The Paintings Of Abdullah Dougan

Description

After writing his first book Abdullah Dougan turned to painting in 1970 to help teach his own and others' ideas and to show objectively man and his place in the universe. Abdhllah believed the most important factor in art to be the content, the message, which is contained in the form. Objective art must have a definite system and his was based primarily on his scale of colour and use of the spiral - one of the basic forms used in our galaxy. The 168 full colour images, presented with notes on the concepts portrayed, span the 17 years when Abdullah painted. A beautifully produced book.

Author description

Abdullah Dougan was born at Longburn, New Zealand, in 1918, into a family for whom religion was an integral part of life, and Christianity claimed his attention at an early age. Later he realised the urgency of finding a method of channelling energy into inner development and was led first to the Gurdjieff movement and then to Sufism. He was initiated as a Naqshibandi Sufi and in the subsequent twenty years expanded his teaching to include Gnostic ideals.

Abdullah’s main aim was to wake people up so they may find their own potential. His basic teaching is that mankind must work on making the body obedient to the minds; that the minds then become passive to the spirit; and finally the spirit has to destroy the ego to enable it to merge into God. Thus completing the soul’s journey back to its source.

Before his death on 1st September 1987, Abdullah founded the Gnostic Society (Inc), including the Sufi Brotherhood.

Gnostic Press is a publishing company created to make available the works of Shaikh Abdullah Isa Neil Dougan (Abdullah Dougan) of the Naqshibandi order of Sufis. Shaikh Abdullah taught a practical Fourth Way method of self-development for Westerners using the ideas of G.I. Gurdjieff, Hazrat Inayat Khan, and Sri Ramdas of Kerala, augmented by teachings from his own inner experience.

Table of contents

  The cosmos   Virtues   The states of man   Our solar system   The search   The vices   Politics   Teachings of Mr. Gurdjieff   Buddhist teaching   Zoroastrian teaching   Hindu teaching   Hebrew teaching   Islamic teaching   Christian teaching   Taoist teaching   Egyptian teaching   Holy Mother of the Earth   Positive attitudes   Negative attitudes   Spiritual names   Mantras   Positive states   The holy beings   Perfected men of our solar system.