Spiritual Collection (page 6)

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

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig6
Act 5 Finale : the diabolical Bertram is dismayed at the sight of Robert and Isabella, now united in love and also in higher spiritual values

Japanese Garden
Japanese gardens tend towards great formality, using water, rocks and other natural ingredients to compose patterns which often have a spiritual significance

Marie-Cath. Cadiere
MARIE-CATHERINE CADIERE, of Aix-en-Provence, accuses her spiritual director, Jesuit pere Girard, of bewitching and seducing her : he is acquitted but a public outcry ensues

Graf Keyserling
GRAF HERMANN ALEXANDER KEYSERLING German spiritual teacher and social philosopher

20th Century Welcome
The Twentieth Century welcomes the dawn of Spiritual Science

YOGI
Schematic representation of the yogi performing his spiritual exercise

Mahatma Gandhi arrested for civil disobedience
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, is arrested by the Indian government for his civil disobedience tactics

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