Seven Pillars House of Wisdom is dedicated to fostering beauty and depth in human culture. We seek to cultivate awareness of the unity of existence and the qualities of heart that naturally arise from this awareness: nobility of character, genuine civility, and unlimited creative optimism. Seven Pillars offers dialogues, media, courses and events focused on four primary areas: Cosmology, Revelation, Mysticism and Chivalry.
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I am disappointed after my search through the sphw website to find no mention of allah (allahu ahad) in the cosmology articles. Isn't allah to be found above the eight mountain goats who reside above the sea located above the seventh heaven? And in all the talk of stars, umpteen or seven septillion, nowhere is it considered that the english word star just might have etymologically derived from the sanskrit -ustra (camel), familiar enough from the name of the prophet Zarathustra (great yellow camel). Arent the sigs of the zodiac meant to remain a mystery, a reminder of allah's transcendence, because of our duties to (devotional obligations) here on earth? One might just open up the hood of one's auto to explore a universe as strange and transcendent -- it's over my head I must admit. I find the simple world view of Rasul Allah very illuminating, and have enough inspiration equating the stars in the sky with the migration of camels from north america. Isn't allah the one? In earnestness. Tom
