Beloved Spirit

📖 The Scoop

While mankind continues to struggle with adversity, an amazing spirit of forgiveness continues to persevere in this increasingly complex and unpredictable world. Inspired by a modest prayer to provide comfort to those suffering from the tragedies of 9/11, Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave first wrote HEALING LIGHT: THIRTY MESSAGES OF LOVE, HOPE, AND COURAGE, and continued her poetic musings in HEAVENLY ORDER: TWENTY FIVE MEDITATIONS OF WISDOM AND HARMONY. BELOVED SPIRIT: PATHWAYS TO LOVE, GRACE AND MERCY is the highly anticipated final volume to her trilogy of acclaimed poems; which will publish on the Ten-Year Anniversary of 9/11. These poems offer solace and words filled with clairvoyant guidance. Poems unfold in the book in alignment with times of the day -- which also, astutely, symbolise the various stages of life -- Before Dawn; Daybreak; Midday; Sunset; Twilight; Moonrise; Night, and Midnight. Artfully combined with gorgeous rare and mostly unseen sixteenth-century Persian images, BELOVED SPIRIT, reflects upon the hidden harmonies of the world's creation and the flawless beauty of the infinite universe. The stunning paintings rendered by the finest artists of the day were inspired by the Haft awrang (Seven Thrones) manuscript by the renowned fifteenth-century mystic poet Abdul-Rahman Jami and commissioned by Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza (1540-77). And each of the paintings shown in detail as accompaniment to the poems are featured in full-frame as a resource appendix, allowing unprecedented access to artwork contained in the prestigious Freer Gallery of Art Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.

Genre: Art / Middle Eastern (fancy, right?)