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TRUTH IS THE ESSENCE OF HEALING
As I'm sure you are aware, the Sufis have a fine tradition of perfecting the remembrance of God. And the basis of the myriad techniques developed by them was taught to us in the course of His most recent revelation of what to believe and how to believe it, the religion of Islam (which by the way, means "The Way to Surrender"). And it is stated clearly in the Holy Qur`an, "Surely it is in the Remembrance of God that the Hearts find Satisfaction." This singular phrase is the basis of all Islamic healing, realization and psychotherapeutic techniques, not to mention all of the other estimable social skills that arose as a result of those peaceful years in Islamic history. It is also the ultimate outcome of Western spiritual psychology. Soul-power is the single most constructive, beautifying and life-enhancing creative force in history, and conversely, ego and fear accomplish only destruction. The entire Islamic civilization - the one from which the crusaders, thence the Knights Templar, thence the Masons, thence the modern western world as we know it today learned the simple sciences of architecture, agriculture and irrigation, personal and public hygiene, just taxation and social equity, to mention only a few - was built upon this principle. How then can it not be personally important and socially significant now? |