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Karen Armstrong · 1993
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
What this book knows
God is not a fixed entity but a human history of evolving ideas shaped by culture, suffering, and the hunger for meaning.
faith-and-doubt
God, the omnipresent and omnipotent, is not limited by any one creed… everyone praises what he believes; his god is his own creature.
HGKA-RC-353God can be found only in suffering and the Cross… the true theologian sees the invisible things of God through suffering.
HGKA-RC-271Einstein claimed mysticism was 'the sower of all true art and science': what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as highest wisdom.
HGKA-RC-414self-and-identity
The God of the mystics is not an objective reality but profoundly subjective… all men are essentially divine.
HGKA-RC-343My servant continues drawing nearer to me… I become his ear through which he hears, his eye through which he sees.
HGKA-RC-193mortality
Some even seem to have believed that their wealth would give them a certain immortality. But Muhammad believed this new confidence was misplaced.
HGKA-RC-164Illuminates
6 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
Reader resonance signals for text sources are not wired to this view yet.
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