Parabola's Summer 2001 Issue:
Light If light ceased to shine, all being would vanish into nothingness --from "The Most Noble of Phenomena"
Cover:The Empyrian By Gustave Dorv©, from Dante's
Divine Comedy (Paradiso, XXXI:1, 2) Berlin: W. Moeser, c. 1868. Reprinted in the Dover Archive Series (New York: Dover, 1976).
In this issue:
- PORTFOLIO: "Mixing Matter and Energy" - Photographs by Walter Chappell; text by Riversong Chappell
- "Tv?r na Sorcha" by Mara Freeman - The radiance of the Celtic Otherworld
- "On the First Day" by Howard Schwartz - How things become visible
- "Festivals of Fire and Flame" by Suzan Donleavy-Johnston - Celebrating the unity of opposites
- "Prayer to the East" by Black Elk - The Oglala Sioux sweat lodge purification
- "Recognition of Being" - An Interview with Georg Kuhlewind
- "Amita Buddha's Radiant Life" - From the Sukhavativyuha Sutra
- "Light Who Loves Her Sister Darkness" by Madronna Holden - Inanna's descent to the Underworld
- "The Eye of the Beholder" by Christian Wertenbaker - Divinity and consciousness in tradition
- "'The Most Noble of Phenomena'" by Otto von Simson - Lighting the Gothic cathedrals
- "Luminous Alignments" by David Fideler - The harmonious life of the cosmos
- "Beyond the Curtain" by Marvin Barrett - Luminescence in the near-death experience
- "A Hidden Illumination" by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson - The secret beginning of creation
- "Kindling the Deepa" by Rama Devagupta - The Hindu celebration of light
- "Divine Unity" by Titus Burckhardt - The use of form in Islam
- PORTFOLIO:"Visible Vessels" - Photograms by Susannah Hays; text by Jacques Lusseyran
Tangents - Reviews
- "'The Initial Glimpse of Spirit'" - An interview with Huston Smith
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
- "Raven Steals the Light" / Native American (Tlingit) - retold by Mary Helen Pelton
- "Tucumv£: The Origin of Night" / Brazilian (Tupi) - retold by Nilaya Prado dos Anjos
- "Maui Snares the Sun" / Hawaiian - retold by Caren Loebel-Fried
- "The Slaying of Narakasura" / Hindu - retold by Rama Devagupta
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