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This issue prints chapters from a book on Robert Duncan that describe the infuence of theosophy and other hermetic orders in his youth on his poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an apparent existential philosophical essay written by Lueck with surrealistivc illustrations by Potvin. It was Potvin's personal copy dedicated to him as Floyd (Potvin's middle name) by Lueck with a drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In a mass mailing to friends, Merton writes that he is learning about Buddhism on this Asian trip. He also mentions three long meetings with the Dalai Lama. He describes other spiritual meetings and indicates that he is entirely involved with monastic encounters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover by Sister Mary Corita reprints a colored rubberstamped text of the title and subtitle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This posthumous list of May 1969 lists Merton's publications and indicates that even at this date Monks Pound was out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Although known as a concrete poet, critic, translator, and artist in the art and poetry worlds, Houedard was also well versed in religious thoughts and traditions. Educated in the Christian monastic and contemplative traditions, Dom Sylvester had a deep knowledge of many forms of belief, which he saw as different expressions of a single wisdom. A pioneer of the wider ecumenism, he had active contacts with Tibetan Buddhism and the work of the great Islamic mystic Muhyddin Ibn' Arabi. In these talks given near the end of his life, Dom Sylvester illuminates the meanings embedded in six of Eckhart's greatest sermons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This a rough draft for a theologic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dom (Pierre-)Sylvester Houédard (16 February 1924"“15 January 1992), also known under the acronym dsh, was a Benedictine priest, theologian and noted concrete poet. Born on Guernsey, Houédard was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959. Houédard was a leading exponent of concrete poetry, with regular contributions to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s onward. His elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems ("typestracts") were scattered across many chapbooks, including Kinkon (1965) and Tantric Poems Perhaps (1966). Among his best-known works is the poem Frog-Pond-Plop, his English rendition of a zen haiku by Matsuo Basho. Houédard became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961. Houédard cultivated an interest in multiple religious traditions; he wrote commentaries on Meister Eckhart and was a founder...

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This letter page might be a seicond of two that cannot be found. In it, Houedard discusses the religious life of monks as seen from the outside world.The remainder of the letter deals with meeting the person to whom it is addressed. Desmond, a prisoner that dsh befriended is also mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author of this text is an important Spanish concrete poet. This book is concerned with practices of the Catholic Church in Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a transcript of a talk dealing with Marxism and Buddhism on the day Merton met his death as a result of an auto accident. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Wikipedia: Hasan al-Sabbah حسن الصباح was an Iranian missionary and founder of Nizari Ismai'li who converted a community in the late 11th century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern Persia. He later seized a mountain fortress called Alamut and used it as the headquarters for a decentralized Persian insurrection against the dominant Seljuk Turks. He founded a group of fedayeen whose members are often referred to as the Hashshashin, or "Assassins". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Although this is a letter to Charles Cameron, it could be considered a manuscript as Houedard expounds on the etymology of logec or logos and touches upon points later made in Wikipedia. Wikipedia: Logos (/ˈloÊŠÉ¡É’s/, /ˈlÉ’É¡É’s/, or /ˈloÊŠÉ¡oÊŠs/; Greek: λόγος, from λέγω lego "I say") is an important term in philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion. Originally a word meaning "a ground", "a plea", "an opinion", "an expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", it became a technical term in philosophy, beginning with Heraclitus (ca. 535"“475 BC), who used the term for a principle of order and knowledge. Ancient philosophers used the term in different ways. The sophists used the term to mean discourse, and Aristotle applied the term to refer to "reasoned discourse" or "the argument" in the field of rhetoric.The Stoic philosophers identified the term with the divine animating principle pervading the Universe. Under Hellenistic Judaism, Philo (ca. 20 BC "“ AD...

Scope and Contents An author and artist of the occult, Spare first created and published this book in 1913. His work can be compared to William Blake or Aubrey Beardsley; however it is more involved with witchcraft and sorcery. The illustrations contain hieroglyphics that Spare believed were the remains of an occult language; they were used by priests performing magical rituals. Spare himself believed he was in communications with extra-terrestrial intelligences. He sent a copy of "The Book of Pleasure" to Sigmund Freud who described it as "one of the most significant revelations of subconscious mechanisms that had appeard in modern times." Kenneth Grant contributed an introduction and biography to this 1975 edition of 1000 numbered copies; the Sackner copy is unnumbered.Spare conceived of the notion of "Sigils" in his philosophy. Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy, e.g., all heraldry, crests, momograms, are Sigils and the Karma they govern. Sigils are made by combing...

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This essay deals with the character of Dom Sylvester Houedard. Luytens is a religious commentator. This essay is stored with Houedard material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.