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A. O. Lovejoy. The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.
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W. Ullmann. Medieval Foundations of Renaissance Humanism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977.
L. Bakhtiar. Sufi: Expressions of the Mystic Quest. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.
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W. C. Chittick. The Sufi Path of Knowledge. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
———. The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. New York: State University of New York Press, 1983.
A. W. Hughes. The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
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———. The Mystical Shape of the Godhead. New York: Schocken Books, 1991.
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———. The Cycladic Spirit. New York: Harry Abrams, 1991.
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———. Greek Religion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
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———. Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion. London: Merlin Press, 1963.
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Even beyond the ultimate limits there extends a passageway,
Whereby he comes back among the six realms of existence;
Every Worldly affair is a Triumphant work,
And wherever he goes he finds his home air;
Like a gem he stands out even in the mud,
Like pure gold he shines even in the furnace;
Along the endless road he walks sufficient unto himself,
In whatever associations he is found,
He moves leisurely unattached.
—Sifu Jitoku Ki