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The Mark

English · Paperback / Softback

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2021 Reprint of the 1954 U.S. Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book is a companion to The New Man by the same author. Nicoll discusses, by way of the Gospels, the idea that real religion is about realizing the potential for spiritual change, latent but unborn, that exists in everyone. "The Mark" is the realization of this transformation. The author explains that in the Gospels the word translated as "sin" means in the literal Greek "missing the mark", as of a spear thrown at some object and failing to hit it. And from meaning to miss the mark it came to mean failing in one's purpose, and so erring or wrongdoing. It is Dr. Nicoll's contention that when a man is overpowered by outer life and influenced only by outside agency that person is machine-driven by his senses, but internally on the wrong road. Such a person is dominated by external life and has no spiritual life. That part of them which is truly real, and from which their own individual existence and growth can begin, is lost. It is in the wrong place. And this is sin. That is, in this sense, everyone has missed the mark, missed the idea of their own true existence.

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One of the leading British psychologists of his time, Maurice Nicoll (1884 - 1953) was a student of C.Jung, G.I.Gurdjieff and P.D.Ouspensky. At Ouspensky's request, he devoted the last twenty years of his life to passing on the ideas he had received from his teachers. This devotion culminated in a five volume work: Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky.

Product details

Authors Maurice Nicoll
Publisher Martino Fine Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 27.03.2021
 
EAN 9781684225392
ISBN 978-1-68422-539-2
No. of pages 228
Dimensions 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
Weight 395 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works

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