it's reminding us in a covert way of why we're here: Evolution. Transformation. Transcendence.'' Personal evolution. Self empowerment. World transformation. Presented without devotion to any one dogma or doctrine. Let 7 Mysteries: Contemplative Arts for the Modern Mystic be your guide into a more powerful, higher functioning you! |
Contents
Modern Mysticism | 24 |
Encoding Transformation | 39 |
The Seven Mysteries | 47 |
A Modern Mystics Prayer Beads | 54 |
The Incarnation Mystery Bead | 62 |
The Seven Colors of the Rainbow | 79 |
Seven Sacred Directions | 89 |
The Tree of Yggdrasill | 95 |
Seven Contrary Virtues | 147 |
The Lords Prayer | 157 |
The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan | 165 |
The Seven of Cups in Classic Tarot | 172 |
Seven Rays | 179 |
The Mystery of Divine Trinities | 190 |
Inviting Your Soul | 200 |
Creating Your Own | 212 |
Seven Archangels | 102 |
The Pleiades | 108 |
Seven Auric Layers | 121 |
Seven Gates of Gondolin | 130 |
Seven Valleys | 138 |
Other Works on the Mysteries of 7 | 225 |
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Common terms and phrases
ability Æsir Allow your awareness archangels archetypal beauty become begin Benzaiten body breath Center meditation chakra Chopra color compassion contemplative artist contemplative arts cord created creation creative cultures Daikokuten Deepak Deepak Chopra discipline Divine Consciousness Divine Trinity emotional energy experience fear feel fingers focus Fukurokuju Gate Gondolin healing heart Hindu honor human impulse truth Incarnation Mystery bead Joseph Campbell judgement Kabbalah Ken Wilber knot kundalini lamp larger beads light literal lives Lord's Prayer manifest metaphoric mind minor mystery beads Mjöllnir Modern Mystics moon mystery beads mystic nature one’s orison phase physical planet practitioner prayer beads reality recite religious response rhythm sacred seed bead seeker sefirot sense sets of seven Seven Mysteries Seven of Cups soul space spiritual stage step Surrender symbolic teaching things thought tion traditions transcend Tuor understanding Undifferentiated Source Valley Vanaheimr words Yggdrasill