My spiritual Journey in Search of universal Truth - Paperback

by Maria Toonen (Author), Joy Kearney (Translator), Gouri Gozalov C. S. (Editor)

A report of the spiritual journey of the author.

Childhood in Japanese prison camp in Indonesia during WWII; return to Holland; several years in Italy, where her quest for spiritual knowledge starts; again return to Holland and study of astrology, Theosophy and New Age ideas of Findhorn Community in Scotland; brief acquaintance with teachings of Gurdjieff; encounter with Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan and long studies and work in Sufi Circle; pilgrimages to tomb of Inayat Khan in Delhi, India; encounter in Holland with Russian Master of Christian-Hermetic tradition on terrace of Sufi temple.

This last event changes her life and leads her back to the spiritual homeland of her soul: the Christian core of Freemasonry and the inspiring mysticism of Orthodox Christianity.

In a supplementary chapter a discourse on 'Faust in the 21^st century'.