Spiritual Collection (page 5)

The second door of Balim Sultan Tomb
" The second door of Balim Sultans Tomb in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehit Turkey. Balim Sultan is known amongst the Bektashi as the second founder of the order (Turkish Pir Thani)

Grave Stone of a Bektashi Baba s
Tomb of a great Dedebaba or a Baba on the right approaching the entrance of Balim Sultan Tomb. Date: 2012

The tree in front of Balim Sultan Tomb
Outside the door of the Balim Sultan Tomb, there is a black mulberry tree said to have been thrown as a burning brand from Horosan by Ahmet Yesevi, which determined where Haji Bektash was to go

The Graveyard next to Balim Sultan Tomb
Bektashi graveyard next to Balim Sultans Tomb in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey. Date: 2012

Balim Sultan Tomb Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turke
" Balim Sultan is known amongst the Bektashi as the second founder of the order (Turkish Pir Thani). The present-day initiation service of a Bektashi is sometimes called " The Method of

Door of Haci Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey
The main entrance of the Meydan of The Forty (Kirklar Meydani) and the tomb of Haji Bektash. Under this threshold is the staff of Uways-l Karani. Date: 2012

Detail from Guvenc Abdal Tomb in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in
Decorative detail from the tomb of Guvenc Abdal in Haji Bektash Tomb Museum in Nevsehir Turkey. Date: 2012

Detail from the door of Haji Bektash Veli Museum
Detail from the tomb of Haji Bektash Veli in Nevsehir Turkey Date: 2012

Deatil from Haji Bektash Veli Museums door in Nevsehir Turk
The detail from the entrance of Haji Bektash Velis Tomb from the Meydan of the Forty (Kirklar Meydani). Date: 2012

Hz. Alis Handwriting in Haji Bektash Veli Museum
In the Meydan of the Forty (Kirklar Meydani), Secde sura of the Koran written in Kufic script on gazelle skin by Caliph Ali. Date: 2012

Haji Bektash Veli Tomb in Nevsehir Turkey
" Guvenc Abdal Turbesi (Tomb of Guvenc Abdal), (Haci Bektash) at Hac?bektas, formerly Karahuyuk, a town and district of Nevsehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey

Annie Fay Poster
Poster for one of Fays first stage appearances in England - note that they were described as entertainments - no deep spiritual involvement, evidently ! Date: 1874

Spiritual guide. Print shows a woman walking with two children on shore, with burning ship in background. Date c1874

Spiritual Science
the Twentieth Century Welcomes the Dawn of Spiritual Science Date: Circa 1900

Krishnamurti
Indian spiritual leader, Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1985), adopted by the Theosophical Society Date: 1911

St Sergius Monastery, Sergiyev Posad, Russia
View of the Trinity Lavra (Monastery) of St Sergius in the town of Sergiyev Posad, Russia. This monastery is the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church

Assumption Cathedral, Sergiyev Posad, Russia
Main entrance to the Assumption Cathedral, in the town of Sergiyev Posad, Russia. The cathedral was built in the 16th century

Domes of the Assumption Cathedral, Sergiyev Posad, Russia
View from below of three of the domes of the Assumption Cathedral, in the town of Sergiyev Posad, Russia. The cathedral was built in the 16th century

Dervishes engaged upon Zikr
Dervishes of different Sufi orders engaged upon Zikr - remembrance and praise of God. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Smyrne - Dervish Street - Bazar
Smyrne - Dervish Street located in the Bazaar with Mosque in the background. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Group of Egyptian Whirling Derivishes
Group Egyptian Dervishes. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Seated Egyptian Dervish
North African (Egyptian) Dervish seated. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Ottoman Empire - Dervish Sheikh. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

A Bektash Dervish Sheikh (Baba) wearing the traditional twelve-pointed wheel (the twelve imans). Founder of the Bektashi order was Hajji Bektash Wali (1209 - 1271)

Persian Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Dervishes of different orders - Constantinople (Istanbul). Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Seated Dervish with knotted stick
Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth. Within the Islamic tradition such people are often known as Sufis, Sufi

Bektashi Dervishes with children. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Ankara - Mosque and Tomb of Hajji Bayram Veli (1352 -1430). Was called Numan - changed to Bayram after he met his spiritual leader Somuncu Baba during the festival of Eid ul-Adha which is called

Middle Eastern Dervish Group
Rifai Dervishes - a Dervish order founded by Shaykh Sayyid Ahmad ar-Rifai (1119-1182). Traditional Dervish order found with a marked prescence in Syria, Egypt, Kosovo and Albania

Two Turkish Dervishes in Constantinople of the Bektasi Order. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Elderly Turkish wandering Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Wandering Russian Shamen or Dervish riding a rather dishevelled horse with trained raven on a pole. Surrounded by a crowd of onlookers

Persian Dervish with young son, carrying a club. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Young Tunisian Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Young Iranian Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Rifai Dervish (who have the ability to command animals). Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Arabian Dervish - Egypt
Arab Dervish from Egypt. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Carol I Mosque - Constanta - Romania
The Great Mahmudiye Mosque (Moscheea Mare Mahmoud II). Built in 1910 by King Carol I, the mosque is the seat of the Mufti, the spiritual leader of the 55

A Swami Mystic and his Followers
A Swami Mystic (religious figurehead) from Madras and his Followers. Swami is primarily a Hindu honorific title, which emphasises a learning and mastery of Yoga, devotion to the gods

Mahatma Gandhi at Muslim refugee camp
The hindu spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi receives a warm reception from Muslim refugees gathered at a camp close to Delhi, prior to convoy travel to Pakistan

Mr Maskelynes experiment - female spirit emerging from man
A photographic example of Mr Maskelynes experiment - a mechanical illusion of spiritual manifestations. Miss Cassie Brucea can be seen emerging from her father-in-laws body

Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) with supporters in England, he signs his photograph

Japanese man
A Japanese man (possibly a spiritual man?) in a studio wearing traditional costume and wooden geta footwear

Eros and Psyche
Love pursuing the soul - what appears on the surface to be no more than a simple love story, can, if you wish, be interpreted as carrying a profound spiritual message

Boy Greets the Sun 1926
A young boy greets the morning sun with outstretched arms

Involution / Evolution
The Theosophical doctrine of INVOLUTION and EVOLUTION, whereby man rises from the mineral to the spiritual

American Revival Meeting
CAMP MEETINGS are popular social as well as spiritual events among the rural population, often provoking spectacular outbreaks of communal enthusiasm

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