Martin Lings, The Poet-Sufi
This essay on the poetry of Martin Lings regards it as the consummate disclosure of his spirituality: ‘His mysticism is the archetype, his poetry the symbol.’
This essay on the poetry of Martin Lings regards it as the consummate disclosure of his spirituality: ‘His mysticism is the archetype, his poetry the symbol.’
‘I need a lasting image of your face / To hold against erosion of the days.’
One Pure Light revealed in Many Colours: The Transcendent Substance Revealed in a Multiplicity of Forms Religions are like lamps of coloured glass; now a lamp illuminates the dark because it is luminous and not because it is red or blue or yellow or green. [...] it is true that without...