Thompson Robert F. Thompson

Life-Giving Spring: The Eternal Fountain Thompson Robert F. Thompson

This book is an invitation to reacquaintance with the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is also a book of theotropics. As the tiny heliotrope "by nature" orients its face to the sun, so each of us orients our face toward the Beloved. The deeper wisdom is not systematic. Spiritual traditions communicate expressions of wisdom that may blend as harmoniously as the fragrances of a flower garden. This book is about seeing the presentations of our life as occurring under the watchful care of the Blessed Mother. It is, in this sense, a phenomenology of Marian spirituality. The descending Age to come--whose premonitions are already occurring--can be regarded as an Age of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This book is about the generosity at the heart of the cosmos that is mirrored in the hearts of all beings whatsoever in their original and undefended state. The Blessed Virgin is regarded as both Life-Giving Spring and fire that does not consume. For children of the Mother, she is reality as well as the metaphor that contains many other metaphors. She is the reality from which arise answers to many questions--a closing of the circle of what is possible in anyone's life. The book is structured as a mosaic of reflections unfolding from attention to the ancient Greek icon of the "Life-Giving Spring" (Zoodochos Pighi), an instance of which is shown on the cover of this book. As a phenomenology, the book makes reference to the imaginal realm as identified principally by the Iranologist, Henry Corbin. This book touches on hierophanies of the Virgin Mary as well as on particular locales, such as Glastonbury, Walsingham, and Medjugorje, and on the significance of pilgrimage. A Perennials Study Group publication Other titles by the same author: * Taliesin's Harp: A Poetics of the Divine-Humanity
* The Anthropocosmic Vision: For a New Dialogic Civilization
* From Glory to Glory: The Sophianic Vision of Fr. Sergius Bulgakov