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In Search of the Hidden Treasure

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This book is charged-- a direct transmission of heart and soul, light and life from Pir Vilayat Khan. Pir Vilayat is the son of the great Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan and pioneer of liberated spirituality within the US and Europe since the 1960's offers his magnum opus. The work, beautifully illustrated with inspired drawings by Mary Inayat Khan along many sacred paintings and images of the East, is a vibrant dialogue among ancient and modern Sufi masters, inquirers and students. It filled my being and will fill yours with the antidote to the delusion of our modern existence and of conventionally defined models of Reality.

This is an electric book. You can literally feel the currents flow out of the atmosphere Pir Vilayat book invokes.
The reader is placed in a timeless setting (ie. the imaginal plane) with the great Islamic and Sufi figures throughout time.
While sitting in the presence of these great sages, timeless, practical truths, strange utterances and sweet devotion all strike the reader's heart as if a bell is sounded.
I suggest reading this book as a form of contemplation. Any student of spirituality will find benefit in its pages.

Imagine yourself, sitting amidst the Octagon Room, and therein, Souls of Great Thinkers, Theosophists & Lovers glorify the Beauty of Love, the Epitome of Life itself.

An excellent book for all lovers of the Light! & a primer for seekers of Truth

This book is a creative dialogue between Sufi masters throughout the ages, taking place in the sacred atmosphere of the divine unity of the spiritual hierarchy. As other reviewers have noted, it is beautifully illustrated, and the feeling running through it is one of both crystalline intelligence and unbounded joy.
You cannot help but catch the spark by reading these pages. I recommend it to all whose hearts long for the indescribable bliss of union with the One Being.

The one qualm I have with the book is the first sentence of the dust jacket's inner flap, which reads: "Sufism is the mystical dimension of Islam, and represents both a vision and a spiritual path that exists on the periphery of the main religion, yet at the same time embodies its deepest truth." This statement is strikingly at odds with the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan's father and teacher, who described Sufism as the essence of all religions, yet belonging to none. Khan argues Sufism is to Islam as green is to Ireland -- the color has become associated with the country, yet it would be silly to suggest that there was no green before there was Ireland.

What masterpiece could exist that does not contain one exquisite flaw?

Love the book, could be difficult reading for some. Order came in a timely fashion, close to perfect condition, no problems. Perfect transaction!

We are invited to take our seats before this remarkable gathering of Sufi masters, the purpose being to instruct all seekers on the powerful path of the heart. It is an exchange that nourishes the prayerful and poetic in us, sparing no effort to illuminate what is most essential in the realm of spiritual experience. My horizons broadened, I am grateful to have discovered a map to a hidden treasure located in the heart.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan gets 'it.' Here is a Deep Sufism, a Deep Monotheism, that literally goes to the Heart of the matter. Read it if you actually get It, because this is not a text for those who do not. The organization is great, the premise is traditional and wonderful, and Khan puts you at the feet of the masters (himself, rightly, included). The tradition of Khan is deeply rational and deeply super-rational, and this text is squarely in that tradition.